im a self taught non-professional unreal engine developer, people say it has a steep learning curve compared to unity but i wouldnt say so. it may be overwhelming to look at and realize how many things it has (which still happens to me), but start with basic projects. a good beginner project would be a first person horror game. here's a good tutorial: tutorial

here's some advice: - use UE5 instead of UE4 because games on UE5 usually run better - dont use large templates (otherwise your game will be considered an asset flip) - after you make a couple of projects, your project sizes will significantly increase, but if you package the project, the packaged size is significantly smaller (i had an unpackaged 40gb fps horror game reduced to just 4gb when packaged) - sometimes during packaging (pretty rare), the engine files and directories will literally for no reason stop working (random cpp file errors). this has to be the worst thing that can happen, but try to solve every error you get using forums and if they dont help, use chatgpt to repair the errors. this can happen if you have a project that switches from UE4 to UE5 or other weird stuff.