What is an “engine” in video games

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I hear it everywherere “this game is gonna use that engine” … Google doesn’t seem to give me a good explanation, so here I am…

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A really simple analogy that i posted earlier but it got auto deleted by a moderator bot, evidently because it was too short.

The game is “Go Fish”. The game is “War”. The game is “Solitaire”. The game is “Crazy 8s”. The game is “Rummy”. The game is “Slapjack”

All those games share the same game “engine”the standard deck of cards.

Yeah, in reality it is a bit more complicated than that, but if I was explaining it to a five year old, that is a decent way to explain the concept.

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