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Roblox isn't a game. Minetest is an engine (providing it's own APIs that game developers use to develop games), and a platform to distribute them. In a sense, Minetest is like Unity or Godot. Games built on Minetest include MineClone2/5, Nodecore, Exile etc.
Yeah, let me open up Unity for that vanilla gameplay experience, oh wait...
Also, are wc3 and hl also not games because they were used to develop and distribute games that ended up being more popular?
You are expanding the scope of what we're saying. Half Life is not a game engine, GoldenSrc is. Warcraft III doesn't appear to have a public game engine. However, Roblox & Minetest don't really have a bundled game.
Minetest fulfils the role of platform because of content db, which is a separate thing with it's own name, it wasn't always there, and it's maintained by 1 person. The rest of the developers code the API's which are used for making games. You know what else provides API's for making games? Unity, Unreal and Godot.