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A "single game" is unlikely to be affected. Many games are likely violating the GPL, and it's likely that if there are takedowns because of it, there will be a chilling effect on future source code release.

Are you really protecting software freedoms if it ends up, in fact, discouraging the process of freeing more software?

Well, it's not freeing software unless they release the game GPL, if they don't then they're just illegally using GPL source code making the source far from anything free.

You talk about software freedom, but I think there's no greatest freedom than being able to use whatever software I want to create something humanity will enjoy.

Yes, of course. It's just that if the software you use (well, incorporate) is GPL-licensed then you also get to release the source code for something humanity will enjoy:)

GPL is harmful to software freedom.

GPL is harmful to developer freedoms but incredibly beneficial to user freedoms. Please do not conflate the two.