# Page 2 | Unity Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Unity the right Game Development solution for you? Explore 840 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/158591/Unity/reviews --- Unity 4.6 (840) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/158591/Unity/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Unity ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 840 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Gioacchino T. Studente universitario Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Semplice e divertente" January 14, 2025 4.0 Essendo studente alla magistrale di Intelligenza Artificiale, ho potuto usare Unity per un mio progetto universitario. L'ho trovato molto semplice ed immediato, adatto come entry level. Pros Molto semplice ed intuitivo. Non è molto oneroso e funziona bene con hardware non di primo pelo. Cons Sicuramente si possono fare meno cose fotorealistiche rispetto ad altri competitor. Review Source LB Linda B. Mgr Computer Games Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The Gaming Scam and THIS IS ONE" November 5, 2024 1.0 Nothing its all a scam. I did everything paid the fees, etc. Its been 4 weeks 20 business daysaand i have received nothing. Not as much as an explanation. Cons No way to contact or communicate, just fake promises. Review Source YM Yogesh M. Game Artist Computer Games Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great engine for both AAA and indie games" January 13, 2025 4.0 Pros It's a highly customisable engine depending on the workflow. Cons The file management is not that great and the material process can be improved. Review Source aN abdelkabir N. freelancer Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Versatile Game Engine for All Skill Levels" November 10, 2024 4.0 Unity is a flexible engine with strong community support, ideal for indie and large-scale projects alike. Pros Powerful, cross-platform, and supports a wide variety of assets and tools Cons Steeper learning curve for beginners; large projects may slow down. Review Source PH Poly H. Programming Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The great features within unity." October 10, 2023 4.0 My experience with Unity is somewhat positive. It’s great for indie game creation with or without a team. It’s flexible but pricey when it comes to compensation or monetary values. Pros Unity has great community driven tutorials with template projects to expand upon. There is great official documentation for anything you can think of. Cons Script compilation takes up a lot of time as well as lighting. Creating a new project with lighting pipelines takes a long time as well. With recent events, Unity has also changed their pricing for users which has made a very negative impact with the community. Review Source MG Michael G. Game Developer Computer Games Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Intuitive Game Development Environment " November 8, 2023 4.0 I've loved working in this engine for the past 8 years or so -- adding scripts to game objects naturally mirrors the MVC design pattern to an extent. It feels just like putting brains inside bodies, and the whole process is a bit like creating lots of little tiny robot workers to do your job for you and talk to each other. It's as intuitive as playing Checkers; anyone who understands the bare essentials of programming with for loops, if statements, and so forth will have no trouble picking this up. Scripts are small and self-contained -- I rarely write one over 400 lines long, and many are under 200 lines. I've put out a number of casual games with it. Prefabs are useful also -- think of them as visual Classes that you instantiate. You create a game object, put whatever you want on it (scripts, components, children, whatever), drag it anywhere into the window on the bottom center, and it becomes a "factory" that can make copies of itself. One of my favorite code features is the concept of Coroutines -- Unity's way of writing asynchronous methods with a specified delay between one part of a method and another. Want to write an infinite loop that doesn't jam up your processor? No problem -- just create a Coroutine method (type IEnumerator) and add a "yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.5f);" statement inside that loop and it will only iterate every half-second, for example. Unfortunately, cryptic errors outside of my code tend to pop up from time to time, but those usually go away with exiting and reopening Unity. It's also quite a process to migrate your code to a mac for iOS distribution, but isn't it always? Overall, despite the little bugs, slow load times, and over-reliance on plugins, it's a great engine for your 2D or 3D (with each having their own physics systems) game development needs. Pros \-Very easy to grasp the game object / component / script system. -Simple to switch between platforms -C# is a high level language, easy for beginners and advanced programmers to pick up. -Automatic garbage collection (but you still need to make sure it's invoked sparingly) -Great break point debugging system with Visual Studio Cons \-Bloated, slow, and mildly buggy -Plugins will often conflict with each other and give duplicate library errors when building for iOS -Over-reliance on plugins -Not great for web games; OpenGL is extremely slow to load, and it's like Unicron, devouring browser memory Switched from [Adobe Animate](https://www.capterra.com/p/229311/Adobe-Animate/) Multiplatform game development was fairly new back in 2012, and Unity felt like an evolutionary step further than Flash and Haxe. Flash was also dying. Review Source SW Steven W. Laboratory Scientist Medical Devices Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Unity: The Perfect Game Engine" September 12, 2023 5.0 Unity has been nothing but helpful in our day to day usage, from helping coordinate small to large teams, to creating a