I cant agree more with Hoiby Unreal Engine always has been the best engine (since the very unreal engien 1.0) you could use with propably the best graphics you can achieve, they thro out free asset packs every month and you can obtain some everytime again within the humble bundle for such a low price even as they the unreal asset packs are of the highest quality assets you could propably get. BUT sadly my recent rig can't handle creating something using unreal engine 4 - 5, but ive been constantly preparing for a future engine switch, when I finally have the money for a new processsor.
Furthermore Ive tested a lot of different engines, but these are too much to name, but if youre interrested in game engines, like me (one of my favourite topics :D) I highly recommend to check out gamesfromscratch youtube channel
However, the engines ive used till this day are:
- Gameguru Classic (very good for starters, easy learning curve) which is payed, one time pay, make as many games as you like
-Gameguru Max (even better then the classic version), also one time pay, but more expensive then classic
-Easy FPS Editor (rather easy to use its a retro shooter 2.5 D engine) which is free
-Easy FPS Editor CE (same like above, but less bugs, more possibilities) which is also completely free, thou not open source
-Yahaha Engine (very easy engine, based on unity foundation, but its a no-code engine, thou you can create your own plugin modules with lua scriptin, even visual scripting using Visual studio code) it can be used for free, but for 10 dollar a month you can subscribe and the engine has 100000 (really) of already available (lowpoly) 3d assets, which would cost much much more if you for instance would buy that much assets in assetpacks
-GDevelope ( pretty easy also no-code/visual scripting engine) also can be used free but for pretty decent monthly subscription you have a lot of advantages
- Rosebud AI Engine (im not that much into it yet, but it seems easy enough, and even features 3d graphics) it can be used free but to a very limited extend, as your ai-prompt count is extremely low, but they have a lot of different subscription variants, ive choosen the 30 dollar edition, where the amount of prompts is very high and you even can directly edit the code. its very interesting to play around with this engine as its really something differetn compared to other engines ive used before