Game Engine Comparison - Titan vs Unreal vs Unity

Epic Games Employee Reviews

"Our CEO and COO have shifted aggressively toward valuing the money in their individual pockets over the quality of life of their entire employee base. They'll happily remove a company benefit that is a 30% increase to quality of life if it means 5% more money in their pocket. Unfortunately, both individuals who are making waterfall decisions for the company are also widely unavailable or will not respond to email trying to have conversations around how compromises can be met. They genuinely just don't care about anyone but themselves anymore and it's heartbreaking having been here for 10 years to watch that happen. Advice to Management: It's become abundantly clear that people are just numbers to you. Your focus is on milking every single employee for every ounce of work they have in order to further line your wallet - while simultaneously removing HUGE Quality of Life benefits from employees." "It's no longer the small game studio that cares about its people. It has grown so large you are just a cog in the machine and easily replaced. This is not the same Epic as when I joined." "They work you to death I was working 60 hours getting paid for 40" "Epic Games is the sort of company that looks great if you listen to upper management - they are proponents of rewarding employees and offering good benefits - but underneath it's a meat grinder that enables bullying and abusive behavior. I once worked 30 days straight on crunch and, when I requested time off, I was told it would have to wait because there was too much work to do. The same manager once yelled in my face - the only time I've felt physically threatened in a professional environment. This same manager was allowed to consistently bully me even after I asked HR to intervene. There are a lot of great people who work at Epic, but unfortunately there's an unchecked culture of bullying and exploitation which can make working there a traumatizing experience. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say I have slight PTSD from working there." "I've never seen a place mistreating women so poorly. From the serious sexual harassment that constantly happens (DAILY) at work" "Wasn't epic like they promised" "Immoral managers, toxic environment, mobbing, run by incompetent high school dropouts" "Worst job I've ever had" "They work you to death, expect you to be 'on call' 24/7, culture is work-a-holic, non-stop, lots of stress and pressure which does not allow for proper work-life balance. If you have a family, kiss them goodbye because you won't be able to spend time with them anymore. Inexperienced management did not address the problems appropriately."