useful paper trail for who made what changes at what time. It is a tool I use happily and look forward to using in the future as I continue game development. Pros Unity is broken down in a very digestible way, and once one's command of the program is thorough, there is really no limit to what can be created. This is truly the most useful aspect of the program. It is like magic in the hands of a knowledgeable coder. Cons The built in GUI system is slightly clunky and ugly, however it is not very consequential as a myriad of useful plugins/tools exist for FREE on Unity's asset store that vastly improves Unity's GUI. Review Source Katia M. Software development Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Tackling Educational Game Development with Unity" September 14, 2023 5.0 My experience using Unity to program an educational desktop video game and a mobile educational video game app has been rewarding overall. I found Unity easy to install and work with, even on my less powerful computer. The platform proved to be intuitive for the most part, allowing me to carry out the development of my educational projects.One area where I encountered some challenges was in creating animations, which could be a bit tricky at times. However, as I became more familiar with Unity, I was able to overcome these hurdles. Pros What I liked most about Unity was its ease of installation, even on a less powerful computer, and its overall intuitiveness. Cons Performance optimization tools could be enhanced for resource-intensive games. Cost-effective pricing options for Unity Pro and premium features would benefit smaller developers. Streamlining 2D game development and improving asset quality on the Asset Store are areas to focus on. Review Source AM Aidan M. Game Developer Entertainment Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good 3D Engine for Low-Tier Devices" October 2, 2023 4.0 Unity is a good engine for lower-tier devices (laptop/mobile). It looks clean and professional so everything is easy to find. I would continue to use it for 3D games as long as I am focusing on smaller projects, otherwise I would look for something else with better graphics that are easier to set up. Pros Nav-mesh pathfinding is a breeze to use. With some knowledge of how it works (1-2 tutorials) its possible to have objects navigating around the map within ten minutes. The Unity documentation is very good.Physics engine is very fast on low-tier devices (laptops/mobile) Cons I really dislike the animation system as it is. I have only ever been able to animate one thing, after nearly a dozen different attempts. I have also had multiple issues with shaders and collaboration tools breaking all of my in-game textures. I was forced to re-texture every single object (100+) by hand. If you are using both, DEFINITELY check if there are any critical shader issues before choosing a version for your project. Doesn't look great without a lot of work in writing your own custom shaders. The asset packs and templates are pricy. Alternatives considered [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/) Reason for choosing Unity Unity is a little less heavyweight than the Unreal Engine, so it runs better on lower-tier computers. I was also more familiar with C#/javascript, so it was easier for me to get started. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DIgital Operations Executive Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A contradictory and useful tool" June 16, 2024 5.0 Great, all rounded game engine with a few caveats, especially when it comes to post distribution Pros Opposite to Unreal, I like how seamless it is to integrate and use 2D assets for pixel art Cons Unfortunately I feel obligated to address that the issues related to using Unity are less in regard to the platfotm but rather their distribution policies disencouraging starting devs to use it Review Source SP Shasta P. Head Arts and Crafts Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ideal for rapid prototyping " July 21, 2022 3.0 I approached Unity aware of it's biggest faults, and have had an overall easy time getting acclimated to it. It has become my go to tool for rapid prototyping, and each major update has only made it faster and easier to use. Pros It's hard to best unity for rapid complex prototyping of non-standard ideas. Engines like Unreal can be good if you want a game that fits it's molds, but if you want to break out of the box Unity offers a lot more options. Cons The outdated user interface, and massive backlog of training material can make it difficult to learn Unity at times. It is much better to find a recent course for an LTE version than it is to simply hit up youtube because quite a lot has changed for the better overtime. Switched from [GameMaker: Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/158594/GameMaker-Studio/)[Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/)[Godot Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/234843/Godot-Engine/) I needed something that offered faster universal prototyping. