Unity Engine Free on Xbox One

Unity announced today that a public preview of its 4.3 engine is now available for free to all developers registered with ID@Xbox who have a development kit.

It comes with a handful of features for users, including a package of plugins meant to make it easier to work with Unity on Microsoft's hardware. The company explained its reasoning for this in an announcement post on their website, saying "We believe this is the best way to empower you to extend these systems to fit your games’ needs while providing a core out of the box experience that will work for many games."


Developers are also now free to publish their games on Xbox One using the Unity engine, and a number of Unity-built games are set to be released soon on the platform, including Ori and the Blind Forest by Moon Studios, Cuphead by Studio MDHR, Roundabout by No Goblin, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by Asteroid Base.

Unity's current release on Xbox One is based on the 4.3 version and will eventually jump directly to 5.0, bypassing 4.5 along the way.