Before we discuss pros and cons of Godot engine I would like to discuss its history a bit.
Godot is multi-platform Open source and free MIT licenced game engine initially developed by Argentine software developers Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur and currently maintained by awesome community of developers.
Because of its open source nature anyone can modify engine based on their needs and this is what makes Godot different from its competitors like unity and unreal engine for example.
Pros
- Free and open source
- Light on resources
- No installation needed
- Godot editor available for web
- Good Documentation available
- Gdscript, Visual Script, C# and c++ are officially supported
- Godot has powerful UI can be used to build any GUI easily by drag and drop
- Node system make everything extendable and customizable
- Build Windows, Mac, Linux and android apps and games
Cons
- small Community
- less code you can copy
- many issues to be solved
- Not great for building 3d games
- Asset store with small amount of assets
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