What are some alternatives to Unity?

What is Unity and what are its top alternatives?

Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.

Unity is a tool in the Game Development category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Unity

Unreal Engine
It is a game engine that helps you make games. It is made up of several components that work together to drive the game. Its massive system of tools and editors allows you to organize your assets and manipulate them to create the gameplay for your game. ...
MonoGame
It is a free C# framework used by game developers to make games for multiple platforms and other systems. It is also used to make Windows and Windows Phone games run on other systems. ...
Godot
It is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It is developed by hundreds of contributors from all around the world. ...
Blender
It is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. ...
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. ...
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997. ...

Unity alternatives & related posts

Unreal Engine

375

A suite of integrated tools for game developers

Stacks375

Votes34

PROS OF UNREAL ENGINE

11
C++
6
Blueprints
5
PBR
4
Suitable for any projects
4
Source Available
3
Convenient and modern UI
1
Most Popular Game engine

CONS OF UNREAL ENGINE

6
Heavy
1
A lot of "heaviness" myths around

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MonoGame

A free C# framework used by game developers

Stacks33

Votes1

PROS OF MONOGAME

1
Cross-platform

CONS OF MONOGAME

1
Can't working in vs mac 2019
1
No GUI

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Godot

220

Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

Stacks220

Votes47

PROS OF GODOT

14
Open source
7
Supports both C++, C# and GDScript
7
Cross-Platform
7
Easy to port
5
Simple
4
Avaible on Steam For Free
3
GDScript is Based On Python

CONS OF GODOT

1
Harder to learn
1
Performance in 3D
1
Need opengl 2.1 / 3.3
1
Somewhat poor 3D performance and lacks automatic LODs

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Blender

382

Open Source 3D computer graphics software

Stacks382

Votes20

PROS OF BLENDER

9
Free for Commercial and Personal Use
4
Layers
4
Usable For Graphic Design
3
Dozens of free addons, courses and an active community

CONS OF BLENDER

2
Long Render Time (every 3d program ever)
1
Blender dropped the game engine, see UPBGE
1
Confusing UI and shortcut navigation for newcomers

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JavaScript

371.1K

8.1K

Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions

Stacks371.1K

Votes8.1K

PROS OF JAVASCRIPT

1.7K
Can be used on frontend/backend
1.5K
It's everywhere
1.2K
Lots of great frameworks
899
Fast
746
Light weight
425
Flexible
392
You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
286
Non-blocking i/o
237
Ubiquitousness
191
Expressive
55
Extended functionality to web pages
49
Relatively easy language
46
Executed on the client side
30
Relatively fast to the end user
25
Pure Javascript
21
Functional programming
15
Async
13
Full-stack
12
Its everywhere
12
Future Language of The Web
12
Setup is easy
11
JavaScript is the New PHP
11
Because I love functions
10
Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
9
Everyone use it
9
Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
9
Easy
9
Expansive community
8
For the good parts
8
Easy to hire developers
8
No need to use PHP
8
Most Popular Language in the World
8
Powerful
8
Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
7
It's fun
7
Its fun and fast
7
Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
7
Agile, packages simple to use
7
Supports lambdas and closures
7
Love-hate relationship
7
Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
7
Evolution of C
7
Hard not to use
7
Versitile
7
Nice
6
Easy to make something
6
Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
6
1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
6
Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
6
It let's me use Babel & Typescript
5
Clojurescript
5
Everywhere
5
Scope manipulation
5
Function expressions are useful for callbacks
5
Stockholm Syndrome
5
Promise relationship
5
Client processing
5
What to add
4
Because it is so simple and lightweight
4
Only Programming language on browser
1
Subskill #4
1
Test2
1
Easy to understand
1
Not the best
1
Easy to learn
1
Hard to learn
1
Easy to learn and test
1
Love it
1
Test
0
Hard 彤

CONS OF JAVASCRIPT

22
A constant moving target, too much churn
20
Horribly inconsistent
15
Javascript is the New PHP
9
No ability to monitor memory utilitization
8
Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
7
Thinks strange results are better than errors
6
Can be ugly
3
No GitHub
2
Slow
0
HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs

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Python

250.3K

6.9K

A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.

