War and Thunder

War Thunder released an opened sourced version about two years ago in 2023. A very unusal move for Gaijin Entertainment. But since I was interested in various engines and see how others structure their game projects things this piqued my interest.

The game engine has been through production and produced 2 games and a mobile version War Thunder :

• War Thunder: vehicular combat game with air, land, and sea battles across historical eras.
• Enlisted: squad-based WWII first-person shooter with large-scale battles.
• War Thunder Mobile: mobile adaptation of War Thunder for iOS and Android.

My initial impressions were it’s very capable at producing both mobile and PC titles as well as console deployments. There was some steady updates to the repository on the github for a while adding to the documentation and demos.

But unfortunately this year 2025, the development or updates have stopped. I’m not sure why, some speculate maybe it’s go to to do with the code was taken or forked for another Game Engine “Nau” from Russia. But in their FAQ it was not the case

Maybe NAU Engine just needed to source certain parts like rendering and that’s it.

Dagor Showcase

The only other update was, they made a comparison video where they use a scene file from one of their games titled East district and they wanted to make a comparison between their own engine unreal engine, but I take it with a bit of salt.

In this case both looks good lighting wise there is some changes in the Their engine version, but I guess it’s to show that it’s capable

Conclusion is Dsgor engine is not suitable for commercial game development. If you’re going with the open source version. It is not as easy to use as unity and unreal. Installing it requires patience and a bit of technical knowledge. The tools are hidden in various folders and you need to adhere to a structure to make it work.

Rather keep it as a side thing and keep an eye on it. I don’t know how much more they will develop or release on their GitHub.

Games From Scratch on Dagor Engine

Links

Dagor Engine Demo Showcase East District : https://gaijinent.com/news/demos-of-a-new-gaijins-game-showcase-dagor-engine-power

Gaijin Entertainment News https://gaijinent.com/news/dagor-engine-gone-open-source

Github for Dagor Engine: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/DagorEngine