Game Engine Comparison

Name	Titan	Unreal	Unity
Developed Since	2000	1995	2002
Developer	Esenthel Country: New Zealand Poland Notes: Friendly and Professional	Epic Games Country: USA 40% owned by China Tencent Notes: Manipulates its Marketplace by deleting negative reviews (1 2 and many more) - "you just can NOT trust a single word Epic says" Protects bad developers selling broken and unusable assets, that instead of fixing critical problems, block their customers and run away with their money Signed a legal developer agreement with Apple and Google, then driven by greed intentionally broke it - "Epic is after tremendous monetary gain and wealth.. Google says Epic had no intention of actually complying with its agreement with Google. According to Epic's own documents, the plan was simple: 'if we are rejected for only offering Epic's payment solution, the battle begins'" Tried to make the other party as the bad guy - "if Google dropped its service fee, Epic would pass on those cost reductions to users. These statements were intended to villainize and harm Google, while distracting from Epic's breach" Uses deception - "Specialized engineers and an in-house information security team attempted to hack the code to ensure that Google (and Apple) could not 'reveal the intent' of the hotfix when it was submitted" Works its employees to death - “I’ve had friends come to me and say, ‘I can’t take this anymore.’ I’ve had friends break down in tears." “It got really scary. No one was safe” “When I complained, one of my managers told me to just quiet down” IT HAS SCAMMED OVER A MILLION CUSTOMERS - "Used illegal dark patterns to trick users into making purchases: The company has deployed a variety of dark patterns aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases. Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button. For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item. These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers." "Epic ignored more than one million user complaints and repeated employee concerns that “huge” numbers of users were being wrongfully charged. In fact, Epic’s changes only made the problem worse, the FTC alleged." Overwhelmingly Negative customer reviews: Trustpilot 1.5/5.0 (4,142 reviews) Sitejabber 1.4/5.0 (344 reviews) Better Business Bureau 1.0/5.0 (111 reviews) "Worst customer support imaginable" "I am convinced they will sell gamers souls for a single dollar of profit" "They have no interest in customer satisfaction" "Epic Fail for customer service" Employee reviews: Source: Glassdoor "Our CEO and COO have shifted aggressively toward valuing the money in their individual pockets over the quality of life of their entire employee base.. They genuinely just don't care about anyone but themselves.." "It's no longer the small game studio that cares about its people. It has grown so large you are just a cog in the machine and easily replaced" "They work you to death I was working 60 hours getting paid for 40" "I've never seen a place mistreating women so poorly. From the serious sexual harassment that constantly happens (DAILY) at work" "Immoral managers, toxic environment, mobbing, run by incompetent high school dropouts" "Worst job I've ever had" Read More	Unity Technologies Country: Denmark USA Notes: Friendly and Professional
Cost	5% royalty	5% royalty after 1 mln$ revenue	free < 100k$ revenue 399$/year 100k$-200k$ revenue 1,800$/year > 200k$ revenue
Can make and sell your own game engines	Yes Same License and Royalties apply for your Engine and Games/Apps made with it.	No	No
Source Code available	Donation Required	Registration Required	1,800$/year
Zero Known Bugs	Yes. Even if bugs appear they're always fixed ASAP and in most cases within a day.	No	No
Super Optimized	Yes, every single part of the Engine and Editor has been written with highest performance and minimal memory usage in mind, there were no cut corners. All of this results in fast startup, load times, compile times, responsive Editor, which can be verified on this page.	No	No
Engine Compile Time	Debug ~23 seconds Release ~45 seconds	"depending on your system's specifications, it may take between 10 and 40 minutes to compile the engine"	? (1,800$/year)
Supported Platforms
Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes
Xbox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mac	Yes	Yes	Yes
Linux	Yes	Yes	Yes
Android	Yes	Yes	Yes
iOS	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nintendo Switch	Yes	Yes	Yes
PlayStation	No	Yes	Yes
Editor
Disk Usage	1.16 GB	37.8 GB	4.18 GB
Startup Time	Instant	17+ seconds	19+ seconds
Can be Fullscreen	Yes, F11 key, or F12 for Video Options	Partial (can't hide title and menu bar), Shift+F11	No
Clutter free UI	Yes, Editor UI was carefully designed to maximize your workspace	No	No
Easy Access to Video Options	Yes, F12	No	No
Scalable UI	Yes, Video Options (F12)	No	Yes, restart required
Basic Operations - Rename, Move, Delete	Instant	Super Slow	Reasonable with minor slow downs
Importing Assets	Super Fast	Super Slow	Unintuitive and Slow
Importing Package	Super Fast	Buggy and Slow	Slow
Project Disk Usage for 1 model and 14 4K textures	204 MB	462 MB	552 MB
Real-time Collaborative Development	Yes	No	No
