ABOUT Unreal Engine 5 Watch

A group and curator that tracks games that run on Unreal Engine 5

Unreal Engine 5 is a game engine infamous for bad performance and game visuals even on powerful hardware.

Check out our Steam Curator below for a list of ALL steam games using UE5, follow it to track whether new titles use UE5 or not. it will also show up on a games Steam Store page.

Only games on Steam with released or updated after April 5, 2022 are tracked in the curator.

UE5 games that don't look extremely blurry, grainy and run well on older hardware (e.g. GTX 1060, Integrated Graphics or Steam Deck) will be marked as recommended.

You may use the Discussions board to request Stutter Engine 5 games missing from the curator, or discuss performance of Unoptimized Engine 5fps titles and potential fixes / improvements.

Do not start any arguments, debates, or spam posts; doing any of these will result in a permanent ban from the group.

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18 December, 2025 - Woodie | 0 Comments

I put in a new icon, looks horrendous doesn't it?
It's supposed to represent how Epic Games and Lazy Developers (and idiots in the steam cesspool discussions) just tell you to use Upscaling and Frame Generation, which always makes the image look smeary and ghosted.

From now, UE5 Games on the curator will be marked as Informational. Mainly because there are so many damn games listed there (almost 800), the curator is mainly supposed to be informational, and i don't want to be bothered to check the system requirements for each new one, and they may not always be accurate to how they can actually perform.

I review all of these by hand by the way, nothing is automated. There are so, SO many damn games on the curator, and new games to add every time i don't add any for a few days. that i have to climb this long ass list of new titles to check and add to the curator.

Will only be Not Recommended in special cases, like if one is notorious for poor performance across the board (MGS Delta, Monster Hunter Wilds) or the developer doesn't know ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about optimization (Aquaplus, Koei Techmo)

The Curator has a decent following for now. I am kind of amazed it isn't higher considering how notorious Unreal Engine 5 is and all the talk about Steam Curators for other notorious things and videos being made on Youtube. The curator is the top result if you Google "Steam Curator Unreal Engine 5" and i'd assume the hundreds of curator views i get are from users who aren't logged in or following.

Games sent to the curator will never be reviewed, because this is supposed to be a list. and after the whole BlockBlasters ordeal on Steam i do not want to risk losing everything because i opened some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ low budget game.

I tried one sent to me to ensure i should never do that: Revenge of the Gamer. it was on UE5 and it looked and ran horribly despite the asset flip graphics and models, and it might have been a virus in disguise because of how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it was.

14 December, 2025 - Woodie | 0 Comments

Using this announcement as a full review on the curator for the game's ToHeart and ef - a fairy tale of the two (ef - the first tale & ef - the latter tale).

ToHeart & Shiravune

The outrageous system requirements and file size for the game "ToHeart" on Steam may have had some suspect it was on UE5, but it is not.

20 - 40 Gigabytes required, and it has the GTX 1050 as the minimum GPU. that's right, for simple 3D Anime Styled Graphics you need at least a GTX 1050 for this.

Also, it was unlucky enough to be Translated / Localized by Shiravune, Shiravune is the absolute WORST of localizers for these type of games.

Shiravune's visual novel victims always have horrible translation quality, modern slang and jokes that were not in the original script, awkward and forced censorship, and exclusivity and Denuvo DRM on their partner site; Johren.

Their titles aren't released with Denuvo on Steam, because i am sure that's handled by Johren.

I reckon even people who know everything about this these type of games and sites where they are sold have never heard of Johren. Johren looks to be super aggressive with DRM; Requiring a client, activations as well as Denuvo like i stated, meanwhile nobody buys from them most likely because of those three reasons and that there are different places to buy those type of games DRM-Free.

ef - a fairy tale of the two

I own this title via the physical edition from MangaGamer, i bought it again on Steam just for the hell of it and i can say for sure that there are differences between these two versions.

I played about 300 hours of the first and latter tale combined via the physical copy, and i can very much recommend them on the curator.

The two titles originally released in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and in English in 2012 and 2013 before releasing on Steam in 2019.

The Steam Edition is censored with a patch available, while the MG version is not censored. Some dialogue and transitions are placed differently on Steam, and it feels a bit awkward in my opinion.

The Steam Edition is DRM-Free, same with the MG Version. Steam Edition uses twice the amount of RAM and VRAM despite there being no difference quality-wise.

Switching to Exclusive Fullscreen via Right Clicking is not possible on the Steam Edition, and Borderless has issues if you have the Steam Overlay enabled. CG's sometimes bug out and are not animated on Steam, and they aren't animated at all in the Memories section but they are on MG.

The system requirements are extremely minimal because of the age of the titles and their style, Though it will be ever so slightly higher on Steam from what i stated.

The issues and higher resource usage are likely due to an Engine Update that was done for the Steam release in 2019.

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Unreal Engine 5 Watch reviews

"A Steam Curator that primarily lists games that run on Unreal Engine 5. Follow it to make it appear on the Steam Store."

Here are a few recent reviews by Unreal Engine 5 Watch

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Woodie

7 Dec, 2025 @ 11:26pm

Done. but i usually mark Sega games as not recommended because like the reviews say, Sega is a horrible company that hates their buyers.

Booma Dingo 7 Dec, 2025 @ 9:36pm

I personally think the Sonic Racing Crossworlds page could use an edit
The game is actually extremely well optimised and is one of the rare good uses of Unreal Engine 5, the game works flawlessly with no upscaling at max settings on steam deck at full resolution, among other revelations including my old PC build running the game at native 2K perfectly at max settings despite commonly having performance issues with every other UE5 game

I noticed this acception was made for Arc Raiders so it is worth mentioning as people might get the wrong idea.
I should ALSO mention its a rare case of a UE5 game that allows you to turn OFF AA methods and NOTHING BREAKS visually.

Woodie

11 Sep, 2025 @ 12:42pm

Borderlands 4 is out, and it’s at Mostly Negative. what a surprise…

And guess what, it runs poorly without crappy AI upscaling, even with DLSS on it still can’t hit 60fps on most powerful cards.

Woodie

10 Sep, 2025 @ 9:35pm

Guess i was wrong, updated it to mention it runs on UE4

UE4 and UE5 share the exact same file structure and it’s impossible to identify which it used based off that

FulltimeBeggar 9 Sep, 2025 @ 5:36pm

Wasn't Palia running on UE4? Poorly.

Woodie

22 Aug, 2025 @ 8:53pm

Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater (The MGS3 remake) has previews available on sites like Youtube. and what do you know, it runs poorly on PC. Thats UE5 for ya

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