We already know from the amount of people using it that Unreal Engine has become a huge force in game development, but new statistics show just how significant its presence has become. While Unity is still the most widely used engine, Unreal Engine-powered games accounted for a larger share of sales in 2024.
Meanwhile, the figures from Steam show that less than 10% of the games released on the platform in 2024 were made in developer's proprierary engines – more evidence for the growing transition to Epic Games' Unreal (see our pick of the best game development software).
