However, take this list with a grain of salt. What you’ll find is that these games either (a) don’t need to run extremely fast or (b) use Python for ‘side jobs’ like add-ons or internal scripting, while the main code of the game is written in something else.

The reason for this is that Python simply wasn’t designed with speed in mind, and the more complex a game becomes, the more it needs the backend to run fast. Python is an interpreted language, where the program is read line-by-line. Most popular games instead use a compiled language like C++ or C#, where the written code is converted into raw machine language, which is much faster. When you see Python being used in a game, it’s usually for something that isn’t ‘mission-critical’.

That being said: you can make games with Python. If you’re interested in making your own, I’d suggest following a tutorial. I’ll link some tutorials at the bottom of this answer. You can try to make your own game completely from scratch, or you can speed the process up and use the PyGame library (or, if you know you want to make a 2D game, the Arcade library). Information about both libraries is also linked below.

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