There is a new tool for tracking game engines for Steam

Tens of thousands of games are available on Steam today. Thanks to the new free tool, you can now view all the engines and technologies that developers used to create projects for this site.The project was developed by Lars Doucet, co-founder of the Level Up Labs studio, together with the SteamDB website.

Its source code has also been published on Github.

Heya! I am collaborating with @SteamDB to automatically detect game engines & tech used in all the games on Steam.

Here’s a beta link:https://t.co/D3jzEYOKju

Here’s the Github for our detection script:https://t.co/V1yj99DIYN

Report mistakes here:https://t.co/VNvHaNkj4A
— Lars “Totally Texas” Doucet (@larsiusprime) August 6, 2021

The tool works as follows: since each Steam application is associated with a specific repository, SteamDB uses special scripts to search and analyze the file names contained in them.

Based on this and the already available data about the engines, the service connects games with specific technologies.

The five most popular engines were Unity (29,226 games), Unreal (7405), GameMaker (2585), RPGMaker (1942) and Construct (1325). The tool also allows you to access a list of all titles made using a certain technology.

The authors specify that the project cannot track all the engines yet. This is due both to the presence of false negative results in automatic analysis, and to the fact that some engines are basically impossible or very difficult to track. “This technology will never be perfect, don’t expect it to work perfectly,” Doucet explains.

In addition, the tool tracks other technologies used in games — for example, SDKs, emulators and anti-cheats.

Last year, Lars Doucet introduced the GameDataCrunch website, which collects and analyzes data about games on Steam based on open sources. Also in July, one of the Reddit users published a list of engines that are most often used in the most highly rated titles in the Valve store.