Unity 5 or Unreal engine 4

Unreal and Unity are both very, very good engines. Now that the barrier to entry is so low for both of them, which engine to use is fairly subjective.

I'd suggest selecting a simple gameplay mechanic from your game, then try and implement it each engine. It may take you a bit more time but you'll get a feel for each engine's workflow, and be in a much better position to choose. Time well spent

Thanks orangeatang for the reply, today I installed both unty 5 and unreal engine 4 unity was about 1.2 gb to download and unreal engine was about 4 gb to download thats a big difference I will try a simple fps game by importing some of my models and will see which does it better. Both of the engines have demos of that inbuilt but I will see which is easier to myself and my only doubt us that unreal may do better in fps games and unity in 2d

Really an unanswerable question :)

You simply need to get your hands dirty and feel for yourself what engine you prefer to work with.

It will take time, but it will be time well spent.

If you want to release on lots of platforms, doesn't unity support way more than unreal engine? If this is a deciding factor, consider it carefully but remember support for other platforms might just be added to unreal engine at a later date...

Is this going to be the new "vs" question now? No more DirectX vs. OpenGL? :D

If you want to release on lots of platforms, doesn't unity support way more than unreal engine?

As far as I know, they both support all major desktop, mobile and console platforms. From Unreal's webpage:

What platforms are supported?
Unreal Engine 4 enables all developers to deploy projects to Windows PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, VR (supporting Oculus Rift and Gear VR now, as well as others coming soon), Linux, SteamOS, and HTML5... Xbox One and PS4 console support is available at no additional cost to developers who are registered developers for the respective platform.

I think that in the platforming case unity is ahead of unreal as unity supports last gen consoles too, and if you see the cost factor epic games (those who made unreal engine) take 5% royalty if you make over 3000$ whereas unity takes 1500$(price of unity pro) if you make 100000$ ao unity is better here, still I will look which engine ia better to use, btw which engines are you guys using?

Flip a coin.

Seriously the only one of you points that sticks out is "more learning resources", as in my own experience I see a lot more Unity tutorials of saying quality floating around the web. These may get dated of people start switching over to Unreal (but this is just speculation).

Both engines are free so download them and experiment then decide which suits your style better. We can't make this choice for you.

I am a noob, so my opinion might not matter much. I have only spent a week on trying out UE4 / Unity.

I have been wondering the same question the past week since both became more accessible and both free versions offer so much. I am making mobile game, so I spent some time getting something simplistic working, like custom camera that I would need. My basis of choosing unity was because it seemed to be more mobile friendly, and worked faster on my mobile phone. Until yesterday when I decided to let my friend test out something simple I made, the speed the game ran on my friends phone was quite unexpected compared to my nexus 5. The performance was just terribad, and I have been trying to revalue of things.

I personally have liked more Unreal Engines "openness". The debugging tools just feel phenomenal, not saying that unitys profiler is bad either, it is really good, but I like the fact that i can run console commands on mobile phone. Out of a box I feel like unreal offers a bit more than unity does, and the fact that you can actually export your assets out of unreal makes me feel more safe about it. Like if I made stuff with unity, there is no way to just possibly pull my project out of unity if I suddenly for example felt like source 2 would be the thing I really want to develop on. I have a strong feeling that in Source2 you can use C++. The truth is though, that I know that both of the engines are massive over kill for my small 3d game.

I like watching youtube videos for learning things, and unity has so much material in the internet. The bad thing about it is though, that most of it is out dated, although a lot of stuff has remained over the time, but a lot has changed as well.

Where I feel that unity works like charm is for importing stuff from blender to unity. With UE4 it seems bit more complicated to get working armatures from blender, but I am quite confident it will improve over time.

In my personal opinion somehow I feel to be more in control on UE4 than Unity. Also my gut feeling is that team collaboration works better in UE4 than Unity, but that probably doesn't matter to solo developers like us.

In the end it comes down to personal liking, for me my liking has started to lean more towards UE4 for some unexplained reason, although they both seem very capable for pretty much everything. Maybe my reason for going UE4 road is just having weird feeling of being a bit more safe with UE4, like the whole Free vs Pro with Unity has some possibility of being problematic for in the future, if I end up having a bigger team than going solo. I cannot really describe this fully with words.

With UE4 it seems bit more complicated to get working armatures from blender,

Definitely, Unreal seems to be designed with Maya in mind; there are a host of really useful Maya scripts that come with Unreal - to help with character rigging.

There's a bit of messing around you have to do to get FBXs exported from Blender in to Unreal - but the process is definitely improving and there have been a lot of improvements in the latest version of Blender (2.73a).

If you're having any trouble, there was a twitch stream from Unreal dedicated to this topic in mid January :

btw which engines are you guys using?

I'm not, have never used either. I keep my games simple enough to implement in simple frameworks like xna or directly in DirectX.

i think that i am going to stick with unreal engine 4 as it turns out to be a much better than unity but most of all matters is the content not the game engine.

thanks guys for the help, my experience with the forum was very good.....

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btw which engines are you guys using?

Unity.

I'm more of a code sort of guy, and Unity's editor gets in the way a lot less than Unreal's does. Plus, the engine is less FPS-oriented out of the box, and C# is a very nice language to work with.

btw which engines are you guys using

Unreal.

I like that you can generate Visual Studio based Unreal projects, so you can do any/all of your game logic in C++.

The visual scripting (Blueprint) is really well implemented, with very useful debug features. It's also simple to communicate data from the C++ side of things through to Blueprint.

It's a very flexible engine.

... btw which engines are you guys using?

I'm using Panda3D, myself: while it lacks the visual tools and out-of-the-box shaders of Unity and Unreal (and likely the documentation--I haven't looked at what Unity and Unreal provide in this), I'm familiar with it, I like Python (which it uses as its scripting language), and as far as I'm aware it's completely free, regardless of income, etc. The only caveat that I'm aware of with regards to fees is that the FMod sound system incurs a licencing fee to the owners of FMod--but OpenAL is available as an alternative.

They're both free, why not try both and see which you like?

... btw which engines are you guys using?

I'm using Panda3D, myself: while it lacks the visual tools and out-of-the-box shaders of Unity and Unreal (and likely the documentation

The documentation is pretty thorough though, and it has C++ bindings.

I Will take a look at panda 3d an I was using 3d rad it is also a very good engine.

... btw which engines are you guys using?

I'm using Panda3D, myself: while it lacks the visual tools and out-of-the-box shaders of Unity and Unreal (and likely the documentation

The documentation is pretty thorough though, and it has C++ bindings.

I'm not entirely clear on what you're saying here: are you saying that one or both of Unity or Unreal have thorough documentation, or that Panda does? If the latter, then, well, in some places, but I do seem to recall that there are places in both the manual and the API documentation that are a little sparse.