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co-founder and Sales Analyzer Consumer Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Dreams comes True with Unity 3D" August 9, 2019 5.0 I always wanted to do game development though I am not in the field of Computer related Engineering but still Unity helped me a lot to make my dream come true. I use it not everyday but atleast in a week and have developed so many basic and some mid-range games in which mostly games are 3d open world, so I can say that making an open world game is really more preferable with Unity 3d. I would suggest every newbie to try Unity atleast once if he just wants to develop a game for not a big purpose. Though testing the Unity games on an android device is quite harmful as it may drain battery because Unity 3d cannot export the optimized game for all devices. So many big companies are using Unity 3d for big purpose too but they have a team of specialists who knows coding really well but an indie developer can't do any big with Unity but can surely try his hands on it. Pros I have always had a passion of Game development and was so much interested in making my own game for fun, Unity 3d helped me a lot doing this in last few years. Unity 3D is one of the best Game Development Engine out there which is open for everyone. The download and setup for Unity 3D is really easy. Unity 3d doesn't require a much memory though to keep it working on a flow we should have atleast 8gb of ram. Unity 3d supports almost every 3d model format. There are a lot of features already present in Unity 3d like to make a terrain or a plain and there are almost every essential geometrical shapes present. Unity 3d has a Professional-looking User interface which makes the work even more exciting. Unity 3d has an asset store from where we can get so many useful models, animations, scripts etc which are quite helpful in quick development purpose. Though there is a lot of work to do in game development to get the best outcome, Unity makes every outcome worth the effort and atleast satisfies us. The best part of Unity 3d is that it can export the game project to a windows .exe file, android app file and for so many other platforms including Consoles. With Unity 3d, we can make 3d as well as basic and even advanced 2d games which are more interesting though requires a hard and detailed work. Unity 3d has the power that so many big company names are developing Battle Rpyale Games with it. Unity 3d Games are quite easy to load and hence gives a high quality output. Cons Although Unity 3d has a professional user interface but it's way of working that is C# coding is pretty much tough and requires a good coder though it is a problem only if you target to develop a unique and a big game. Unity 3d has almost all the amazing features but the output sometimes doesn't worth it(not always), as per as my own personal experience I can say that the games made with Unity 3d are not well optimized to work in different types of devices and especially if we are exporting the game project to work on Android, it is not that much optimized which results in battery drain of some devices though this bad affect is nearly negligible in a new and powerful Android device. Unity has an asset store which is useful but the prices are like bad jokes to the newbies in Game development and for small businesses too, the prices are really high. The setup of Unity for basic use is simple but to export the game projects to Android, it is quite difficult to set everything up. Sometimes it can't support the high texturized models or can't optimize the overall game to work fluent with those models. Review Source IR Irum R. Software developer Computer Games Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Unitytagcareer" November 19, 2022 5.0 It is simple the best and I recommend it for the best career start and choosing this as a career can pay you with good future. Pros It is easier to learn and provides a great source data and tutorial for learning. It is a great career choice for a computer science graduate who want to go to software development field and do not want to get bored while working. Cons I dont find anything bad about unity 3D as it is continuously getting better day by day and almost everyday we find some thing new in. Sometime it gets complicated when it does not sync with the devices and gradle issues make the life hell. But it then sorted out by some time investments. Review Source WI Wassim I. Associate Professor Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Unity: A game engine for beginner and intermediate developers" May 29, 2022 3.0 Very good experience in an academic setting. Pros Its ease of use and integration with Visual Studio. Having a good experience in C# makes the game scripting process really easy. Cons The IDE is a bit slow and buggy. It crashes from time to time on MAC OSes. Review Source Fernando Manoel B. CEO E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best game creation engine I know" August 5, 2022 5.0 So far Unity is exceeding my expectations in every process. Pros Creating a game with Unity is quite easy and exciting because you don't need to be an expert in game development. The tutorials and walkthroughs show very clearly each step of the process. Creating integrations with other tools is also a task that doesn't take much of your time. Cons I didn't delve too deeply into the process of developing complex games, so I haven't felt any lack or difficulty in using the engine. So far the tool is great for me. Alternatives considered [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/) Reason for choosing Unity Easy to install. Many tutorials. The free version is excellent and provides all the tools you need to create amazing games. Review Source TC Tavakus C. investor Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "unity has to be the best gamming software out" September 5, 2022 5.0 Pros is quite possibly of the most famous game motor, particularly for new autonomous engineers. A lot of enormous names have likewise been created on Unity like Pokémon Go, Assassins' Creed: Identity, and Angry Birds Epic. It's a notable stage in the gaming business and really a state of the art game motor, also free for more limited size projects. Solidarity offers both the instruments to foster your new game, in addition to the choice to test it too. The games are versatile for different stages, and it's not difficult to utilize, likely the fundamental purposes behind its prosperity. Contenders, for example, Unreal could have the edge in certain region, so it's critical to resolve which is the best game motor for you. Cons There should be a few disadvantages to picking Unity as a game motor, or there wouldn't be contenders. Certain elements have been portrayed as lacking by certain experts and it very well may be a stage behind several different stages. Here are a portion of the inconveniences of utilizing Unity. Not appropriate for difficult tasks Solidarity is great for fledglings and those at more significant levels of schooling, yet if you truly need to dive profound and work for a bigger scope, maybe another game motor could work for you. Stunning offers the choice to construct AAA games with a bigger scene of things on the screen immediately. Solidarity is most popular for versatile game turn of events. It relies upon the kind of undertaking you need to make. Begin without any preparation Solidarity doesn't offer the likelihood to construct your game from an establishment or layout. You need to begin without any preparation. While it gives a wide library of devices in the resources store, you'll have to make your game yourself. