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Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.

  • Libregamewiki: it is really comprehensive (sometimes too much, including even not-so-good-games). They care about licencing and is is very easy to browse, top-notch for me.
  • Open source games: a more relaxed repository, with lots of material.
  • bobeff open source list: this is curated, which means that there are not so many games but each and every one is stable, good, maintained.
  • Arcane Cache: a fantastic blog with reviews of libre games — or more precisely, underground games, there is a lot of discussion on how gamedevving philosophy too. The reviews are always in-depth and allow you to experience the games on another level, and each game is a small jewel in its category. Strongly recommended!
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the most polished open source games are: 0 A. D., Xonotic, Beyond All Reason, Battle for Wesnoth, Mindustry, Minetest, Thrive. These are all great games open source or not. I'm sure I'm missing a few, but these stand out to me for their completeness and polish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn't expecting to find a new "polished" open source game I've never heard of from this thread, but somehow I've never heard of Thrive before. It's even got a steam release!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Battle for Wesnoth is the one that comes to mind first. Turn based strategy game.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup classical roguelike, as in actually like Rogue/nethack. Can be played with ASCII or graphical tiles, and you can play in a browser window with scoreboards and a spectator mode.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Veloren is based on Cube World and it's an RPG with server builds and everything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenTTD is more a strategic game,but it's great. OpenRCT sadly requires the graphics of the original RCT2, so it's not really open source. But also a favorite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OpenRCT is an incredible achievement. The mods people make add so much more content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

0AD is great. And whilst not a game really, FlightGear is the best you'll get for a FOSS flightsim. And really, for the prices that some X-Plane/MSFS planes and other addons go for, it's actually proper good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
  • osu! (The new lazer client, the old one isn't open source)
  • Veloren
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, has a really strong community behind it. Be warned, it is an intensely deep simulation (as in dwarf fortress), that is often criticized for it's tediousness. But that gameplay element critique aside, it's a fantastic example of a community developped game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly recommend. Easier to grasp than dwarf fortress, although finding community can be a bit hard since reddit shutdown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They also took the trouble and respect to make the game multi-language, unlike dwarf fortress.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive been playing a lot of MineClone2 which is a modpack for Minetest!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

haven't used mineclone2, but i do want to echo minetest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A lot of good tips here, but you should have a look at Endless Sky! Really cool space game
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

[–] wmassingham 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn't look like it's very active any more.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

OpenTTD is a pretty cool transportation and train building game

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs got open sourced if that counts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Holy f— really? I used to love Amnesia back in the day. This is such a strange and unexpected, but really cool news!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised that no one mentioned super tux kart yet

[–] 413j0 4 points 1 year ago

Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Adding tales of maj'eyal to the roguelike list.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Forge, a Magic: The Gathering rules engine available both for Windows and Android. Various formats, good AI, offline and online play, and now even has a Shandalar-like mode.
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #Forge #Shandalar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Warzone 2100 is an excellent RTS that is open source. I've never played a game with a bigger and more complex skill tree. Has an interesting development history in that it was originally a Playstation game, but was completely open sourced once the company went under. It has been kept alive by fans ever since.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

0 AD is a solid AOE2 clone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neverball is my favorite. It's a Monkey ball clone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked oolite and doomrl .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NetHack - Roguelike

Space Cadet Pinball - Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

The Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme

Mindustry - Sandbox tower-defense game

Minetest - Voxel game engine

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you enjoyed Zero-K, there is also Beyond All Reason in development and in playable alpha state

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like re3, reVC and reLCS. These are reverse engineered versions of GTA 3, Vice City and Liberty City Stories with improvements. Take Two has thrown a strike on the main repository, but you can still find mirrors or builds in the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any mirrors with newer builds? I could only find the earlier releases when I looked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I compiled from source. If you use ArchLinux you can get re3-git, revc-git and relcs-git from AUR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Colobot was made open source a while ago and is still great! The game assets (and original binaries) can also be downloaded for free from the dev's site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tux Racer is the OG.

[–] 0485919158191 2 points 1 year ago

Check out [email protected]. It’s my favorite open source game.

There’s also [email protected]. Awesome game!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Widelands is a good game in the style of Settlers 2.

(The later games in The Settlers series moved away from the distribution-network style of gameplay in S2; so Widelands how carries that torch.)

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 2 points 1 year ago

Quake and Doom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Battle for westnoth !

And I can't remember right now the stealth game I used to play, it was the dark something, gonna search it later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For mobile games there is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, great time sink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can recommend osu!lazer if you like rythm games, be careful not to get addicted though :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or if you like something a little less complex, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, are fantastic roguelike games. Proper traditional, turn based, tileset ones.

Imagine a mix of Fallout and The Walking Dead, that's what it's like. It's superb. The possibilities are endless

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