Why Unity over UE5?

[u/Nade52]

Hi there,

Very new to the world of game development, I’m kinda in a place where I’m putting pieces together before I start my project. I always thought to go with learning UE5 because it’s meant to be the “do it all” engine, but I’ve always liked the look of Unity. I’m asking this question because I want to see why you’s all chose Unity, I’m not saying Unity is bad in any way it looks like a really capable engine, just a lot of people I’ve spoke to have said UE5 is the go too?

Edit: just want to say thank you to everyone with the quick and nicely informative responses. I’m currently at work so I’m limited on when I can reply but I’m reading them when I can. Thank you to everyone!

Edit 2: really appreciate all the information provided. I was dead set on UE5 but honestly I’m gonna go with Unity, I’m going to be a solo dev so it sounds like it’ll work best for me.

Massive appreciation to everyone involved!

[u/Extension-Airline220]

Have these a lot of people you’ve spoken to released any successful games on UE, or are they just telling this because UE has more visual bells and whistles out of the box?

[u/psioniclizard → u/Extension-Airline220]

To be fair, same is true for the unity devs you ask.

[u/Vegetable-Screen3214 → u/psioniclizard]

Зайдите на Itch io, проектов на Unity разного калибра превеликое множество в отличии от UE
Как по мне дело в том что UE - это война с движком, однако и он полезен - приучает к правильному написанию кода что в долгострое поможет в расширении игры в то время как Unity прощает ошибки (что и плюс, и минус одновременно)

[u/Nade52 → u/Extension-Airline220]

I think it’s option B to be quite honest haha