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Is Unity a good game engine to start with or migrate to?" March 5, 2023 4.0 Very good, if you ever wanted to learn game design Unity is definitely the way to go, everything feels like its made easy, there are plenty of tutorials and Unity the documentation is very easy to understand and follow along. Pros It's free for startup projects and you only need to start paying after your game makes a considerable amount of money, easy to use, out of every game engine Unity has the biggest community which means there are a huge amount of tutorials and people that can help you if you're ever stuck. Documentation is also really good and easy to follow along. Cons When I started to work on CI using Unitys cloud services I struggled a lot and there isn't much support on the CI end so it kinda feels like you have to figure things out on your own there. Alternatives considered [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/) Reason for choosing Unity Unity is more widely used and has a helpful resources online compared to other game engines. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Estudiante Architecture & Planning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Evaluando Unity" November 7, 2022 5.0 Unity me da la posibilidad de destacar mis proyectos en cualquier presentación, concurso, evento o ante mis comitentes. En mi trabajo, es importante mostrar los proyectos con un nivel de realidad detallado, específico, y bien logrado. Esto me permite comunicar mis ideas, de una forma clara, concisa y correcta (ya que, muchas veces, los demás no interpretan las ideas que está en mi cabeza, y no se ven materializadas -abstracción y creatividad-). Pros Cabe destacar que se pueden lograr imágenes, capturas y mundos virtuales, con acabados que superan la realidad. Ofrece posibilidades muy bien logradas, para poder potenciar la creatividad y generar proyectos increíbles.En mi caso, me ha permitido lograr contenido realista, para poder mostrar mis proyectos de una forma destacable (renders de ALTISIMA CALIDAD). Cons Se trata de un software un tanto complejo, no muy fácil de entender a la primera, y que requiere horas de uso para lograr resultados cada vez mejores. Switched from [Lumion](https://www.capterra.com/p/174874/Lumion/) Más que dejar de utilizar los anteriores, considero que Unity es una herramienta que me permite avanzar, crecer y potenciar cualquiera de mis trabajos. Review Source Luis Daniel R. Lead Application Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### " Unity's for you!" December 24, 2019 5.0 I love it and use it daily to work on my own game. I have been with Unity for 4 years now and it's an amazing engine and getting better by the day. It's so easy a lot of people flip game/apps with how easy to use. I don't endorse that but it gives you an idea of how easy anyone can pick it up and build something. Pros Unity is one of the most easiest engines to use if you're starting with game development. Also if you previously have a C# background, it will be a breeze. The UI is simple but that can also be one it's downfalls. It's a lot inspector/tabs based but it's full-fledged. It's light and it's not as complex to work with like other engines. You can easily follow tutorials online to build games for it, and also Unity it's one of the best engines to build mobiles games if that's one of your desires. Compared to other engines like Unreal Engine, it's easy with Unity to find online support or groups of people that work with the engine and have tutorials. You can look for people on Youtube like Brackeys that can help you get started on your journey of game dev. Unity is free and has some paid tiers that offer a bit more flexibilities in some features, so look at them and take what you need. Cons I wish the paid tiers were a little cheaper and the subscription model could be month-to-month and can be canceled any time. One of the main reasons why I haven't got Unity Pro/Plus it's because my life cna be abrupt a lot of the times and I might need to cancel or pause the subscription, but they don't allow you to do that. Becuase if you're an indy dev, you have to do a lot of expenses and keep track of things. I really wish they did that. Also for full 3D games and really complex ones, Unreal engine is more powerful due to it's C++ nature. Alternatives considered [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/) Reason for choosing Unity C# coding, price tiers and community support. Switched from [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/) Scope for my project and simplicity of what I was going to do. Also knowing C#. Review Source Gianni R. Dirección Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Recomiendo tener cuidado con el uso de Unity" October 18, 2022 3.0 Cuándo ventajas no es demasiada porque a veces ya viene preinstalado para poder usar aplicaciones o software y es necesario pero si yo pudiese usar otra que la suplante, lo haría. Pros Personalmente no es que me haya gustado lo he tenido que usar o viene de