Ryse developer offers its powerful CryEngine for $10 a month — half the price of Epic’s tech

Making games is getting easy and inexpensive, and now one of the most powerful development tools is undercutting its competition to keep up.

Crytek announced today that it will make its CryEngine software technology available as a service starting in May. The company will charge $9.90 a month to indie developers for access to the same tools that Crytek used to build Ryse: Son of Rome for Xbox One. This will give even the smallest developers access to a game engine that is capable of making triple-A-level visuals. It’s also less than half what Epic Games is charging for its Unreal Engine 4 service, which costs $20 a month.