Kingdom Come Deliverance II was made on Cry Engine, day one it run pretty good on my setup (Ryzen 7 5700 X + RTX 2060 at the time, i got more or less 45 - 60 FPS on medium high settings, didn't remember if i disabled upscaling).

Meanwhile The Outer Worlds 2 with way less realistic and impressive graphics was a messy pixelated slideshow once i finished the tutorial, i was running on everything on minimum.

Cry Engine and REngine are a memento from a time where videogame companies used to squish every bit for performance and make games look and feel fantastic even in weak hardware

Cassette beasts was so good and absolutely gorgeous

I used to recommend Unreal 4 for everyone, but they are already going for 6 without optimizing the 5.

Real time global illumination (Lumen) and runtime LOD generation (Nanite) can't be made much faster; it's not really about optimization, it's that these features are fundamentally slow. The problem is that Epic spent a shit-ton of R&D developing these, and they do save developers some time - at the expense of disk space and performance.

In UE5 my hobby project ran fine on my rig but I stopped and spent a year making a system that reduced the game's footprint 3 fold.

If I was working for a company then they wouldn't allow me to waste time doing that.

I blame Crysis for that.

Is there a way to filter steam games by engine?