What is an “engine” in video games

Question

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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Answer 1

You don’t want to sit down and program every single basic part of a game. So you buy/use a thing where someone already programmed all the boring parts. So like, you don’t have to program your own lighting, you just use the lighting system unity made