from experience, gamemaker does a phenomenal job with making simpler games that perform how you want it to, without having to worry about extra things that may not pertain to the kind of project you wish to make. you can think of gamemaker as more of a blank slate, and you add what you need versus unity being more general and having a lot of components and tools that you most likely won't have to use.

People seem to overlook this when comparing the two, there’s a difference between making a game WITH unity versus making a game ON core.

Rogue would inspire dozens of successors, including Hack, an extended clone with innovations including a “bones” file, a record of each prior hero who’d died in its world: these could be brought back as uniquely personal undead villains on future runs.