Comment by moron4hire
9 months ago
Exactly. If you want your game to look exactly like every other game on Google Play, complete with all the same, long, janky splash screens and rendering hitches and slightly screwy text rendering and random audio glitches, use Unity.
All that might be acceptable for an adware befouled "idle RPG" style game on mobile (and they're all that kind of game these days). But it really galled me that people were using Unity so heavily for VR. It's extremely difficult to get a Unity game to work well on the standalone VR headsets. To hit the performance targets required by the Meta Quest Store, you really have to rewrite large portions of the engine to get around the fact that Unity is a disorganized, single-threaded, allocation-happy mess.
If you want your game to be a quality piece of software, you can't start with a garbage as your foundation.
There are games in many different genres, many different aesthetics, many different amounts of polish, and many diffrent levels of performance… all made with Unity. It’s true that they provide a bunch of baseline stuff so that low effort games look and feel similar, but it’s not that hard to end up with game made in Unity that feel unique.