I'm trying to make a RTS game, but I don't know which Engine would be the best

[Kamikazi]

hey guys

I'm new to game development.
I have tried to make a tank on ArmA2 as a mod but well, I failed.

After several years, I've been thinking about making a RTS game like CoH, and I still can't figure out which game engine to use.

I've been thinking of CryEngine, unreal, unity but I really can't decide.

Unity looks nice and assets shop should be helpful but too expensive for me to buy.
man it's like 2000 dollars!

Unreal.... 20 dollars per month sounds pretty expensive and 5 percent royalty shouldn't be simple after I release the game, maybe even before the release.

CryEngine's graphics are very nice and I can get it for 10 dollars for each month, so I thought it could be the best answer...

and seems like there is a new game engine on steam.

So, I want you guys to give me some opinion.

[Viriathus]

Well, if money your number 1 restriction, then CryEngine is a good choice, seeing that its the less expensive one.
CryEngine is not really turned for RTS games, so if you choose it, you'll need to make a lot of changes to the engine itself, but its the same thing for Unity and Unreal. The main problem with CryEngine is the learning curve and since you dont seem to be experienced (sorry if I'm wrong) in game development, you'll need to spend a lot of time learning how stuff works and how the engine is structured.

I dont have any experience with Unreal but I've read thats powerful and relatively easy to learn. But the price...

Unity I think its the most easy to get into, I think, and it has a great asset store, but its not as powerful as the other two and again the price doesnt help.

Digital tutors has a great blog post about these 3 engines with useful information, here: http://blog.digitaltutors.com/unity-udk-cryengine-game-engine-choose/

There is a 4th alternative, which is you make engine yourself. Its problaby the harder choice but you'll learn more about game development than any other choice and how/why stuff works the way it does.

[Sgt. Pepper]

You might be a little off on the price

Cryengine is only 10 a month but if you do nto pay for the month oyu loose access to the tools

Unreal is 20 a month and if you do not pay you only miss out on the updats you cans till use the tool set. Some people buy a month cancel and will upgrade every few months, which makes htis cheaper than cryengine in that reguard

Hopefully someone can tell you how much of the source code you get to mess with in Cryemgine, I know in unreal you have access to all of it.


Unity migh tbe the easiest to get set up for an RTS style game.

Both UE 4 adn Unity have way more learnign resouces than cryengine


With all that said I think what you should do is

1. download unity free
2. Download cryengine 3.5 (the free one)
3. Lookat some videos of UE 4 (UE3 is still free but to different from the 4 to compare)
Optional spend 30 and get 1 month of cry engine and the current build of UE 4

See which one you like and which is best for you.


With that said, now I got to be that dude that people do not like. Becouse I got to tell you a RTS isa big project, and a lot to take on for someone new to game development. You will probably be better served startign with something much simplier.

[Kamikazi]

Thanks for all those replies man!

I have another question:
If I want to make something like Dragon Quest 8, open world RPG that if you go straight you can come back to where you were at, just like the actual Earth, do I need to mess around with CryEngine?