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Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by justdaveisfine@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world
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Have you ever found yourself deciding against a game you would otherwise check out because of what game engine it uses?

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[–] Chesckers@lemmy.zip 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Personally yes, but I have a good reason I think. I am a Godot gamedev, so I feel a sort of kinship towards other Godot games. Like I really want to support them for whatever reason haha.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I have huge respect to Mega Crit for this. After the Unity Engine controversy 2 years ago, they re-made all of Slay the Spire 2 (StS2) that was currently on the work to Godot and becamse sponsors of the project.

Currently I'm loving StS 2. The changes are mainly content and a bit of QOL, so it's clear that changing engines represented a huge effort for them with respect to the noticeable impact to the players, and yet they still did it.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

I was about to say "no" but saw your comment. If I am not sure about buying a game, seeing it was made with Godot makes me want to buy it. I am not a game developer but I support Foss and just love how good and clean Godot is.