Games @lemmy.world OTINOKTYAH @feddit.org 2mo ago

List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games

Disclaimer: I changed a little the layout and thanks for the contributions!

The Idea:

On my old Mastodon Profile i've made a list of Rebuilds/Fan Remakes/SourcePorts (when possible opensource, no commercial remakes) for old PC Games, and i want to share it here on Lemmy too, so people can easily find it.

Why?

I've played lot of these games, and i'm glad there a Fans who still working on these games, to make it accessible on modern systems and giving them some QoL improvments. In my opinion, that's a great way to preserve old games from being forgotten and keep playable for new players. Also these people need some recognition (at least) for their hard work.

I'm glad If you help to complete this list and contribute some games you know.

In the moment there are alphabetical sorted:

68 PC Games in total
53 Remakes, SourcePorts etc.

New additions will be marked with *

The List:

Ambermoon - Ambermoon.net
Arx Fatalis - Arx Libertatis
Baldurs Gate (I, II, also Icewind Dale I and II) - GemRB
Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)
Caesar III - Julius
Call to Power II - Apolyton Call to Power II Source Code Project *
Civilization V - Unciv *
Clonk - OpenClonk *
Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA
Descent (1, 2) - Descent Rebirth
Descent 3 - Descent 3 *
Diablo - DevilutionX
Doom (I, II) - ZDoom
Dune II - Dune Legacy
Dungeon Keeper - KeeperFX
Elite - Elite: The New Kind
Fallout - Fallout Community Edition *
Fallout 2 - Fallout 2 Community Edition *
Final Fantasy IX - Memoria *
Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *
Half Life - xash3d *
Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2
Heroes of Might and Magic III - VCMI *
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Jazz² *
LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *
Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion - OpenLoco *
Marathon (1,2 and Infinity) - Aleph One
Master of Orion - 1oom *
Might and Magic VI (also VII and VIII is in work) - OpenEnroth
Quake - Ironwail
Quake III: Arena - ioquake3 *
Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *
The Settlers - FreeSerf *
The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)
Stalker (Call of Pripyat and Call of Chernobyl) - OpenXRay*
Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters
Star Wars : Dark Forces - The Force Engine *
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - OpenJKDF2 *
Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy - OpenJK
TES II : Daggerfall - Daggerfall Unity
TES III: Morrowind - OpenMW
Theme Hospital - CorsixTH
Tomb Raider I and II - TRX *
Transport Tycoon Deluxe - OpenTTD
Ultima IV - xu4
Ultima VII - Exult
Ultima Underworld I (and II) - Underworld Exporter
Rollercoaster Tycoon (I and II) - openRCT2
Warzone 2100 - Warzone 2100 *
WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - ET: Legacy *
X-COM: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep - OpenXcom *
X-COM Apocalypse - OpenApoc

There is also the List here https://osgameclones.com/, who did unknown to me the same.

Addendum SCUMMVM:

SCUMMVM is the first place for adventure games from Lucas Arts (Monkey Island etc.) or Sierra (Kings Quest etc) anf for the RPGs from Origin (Ultima VI), Westwood (Eye of the Beholder) and New World Compting (Might and Magic I, III and IV), but also many more. Here you can check the list of games out.

Addendum "Inspired Games"

I think that games divergence too much from the original games, but also should be mentioned.

Age of Empires - 0.A.D.
Cataclysm - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Civilization II and III - FreeCiv
Colonization - FreeCol
Escape Velocity - Endless Sky
Elite II - Pioneer
Lemmings - Pingus
The Settlers II - Widelands
Total Annihilation - Beyond all Reason
Warlords II - LordsAWar!

Addendum Console Games:

If you are looking for Ports for Console Games to PC here is this list on GitHub

Also i would recommend the Open Source Port of the First two Jake and Daxter games

Addendum Source Ports for Android

moonpiedumplings made a list of Source Ports for Android on reddit

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You seem like you might like osgameclones.com. It's absolutely massive because it includes projects even if they're unfinished or abandoned, but you can sort by playability, development status, even programming language if you're looking to contribute.
- Thanks for the Tip. I try to look for games that are playable and almost complete and are it to the list
Beside the already mentioned Open Source Game Clones there's also this list on GitHub.

As for specific titles, I'd like to add:

Fallout Community Edition and Fallout 2 Community Edition

VCMI (open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III)

OpenGOAL (port of Jax and Daxter, second and third game in development)

OpenGothic (officially only supports Gothic 2 but works with the first game as well)

Perfect Dark port

Super Mario 64 Port

TRX – Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition

There's also WipeOut Phantom Edition but this one isn't open-source so I'll just leave it here in case someone wants to check out the existing build.
- Thanks for the list, but i try to keep it in the PC Side of gaming, mostly i'm more familiar with that. I'll think about If and how i add these to the list :) Thanks again:)
  
  Yeah, I've seen it after writing this. Thankfully, half of these are for PC native games so I didn't miss completely at least.
It’s a shame that Another Metroid 2 Remake got Cease & Desisted, purely because Nintendo was about to release Samus Returns and didn’t want to compete with a fan game that was better.
Star Wars Jedi Knight I and II: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast (Not stable) - OpenJK https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

Despite the official name being "Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy" it is not Jedi Knight I. It is actually a sequel to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It came out only a year after JO and was announced in April. At first I thought it was an April Fool's joke because the screenshots looked like something that could easily be made with the mod tools at the time.