Auto LOD Generator	Yes	Yes, but Demon lost his teeth	No
Material Texture Downsize with real-time preview	Yes	No	No
Creating Material Atlas	Yes	No	No
Trash Bin	Yes, can remove elements and restore them later	No	No
Selective Publishing	Yes, can keep elements in the Project but disable them from being published in the final game package	No	No
Programming
Language	Improved and Simplified C++ (Code Editor)	C++, Blueprint	C#
Code Editor (IDE)	Visual Studio, Xcode, NetBeans Integrated Code Editor: Write code directly in Engine's Editor Powerful Auto-Complete Headerless Programming (write code just once, without duplicating it to headers) No need for Header Files, Forward Declarations or Class Rearrangement Jump to Definition Find All References View Mode showing only function names and hiding their implementation Integration with Project Assets (3D preview in codes, jump to/open Asset, insert Asset ID with Auto-Complete) many more	Visual Studio Integrated Blueprint Editor	Visual Studio Visual Studio Code JetBrains Rider
Editor Network Interface	Yes Sending Commands to the Editor from custom made Applications Programatic access to Project Elements Programatic access to World Terrain and Objects	No	No
Rendering
API	DirectX 11/10, OpenGL	DirectX 12/11, Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL	DirectX 12/11, Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL
Physically Based Rendering	Yes	Yes	Yes, but everything looks unnaturally shiny/metallic
Rendering with 64-bit (double precision) for Matrix positions to support huge Worlds/Scenes	Yes	No	No
Bump Mapping	High Quality	High Quality, but slower shader	Low Quality
Upscaling	Linear Cubic FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR/EASU) Temporal Super Resolution (TSR)	Linear Cubic Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) - not yet available, in beta only	Linear
Temporal Super Resolution (TSR)	Yes	Yes, but blocky with noticeable loss in detail, and not yet available, in beta only	No
Sub-Surface Scattering	No	Yes	Yes
Ambient Occlusion Reference Precalculated Per-Vertex with Ray Tracing	Yes	Yes, but formula looks wrong	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
MSAA	Yes	No	No
FXAA	Yes	Yes	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
SMAA	Yes	No	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
Temporal AA	Yes	Yes, but everything looks super blurry	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
Eye Adaptation	Yes	Yes	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
Motion Blur	Yes	Yes, but can see lines/artifacts on legs	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
Bloom, Emissive, Glow	Yes, separate control of emissive (focused light) and glow (blurred light)	Yes, but no separate control of glow (blurred light)	Yes, but no option to boost emissive or to control glow
Depth of Field	Yes	Yes	Yes, but no option was found in the Editor
Screen Space Reflection	No	Yes	Yes
Physics
Engine	PhysX, Bullet	PhysX, Chaos	PhysX, Box2D
Cloth Simulation	Not at the moment There was an implementation for older version of PhysX however it's not yet updated and had to be disabled	Yes	Yes
Destruction System	Yes, but very limited	Yes, but in beta	No
Animation
Root Motion	Yes	Yes	Yes
Inverse Kinematics	No	Yes	Yes
Other
Project Data Compression for Publishing in Editor	LZ4, Zstd, LZHAM, LZMA	Just a command line	LZ4
Compression Libraries for use in your codes	LZ4, Zstd, LZHAM, LZMA, Zlib, Snappy, RLE - all have a single unified API integrated with File class, raw data or with headers	LZ4, Zlib, Gzip - only simple memory to memory compression without File class integration, raw data only (requiring additional storage of compression algorithm and original uncompressed data size)	None
Project Data Encryption for Publishing in Editor	3 Fast and Secure permutation based ciphers (seekable/with random access) with no effect on patching	AES, 2-3x slower than Esenthel Cipher1, requires 16-byte alignment (which will increase data size 0-15 bytes per file and slow down seeking/random access), and negatively affects patching	None
Encryption for use in your codes	3 Fast and Secure permutation based ciphers (seekable/with random access), AES	AES	None
Hash	CRC32, xxHash, SpookyHash, MetroHash, MD5, SHA1, SHA2-256 - memory and File class, all have a single unified API	CRC32, xxHash, CityHash, MD5, SHA1 - only memory	SpookyHash
Image Resize	Nearest, Linear, Cubic, Cubic+, Waifu2x	Linear	None
Steam Integration	Yes	Yes	No
Xbox Live Integration	Yes	No	No
Facebook Integration	Yes	No	No
SQL Integration	SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL	No	No
Sky Night Light Filter	Yes It has been scientifically proven that blue light interrupts sleep, if you work at your projects late night, it's best to avoid it. While there might be filters already in the Operating System, they will affect the entire screen, however there might be cases where you just want to affect the sky and still have the rest of your colors correct.	No	No
3D Formats
FBX	Yes	Yes	Yes
Image Formats
BMP, PNG, JPG, TGA, PSD	Yes	Yes	Yes
JPEG XL	Yes	No	No
AVIF	Yes	No	No
WEBP (best lossless)	Yes	No	No
TIF	Yes	No	Yes
Audio Codecs
Wav	Yes	Yes	Yes
Opus (best lossy)	Yes	No	No
Vorbis	Yes	No	Yes
Flac (best lossless)	Yes	No	No
MP3	Yes	No	Yes

