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SteamDB is great for this sort of thing:

GZDoom: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/GZDoom/

Godot: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/

Love: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Love2D/

FNA: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/FNA/

OGRE: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/OGRE/

Torque: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Torque/

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Fascinating, and if I go to their tech home page, I see this ranking for which tech powers the most games https://steamdb.info/tech/

  Unity 38437
  Unreal 10504
  GameMaker 4130
  RPGMaker 2700
  RenPy 1973
  Godot 922

So there are 4x more games made in Unity compared to the runner-up Unreal. And both of them dwarf Godot which is the only other name I recognize in that list.

GameMaker is a 2D game engine used by a number of highly rated indie games like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, Katana Zero, and Risk of Rain.

RPGMaker is a piece of software that lets you make top-down JRPGs generally in the style of the 2D Final Fantasy games. Because it takes that opinionated approach it's widely considered very easy to use. You're not fiddling with e.g. a physics engine when you know what genre and style of play you're doing doesn't need it.

Likewise RenPy is designed to make it simple to build Visual Novel style games, and as the name implies it uses Python, so between using an easy, popular high level language and taking an opinionated approach tailored to one genre/playstyle, it's a highly productive and approachable engine for newcomers and indie devs with limited time.

Isn't the Build engine also FOSS now? Edit: it isn't

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Build/

IdTech 1-4 are all also FOSS these days:

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech1/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech2/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech2_5/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech3/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech4/

Build is not FLOSS: http://eduke32.com/buildlic.txt

Edit: non-commercial-only, distribution only allowed via the Internet, etc.

Ah, my bad. Source-available, not Open-Source

This is great. All their detection logic is open source: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/FileDetectionRuleSets

Huh. They’re sorted by rating. And like 7 of the top 10 Godot games are about cats.

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