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Votes6.9K

PROS OF PYTHON

1.2K
Great libraries
965
Readable code
848
Beautiful code
789
Rapid development
692
Large community
439
Open source
394
Elegant
283
Great community
274
Object oriented
222
Dynamic typing
78
Great standard library
62
Very fast
56
Functional programming
52
Easy to learn
47
Scientific computing
36
Great documentation
30
Productivity
29
Matlab alternative
29
Easy to read
25
Simple is better than complex
21
It's the way I think
20
Imperative
19
Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
19
Free
17
Powerfull language
17
Machine learning support
16
Fast and simple
14
Scripting
12
Explicit is better than implicit
11
Ease of development
10
Clear and easy and powerfull
9
Unlimited power
8
It's lean and fun to code
8
Import antigravity
7
Print "life is short, use python"
7
Python has great libraries for data processing
6
Although practicality beats purity
6
Fast coding and good for competitions
6
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
6
High Documented language
6
Readability counts
6
Rapid Prototyping
6
I love snakes
6
Now is better than never
6
Flat is better than nested
6
Great for tooling
5
Great for analytics
5
Web scraping
5
Lists, tuples, dictionaries
4
Complex is better than complicated
4
Socially engaged community
4
Plotting
4
Beautiful is better than ugly
4
Easy to learn and use
4
Easy to setup and run smooth
4
Simple and easy to learn
4
Multiple Inheritence
4
CG industry needs
3
List comprehensions
3
Powerful language for AI
3
Flexible and easy
3
It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
3
Many types of collections
3
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
3
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
3
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
3
Pip install everything
3
No cruft
3
Generators
3
Import this
2
Can understand easily who are new to programming
2
Securit
2
Should START with this but not STICK with This
2
A-to-Z
2
Because of Netflix
2
Only one way to do it
2
Better outcome
2
Good for hacking
2
Batteries included
2
Procedural programming
1
Sexy af
1
Automation friendly
1
Slow
1
Best friend for NLP
0
Powerful
0
Keep it simple
0
Ni

CONS OF PYTHON

53
Still divided between python 2 and python 3
28
Performance impact
26
Poor syntax for anonymous functions
22
GIL
19
Package management is a mess
14
Too imperative-oriented
12
Hard to understand
12
Dynamic typing
12
Very slow
8
Indentations matter a lot
8
Not everything is expression
7
Incredibly slow
7
Explicit self parameter in methods
6
Requires C functions for dynamic modules
6
Poor DSL capabilities
6
No anonymous functions
5
Fake object-oriented programming
5
Threading
5
The "lisp style" whitespaces
5
Official documentation is unclear.
5
Hard to obfuscate
5
Circular import
4
Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
4
The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
4
Not suitable for autocomplete
2
Meta classes
1
Training wheels (forced indentation)

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Node.js

193K

8.5K

A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications

Stacks193K

Votes8.5K

PROS OF NODE.JS

1.4K
Npm
1.3K
Javascript
1.1K
Great libraries
1K
High-performance
805
Open source
487
Great for apis
477
Asynchronous
425
Great community
390
Great for realtime apps
296
Great for command line utilities
86
Websockets
84
Node Modules
69
Uber Simple
59
Great modularity
58
Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
42
Easy to start
35
Great for Data Streaming
32
Realtime
28
Awesome
25
Non blocking IO
18
Can be used as a proxy
17
High performance, open source, scalable
16
Non-blocking and modular
15
Easy and Fun
14
Easy and powerful
13
Future of BackEnd
13
Same lang as AngularJS
12
Fullstack
11
Fast
10
Scalability
10
Cross platform
9
Simple
8
Mean Stack
7
Great for webapps
7
Easy concurrency
6
Typescript
6
Fast, simple code and async
6
React
6
Friendly
5
Control everything
5
Its amazingly fast and scalable
5
Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
5
Scalable
5
Great speed
5
Fast development
4
It's fast
4
Easy to use
4
Isomorphic coolness
3
Great community
3
Not Python
3
Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
3
TypeScript Support
3
Blazing fast
3
Performant and fast prototyping
3
Easy to learn
3
Easy
3
Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
3
One language, end-to-end
3
Less boilerplate code
2
Npm i ape-updating
2
Event Driven
2
Lovely
1
Creat for apis
0
Node

CONS OF NODE.JS

46
Bound to a single CPU
45
New framework every day
40
Lots of terrible examples on the internet
33
Asynchronous programming is the worst
24
Callback
19
Javascript
11
Dependency hell
11
Dependency based on GitHub
10
Low computational power
7
Very very Slow
7
Can block whole server easily
7
Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
4
Breaking updates
4
Unstable
3
Unneeded over complication
3
No standard approach
1
Bad transitive dependency management
1
Can't read server session

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I have a web application with the backend developed using Node.js and Express.js. The backend server is in one directory, and I have a separate API testing framework, made using SuperTest, Mocha, and Chai, in another directory. The testing framework pings the API, retrieves responses, and performs validations.

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Node.js

GraphQL

MongoDB

I just finished the very first version of my new hobby project: #MovieGeeks. It is a minimalist online movie catalog for you to save the movies you want to see and for rating the movies you already saw. This is just the beginning as I am planning to add more features on the lines of sharing and discovery

For the #BackEnd I decided to use Node.js , GraphQL and MongoDB:

Node.js has a huge community so it will always be a safe choice in terms of libraries and finding solutions to problems you may have
GraphQL because I needed to improve my skills with it and because I was never comfortable with the usual REST approach. I believe GraphQL is a better option as it feels more natural to write apis, it improves the development velocity, by definition it fixes the over-fetching and under-fetching problem that is so common on REST apis, and on top of that, the community is getting bigger and bigger.
MongoDB was my choice for the database as I already have a lot of experience working on it and because, despite of some bad reputation it has acquired in the last months, I still believe it is a powerful database for at least a very long list of use cases such as the one I needed for my website

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