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Games originating in modding communities:
Games that are also sold on app stores, steam etc:
Games that are around for quite some time or gained quite a community around it at some point:
Open sourced commercial games:
Though for those who are more engines (SpringRTS and minetest) the quality really depends on the mods you are playing.
Some stuff I just found and never played myself:
Open sourced commercial games:
Assets are unfree but freely accessible:
I’m not sure about whether these games got 100% FLOSSed or still require bought assets:
A special case because these use CC BY-NC-SA even for source code, which is effectively unfree. They are ports of older Mac games, but most are 3D:
The “problem” with the open source game landscape is, that a lot of games are either focused on multiplayer or have randomly generated worlds, because that developers can play that too. There are games with single player story line, I think open sourced commercial games are doing a bit better with this. Commercial open source games that are open source from the beginning are a newer development.