--- title: CryEngine Reviews meta\_title: 'CryEngine Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CryEngine works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Game Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/game-development --- # CryEngine Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by CryEngine but has limited features. Are you part of the CryEngine team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! With CRYENGINE, we have a simple goal: to create the most powerful game engine in the industry, and to give creators all across the globe the tools to harness this power to create world-class gaming experiences, no matter their budget or team size. 5% royalties, full source code. Suitable for developing on all platforms, including a strong affinity & performance boost for VR. 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![chris s.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "chris s.") CS chris s. Game Designer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/23/2020 "CryEngine a great Engine for beginners and advanced developers as well" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CryEngine? CryEngine is an engine designed by expert developers and delivers tools that other engines do not exactly have right off the start. It is one of the most powerful engines out there available for free. Also 5% royalty applies when you ship your project. Your first $5K annual revenue per project is royalty-free. So it is great for a first time project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CryEngine? It is not as intuitive as Unity or Unreal but they do have a very accessible knowledge base and tutorials to get started. They may not have as many tools and assets available on their store as other engines but have enough for any project to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CryEngine: Really good for experienced developers looking to make a quick good looking game fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CryEngine solving and how is that benefiting you? We do not currently use CryEngine but have experimented in the past with at game jams and other events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite NB Nelson B. Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/12/2019 "I can also do it" 5/5 What do you like best about CryEngine? The software brings my imaginations alive. It has got the nest platform for all game developers out there who want to bring their imaginations alive and the most important of it all is that everything is easily accessible from the source code, to numerous tutorials to a great team of developers that are ready to support you with your own project. Further still it is highly improved all the time to give any would be developer limitless comfort in achieving their project goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CryEngine? There have been some flaws in some documentation but other than that it is great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CryEngine: It is a great platform for all game developers. The level of support you will get is unmatched and thus it is a must have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CryEngine solving and how is that benefiting you? The benefit has been being able to realise my imaginations with unlimited support from a community of developers through tutorials and the open source code onto which I have a great foundation for game developement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DG Daniel G. Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2019 "Excellent way for creating games" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CryEngine? The tutorials shown in the website are very explanatory and really useful resources for starting using the app. It's very easy to use even if you're not a programmer, because it has a lot of graphic tools and features that allow you to create a complete level from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CryEngine? As a level designer, there are not so many tools available for creating the white-boxing stage, however, it's really easy to create open levels. But it really feels the lack of a tool such as the one from Unity called ProBuilder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CryEngine: If you use more Windows than other OS and don't need to much requirements, you can consider CryEngine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CryEngine solving and how is that benefiting you? The thing I'm creating with CryEngine is a 3D environment that recreates a real place, which is used to visit those places in a virtual reality application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Grant B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Grant B.") GB Grant B. Front Staff/PC Technician Photography Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/24/2019 "Beautiful long running game engine supporting titles like Farcry" 5/5 What do you like best about CryEngine? The developers behind this engine are solid and want their platform to be accessible. This business model coupled with a great engine are what make me a happy user of cryengine. Beautiful physics, graphics, and development platform for all your game dev needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CryEngine? My only complaint with this engine is it seems to favor Nvidia builds over AMD. This is probably just how each are designed and doesn’t correlate to the platform though. I really like this engine and don’t have many complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CryEngine solving and how is that benefiting you? As far as business problems go I actually use the cryengine as a benchmark tool for test graphics cards and video related issues for clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") AC Verified User in Computer Games Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/25/2019 "CryEngine is perfectly OK" 4.5/5 What do you like best about CryEngine? I think we can't access full source code. They will limit. And even if we can access many codes, most of us can't make own program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CryEngine? Just because "most of us don't have such skill", doesn't mean there's no difference with the SDK content itself - that's just silly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CryEngine: Cryengine is nothing but the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CryEngine solving and how is that benefiting you? Games and other development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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