Engine: Dagor Engine

Dagor Engine is a proprietary, cross-platform game engine developed by Gaijin Entertainment, best known for powering large-scale, highly detailed military simulations on PC. It’s built with performance and realism in mind, handling massive maps, complex physics, and thousands of active entities simultaneously.

  • 🛩️ War Thunder – famous for realistic vehicle physics, detailed damage models, and huge combined-arms battles

  • 🚁 Enlisted – blends infantry combat with vehicles, featuring destructible environments and large player counts

  • 🚗 Cuisine Royale / CRSED – a quirky battle royale that still showcases the engine’s physics, ballistics, and scalability

At its core, Dagor Engine excels at simulation accuracy and scale. It supports advanced rendering features like physically based rendering (PBR), dynamic lighting, volumetric clouds, and detailed terrain streaming. One of its standout traits is the modular damage and physics system, allowing vehicles to have individual components (engines, wings, armor plates) that can be damaged independently—something that’s especially noticeable in War Thunder’s air, land, and naval combat.

Another key strength of Dagor is its long-term scalability and live-service focus. Gaijin has evolved the engine continuously for over a decade, adding modern graphics features, VR support, and performance optimizations without breaking older content. This makes Dagor particularly well-suited for persistent online games that receive constant updates, new vehicles, and expanding maps—cementing its reputation as a powerhouse engine for realistic, large-scale PC combat experiences ⚙️🎮.