India, April 14 -- When the questions are "which engine is the best," it won't be about performance or rendering anymore but about business growth, monetization, and speed to market. Building a moody anime visual novel, a branching episodic series, or a polished indie game? The engines of today are offering more than just code-they are your creative studio, your business backend, and your cross-publishing partner.

That means these early choices have long-term implications. In particular, different genres are now requiring built-in narrative tools, visual storytelling pipelines, and fan-based approaches to design, as in the case of anime games. And modern engines won't just cater to the developer-they will also cater to the fan.

The AAA ...