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IIRC, the only god we've seen real evidence of in Game of Thrones is the Lord of Light. We see it when Beric comes back to life, and well as a couple times with Melisandre (birthing the shadow and bringing Jon Snow back).
But, has there been any evidence of other gods throughout the series, or is the Lord of Light perhaps the actual one true god?
I'm going to ignore situations that happened only in the books (i.e. some healers that worship the 7 and seem to perform miracles) and focus on what we've seen on the TV show.
Mirri Maz Duur: She used some pretty dark magic on Khal Drogo (and, to some extent, on Daenerys). She worships the Great Shepherd of the Lhazareen. Does that mean the Great Shepherd is real?
Ironborn: As mentioned above, the ironborn seem to drown and then come back to life. Does that mean the Drowned God is real?
Bran: It seems Bran's magic is linked to the Old Gods (in the books even more so through his Weirwood net). Does that mean the Old Gods are real?
White Walkers: Sure, they seem to be the enemies of the "lord of Light", but that's just based on what Melissandre says. We've seen they were created by the Children of the Forest, who are also linked to the Old Gods. So maybe what Melissandre says is just propaganda and the Old Gods are the real thing?
Plus we've seen some weird stuff in Essos (faceless men, Warlocks of Qarth, etc). Each with their own religions.
What we've seen in all these cases (and the ones you mentioned regarding R'hllor) are just proof that magic exists, not that a specific god exists.
Whether that magic is linked to a god or it's just something that is there (and people use gods as an explanation for the source of the magic) is something we'll never know.
I recall GRRM saying something like "the gods of Westeros are as real as ours", so make of that what you will!
Many-Faced God is worshipped by the Faceless Men who clearly have some form of powerful magic granted to them. It isn't clear exactly how this magic works but we could extrapolate that is comes from the Many-Faced God.
However, the Many-Faced God is a god of many faces, clearly, and one of those faces is R'hllor, the Lord of Light that is worshipped by Melisandre and Thoros. Therefore, it isn't inconceivable that their power also comes from the Lord of Light.
The Lord of Light and the Many Face god obvious made themselves known because we see things a happen that humans can't produce on their own.
I would argue, in the show the Drowned god has also proved its existence although it was very subtle. When Euron Greyjoy goes through his King ceremony he actually drowns and is brought back, "what is dead may never die". I've watched the scene a couple times and it doesn't look like they're playing around, he really drowns and is brought back by the Drowned god. And everyone there was normal with it because thats what they were expecting.
If the Drowned god is real and one of the old gods maybe theres enough evidence to at lease say the other ones used to exist. Just look what Bran can do, and we all know he's on team old gods because of his connection to the Weirwood tree.
Tbh, i'd like to think the new gods are fake. Hope you like my answer, I think the old gods are real/mostly retired.
