I've messed around with stuff and honestly? Unreal + Blueprints is a much nicer set of tools for experienced programmers I think. It's visual programming, but

I've messed around with stuff and honestly? Unreal + Blueprints is a much nicer set of tools for experienced programmers I think. It's visual programming, but it's easy to explore around, there's nice debugging interfaces, and the type inference stuff makes it so that you are presented with a lot of the engine details in a nicely digestible manner. Unity it's like "OK make a bunch of C# classes and coroutines!" and it gets real messy real quick if you don't know what tools are available to you.