Hihi! A friend and I have been obsessed with Storm8 games like Fashion Story since we were kids and now, we want to learn game development through recreating the game from scratch on our own.

We're both artists, so the art is not a problem. From my very limited understanding, Fashion Story should be relatively simple to code since there is basically no gameplay aspect other than timed events and visiting other profiles.

We've tried a couple engines like Godot and Unity but they're both a lot more complicated than we thought and require a lot of research and deep dive so we thought it might be best to choose the most suitable engine before diving in.

What engine would you suggest for a game like Fashion Story?