Develop's essential countdown concludes

The top 10 game engines revealed

Develop’s two-week run down of the top ten game engines concludes today, with Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 taking the number one spot.

The full top ten is as follows.

No.10: Torque 3D
No.9: Vicious Engine 2
No.8: Bigworld Technology Suite
No.7: Vision Engine 7.5
No.6: Infernal Engine
No.5: BlitzTech
No.4: Unity 3D
No.3: CryENGINE 3
No.2: Gamebryo Lightspeed
No.1: Unreal Engine 3

To read our guide to the top 10, and to help you decide which to choose for your next project, click here.

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