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Mohamed Ibrahim
Mohamed Ibrahim

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Best game engine to start with in 2026?

I’m getting into game development (mainly mobile & indie games) and I’m trying to choose a game engine.

Between engines like Godot, Unity, Unreal, LibGDX, etc:

Which one would you recommend today?

And why?

I’m mostly interested in 2D / 2.5D, good performance, and a smooth learning curve.

Thanks! 🙏

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Ioannis Gyftakis

Have a look at those: giftakis.gr/misc/game-engines
Depending on what goal you want to achieve and how much time you have you can choose.
I would say Godot would be a safe bet for starters but it's quite an established engine. The good thing is that you can harness the power of A.I. with it in order to generate code and paste it there.

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Mohamed Ibrahim • Edited

Very helpful!! Thank you!

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Ioannis Gyftakis

Have also a look at some demo videos I have on YT on some of those game engines. Choose auto-generated translations as I have the content in greek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-bbV76_LY&list=PLRyzgdhYTYTm_PvrfvsDCYm7B2WAB-YPG
Hop you find it useful

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Mohamed Ibrahim

Alright