Top 5 website to provide Unreal Engine tutorials

If you are familiar with the Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games, you know that a puppy can deliver a real blow. The Gears of War franchise, recently added to Gears of War 4 back in October, uses the Unreal Engine. We Happy Few, available as an early PC game on Steam, makes several waves - it also works on the Unreal Engine.


Dark Siders, Gears of War 3, Bioshock and many others used the Unreal Engine. In fact, it is used in high budget games.

Developing a game using Unreal 4 means that you can choose between Blueprints and C ++. While C ++ is likely to serve you at some point in your game development career, learning game and language development software at the same time can cause frustration and absorption problems.

Using Blueprints will allow you to familiarize yourself with the engine, not too stumbling over the problems of learning the language, plus many game developers really love Blueprints.

From this point of view, most of the tutorials that we have compiled for you today are based on Blueprints game development. However, if you are strictly looking for C ++ tutorials, the official Unreal YouTube channel can help.

Learn Unreal with These Tutorials

1. Unreal Engine/Epic Games

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The official Unreal Engine website has a documentation section, where you can review some text-based tutorials. The images are included in these guides to make the experience easier to follow. Once you have taken a look at the Beginner's Guide, you can go to the video tutorials section.

The video tutorials teach you how to make games by highlighting different functions of the Engine. You can make a double shooting game, a third person power game (with C ++!), An endless runner, a 2D scroller, etc.

The video tutorial section is not just creating different games. There are also more nuanced videos. There are animation tutorials, level editing tutorials, Blueprints tutorials, vehicle tutorials and many more.

This is a solid resource for beginners, or those with intermediate experience. Navigating the tutorial database is easy, so if you ever get stuck, clicking on this site can make your search for a solution much shorter.

2. Virtus Learning HUB / Creative Tutorials

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For those of you who love the walkthrough videos, this is the channel for you. This tutorial goes deep, so be prepared to put some serious hours in. We’re talking about upwards of 65 episodes, all dedicated to different elements of the Unreal 4 Engine, or different Unreal developer techniques for different styles of games.

The creator of the tutorial, Virtus Learning Hub/Creative Tutorials, was active in the comments section of the first installment in his series as recently as December 2016, despite the video being posted over two and a half years prior. So if you have questions, you can still expect help from him if you post in the comments section of the video you’re struggling with.

A few downsides: The music is kind of loud and not the easiest to listen to (in the first video), at least for us (and a few people in the comments section). Good news about that is it doesn’t last through the entire video for the rest of the episodes (the one exception being the first episode).

The microphone quality isn’t the best, but when he isn’t talking over the music it’s easier to understand what he’s saying. These are minor complaints against the video series. The quality and depth of knowledge in these tutorials make watching it a no-brainer.

3. Tesla Dev

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This particular YouTuber goes by the name Tesla Dev. In October 2016, Tesla Dev has uploaded a new video tutorial. In that particular video, you are demoing a new feature in the latest version of Unreal 4 (which at that time was Unreal 4.13). Your tutorial guides you through the function of the widgets interaction component that, at this point in your learning journey, probably means nothing to you.

That's fine. Rome was not built in a day (unless you're playing a strategy game in real time and hundreds of years of construction, evolution and technological advancement are done in minutes, get out of here Sid Meier!).

So he has been publishing these tutorials for at least 2 years and shows no signs of stopping. His frequent and recent activity means that if you approach him, there is a possibility that the man himself will answer your question.

The other good news is that it actually offers private tutoring. If you really like their work and want a person-to-person learning time, you can contact them through their website. The price on your site says 15 euros, so any of you who are in the state will have to make a small conversion of money.

4. PluralSight

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If you are looking to pay some bills for an Unreal education, you can try the tutorials in PluralSight. Here is the quick price breakdown: the monthly membership costs $ 29 per month. An annual membership costs $ 299 per year. You get access to all the content on the site, which means much more than just the Unreal tutorials.

PluralSight offers 36 courses covering unreal topics. The shortest is a little less than an hour, the longest? About seven hours Long!

There are tutorials that cover everything from a quick start with the engine, to libraries of material reference nodes, with lighting, particles and more lessons along the way.

It is possible, if you have not registered with PluralSight before, take a free trial and try it before you have to pay. It will not give you enough time to overcome everything, but you can see if you would like to spend 30 or 60 dollars and take a month or two to work on the Unreal tutorials they offer.

5. RayWenderlich

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If you are looking for a quick start guide that will help you complete a project, starting with downloading software and opening a new file, read this guide.

This is mainly text, with pictures (and sometimes with humor). This tutorial can be useful if you like serious glitches in the walkthroughs. I helped to include appropriate troubleshooting tips for known problem points that will help you move forward.

It also teaches "good hygiene" in your code. He not only helps you to create a game, but also helps you maintain cleanliness behind the scenes - a habit that he says is worth working out at an early stage. We tend to agree with him there.

This is a big cry from the lesson, but it gives you a piece that is enough, but you do not need to chew too much. If you are new to Unreal, this is a very good place to start, and you will learn some good developer habits.