Name

Titan

Unreal

Unity

Developed Since

2000

1995

2002

Developer

Esenthel

Country:

New Zealand

Poland

Notes:

Friendly and Professional

Epic Games

Country:

USA

40% owned by China Tencent

Notes:

Manipulates its Marketplace by deleting negative reviews (1 2 and many more) - "you just can NOT trust a single word Epic says"
Protects bad developers selling broken and unusable assets, that instead of fixing critical problems, block their customers and run away with their money
Signed a legal developer agreement with Apple and Google, then driven by greed intentionally broke it - "Epic is after tremendous monetary gain and wealth.. Google says Epic had no intention of actually complying with its agreement with Google. According to Epic's own documents, the plan was simple: 'if we are rejected for only offering Epic's payment solution, the battle begins'"
Tried to make the other party as the bad guy - "if Google dropped its service fee, Epic would pass on those cost reductions to users. These statements were intended to villainize and harm Google, while distracting from Epic's breach"
Uses deception - "Specialized engineers and an in-house information security team attempted to hack the code to ensure that Google (and Apple) could not 'reveal the intent' of the hotfix when it was submitted"
Works its employees to death - “I’ve had friends come to me and say, ‘I can’t take this anymore.’ I’ve had friends break down in tears."
“It got really scary. No one was safe”
“When I complained, one of my managers told me to just quiet down”
IT HAS SCAMMED OVER A MILLION CUSTOMERS - "Used illegal dark patterns to trick users into making purchases: The company has deployed a variety of dark patterns aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases. Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button. For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item. These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers."
"Epic ignored more than one million user complaints and repeated employee concerns that “huge” numbers of users were being wrongfully charged. In fact, Epic’s changes only made the problem worse, the FTC alleged."

Overwhelmingly Negative customer reviews:

Trustpilot 1.5/5.0 (4,142 reviews)
Sitejabber 1.4/5.0 (344 reviews)
Better Business Bureau 1.0/5.0 (111 reviews)
"Worst customer support imaginable"
"I am convinced they will sell gamers souls for a single dollar of profit"
"They have no interest in customer satisfaction"
"Epic Fail for customer service"

Employee reviews:

Source: Glassdoor
"Our CEO and COO have shifted aggressively toward valuing the money in their individual pockets over the quality of life of their entire employee base.. They genuinely just don't care about anyone but themselves.."
"It's no longer the small game studio that cares about its people. It has grown so large you are just a cog in the machine and easily replaced"
"They work you to death I was working 60 hours getting paid for 40"
"I've never seen a place mistreating women so poorly. From the serious sexual harassment that constantly happens (DAILY) at work"
"Immoral managers, toxic environment, mobbing, run by incompetent high school dropouts"
"Worst job I've ever had"
Read More

Unity Technologies

Country:

Denmark

USA

Notes:

Friendly and Professional

Cost

5% royalty

5% royalty after 1 mln$ revenue

free < 100k$ revenue
399$/year 100k$-200k$ revenue
1,800$/year > 200k$ revenue

Can make and sell your own game engines

Yes
Same License and Royalties apply for your Engine and Games/Apps made with it.

Source Code available

Donation Required

Registration Required

1,800$/year

Zero Known Bugs

Yes. Even if bugs appear they're always fixed ASAP and in most cases within a day.

Super Optimized

Yes, every single part of the Engine and Editor has been written with highest performance and minimal memory usage in mind, there were no cut corners. All of this results in fast startup, load times, compile times, responsive Editor, which can be verified on this page.

Engine Compile Time

Debug ~23 seconds
Release ~45 seconds

"depending on your system's specifications, it may take between 10 and 40 minutes to compile the engine"

? (1,800$/year)

Supported Platforms

Windows

Yes

Xbox

Yes

Mac

Yes

Linux

Yes

Android

Yes

iOS

Yes

Nintendo Switch

Yes

PlayStation

Yes

Editor

Disk Usage

1.16 GB

37.8 GB

4.18 GB

Startup Time

Instant

17+ seconds

19+ seconds

Can be Fullscreen

Yes, F11 key, or F12 for Video Options

Partial (can't hide title and menu bar), Shift+F11

Clutter free UI

Yes, Editor UI was carefully designed to maximize your workspace

Easy Access to Video Options

Yes, F12

Scalable UI

Yes, Video Options (F12)

Yes, restart required

Basic Operations - Rename, Move, Delete

Instant

Super Slow

Reasonable with minor slow downs

Importing Assets

Super Fast

Super Slow

Unintuitive and Slow

Importing Package

Super Fast

Buggy and Slow

Slow

Project Disk Usage for 1 model and 14 4K textures

204 MB

462 MB

552 MB

Real-time Collaborative Development

Yes

Auto LOD Generator

Yes

Yes, but Demon lost his teeth

Material Texture Downsize with real-time preview

Yes

Creating Material Atlas

Yes

Trash Bin

Yes, can remove elements and restore them later

Selective Publishing

Yes, can keep elements in the Project but disable them from being published in the final game package

Programming

Language

Improved and Simplified C++ (Code Editor)

C++, Blueprint

Code Editor
(IDE)

Visual Studio, Xcode, NetBeans

Integrated Code Editor:

