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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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[–] fafff@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years 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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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • 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
[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Similar to OpenRA, OpenMW is also an open recreation of the engine for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

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[–] naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I spent so many hours on wesnoth...

That one is perhaps the most polished open source game out there.

[–] laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de 10 points 2 years ago

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years 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.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love the game, but absolutely hate the inability to freely save and load in a game where maps can last for hours.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

inability to freely save and load in a game

Oof. That's a really major downside. Bummer.

Edit: just downloaded to see for myself. You seem to be able to save and load, at least in singleplayer on pc.

[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I suspect I didn't explain myself well.
If I remember correctly, you can enter and exit the campaign, and doing so saves the game. There is also a single autosave, which you can't manually select and is there for better or worse.

So in practice, one mistake or ruthless surprise can turn into a lot of wasted time. For the sake of my alopecia, I used to make regular backups to the whole folder, convenient enough using btrfs.

[–] __jov@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1 for mindustry. Great game and works across all platforms.

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[–] zaidka@kbin.social 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] 6fn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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!

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago
  • osu! (The new lazer client, the old one isn't open source)
  • Veloren
[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Cyclone1070@mstdn.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] drifty@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] philpo@feddit.de 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

[–] kresten 3 points 2 years ago

Unciv is great!

[–] islandmonkeee@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dill@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] okbin@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CyanPurple@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

OpenTTD is a pretty cool transportation and train building game

[–] lz0@kbin.social 4 points 2 years 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

[–] 413j0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Fibbers@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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

[–] PeterCxy@metapowers.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Adding tales of maj'eyal to the roguelike list.

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[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I liked oolite and doomrl .

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] marvus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] dorkage@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

0 AD is a solid AOE2 clone

[–] tuxed@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Quake and Doom.

[–] snoopa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Tux Racer is the OG.

[–] RavelsBolero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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.)

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