UE5 fans, here is something for you. Artist Sciontidesign has released a new Unreal Engine 5.5 Tech Demo that you can download right now. This demo is heavily inspired by the Samaritan UE3 Demo, Blade Runner and Cyberpunk.
Going into more details, the demo only uses dynamic lighting. Sciontidesign also used Nanite with Distance field Meshes and Ambient Occlusion with Screen Space Reflection.
This demo does not have Lumen, Path Tracing, RTX, DLSS, or baked lighting. So, this is what UE5 can achieve without any of its advanced features.
On my NVIDIA RTX 5090, the tech demo ran with over 60FPS at all times at Native 4K/Epic Settings. From what I could see, almost all light sources cast shadows. However, there are a lot of invisible walls. Plus, the screen-space reflections are not that great (due to their usual visual issues).
In my opinion, this tech demo benefits greatly from its art style. Sciontidesign has done an incredible job here. The artist has managed to capture the look and feel of the Samaritan Tech Demo. At least in my opinion.
You can download the demo from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find a video from it.
Speaking of Unreal Engine 5, we recommend trying out these other free fan-made demos. You can grab a Superman UE5 Demo, a Halo 3: ODST Remake, and a Spider-Man UE5 Demo. There’s also a fan-made version of STALKER in Unreal Engine 5. If you love old-school FPS games, you should check out this remake of the classic FPS Blood in Epic’s engine. Don’t also forget the remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s Halo level in UE5 or this free Attack on Titan game. And then we have the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake in UE5.
Owners of high-end GPUs can also try these two tech demos. The first one features a Witcher-like environment. The second shows off a Rome Italian Town. Last month, we also shared a demo of King’s Field 2 in UE5. Finally, we have The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Reimagined in Unreal Engine 5, a remake of Flappy Bird, a demo for Need for Speed: Underground 2, and a Diablo 2 Remake Demo. They all look awesome, so be sure to give them a try.
Finally, Greg Coulthard has released two must-have fan remakes/remasters of Skyrim and Oblivion in Unreal Engine 5.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Check again, I was able to re-download it just a couple of minutes ago.
There are UE5 fans? Other than John of course. He's like a one-man UE5 fan club and cheerleading team.
Who seems to have eye damage if he can't spot the insane stuttery mess the wast majority of trash engine 5 game produces… game devs or engine devs fault… dont matter – Both need to get their sh*t together!
I don't tend to notice stuttering either unless it gets particularly bad. I'll see ghosting all day long, but not stuttering. I also don't really notice screen tearing, and usually play with my FPS uncapped.
Everyone's perception is different so while someone can be annoyed by something its fine for another. Tearing is a big no no for me while slight ghosting isn't a major concern for instance. Stuttering is a big no no for me as well, guess years of playing with a high rated clan back in the quake days wired my vision center's synapses that way as stutters could really screw up the quick precision aiming
sigh, when cyberpunk 2077 was announced it looked like this and then they turned it into gtavpunk 2077 because "current year" and "for a modern audience" I wish we see a return of cool cyberpunk one day.
on my 4070 Ti Super 60-70 fps
but looks great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gypMLqb_s
Cool cool.
Call me when they finally develop a good video game engine.
UE5 standards maintained? IE fancy but badly blurred gfx and stutters that make the average ascii games from the 80's look smooth?
It's a tech demo and still doesn't even come close to Cyberpunk, a game that released in 2020. Rip RED engine, it was a huge mistake to abandon it.
It's a tech demo made by one guy not a team of professionals.
Having a large team makes it harder, not easier, when it comes to small, contained environments like this one.
Title and article say 5.5, but the YT video says 5.3…? 🤔
My RSS feed reader says the article title also said 5.3. Probably just a typo that has yet to be fixed on the YouTube video.
It's UE 5.5.3 to be more precise.
Uhm, ok
Weird, the YT title still says 5.3 until you click it and then changes into 5.5.3
Sure would love to download it but still getting the "too many downloads at once" error after 1hr of trying….
This remembered me a Hitman level that looks exactly like that, but can run in a 10 years old PC.
This tech demo should be called "Visual Clutter".
the lack of rtx is showing, its like a demo from 7' years ago
Garbage