preinstalado en algunos juegos o aplicaciones pero sinceramente no me gusta para nada.Más que nada por lo perjudicial que es, en cuanto al cambio de los gráficos de los sistemas operativos. Cons Espero que los desarrolladores tengan en cuenta esta opinión, y que se tomen el tiempo de hacer una revisión de su producto porque, imagino que ellos están conscientes de que hay algo que no está al 100%, y que debería mejorar su calidad de gráficos y volverlo un software excelente, cosa que no es ni por asomo Alternatives considered [HTML5 Product Configurator Software](https://www.capterra.com/p/146971/HTML5-Product-Configurator-Software/)[Adobe Acrobat Reader](https://www.capterra.com/p/170833/Acrobat-Reader-DC/)[Adobe Illustrator](https://www.capterra.com/p/227125/Adobe-Illustrator/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Unity Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An incredibly easy to use piece of kit. A truly expansive and versatile engine." July 9, 2018 5.0 It encouraged me to learn a new skill while I was a teen, programming. This is incredible useful and I have been using it since to create applications and even prototypes within the Unity engine. Pros Where do I start with this incredible software. Firstly, would be the scripting capability within the engine. It uses C# which is a managed language based on the .NET framework. This underlying framework in conjunction with the Unity API introduces a lot of useful features for keeping your code clean and concise while also being highly performant. This also includes the ability to create custom editor windows within the Unity Editor which can be customised to fit a specific need, streamlining your workflow. Secondly would be the newly introduced High Definition and Lightweight pipelines. They are preset way of rendering the screen which can either produce high fidelity graphics if you are targeting high end platforms or can be used for a more simplistic look if you are targeting low end mobile phones and tablets. These are highly expandable and can be adapted on a per-project basis to get just the look that you want. Thirdly would be the massive array of platforms that Unity can export your game to. This includes but is not limited to, PC/Mac/Linux, Android/iOS as well as consoles soon including the Switch among others. This allows you to quickly deploy to different platforms so they can be uploaded to the cloud and downloaded by your players. Cons Unfortunately, a piece of kit this large is not without its drawbacks. One of these being that the dark theme can only be accessed by those holding a Unity Plus subscription. This means that those with slightly poorer eye sight may struggle to read the text throughout the user interface. Another con would be that currently, the Unity interface does not currently scale in size when used on high resolution monitors. This leads to an incredibly hard to read user interface and can become very straining on the eyes after just a short session. However this is soon to be fixed in an upcoming Unity version. Review Source Gonzalo B. Web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Where the Indie game developers thrive" July 17, 2019 5.0 Unity is overall a beautiful piece of software that came to do much of the heavy lifting on low-level tech stuff, allowing smaller teams to develop faster and better games in less time, opening the market to more and more people worldwide. Pros Unity is, out of the box, a beautiful piece of software. Is the kind of middleware that arrives and does the job, the missing link that most of Indie and small game development teams were looking for. Unity has made it simple and easy to develop a game for beginners and experienced users alike and the most important, allowing you to build your game to a plethora of platforms. Now a small team of developers and artists can build and publish a game in several platforms in no time. Unity does great for small and mid-sized projects, I really enjoy prototyping with Unity, even when I know I won't use it for the project itself I like to use Unity to build prototypes because it's easy and fun. The interface is really easy to use, a real playground for developers and artists alike. Their documentation is vast, well-written and constantly updated. Same with the API documentation and the tutorials that will walk you through making a game end-to-end in few hours, the community forum is also helpful when something is not working and you can't work your head around it. The Unity store has also proved useful when I didn't have the time or knowledge to develop some assets I needed for the game. Unity was also helpful in developing apps beyond games, like architectural explorations, interactive art installations, AR showrooms, etc. Overall a great engine that does much of the heavy lifting for you. Cons Sometimes I felt that the process of upgrading was quite difficult and scary, you have to install a separate instance of the program (taking a lot of space) and some of the projects can be really difficult to adapt to the new version. Some of the assets will stop working and you will find your console full of errors that weren't there before. Another issue is version control, the binaries are pain and still, I haven't found any alternative than committing blindly the scenes, for example, without being able to track what changed from commit to commit. After a few projects, I have found that the app optimization for mobiles is not that great. For example, if you don't meticulously take care of the textures and assets max resolution you can end up with an app weighing a few hundred megabytes. Could be great if the build itself included some optimization towards the assets. Review Source TJ Tavaris J. Software Developer Computer Games Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Important features you should know about game development software" November 25, 2022 5.0 Since I've use Unity