First Look at Epic Games Lore VCS

June 17th, 2026, Epic Games announced Lore - a new version control system for software developers, to compete with Git and Perforce. Being old enough to have worked with the old CVS and SVN, and having experience working with Git and Perforce, I am quite interested in what changes this new system brings. In my article Thoughts Beyond C++ from December 2024, I described my opinion about the problems I can see with current version control systems and the improvements a better one could bring, especially for game development. Let's see whether Lore advances any of these topics. Key pages about Lore: https://lore.org/ - home page https://github.com/EpicGames/lore - GitHub repository Quickstart: Your first Lore repository - quick start tutorial Lore CLI command reference - description of all commands The Lore Version Control System - lengthy design doc I didn't test the app myself so far, but I've read some of the docs to get an idea of what it is and how it compares to Git and Perforce.…