If forced to choose one Unreal Engine game that stood out in 2024, I'd opt for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. In our review, we described it as a gloriously gloomy use of Unreal. Set in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the game adopts a grim look with a colour palette that could best be described as rust and concrete. The vegetation is impressively realistic, the weather is filthy, with violent storms, and the environment is a character in its own right - and it's all strangely believable.
Another title that stood out for its use of Unreal Engine in 2024 was the horror game Still Wakes The Deep. Developer The Chinese Room switched from UE 4 to Unreal Engine 5 during development, and the move paid off. The beauty of the game is in how it blends convincing 1970s period detail with realistic water and vapour physics to make the isolated North Sea oil rig setting believable.
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