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by Thaxll 1442 days ago
Godot is an amateur project compared to Unity, it's not even close. What game actually shipped on Godot? I can't cite a single major game on it.

https://godotengine.org/showcase

Looking at any of thoses games looks bad tbh it's like weekend project / low indie games.
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bogwog 1442 days ago
> weekend project

If Godot lets you make games like that in a weekend, then it's lightyears ahead of Unity.

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drusepth 1441 days ago
FWIW, I'd bet I could replicate many of these games sans release polish in a weekend in Unity solely because of their expansive asset store. Building them from scratch would take longer, but not that much longer.

If Godot had even the beginning of an asset store, it'd be way more appealing to devs like myself migrating away from Unity. Especially with Unreal's recent megascans and Quixel integrations making their asset store look inspiring, I can't imagine many Unity studios (who, IME, primarily focus on rapid development and tooling over asset work) will be drawn to Godot.

Obviously context is important, though: the asset store isn't the end-all reason people use Unity and rarely the reason a studio chooses the engine, but it is still a big factor for both groups. Other factors will apply, YMMV, etc.

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Thaxll 1441 days ago
Lot of AAA studios use Unity to prototype games when they have in-house engine.
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AaronM 1441 days ago
Sonic Colors: Ultimate, made by Sega.

Here are some other games

Carol Reed Mysteries[53] (since 2021) Commander Keen in Keen Dreams (Nintendo Switch port only) Cruelty Squad Deponia (iOS and PlayStation 4 ports) The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy Hardcoded Kingdoms of the Dump Sonic Colors: Ultimate

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remram 1441 days ago
And all of these: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/
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no_time 1441 days ago
>What game actually shipped on Godot

Cruelty Squad is probably one of the best selling Godot game yet its missing from that page.

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carbadtraingood 1442 days ago
Sonic Colors remaster, iirc?

The games in that showcase look pretty decent to me? Plenty of games I play look like that, lol.

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idle_zealot 1441 days ago
If I'm remembering correctly the new UI elements in the remaster were done in Godot, but the actual game was not. The new Godot menus are slow and unresponsive, so Colors isn't a great showcase for Godot.
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