A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.
Godot - https://godotengine.org
Defold - https://defold.com/
FNA - https://fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - https://www.libsdl.org/
SFML - https://www.sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - https://armory3d.org/
ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/
Renpy - https://www.renpy.org/
@stephann Sure; the post was about "free and open source" though, which it certainly is not.
@dos yeah, it makes sense.
@dos you are correct, I altered to fit in another open-source to keep in line with the rest. there are many others that include commercial licenses and are good but I wanted to keep a mostly "open" approach :)