Write code directly in Engine's Editor
Powerful Auto-Complete
Headerless Programming (write code just once, without duplicating it to headers)
No need for Header Files, Forward Declarations or Class Rearrangement
Jump to Definition
Find All References
View Mode showing only function names and hiding their implementation
Integration with Project Assets (3D preview in codes, jump to/open Asset, insert Asset ID with Auto-Complete)
many more

Visual Studio
Integrated Blueprint Editor

Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code
JetBrains Rider

Editor Network Interface

Yes

Sending Commands to the Editor from custom made Applications
Programatic access to Project Elements
Programatic access to World Terrain and Objects

Rendering

API

DirectX 11/10, OpenGL

DirectX 12/11, Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL

Physically Based Rendering

Yes

Yes, but everything looks unnaturally shiny/metallic

Rendering with 64-bit (double precision) for Matrix positions to support huge Worlds/Scenes

Yes

Bump Mapping

High Quality

High Quality, but slower shader

Low Quality

Upscaling

Linear
Cubic
FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR/EASU)
Temporal Super Resolution (TSR)

Linear
Cubic
Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) - not yet available, in beta only

Linear

Temporal Super Resolution (TSR)

Yes

Yes, but blocky with noticeable loss in detail, and not yet available, in beta only

Sub-Surface Scattering

Yes

Ambient Occlusion

Reference Precalculated Per-Vertex with Ray Tracing

Yes

Yes, but formula looks wrong

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

MSAA

Yes

FXAA

Yes

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

SMAA

Yes

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

Temporal AA

Yes

Yes, but everything looks super blurry

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

Eye Adaptation

Yes

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

Motion Blur

Yes

Yes, but can see lines/artifacts on legs

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

Bloom, Emissive, Glow

Yes, separate control of emissive (focused light) and glow (blurred light)

Yes, but no separate control of glow (blurred light)

Yes, but no option to boost emissive or to control glow

Depth of Field

Yes

Yes, but no option was found in the Editor

Screen Space Reflection

Yes

Physics

Engine

PhysX, Bullet

PhysX, Chaos

PhysX, Box2D

Cloth Simulation

Not at the moment
There was an implementation for older version of PhysX however it's not yet updated and had to be disabled

Yes

Destruction System

Yes, but very limited

Yes, but in beta

Animation

Root Motion

Yes

Inverse Kinematics

Yes

Other

Project Data Compression for Publishing in Editor

LZ4, Zstd, LZHAM, LZMA

Just a command line

LZ4

Compression Libraries for use in your codes

LZ4, Zstd, LZHAM, LZMA, Zlib, Snappy, RLE - all have a single unified API integrated with File class, raw data or with headers

LZ4, Zlib, Gzip - only simple memory to memory compression without File class integration, raw data only (requiring additional storage of compression algorithm and original uncompressed data size)

None

Project Data Encryption for Publishing in Editor

3 Fast and Secure permutation based ciphers (seekable/with random access) with no effect on patching

AES, 2-3x slower than Esenthel Cipher1, requires 16-byte alignment (which will increase data size 0-15 bytes per file and slow down seeking/random access), and negatively affects patching

None

Encryption for use in your codes

3 Fast and Secure permutation based ciphers (seekable/with random access),
AES

AES

None

Hash

CRC32, xxHash, SpookyHash, MetroHash, MD5, SHA1, SHA2-256 - memory and File class, all have a single unified API

CRC32, xxHash, CityHash, MD5, SHA1 - only memory

SpookyHash

Image Resize

Nearest, Linear, Cubic, Cubic+, Waifu2x

Linear

None

Steam Integration

Yes

Xbox Live Integration

Yes

Facebook Integration

Yes

SQL Integration

SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Sky Night Light Filter

Yes
It has been scientifically proven that blue light interrupts sleep, if you work at your projects late night, it's best to avoid it. While there might be filters already in the Operating System, they will affect the entire screen, however there might be cases where you just want to affect the sky and still have the rest of your colors correct.

3D Formats

FBX

Yes

Image Formats

BMP, PNG, JPG, TGA, PSD

Yes

JPEG XL

Yes

AVIF

Yes

WEBP (best lossless)

Yes

TIF

Yes

Audio Codecs

Wav

Yes

Opus (best lossy)

Yes

Vorbis

Yes

Flac (best lossless)

Yes

MP3

Yes

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