I want to learn how to make games and there's this course on game development that teaches you C# and the Unity engine that someone recommended t...

You want to learn C#. You will get a game dev job working 65 hours a week and making $48,000 a year. After 3 years you will realize with your experience you can get paid $120,000 a year to work 4 hours a day at some 300 man company nobody has ever heard of.

You will never truly give up on your dream of being a game developer, but you will be so busy finding places to put your money you won't have time follow that dream.

Unity is a fantastic engine actually. Don't listen to these gays. However learning C# and learning Unity are two very different things. The way you learn to write C# scripts for unity has very little in commom with how you normally would go about writing software, with C# or any other langauge. Gamedev is its own weird thing in a way.

You would make double that money and half the effort working as a C# backend dev, writing microservices than you would in gaming. Why don't you get that job security first and develop indie games in your free time or invest parts of your salary in your personal project. You would still do what you love but you would get a good salary and more free time to dedicate to your pursuit.

Unity+C# => Multiplatform, rapid development
Unreal+C++ => High performance, insane graphics

You really don't need a "course."
Unity has official tutorials that start you off quickly. I highly recommend you follow along with their "Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner" tutorial, and then follow it a second time except this time, use it as a general guideline to make your own original little project.

From there, it's about using google and being able to not only teach yourself new things, but also to identify for yourself what new things you need to teach yourself. Good luck, i've found game development to be a very rewarding hobby and the truth is that you get out of it as much as you put into it.

>and is Unity a good game engine
Once upon a time it looked like it'd become a genuine competitor to Unreal. Then chinks took over and tried to make it mobile-first. You can imagine how that's been going. C# is still a good language to learn, it's basically Microsoft Java and if you know it you can always, and I mean always, find a well-paying job, but the work isn't gonna be exciting, ever.

Unity is good for fun development, and it has many tools with simple interfaces. I can't speak to unreal as I'm a simple C# addict, but just know it has it's limitations that the developers of it are working to overcome, for instance multithreading has only recently been implemented with the Jobs system, and there are parts of it cut and remade frequently as they move towards modernizing the system, which means you'll run into issues like poor documentation in certain parts like their new multiplayer solution called Netcode for Gameobjects.

Unreal certainly looks a lot prettier out of the box due to it's array of built in shaders and technology they've been making an uproar about, but you can achieve high visual fidelity with Unity as well, Phasmophobia for instance looks really good, it just takes some effort.

As for learning things my main advice is to not bite off more than you can chew with beginner projects. You should be open to break away from tutorials but not try to build an MMO or anything crazy like that. Temper your expectations and plan your features early to not fall into the trap of having too many ideas and never enough time. And also just follow tutorials on youtube, Unity's own learning center, etc. There's written stuff out there if you want it, and then as soon as possible you should learn to read Unity's documentation, the well established parts of it has well written documentation often coupled with code samples, and if you're ever confused there's always the manual section with high level write ups of the general concepts behind things.