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Game Devs: Is Unreal Engine the premiere game engine at this point? UE has been a popular engine for a long time and with the recent massive success of Epic Games, I have a hard time imagining Unity or even in-house engines are able to match the engineering that goes into this. That said, I am not familiar with this at all — which is why I’m asking.

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When you say "At the point" do you mean now with UE4 or what we think UE5 will bring? Unity will probably be a bit behind because they seem to focus on mobile more but they're not usually significantly behind.

UE sort of seems to have a technical advantage on some platforms and Unity sort of has more of an outreach to smaller teams. Most games are not trying to be on the cutting edge though.

You can ship a game on either engine just fine. In my experience, licensing plays the biggest role in the decision.

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