# Bevy game engine 50 Hacker News commenters recommended Bevy game engine and 18 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Praised for modular ECS design, rendering and a pleasant Rust workflow for hobby and indie games. Main caveat: no mature editor, and breaking changes between releases. ## Why people recommend it - Pleasant to learn and use (4 comments): "Overall, it's been a pleasure, and at the time of the 0.14->0.15 upgrade my codebase was small enough that it was done in an hour or so." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018272)) "Bevy was a really nice breath of fresh air when I dipped my toes back into hobby game dev" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619790)) "I'm currently building a game with it right now and having a blast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305917)) - ECS architecture is easy to reason about (3 comments): "Bevy gives you a very nice ECS to model your app but compilation can be slower than hand crafted code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730719)) "If you want to get inspired by good component DX, try looking at Bevy, the game engine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422670)) "the ECS architecture seems to make it easy for them to reason about how things work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998301)) - Modular, use only needed parts (2 comments): "yes it's very well designed, and because if it's modularity it's well positioned both to support an editor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015267)) "You can choose how much of the engine you use and just not import the parts you don't want." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822086)) - Active, well-run open source project (2 comments): "The Bevy team are doing amazing work and it's great to see it being worked on all the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015253)) "So basically well known and very good Open Source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359580)) ## What people warn about - Frequent breaking changes between releases (4 comments): "The breaking Rendering changes have always been the big challenge" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017590)) "They have been introducing breaking changes left and right" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015419)) "The 0.2 version number would typically imply that breaking changes are to be expected and that it’s not ready for commercial projects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019025)) - Slow compile times hinder iteration (3 comments): "Bevy gives you a very nice ECS to model your app but compilation can be slower than hand crafted code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730719)) "The one other downfall of this might be the fact that the compile times make iteration difficult." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621663)) "even medium-scale game engines like Bevy take a bunch of time and space to compile" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476014)) - Editor and tooling underdeveloped (2 comments): "In some areas it is quite advanced (rendering) and in others it is lacking / underdeveloped (editors / tooling)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947222)) "For Bevy to catch up on the indie game scene it needs an editor plus a scripting language" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895767)) - Large binary sizes (2 comments): "People say binaries start at 50 MB for a hello world program and 700 MB for the debug binaries." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731564)) "has no reason to bloat binaries to be 50MB for an empty program that does nothing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765289)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Godot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/godot.md): 213 recommend - [Unity](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unity.md): 110 recommend - [Unreal Engine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unreal-engine.md): 104 recommend - [id Tech engine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/id-tech-engine.md): 26 recommend - [S&box](https://hackerapproved.com/p/s-box.md): 14 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Bevy game engine", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bevy/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).