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Unity is easier to learn, Unreal has a cool ecosystem AAA developers love, Unigine has some bleeding edge stuff with great performance not found elsewhere, CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it...

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> CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it...

As in it's so poorly optimized it will eat any GPU, or it can do bleeding edge stuff no GPU can support?

I think it's the latter.

Bleeding edge.

Since DirectX 10 they have the tradition of being one of earliest supporting new DX versions.

This is the only post that mentioned Unigine and CryEngine - is there a reason for that. I.e. are there significant drawbacks to these compared to the "main" ones?

I have mentioned UNIGINE cause I've heard that Dual Universe powered by that engine. It isn't free, which seems interesting, cause the best things aren't free. And best things and "widely advertised" and "common" are not necessarily the same

Unigine used to be very expensive, CryEngine difficult to master. In the meantime Unigine got cheaper and there was a lot of work to make CryEngine more accessible, so that might explain popularity of Unity (easy to learn) and Unreal ("golden standard" allowing AAA games with great developer backing).

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