[animal531]

Good post, it closely matches where I'm at. For any 2d project I'd look at using Godot (or even a custom/SDL solution) over Unity.

Even for 3d Unity is great to get into, but I always feel that for any non cookie-cutter project I want to build that it is always fighting back against me.

[ahtu123]

Unity is REALLY bad and unintuitive for 2D games. It's a 3D engine that begrudgingly lets you draw sprites except alpha and overdraw are really expensive. Basically any 2D engine will perform 1000x better out of the box.