Unreal Engine vs Unity Engine | Unreal Engine History | All-time-dev

In this post, we are going to find out what are the top 5 popular game engines. In this post, we are also going to find out the advantages and disadvantages of these game engines and at last, we will find out the best game engine for you. So if you will like our post then share our post with your developer friends.

Unreal Game Engine

This game engine is very popular for creating high-quality AAA games. Unreal Engine has developed many popular games like GOD OF WAR, Ghost Of Tsushima, Halo, Uncharted Series Games, and more. It is owned by popular game company Epic Games. This game engine was developed by Tim Sweeny, who is also the founder of Epic Games. He started developing Unreal Engine in 1995 for the production of a game which was in the future called Unreal. So, this is a simple quick history about Unreal Engine. Now let's find out the advantages of the Unreal game engine, it has all the features like providing pipeline integration, world-building, animation, rendering, lighting, and materials, simulation and effects, developer tools and platforms support, etc. They also have their own asset store where different developer sells many assets like 3D models, animations, audio and visual assets, etc. Their license is free to use and they have a 5 % royalty if your monetized game crosses $3000 but you have to pay taxes. The 5th version of Unreal Engine which is Unreal Engine 5 is on early access. The two key features of this version are Nanite and Lumen. You can visit their official website there they have provided detailed info about these two key features but in simple words, in Nanite you can create high-quality geometric detail, and in Lumen, you can create dynamic global illumination here is the link for more detail. The stable version of Unreal Engine is 4.27 which was released on 19 August 2021, it is written in C++ and its size is around 40.9 GB. And if you want to develop games in Unreal Engine then you have to learn C++ but overall the Unreal game engine is very good. The two main problems with the Unreal Engine are that it needs a very high-end computer to create games on Unreal Engine and another con is that you have to pay taxes if your game has launched. So in these criteria, Unity is better than Unreal Engine.  But before continuing to Unity let's find out about the specs of our favorite Unreal Engine - 

• Desktop PC or Mac.
• Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9. 2 or later.
• Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster.
• NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher.
• 8 GB RAM 

Unity Game Engine

This game engine is mainly popular for developing mobile games like COD Mobile, Monument Valley, and more. But it is also used for creating PC games like Cuphead, Hollow Knight, and more mainly Unity is popular for creating Indie games and 2D games for PC. This game engine was founded in Copenhagen by Nicholas Francis, Joachim Ante, and David Helgason and now is owned by Unity Technologies. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies and there is also an interesting story behind the development of the Unity game engine and it is that on an OpenGL Forum in May 2002 Francis posted a call for collaborators on an open-source shader-compiler (graphics tool) for the niche population of Mac-based game developers like himself. So, this is also a simple and quick history of Unity. Let's find about its advantages the first advantage of the Unity game engine is that it's completely free and cross-platform means you can deploy the games created in Unity on any platform like Android, Windows, Linux, etc, it provides insane graphics for the optimum gaming experience, it is very easy to use, it is great for rendering 2D and 3D scenes and one more advantage about Unity is that you don't need any very high-end PC for developing games at Unity and more advantages of Unity are there. Let's find out about the disadvantages of Unity Game Engine is that you cannot create AAA games with Unity. You can only create 3D and good graphics games for android devices like COD and indie games like Hollow Knight etc. They also have their own assets store which is called Unity Assets Store there you can find and sell 3D models, editor extensions, audio, and many other assets you can find at Unity Assets Store, and Unity Assets Store is also free like Unity game engine but if you want a lot of features then you can also buy their subscription. The pricing of Unity Assets Store is personal for students, plus with more functionalities and resources which is $399 / year per seat, pro for professional developers which is $1800 / year per seat, and enterprise for large scale businesses and organizations which is $2,400 /yr per seat 20 seats minimum ($48,000/yr). Its latest version is 2020.1. And you have to learn C# to use Unity. Now let's discuss its specs - 

• Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10, and Windows 11, 64-bit versions only. 
• X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs 
• Hardware vendor officially supported drivers

Conclusion:

Unreal Game Engine has very good features but if you are an individual developer then you only need to create indie in which Unity is the best but if you are an organization then you want to create high graphical games then in that condition, Unreal Game Engine is the best. So, that people love to play your games. In my opinion, it depends on the circumstances what is your need both of them are good and I will recommend using both of them. But as a conclusion Unity game engine is the best because it needs low specs to run, cross-platform and most of the developers want to create games for low prices for which Unity is better and in future also Unity can be used for creating AAA games as COD as recently created their game on Unity for mobile devices and the graphics of COD mobile are really awesome and there are chances that in future big companies will also want to create games for Unity. So, that's why I choose Unity but it doesn't mean that Unreal is bad it is now also the best game engine for creating high-end games. And I will definitely recommend using Unreal Game Engine.