Best Unity Assets of the Year

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In this article, I will show you best-in-class assets separated by categories, so you can make the right choice for your game genre and create a dream game as fast as possible.

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The “Editor’s Picks” list was created based on personal developer experience, including the own Unity Assets (by Makaka Games).

50+ Best Unity Assets: Editor’s Picks

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AR — Augmented Reality

1. AR Foundation Bundle (ARKit, ARCore).
   
2. AR Video Player (AR Business Card) (docs)— 3D Menu for AR Gaming and interactive tool for communication with customers on business negotiations or just for fun.
   
3. AR Throw & Score (docs) — Throw AR Object into containers & Try to Get Best Score.
   
4. AR Shooter (docs) — first-person shooter (FPS): kill the zombies and save your life with full immersion in the game.
   
5. AR Basketball (docs) — sport arcade for mobile platforms with realistic physics of basketball net & hoop.
   
6. AR Foundation Editor Remote — AR Remote Tool allowing you test AR App without building right in Unity Editor. Check Comparison Post.
   

VR — Virtual Reality

1. VR Interaction Framework — tool for easily creating your own interactive objects; foundation to create polished VR experiences.
   
2. VR + AR: MR Camera (Mixed Reality) (docs) with Google Cardboard XR Plugin.
   
3. VR Easy — workflow tool set that enables content developers to quickly build VR Experiences through a simple drag & drop interface, supporting all major HMD devices, e.g. Oculus, HTC Vive, Gear VR, Oculus Go, Vive Focus, Cardboard, Daydream and compatible with industry SDKs.
   

Environments

1. Buried Memories Volume 1: Yggdrasil — High Quality Art from top industry talent.
   
2. Stronghold — Step into the Medieval World of sword and stone, detailed fortress or a climatic city from the Middle Ages.
   
3. RPG Medieval Kingdom Kit — next-gen PBR 3D modular art package which contains 900 fully customizable prefabs to create your own RPG or RTS Game with First Person or Top-Down View.
   
4. PBR Graveyard — 2000 assets: modular, PBR, sculpted, and photoscanned. Create cemetery, interiors, nature background. All assets are high-quality optimized and atlased models with 3-4 LODs. Music from old video, is also included in 2 variants: movie trailer and short ambient.
   
5. Rock and Boulders 3 — 26 Types of boulders and stones with 22 PBR rock formations.
   
6. Stylized Nature Pack — high-quality nature package, perfect for stylized games.
   
7. Epic Mountains Pack — AAA Terrain Features and Prefabs: 4k Textures & Photogrammetry.
   
8. ArchVizPRO Interior Vol. 6 — Scandinavian style house, build in every single detail: 4K, 200 prefabs.
   

Low Poly

1. POLYGON — Pirates Pack: low poly asset pack of characters, buildings, props, items and environment assets to create a pirate based polygonal style game. Modular sections are easy to piece together in a variety of combinations. 477 unique assets with x4 alternative texture colors.
   
2. POLYGON Nature Pack — low poly asset pack of Trees, Plants, Terrain, Rocks, Props, and FX assets to add to your existing polygonal style game.
   

Sport

1. Football (docs) — Unity Asset in the sport arcade genre with realistic physics of football net, goal movement & target movement inside the goal, advanced scoring & audio systems.
   
2. Basketball Game 3D (docs) — sport arcade with realistic physics of basketball net & ring, ring growing, hoop movement, advanced scoring & audio systems.
   

Terrains

1. Gaia — artist friendly all in one terrain and scene generation system that allows you to create the stunning Mobile, VR and Desktop Environments in just minutes!
   
2. EasyRoads 3D — Road Infrastructures with awesome Parametric Modeling.
   
3. RAM (River Auto Material) — tool to create very advanced river and lakes with flow map, river bed shapes and textures on it automatically.
   

Sky

1. Time of Day — package to render realistic dynamic sky domes with day and night cycle, realistic dynamic clouds and physically based atmospheric scattering.
   
2. Farland Skies — Cloudy Crown Pro: minimalistic, cartoon style skybox with custom single-pass shader that works as a regular skybox material, avoiding the use of any sphere or mesh. There are tons of customization features.
   
3. AllSky — full palette of 160 skies with various styles: Day, Night, Cartoon, Fantasy, Hazy, Epic, Space, Sunless and Moonless!
   
4. Enviro — Sky and Weather — complete dynamic AAA sky and weather solution. Compatible with Gaia.
   

Visual Scripting / Visual Coding

If you want to create games without code, then the next awesome tools will help you.

1. Bolt — most powerful solution for visual programming.
   
2. Playmaker.
   
3. Behavior Designer.
   

VFX & Shaders

1. MadGoat SSAA — one of the best anti-aliasing techniques: be it a game, a VR application or an archviz presentation, now you can achieve stunning image quality with just one click!
   
2. Mesh Effects — 20+ amazing mesh effects.
   
3. SSAO Pro — HQ, stable and fast version of SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion) with added features like lighting contribution, distance cutoff with smooth falloff and occlusion color.
   
