1、Contact:VGVGSupporting creativity through dataThe Big Game Engine Report of 2025The Big Game Engine Report of 2025End of the Era of In-House EnginesTable of ContentsState of Game EnginesDeep Dive Unreal EngineDeep Dive Smaller Public Engines5-713-1516-17Game Engine Market Share Trends8-122Game Engin

2、es Popularity by Genre18-19Game engines space has been changing rapidly with strong established public engines winning share from historically dominant custom game engines3Overview of the ReportOverview:This report explores the game engines used in games released on Steam over time.Summary Unity,Unr

3、eal Engine and custom game engines of large AAA studios continue to dominate the game engine market.However,the trends have been shifting significantly over the last 10 years,especially so in the last 5.Unreal Engine is quickly winning share from custom engines,becoming the go to game engine for man

4、y AAA studios.Unity has also started to see an impact as UE5 competes with Unity over simplicity and user experience,often becoming the preferred platform even among indie developers.Methodology The methodology relies on VGIs estimations and tagging of games against game engines.The final slides of

5、the report delve more into methodology.We capture game engine data for over 13,000 games on Steam.This report looks at 3 groups of game engines from the industry leaders to smaller open-source projects4Key Game Engines Covered in the ReportTier 1 Public EnginesTier 2 Public EnginesCustom In-House Ga

6、me EnginesUnreal Engine and Unity have been the dominant publicly available third-party game engines for a long timeOther third-party game engines have a significantly smaller market share,but are often used by indie developersIn-house engines are proprietary tools built by large developers for thei