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You cannot play default minetest without a game. It comes installed with minetest game (which is a crappy game and more of a modding base). Delete it and see if you can play, yeah?
What is wc3 and hl?
Sure, it's a crappy game, but when you install Minetest you can play Minetest, and you install Minetest mods to mod the Minetest game. You can't use Minetest mods on Mineclone. If you install unity you can't play unity, you make a game in unity.
Warcraft and half life
Basically, you're saying because an engine also has a packaging element (contentDB is the packaging and distribution part maintained by 1 developer, it cannot be an engine). It is both.
"Minetest is an open source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation". https://github.com/minetest/minetest
Historically, when you install windows, it comes with a game. Does that make it not an operating system?
I'm more inclined to believe the team who make it rather than some random internet stranger though.
At what point did I say it's not an engine? I'm just denying your claim that it's not a game...
Edit: I think it's primarily a linguistic issue. HL, TF, and CS weren't made using the half life engine, but source engine. Meanwhile Minetest is made in Minetest and distributed through Minetest.
MTG - Minetest Game is the game. It's in the name. Delete it, and you cannot play Minetest. Minetest is referred to as the engine. They renamed MTG and put it into maintenance mode because of the confusion. It was badly named initially. The team have already made the decision to remove MTG by default so it comes with no games. They are just waiting to redevelop the UI so it isn't so painful when this happens.
Oh ok, now that makes sense. MTG is a horrible acronym, but ok.
I've installed Minetest like a month ago and it came with the Minetest game.