{"id":1587292,"date":"2026-05-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/QGKjtre7r7jrSCdGPdcXxP"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:00:00","slug":"a-game-developer-compared-godot-and-unity-by-making-the-same-game-in-both-engines-and-hes-found-a-clear-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-game-developer-compared-godot-and-unity-by-making-the-same-game-in-both-engines-and-hes-found-a-clear-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"A game developer compared Godot and Unity by making the same game in both engines, and he’s found a clear winner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For well over a decade, Unity has been one of, if not the <\/em>primary engine for indie game development, and has powered some massively successful games like Hollow Knight<\/a>, Among Us<\/a>, and the original Subnautica. But over the last few years, a growing number of developers have switched to Godot, an open-source engine that is similar to Unity in its scope and functionality.<\/p>\n

For those developers who have switched, the reasons have often been ethical or financial, with various shenanigans<\/a> from Unity putting developers off using the company’s tech. But placing that aside, how do the two engines compare as tools? One game developer decided to find out, by making exactly the same game in both engines.<\/p>\n

That designer is Thomas Grov\u00e9, who runs the Japanese co-production developer Studio Interrupt<\/a>. Grov\u00e9 was making a survival horror game with his son, and decided to use the project to test out both engines.<\/p>\n

“For a long time, I’ve really wanted to see a side-by-side, apples-to-apples comparison between the two engines, not like the same game made by different developers or whatever,” Grov\u00e9 says in a YouTube video<\/a> discussing the experiment (via Automaton<\/a>). “I thought this was my chance to finally do that and decide whether I want to move forward with Godot or keep using Unity.”<\/p>\n

Grov\u00e9 starts out by listing the features of his game, which is clearly at a very early stage of development. Said features include a complete character controller, a camera transition system, a scene-transition system, a tri-planar dither shader and an interactable object system. He built and ran this game with all these features in both engines, before comparing how each engine fared during the project.<\/p>\n

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