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I can name several games from the top of my head that are built on in-house engines I have played and are reasonably recent: - The Witness - Overwatch (1/2)

by dgb23 1y ago

I can name several games from the top of my head that are built on in-house engines I have played and are reasonably recent: - The Witness - Overwatch (1/2) - Factorio - The Last of Us 2 - Baldur's Gate 3 - Stellaris I can't say anything about the quality of the engines themselves. But I find these games very impressive for different types of reasons.

ykl 1y ago
A few more recent non-UE5 custom in-house engines that have demonstrated very impressive results: * Spiderman (1/2/Miles Morales) and the PS5 Rachet and Clank, by Insomniac on their in-house engine. * Astro’s Playroom and Astrobot by Team Asobi uses an in-house engine and act as the de-facto hardware showcases for the PS5 * Horizon Zero Dawn/Horizon Forbidden West by Guerilla Games, which shares the custom Decima engine with Death Stranding by Kojima Productions * The upcoming GTA6 by Rockstar. Not out yet, but the trailers supposedly were captured on a base PS5 and visually look astounding. * Doom 2016/Doom Eternal/Doom Dark Ages by id, running of course on the latest versions of idTech. * The Forza racing games continue to use the in-house ForzaTech engine, and Forza Horizon 5 looks amazing visually * The Call of Duty series continues to use the in-house IW Engine * The Battlefield series and EA’s various sports games continue to use the in-house Frostbite engine * Ubisoft’s various games continue to use in-house engines. AFAIK they actually have three major in-house engines: Dunia, Snowdrop, and Anvil. * Tiny Glade is a small indie game built by a two-person team running on a completely custom engine that despite the team being tiny happens to have possibly the most advanced light transport in any shipping game engine today UE5 is gigantic today of course, but in-house engines are still alive and well today and constantly producing amazing results.
MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
Let's not forget the masterpiece that is Return of the Obra Dinn. I really hope that algorithm becomes open source at some point.
- jsheard 1y ago
  Obra Dinn doesn't use an in-house engine though, it's Unity.
  - MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
    The 1-bit dithering algorithm is quite unique to the point that the engine used is largely irrelevant.

by dgb23 1y ago

ykl 1y ago

A few more recent non-UE5 custom in-house engines that have demonstrated very impressive results: * Spiderman (1/2/Miles Morales) and the PS5 Rachet and Clank, by Insomniac on their in-house engine. * Astro’s Playroom and Astrobot by Team Asobi uses an in-house engine and act as the de-facto hardware showcases for the PS5 * Horizon Zero Dawn/Horizon Forbidden West by Guerilla Games, which shares the custom Decima engine with Death Stranding by Kojima Productions * The upcoming GTA6 by Rockstar. Not out yet, but the trailers supposedly were captured on a base PS5 and visually look astounding. * Doom 2016/Doom Eternal/Doom Dark Ages by id, running of course on the latest versions of idTech. * The Forza racing games continue to use the in-house ForzaTech engine, and Forza Horizon 5 looks amazing visually * The Call of Duty series continues to use the in-house IW Engine * The Battlefield series and EA’s various sports games continue to use the in-house Frostbite engine * Ubisoft’s various games continue to use in-house engines. AFAIK they actually have three major in-house engines: Dunia, Snowdrop, and Anvil. * Tiny Glade is a small indie game built by a two-person team running on a completely custom engine that despite the team being tiny happens to have possibly the most advanced light transport in any shipping game engine today UE5 is gigantic today of course, but in-house engines are still alive and well today and constantly producing amazing results.

MrDrMcCoy 1y ago

Let's not forget the masterpiece that is Return of the Obra Dinn. I really hope that algorithm becomes open source at some point.

jsheard 1y ago
Obra Dinn doesn't use an in-house engine though, it's Unity.
- MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
  The 1-bit dithering algorithm is quite unique to the point that the engine used is largely irrelevant.