cool game engines

godot
a cool and powerful open source game engine
unity
a free and powerful game engine(has free teir and paid teir)
rpgmaker
a paid tool to make rpgs with
gdevelop
a open soure game engine for non coders(has a free teir and paid teir)
twine
a cool engine to make text adventures with
gb studio
a cool engine to make gameboy and web games with
adventure game studio
a cool game engine to make old-school point n' click games with
ren'py
a cool game engine to make visual novels with
clickteam fusion
a cool game engine for non-coders to make games with(paid engine)
pico8
a cool fantasy console game engine that you can make stuff with
stencyl
a cool games engine that uses blocks instead of code

video game frameworks

love2d
a game making framework to create games using lua
pygame
a game framework to build games with the python scripting languange
aframe
a javascript framework to make vr stuff with
lovr
a lua framework to make vr stuff with
phaser
a javascript framework to make webgames with

game engine and tools lists

fantasy console list
a github repo with a list of fantasy consoles/computers
game engine database
a big database of game engines
game engine/framework list
a big list of game engines and frameworks
tiny tools directory
a list of tools to make games and other stuff with