game engines

This note last modified February 6, 2026

In order of most difficult / most capable down to easiest

Unreal
Unity
Godot (my sweet spot. Does everything I need it to while still being accessible)
GameMaker
RPGMaker
defold - mobile and low resource games?
Construct 3 - pretty simple
UEFN (Education in Fortnite)
Twine (for text based story games. Easy to learn but you can get complicated with it)
Scratch