Hacker Trends › unreal vs unity vs godot
Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, unity leads unreal vs unity vs godot with 34,294 mentions to unreal’s 18,048, peaking in Aug 2023.
Mention-over-time for unreal vs unity vs godot, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Three game engines, one shared earthquake: all three spike together in the Sept-2023 Unity runtime-fee fiasco — Unity's self-inflicted blow-up, with Unreal and Godot surging the same month as developers threatened to jump ship.
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