Do game engines do a good job of showing distant objects with accurate lighting models?

In theory distant objects will fade/lose contrast is this covered by current lighting models/GI/shaders?



Surely modern game engines/GPUs can do this without the clumsy hack of global fog*.

*I always find global fog in Unity a pain as it never blends in well with the skybox.

What are great examples of game vistas with good distant lighting and those without.

PS Will the new Unity High end lighting solution provide great atmospheric and distance lighting?

 

https://github.com/keijiro/KinoFog

 

I use a volumetric fog asset for this type of effect in combination with post processing DOF so distant objects are slightly out of focus.

 

HDRP have a new fog that use the same technique from ND which blend the fog and skybox color

 

Unity can do that with some custom shaders.