when it first came out and now what it has become I am truly blown away with all the wonderful changes that they made. Pros I used this software when it first came out when I was in college. I like who easy the art pipeline integration is. I can make 2D sprites, 3D characters, weapons and environments in 3D Max, Maya, Blender or PhotoShop and bring them into to unity with ease. Cons There really one thing that I wish could be introduce to unity. I prefer all of the IDE be into one. What I mean by this you have to code in visual studios and then jump back into unity. If it was a all in one that would be great. Alternatives considered [Unreal Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/158599/Unreal-Engine/)[Godot Engine](https://www.capterra.com/p/234843/Godot-Engine/) Reason for choosing Unity Testing all product to see what is good for development is good. You get to see what will be a good use. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Producer Computer Games Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Unity is changing the games industry for the better" July 17, 2018 5.0 Unity has opened up games development and made it accessible to many more people than ever before, it offers industry leading tools and capabilities with a relatively low cost of entry. The community and support network around Unity is second to none and many great games have been made with the platform. Pros When we started out in the games industry, there was a time when 90% of your development effort went into the creation of a bespoke "game engine" for whatever game you were making. 10% of the effort went on the unique elements of the game that you were working on. Unity has been part of a middleware wave that started around 20 years ago (such as Renderware, and many other engines before it) which provide a platform for game creation without positioning itself to being the master of a specific type of genre or game type. This has opened up the world of game development to hundreds of thousands of people, because now you no longer need the low-level expertise of developing a rendering engine, it's already there, and although it's maybe not as cutting edge as a bespoke engine of the bigger AAA titles, it is more than adequate for 99% of the games development world. Particularly indie studios who need low costing solutions to games development. Unity is great, it offers cutting edge graphics, amazing physics, animation, scripting and platform compatibility for a very reasonable price (it's free for personal use up until a certain amount of revenue) - it's simply not cost efficient any more to consider developing your own bespoke engine. And what's more, there's a huge and very helpful community of people out there who have probably faced any problem you encounter during development, a quick google and you have your answer. Cons Unity doesn't have many drawbacks, if anything it's maybe \*too\* easy to use in some cases and causes asset rippers (or "flippers") to be able to make and publish very low effort titles onto platforms such as Steam for a small profit. Sadly there's no real way of preventing this (and it's certainly not Unity's issue) Unity doesn't have many flaws, it could perhaps offer some better landscaping and world creation tools (a minor point) and it's 2d game creation abilities are definitely improving but not as good as it's 3d development side. Beyond that, Unity is a wonderful tool for any game developer and is here to stay for a very very long time. It just keeps improving. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Lead Backend Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Unity is a great engine for new and experienced game developers." May 17, 2018 5.0 It made game development a lot easier. We actually created a virtual reality game and they even had full support for that out of the box when VR was in its early stages. I really enjoyed working in the engine compared to others I've used because of how much time it saved and how easy it was to work with. Pros Unity is very easy to pick up and play with right away. The tutorials on the website will allow you to create a fully working game within hours of first installing it. Unity also has a community store where you can buy art or programming assets to help you quickly prototype your game. It has a lot of built in features that are easy to work with as well. I've personally used the networking and it took something that was very intimidating at first and made it very easy to grasp and implement. You can build you game to a ton of different platforms including web, Xbox, Playstation, PC, and mobile just by clicking a button. Everything works out of the box. Unity also has a large community so finding answers to questions is pretty easy with a quick google search. The last pro I'll mention is the dev team seems to address issues with the engine quickly and they are constantly adding new features. Cons There isn't much I didn't like with unity. The only negative experience I had was when the engine started to crash after my project would be open for about an hour. It was an issue with my project specifically, because I had other projects that it didn't happen on. The customer support team didn't really do a great job getting back to me, I would wait weeks at a time for a response. That was a few years ago though, so things could have changed. The only other thing that was difficult in Unity was version control. This largely had to do with the binary files, and I don't know if other engines have a good solution for that. Unity does have a few packages in the store you can buy that are supposed to help but we had no luck with them. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Game Development](https://www.capterra.com/game-development-software/)[Virtual Reality (VR)](https://www.capterra.com/vr-software/)[Augmented Reality](https://www.capterra.com/augmented-reality-software/)