Best Unity Assets: Collection by Year & Category

Best Unity Assets by Years — Collection

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.

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Many of these recognized projects showcase innovative uses of resources, forming the Greatest Unity Asset Collection.

2026 — The 18th Unity Awards

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

2025

The 17th Unity Awards Winners

1. Best Artistic Content:
   Fantasy Medieval Town — build wide variety of fantasy cities, villages, fortified towns and castles easily with 1400 prefabs included for modular buildings, decoration library, nature and more.
   
2. Best Artistic Tool:
   Cozy Builder — lightweight solution for procedurally generating buildings.
   
3. Best Development Tool:
   Code Monkey Toolkit — Collection of super useful Tools and Elements to help you Save Time and make Awesome Games!
   
4. Publisher of the Year:
   Synty Studios — mobile-ready asset collections that are intuitive, accessible for newcomers, and amazing for fast prototyping and game jams.
   
5. Breakthrough Publisher:
   Kay Lousberg — cute and funny: low-poly stylized 3D Game Assets.
   

2024

The 16th Unity Awards Winners

1. Asset Store Publisher of the Year:
   NatureManufacture — High Quality Nature Assets and Systems.
   
2. Best Development Tool:
   Gaia Pro — Terrain & Scene Generator — must-have in your terrain building toolkit.
   
3. Best Artistic Tool:
   COZY: Stylized Weather 3 — stunning weather patterns: from time-of-day to annual seasons, from puffy clouds to raging storms, from sunny days to dense fog.
   
4. Best Artistic Content:
   Stylized Nature (Nature, Forest, Stylized Forest, Forest Pack, Nature Pack).
   

2023

The 15th Unity Awards Winners

1. Asset Store Publisher of the Year:
   More Mountains — Advanced Game Systems and Engines for Unity.
   
2. Best Development Tool:
   FPS Engine — advanced solution for First-Person Shooter 3D Games.
   
3. Best Artistic Tool:
   Text Animator for Unity —  flexible tool that brings your texts to life.
   
4. Best Artistic Content:
   POLYGON – Elven Realm — tucked away from the grasp of non-magical beings, nestled between the mountains, lies Elven Realm, the low-poly celestial kingdom.
   

2022

No award ceremony by Unity was held in 2022.

2021

The 14th Unity Awards Winners

1. Asset Store Publisher of the Year:
   Blink — RPG resources like 3D Models, Textures, Character Controllers and Icons.
   
2. Best Development Tool:
   RPG Builder — both a huge client-side code base that will handle all the gameplay for you and an advanced custom editor solution that will let you create all your game content effortlessly, all of that without having to type a single line of code.
   
3. Best Artistic Tool:
   Feel by More Mountains — neat plugin that can improve your game’s feel and make it extra juicy.
   
4. Best Artistic Content:
   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

The 13th Unity Awards Winners

1. Asset Store Publisher of the Year:
   Synty Studios — low-poly asset bundles that are easy to use, great for beginners, and fun for prototypes and jams.
   
2. Best Artistic Tool:
   Gaia Pro — Terrain & Scene Generator (Trees, Grass & Water: the #1 reference terrain building tool that all others compare against).
   
3. Best Development Tool:
   Shapes by Freya Holmer — real-time vector graphics library.
   
4. Best Artistic Content:
   POLYGON — Fantasy Kingdom — Incredible Low Poly asset pack of Buildings (e.g., Huge Castle), Characters, Weapons, Props and Environment assets to create a Fabulous Game.
   

2019

The 12th Unity Awards Winners

1. Best Artistic Tool:
   Aura 2 — Volumetric Lighting & Fog — particle-based tool that simulates the fog and the light rays (also known as godrays) in the atmosphere.
   
2. Best Development Tool:
   Smart Lighting 2D — the most powerful 2D light solution for Unity that allows you to create multiple lightmaps with personalized light logic.
   
3. Best Artistic Content:
   Forest Environment — Dynamic Nature — massive forest and meadow library of 100% photo-scanned assets, shaders, carefully optimized, atlased, and LOD’ed.
   

2018

The 11th Unity Awards Winners

1. Best Artistic Tool:
   Aura — Volumetric Lighting — the leading state-of-the-art illumination solution for Unity.
   
2. Best Development Tool:
   Graphy — Ultimate FPS Counter — Stats Monitor and Debugger.
   
3. Best Artistic Content:
   The Hunt – Cyberpunk Pack — 3 Complete Scenes with AAA Quality (animations included).
   

Asset Store Team Picks — Top Assets of 2018

List of Assets was created by the Unity Asset Store’s Staff:

1. Procedural Worlds — world building tools to create rich 3D worlds.
   
2. Heroic Fantasy Characters — it gathers the living dead pack, demonic creatures pack, must have fantasy villains pack, fantasy lizards pack, fantasy animals pack and the mythological creatures pack.
   
3. POLYGON Library — low-poly thematic worlds.
   

Asset by Unity — Buried Memories Volume 1: Yggdrasil

The novelty of this year was the creation of paid assets by 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 who 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

The 10th Unity Awards Winners

1. Best Tool:
   Amplify Shader Editor — node-based shader creation inspired by industry-leading software. Open and tight integration, providing a frictionless, familiar environment that blends seamlessly with Unity.
   
2. Best Artistic Content:
   POLYGON — Pirates Pack — set sail for treasure-laden islands and perilous encounters with low poly characters, ships, props, and environments tailored for pirate themed games.
   

