Open source video games

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!

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.

• Xonotic is a great old school, Quake style FPS with an active community
• 0 A.D. is a pretty polished historical RTS
• The Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn based strategy
• OpenRA is an open implementation of the Red Alert engine that's got an active community

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone

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.

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

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.

• osu! (The new lazer client, the old one isn't open source)
• Veloren

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.

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.

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

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

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

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

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

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

OpenTTD is a pretty cool transportation and train building game

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

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.

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

I liked oolite and doomrl .

Shattered Pixel Dungeon Roguelike, very addctive :)

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

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

Tux Racer is the OG.

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.

Quake and Doom.

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

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.

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

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.

0 AD is a solid AOE2 clone

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

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

If you like Zero-K you're going to love Beyond All Reason

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.)

I actually love IVAN, and I feel like it has been completely forgotten https://github.com/Attnam/ivan