It wasn't called Jedi Knight III because you play a different character.

Anyways, the real Jedi Knight I was "Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II". An open source implementation is available at https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2

And to round it off, the open source implementation of Dark Forces is available at https://theforceengine.github.io/. I think it even supports the remaster.
- I See where i went wrong. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the Links to Dark Forces.
  
  I 'll add that to the list and change the names
  
  Thanks again
- I actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I've got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
  
  Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I'm used to autosave points in linear games like that.
  
  As far as I know they don't add autosaves. I think the priority was things like proper wide-screen support and higher resolutions for the older games.
I've edited the post, so it looks more appealing. Sorry, that it was so hard to read at first, i hope now it's better
https://osgameclones.com/ is the best aggregate for this kind of thing.
https://libregamewiki.org/ also looks like something relevant.

Maybe now that we have a messy thread of various links, we can go check whether some of them are not yet listed in osgameclones.
Super Mario Bros. X is a Mario fan-game remake that uses lots of assets from the SNES era of Mario games (Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario RPG).

Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a Sonic fan game made from the Doom engine, inspired by the Sega Genesis era of Sonic games.

They're both open-source.
- I like this two but i try to keep it in the pc gaming Side, less the console Side. Mostly because i never Had a console;)
  
  I mean you can only play them on PC, so I'm not really sure what you're saying here
Don't forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it's faithful. It relies on the original assets.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs
- Thanks. I put it on the List :)
It's not finished yet but OpenXray Gunslinger is probably going to be a better STALKER: Call of Pripyat remaster than the official one that just got announced.
- Thanks, added to the list :)
Oh, also ScummVM should always be included in such a list. It supports a ton of classic adventure games from LucasArts, Sierra and others. And by now even Might and Magic 4+5: World of Xeen.
- Added at First. I forgot the obvious one, sorry :)
Widelands - Settlers II inspired game, played a couple of hours, pretty neat.

FreeCIV - how can that gme be missing here? :)

UnCIV - Civ V clone, also pretty neat
- Thanks. I've added the games to the Addendum "Inspired Games", but i think UnCIV is more a remake
- I wouldn't say Unciv is a Civ5 clone with those graphics though...
  
  So remake as the website says? 🤔
Throw Manic Miners on there. It's a fan remake of the old Lego Rock Raiders game, and it's really fun. There's a custom level builder and I think there's a browser you can search for other custom levels.
- Thanks for the Tip! I added it to the list!
XCOM 1 (UFO Defense) and XCOM 2: Terror From The Deep - OpenXCOM https://openxcom.org/

Master of Orion 1 - 1oom https://github.com/1oom-fork/1oom

Ultima 6 - Nuvie https://github.com/nuvie/nuvie (apparently now part of ScummVM)
- A few more honorable mentions that are not exact re-implementations with compatibility with the original datafiles, but more spiritual followups:
  
  Total Annihilation - TA Spring > Spring Engine > Recoil Engine > Beyond All Reason https://github.com/beyond-all-reason (I think there are mods that make it "Basically TA")
  
  Escape Velocity/EV Nova - Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/
  
  Goldeneye 64 (multiplayer only) - Goldeneye Source https://forums.geshl2.com/index.php?topic=7823.0
  
  Warlords II - LordsAWar! https://libregamewiki.org/LordsAWar!
  
  Thanks for the games. I've added them to the "Addendum "Inspired Games""
Here's my list:

Pingus - a lemmings remake

X-Moto - an elastomania clone (2d physics-based motorcycle game)
- Thanks :) But i've to ask, on what games does X-Moto based of?
Morrowind: https://openmw.org/
- Is already on the list ;)
  
  Ah sorry, I missed it somehow. Thanks!
https://www.macsourceports.com/
Whole Lee Shit jazz jackrabbit brings back memories. I remember my first time playing it at a friend of the family's house, there was a dude there talking shit about how Windows was for lazy people (I was very young and windows was still kinda newish)

But how dare you not include OpenMW! Imagine having an og Xbox masterpiece on your phone, and you can mod it!
- It was already on the list (TES III: Morrowind) ;)
  
  I think I was looking for it under "M" like the idiot I tend to be when trying to launch it through steam.
  
  Oh, I didn't even see it even though I was looking for it. My b homie
How come there's no mention of 0.A.D, it has amazing graphics, at least from the videos and screenshots. Haven't gotten a chance to play it unfortunately.
- Hi, i've put it in the "Addendum “Inspired Games”"
Here's my older post on a similar topic on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/g0sw0k/i_am_making_a_list_of_source_ports_on_android/
There is also Warzone 2100 https://wz2100.net/
- Added to the list. Thanks :)
Would Ship of Harkinian go on here?
- My list focus more on PC Games source ports/remakes etc. but the "Addendum Console Games" it's in this list (with many others) https://github.com/Sebastrion/awesome-unofficial-pc-ports
  
  saw Super Mario 64 and immediately saved it lol
Thrive was inspired by Spore, and many others.

https://www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
I just found Shockolate, a GPL-3 source port of system shock:

https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock

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