Did you guys tried Endless sky? Awesome game if you love space
And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license
Thank you for this! I have already logged hours playing with my kid since seeing your suggestion. We have only played mineclone2 so far. I will look into veloren next.
Nice to hear it! Mineclone is actually very good mod and you definitely should try veloren, good luck
Minetest in general has such a good mod selection it’s insane! My siblings and I never fail to have a good time goofing around with the plugins people have created.
Yeah that’s cool
Such a great game.
Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!
Don’t be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you’ll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don’t carry over.
I grew up playing the EV series and I love Endless Sky. Is there something about the clone that you don’t like? I can’t thing of a change that I dislike. For example, fleet management is improved. Being able to dock your various ships and escorts is pretty cool.
I recently got into that game quite a bit. Playing it on steam. Just the other day I discovered I can board pirate ships and kill the crew to claim the ship as my own. That has been a significant power boost for me and really unlocked the game.
Even before that I was having fun trying to survive with limited power while still exploring the world
Cataclysm DDA Is THE open world zombie survival experience. So long as you like obtuse roguelikes with nearly no graphics.
Although Im obviously biased what with being a dev and all.
CDDA is mind bogglingly cool. I play a weekend of it every few months. I know it won’t ever happen, but if it got the Dwarf Fortress Steam treatment one day, it could be the last game I ever bought and I’d be happy.
I’ll just leave this here ;) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330750/Cataclysm_Dark_Days_Ahead/
Tilesets are out and many many mods if thats what you mean
Veloren
Puzzle
- Rocks’n’Diamonds - Digging for diamonds while avoiding boulders and enemies
- Enigma | github - Marble puzzles (and much more) inspired by the classic game Oxyd
- GNU Robbo - Solve rooms (puzzles) with your robot
Space
- Oolite | github - an open-world space opera (inspired by classic game Elite)
- Kobo Deluxe - 2D scrolling space shooter, destroy star bases with your ship
- Open Tyrian - Arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter
Open Tyrian is great, the original is always free on GOG Tyrian 2000
I haven’t seen any incremental games get posted. They aren’t exactly traditional games, but so many of them are open source like Antimatter Dimensions or Synergism. Bitburner is a unique one as an incremental hacking sim, since it relies on actual scripting to grow and automate tasks.
Mindustry is a really fun automation/tower defense game
Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.
thirded. played it years ago and got into it again recently. you should check it out again, there’s a lot of new stuff they’ve added.
It’s old but I always really liked WARSAW it was/is a quake3 port but with more cartoony outline graphics similar to Borderlands style.
Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.
And there are so many campaigns, it is incredible.
I am a big fan of Neverball
Only one that comes to mind is Lugaru. The creator had this weird legal battle where someone stole the game, ported it to iOS, and the thief claimed because it was open source he was allowed to sell it.
If reverse-engineered Nintendo games count, then Super Mario 64 and Pokemon Emerald whose engine is technically open source.
EDIT: Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 has been reverse engineered multiple times too.
I was going to recommend Ship of Harkinian as a reverse engineered Ocarina of Time but they don’t have a license file posted in their git repo so not technically open source unless I’m just missing it. It uses libultraship which is mit licensed.
Edit: Looks like they started by forking another unlicensed project so until that project chooses a license they don’t want to choose a license for themselves. What a mess.
Reverse engineered N64 games? Can you provide a link?
This GitHub should have a few. https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64
Veloren is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!
You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.
The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.
It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!
Totally agree, one of the best open-source games ever
0 A.D. is the closest experience to Empire Earth I’ve had on the FOSS side. Great fun!
Hum more Age of Empire than Empire Earth I think
Doom :)
I like supertuxkart and minetest
Seconding Minetest. It’s a lot of fun just to poke around the forums and work on my own little projects and additions with minimal actual programming skill required