Asset Store Team Picks — Top Assets of 2017

List of the Best Unity Assets that was created by the Official Team of Unity Asset Store:

1. Bolt Editor — Visual Scripting in Unity.
   
2. Odin Inspector and Serializer — creating of powerful custom tools and advanced, user-friendly editors and inspectors.
   
3. Realistic Effects Pack 4 — fire, lava, lightning, space distortion, ice, and other stunning effects.
   
4. Amplify Shader Editor — it’s like a Unity Shader Graph but with its own unique features.
   
5. POLYGON — Pirates Pack — sail the seas aboard customizable ships, engage in daring battles with cannons and cutlasses, and explore mysterious islands teeming with hidden treasures and deadly traps.
   
6. Archimatix Pro — the objective of parametric modeling with Archimatix is to author “smart models” that capable of generating hundreds of unique forms and typologies.
   

2016

The 9th Unity Awards Winner

Asset Store Award:

• Dungeon Architect — a procedural level generator, it lets you quickly author your own levels, both at runtime and design-time, with powerful editors.
  

2015

The 8th Unity Awards Winner

Asset Store Award:

• Chronos — Time Control — it is easy to use, optimized for performance and equipped to handle any scenario you have in mind. Perfect for magic spells, puzzle games, sci-fi abilities or special effects!
  

2014

The 7th Unity Awards Winner

Tech Achievement:

• Shader Forge — the ultimate node-based shader editor for Unity that pushes the visual quality to new heights, giving you the freedom of shader creation in a visual and intuitive way — with no code required.
  

2013

The 6th Unity Awards Winner

Technical Achievement:

• Marmoset Skyshop — a comprehensive suite of shaders and tools for HDR image-based lighting in Unity. It features editor extensions for importing HDR skies and panoramas, tools for turning skies into lighting, reflection cube-maps, and shaders to render with them.
  

50+ Top Unity Assets: Editor’s Picks by Categories

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

Which assets did you enjoy the most this year? You are welcome to contact me.

AR — Augmented Reality

1. Face Tracking AR App — Unity Asset and Photo/Video App Template for Mobiles (iOS, Android) with Augmented Reality, Face Recognition & Your Own Texture Creation. This is Texture Generator.
   
2. AR Foundation Bundle (ARKit, ARCore).
   
3. 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.
   
4. AR Gallery (Unity Asset) (docs)— App Template in the Augmented Reality that implements a Demo Gallery of custom AR Objects with real-time shadows.
   
5. AR Shooter (docs) — first-person shooter (FPS): kill the zombies and save your life with full immersion in the game.
   
6. AR Basketball (docs) — sport arcade for mobile platforms with realistic physics of basketball net & hoop.
   
7. Space Shooter (AR & Non-AR) (docs)— cross-platform Unity Asset that implements a top-down mobile space shooter: destroy the space and save your life with full immersion in the game!
   
8. 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 Builder Pro — Toolkit for VR creation — define your VR workflow via graphical user interface, implement interactions in a few clicks and get a working prototype ready within minutes!
   

Environments

1. HQ Abandoned School 3D — atmoshperic modular environment of an old abandoned school.
   
2. Lordenfel: Castles & Dungeons — RPG pack that comes with modular parts and complete presets like towers, fortress walls, gates, and dungeon rooms that drastically reduce the time it takes to build levels.
   
3. RPG Stylized Fantasy Medieval Bundle — Stylized Medieval Village, Dungeons, Modular Characters, Fantasy Characters, RPG Weapons, Stylized Nature and Tropical Island with Ruins, Graveyard with Church, Stylized Food 3D, Grass and Plants.
   
4. PBR Graveyard — 2000 assets: modular, PBR, sculpted, and photoscanned. Create cemetery, interiors, nature backgrounds. All assets are high-quality optimized and atlased models with 3-4 LODs. Music is also included in 2 variants: movie trailer and short ambient.
   
5. PBR Rocks — Nature Pack — there are 3 variants of rocks: moss, sand, and snow.
   
6. Grasslands — Stylized Nature — create stylized fantasy worlds with a nice collection of customizable 3D Nature Assets, sounds and more.
   
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. Sky Master Bundle — Weather, Lighting, Water, Space, and Procedural Planets.
   
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.
   

Visual Scripting / Visual Coding

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

1. Playmaker — visual scripting solution used in Hearthstone, INSIDE, Hollow Knight, The First Tree, Observation, Dreamfall Chapters and more.
   
2. Behavior Designer — behaviour tree implementation designed for everyone – programmers, artists, designers. AAA studios use this tool to create a lifelike AI.
   

VFX and Shaders

1. URP Ambient Occlusion Master — this tool enhances your workflow with a versatile collection of ambient occlusions. Choose the perfect ambient occlusion technique to add depth and detail to your projects!
   
2. 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. 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

1. Corgi Engine 2D + 2.5D Platformer — bestselling and 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.
   
2. 2D Action RPG Engine — Mythril2D — the most robust solution for 2D Action RPG game development!
   

Tools

1. Odin — Inspector and Serializer — plugin for anyone looking to improve and streamline their Unity workflow creating stunning custom Editor experience for the game data.
   
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. Modern UI Pack — clean, minimalistic, and stylish UI package designed for users seeking enhanced and rich-featured UI elements. It is easy to use and fully customizable.
   
2. Color Picker Plugin — simple tool that allows you to pick any color from any texture source.
   
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 the 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.

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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