What are your favourite open source games?
What are your favourite open source games?
I'm looking for recommendations for my Linux setup. But shattered pixel dungeon is amazing on android
Open source game based on Transportation Tycoon Deluxe.
Mindustry is neat if you like tower defenses and factory/automation games.
[edit] Though this isn't exactly a game, I thought I'd mention it: The Powder Toy. Really fun physics-ish sandbox game if you like just playing around with little particles or making electronics or nuclear powered fireworks shows, etc.
0AD! It's similar to age of empires
3 out of 4 begin with "Super"!
Currently Endless Sky! Although I haven't gotten far, and playing without mods, I love the vibes
It's pretty basic, but I'm going to say SuperTuxKart as a must if you are into kart racers (especially since I don't know any others).
I also recommend the still in development SuperTux Advance by Kelvin Shadewing. It's similar to just plain old SuperTux but has unique levels and more playable characters that will have different abilities (probably still mostly locked behind debug for them).
Beyond All Reasons. It’s a spiritual successor of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander using the Spring engine.
It’s also a great game in its own right, especially the various advanced unit positioning and selection features had me amazed. The graphics are good and the performance with many units is finally very good too, after some patches last year (or two years? I don’t remember).
Unciv is open source civ5
In terms of games I actually play, Cataclysm: DDA (even if I still suck at it after hundreds of hours).
In terms of technical/visual impressiveness, Veloren.
veloren! also my favorite game too to play with my friend
I haven't played in over a year, but I really spent some hours in Veloren the last time I picked it up!
ScummVM works really well in linux, if youre a fan of classic point and click adventure games.
SuperTuxKart is really good with friends.
- Doom Roguelike if you want a roguelike with simple, action-oriented gameplay.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (lemmy instance) if you want one with complex, simulation-oriented gameplay.
I really enjoyed Minedustry. Also, does Katawa Shoujo count?
I've dumped more hours into OpenTTD and Zero-K than I care to think about
Warzone 2100. 3D RTS from the late 90s that was open-sourced after the studio went belly-up. Fantastic game, runs on even ancient hardware.
Edit to add: Forgot to mention it is still receiving updates!
Tremulous is a free and open source asymmetric team-based first-person shooter with real-time strategy elements. The game features two opposing teams: humans and aliens. Each team must attack the enemy’s base and team members while defending their own base. https://tremulous.net/
I'm a big fan of Thrive!
No one is saying Shattered Pixel Dungeon?
Because I say Shattered Pixel Dungeon.I am on Mobile (aka lazy), so no link. Simutrans for me, beats every other transport sim. The organic growth of cities and industries that happens while you build and optimize your transport systems is one of the many features I like so much.
I highly recommend playing Doom with the Crispy Doom source port and the Freedoom data files.
For something more modern, Xonotic is about the best-looking FOSS game out there and an excellent multiplayer arena shooter.
Cortex Command Community Edition
When I did play foss games, I played battle for wesnoth, teeworlds, minetest, super tux csrt and openarena. Lsst one might be dead due to being a mainly multiplayer game.
@sleepybisexual DOOM! The source code is open source, but the assets aren't. So this might be a bit of cheating reply. https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
@sleepybisexual You know what, I could link my articles from a few years ago. It's been a while, so some of newer Open Source games are missing from these lists.
VVVVVV. It's not GPL though, so technically it's not open source, but source-available.
Note that while the source code is available, the assets is not, so you'll still need to buy the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70300/VVVVVV/
I haven't messed with an open source game since early Sauerbraten. I gave up because of the crazy learning curve to git gud.
I can recommend colobot if you like to automate things with code.
Cataclysm DDA is amazing if you are into this stuff.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is pretty astounding, offering an incredible level of detail and degree of freedom, plus just lots of zombies to fight.
Definitely Neverball. My kids and I spent so many hours in it.
OpenTTD is good, so is TuxKart, but both have better closed-source alternatives. I don't think Neverball does.
Crack Attack! is a loving parody of addictive tetrislike games that is also an extremely addictive tetrislike game.
I really like MineClone2 (a Minetest game).
- OpenTyrian (likely available in your package manager)
Lix – https://www.lixgame.com/
FOSS Lemmings, with many great features (like multiplayer) and active development.I liked oolite (space trading and combat game, also DRL (aka doomRL) and cataclysm DDA , also there is The Ur-Quan Masters megamod (A 2d space game)
Big fan of Quaver, its a community-driven, and open-source competitive rhythm game.