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You should try Godot. Open source and extremely lightweight compared to Unity and Unreal. It's pleasure to use, none of the baggage of the other engines. I'm a patron contributor. Fantastic for hobbyist tinkering and also viable for full blown commercial games.

https://godotengine.org/

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Yeah Godot editor is snappy and smooth, unlike Unity and Unreal. However Godot's 3D and physics implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Not sure if Godot 4 solves those issues.

For a solo indie dev it is far more than enough. There are solutions to any physics problems you encounter. The 3d in Godot 4 is quite beautiful

When I was moving away from Unity I looked at Godot and really liked it. It's nowhere near as performant or feature rich as other engines and it's future is undecided but it was fun to tinker with and get things moving. I hope to return to it in the future.

The lack of easy testing made me not use it. There were a couple testing plugins users had made which could kind of do unit and integration testing but they were super finicky.

Not sure when you last tried it out, but GUT (Godot Unit Test) is what I use and it integrates very well with the IDE.

3.4~ as they were preparing early 4.0 releases was when I was experimenting with godot.

I should add that I was specifically trying to use c# ecosystem for godot at the time and their plugins for testing. Since I ended up with Unreal I'm refreshed enough in c++ that I might check Godot 4.0 out this weekend again.

OK, I have no idea about C#, I use GDScript and C++. All my tests are in GDScript.

Can you share any references for finding the top quality or best known games made using Godot? I haven’t looked in a while.

There is a decent showcase page on their site https://godotengine.org/showcase/

The most visible title made with Godot in the last few months I can think of is Brotato.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942280/Brotato/

Another fairly popular one is Dome Keeper: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Here are some games created using Godot that you can find on Steam: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/

If you prefer, there's also a collection of Godot games on Itch.io: https://itch.io/games/top-rated/made-with-godot

Personally, I highly recommend checking out Cruelty Squad: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad - It's a fun game with a unique art style.

Circling back late here, but thank you.. and thank you to all the sibling commenters as well!

Take a look at this showreel videos[1][2].

[1] Desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o

[2] Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3QiQfQxeQ

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