4. Realistic Effects Pack 4 — top-notch 3D Effects with physic motions, particles and sounds.
   
5. Amplify Shader Editor — most progressive node-based editor of shaders.
   

FPS

1. FPS Engine — advanced solution for First-Person Shooter games.
   
2. UFPS — ultimate solution for creating ANY FPS game.
   
3. Realistic FPS Hands — PBR, 4K Textures, Rigged model, IK system, Customization, Damage shader.
   
4. Manoeuvre FPS + uzAI — MEGA PACK: one stop solution which provides you the most Flexible, Easy to Use, Production-Ready First-Person Shooter Controller and to set this up you require Zero Coding Skills!
   
5. Advanced FPS Counter — Simple and flexible in-game frames per second counter with advanced features, made to let you monitor stats of your game right on the target device.
   

2D

Corgi Engine 2D/2.5D + Handcrafted Art — 2D Platformer Mega Bundle: most complete platformer solution. It’s a tight (non physics-based controls) character controller for your game. It’s very fast and works on desktop, mobile, and anywhere you want.

Tools

1. Odin — Inspector and Serializer;
   
2. Archimatix Pro — is a powerful node-based parametric modeling extension for Unity that helps you quickly create mutable props and rich, variable environments.
   

UI

1. Doozy UI Manager — set of professional tools that make it easy for anyone to design, manage and animate modern User Interfaces.
   
2. Advanced Color Picker for Unity UI — most advanced & fast RGB, HSV and HSL color picker.
   
3. Clean Flat Icons — mobile-friendly flat button icon asset. Includes 6000+ buttons and icons at each resolution in different styles.
   

Optimization

Here I collected optimization tools provided by Indie Developers (Publishers) in Unity Asset Store.

To dive into the details of Common Performance Issues in Video Games and Find Solutions for them, read the Complete Optimization Tutorial for Unity.

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Asset Publisher

1. Asset Store Publisher: How to Create & Sell Unity Assets? — Book for Publishers.
   
2. Asset Hunter PRO — solution for cleaning your project from garbage and missing elements.
   

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Best Unity Assets by Years

The Unity Awards is the way (by Unity Technologies) of honoring the best content being created with Unity. These awards are just one way we look to recognize, emphasize, and congratulate the hard work, creativity, and dedication that creators put into their own projects.

2024

The Best Unity Assets of the Current Year will be available at the end of the Year.

2023

Unity Awards:

• Asset Store Publisher of the Year: More Mountains — Game Systems and Engines.
• Best Development Tool: FPS Engine — advanced solution for First-Person Shooter games.
• Best Artistic Tool: Text Animator for Unity —  flexible tool that brings your texts to life.
• Best Artistic Content: POLYGON – Elven Realm — Low Poly celestial kingdom.

2022

No award ceremony by Unity was held in 2022.

2021

Unity Awards:

• RPG Builder;
• Feel — Best Artistic Tool to improve your game’s feel and make it extra juicy;
• POLYGON Dungeon Realms — an Epic Low Poly asset pack of characters, props, weapons and environment assets to create a Fantasy themed polygonal style game.

2020

Unity Awards:

• Gaia Pro — Terrain & Scene Generator;
• Shapes by Freya Holmer — real-time vector graphics library;
• POLYGON — Fantasy Kingdom — Epic Low Poly asset pack of Buildings, Characters, Props, Weapons and Environment assets to create a Fantasy themed polygonal style game.

2019

Unity Awards:

• Aura 2 — Volumetric Lighting & Fog;
• Smart Lighting 2D;
• Forest Environment — Dynamic Nature.

2018

Asset Store Team Picks:

• Procedural Worlds,
• Heroic Fantasy Characters,
• POLYGON Library.

You can also create the best asset and be nominated in next year (check inspiring games Made with Unity).

Yggdrasil

The novelty of this year was the creation of paid assets by the Unity Technologies itself, together with professionals with over 40+ years of combined industry experience working on world-class productions of games and movies.

Unity is excited to announce the release of Buried Memories Volume 1: Yggdrasil — the first Icon Pack from the Unity Icon Collective. The pack was built in collaboration with Unity partners created AAA games to ensure superb quality 3D content, music, sound, and animations.

Icon Packs include premium art assets that are flexible, modular, and designed to help creators build and expand new worlds. In this first pack, creators get the complete Yggdrasil diorama that features an environment, a game-ready animated character, shaders, textures, lighting, audio and more.

2017

List of Assets was created by Official Team of Unity Asset Store.

Staff Picks:

• Bolt;
• Odin;
• Realistic Effects Pack 4;
• Amplify Shader Editor;
• POLYGON — Pirates Pack;
• Archimatix Pro.

Best Assets by Official Asset Store Team

Best Paid Unity Assets

It is Dynamic List of Best Assets based on Asset Store sales for the last 30 days.

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Top-Grossing Unity Packages

It is Dynamic List of Top Grossing Unity Assets based on Asset Store popularity metric and numbers of sales.

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New Cool Assets

Check out the latest and greatest released assets, selected by the Asset Store Content Curators.

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Why do you need to buy at the Unity Asset Store?

Unity Asset Store Rules are complicated by now, especially for new participants (developers): only experienced developers with their own websites and 3 complete Unity Projects at minimum.

Modern Requirements of Asset Store resembles a model of Envato Market (Theme Forest, Code Canyon, etc). There are very serious requirements for software products. Even if in some way a bad product could pass moderation, then the rating system will bring it to light.

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FAQ

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