I first became aware of the open-source game engine Godot last year, when it was raised to prominence by the ridiculous blunder of the commercial game engine Unity. Now Godot is being used in the production of Slay the Spire 2. Slay the Spire 2, announced this week, has instantly become one of my most anticipated games of all time.

Slay the Spire 2's developer, Mega Crit, last year announced that even though they have already spent over two years in Unity developing their next game, they will be charging game developers every time someone installs a Unity-based game, which is very unpopular under certain circumstances. He stated that if the new policy is not rescinded, he will switch engines.

"We have never made a public statement before," Megacrit said in an open letter to Unity."

"This is about how badly you screwed up.

Unity eventually backed down on the per-install charge, and the confusion it caused led to the resignation of John Riccitiello, now Unity's CEO, but Mega Crit was adamant about switching to the Slay the Spire 2 engine. Yesterday, IGN confirmed that Godot is the engine of choice.

After learning about Godot last year, I tried it myself and found it to be more intuitive than I expected and powerful enough for someone like me with a low-grade hobbyist level of coding motivation. whether Godot is good enough for professional game developers looking for an alternative to Unity is a question that will be left unanswered until debated when Godot was thrust into the limelight, but "Slay the Spire 2" seems to be proof that it can do the job, at least for certain types of games. The survival FPS "Road to Vostok" also switched to Godot last year.

Godot is offered under an MIT license and is completely free to use "for any purpose." Its development is funded by donations, and Mega Crit is one of its major sponsors, as is Terraria developer Re-Logic.