Emade+ has one in development with no offical name yet.
Crouch has also some.
I cant remember the name of the game I had actually in mind.
You were stranded on an island with some classmates I think and you needed to rebuild a ship to escape...
Mostly prefer renpy but always depends how good the engine is known and used. For example Karryns Prison is a good example of a good use of RPG Maker engine.
There are a lot of games: Family Man, Gates Motel, Tomie... (sadly he needed to stop it), The Tyrant, Reluctant Archon, Our Fate (the original) and some more which I cant remember.
Turning the effects & co down and the music off, with some exceptions of course.
But there is nothing worse then startup/menu music, which you cant turn off, specially if they kill your ears.
I can understand it from a pure programmer standpoint, when you dont have a affinity for graphics.
There it can be a great help to use real porn or AI CG to have something to work with.
From the consumer standpoint it can be tricky, specially if the description dont fit with the displayed...