Unreal Engine dominates as the most successful game engine, data reveals

Image from Black Myth Wukong, a video game made in Unreal Engine
(Image credit: Game Science Interactive Technology)

We already know from the amount of people using it that Unreal Engine has become a huge force in game development, but new statistics show just how significant its presence has become. While Unity is still the most widely used engine, Unreal Engine-powered games accounted for a larger share of sales in 2024.

Meanwhile, the figures from Steam show that less than 10% of the games released on the platform in 2024 were made in developer's proprierary engines – more evidence for the growing transition to Epic Games' Unreal (see our pick of the best game development software).

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Joe Foley

Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.

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