I had GDevelop on my list of engines to try but haven’t gotten to it. Now I won’t, because I have no patience for slopware promotion. In my experience, developers who put that in also put in spyware to train off users’ projects in secret for “research and development purposes”. My trust burned out from situations like this.
For interactive fiction, I’ve been using Ren’Py, based on Python. There’s been discussion this week about whether or not chatbot-generated code is slipping in, corrupting the language repositories, but that’s invisible when opening the default interfaces and templates for Ren’Py.