What is your favourite Open-Source game?
I personally love Naev and Mindustry
I personally love Naev and Mindustry
Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It's also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.
This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.
I wish that the original use-case for Battle of Wesnoth's engine, Wargus, was still being actively developed
Wargus and Wesnoth both run on the Stratagus engine, which was originally developed as a reimplimentation of Warcraft 2 . The engine split to allow for new games to be made, and the War2 functionality was shunted into Wargus where the project remains to this day
Stratagus is the underlying engine. My lament was directed towards Wargus. I like me some Warcraft 2, hwat can I say
I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it's good but I really never get past the mining stage and can't understand the crafting.
One day I'm hoping for a fluke we're I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.
Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.
I've been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon virtually every day for years, through I don't know how many updates. I'm far from convinced that every run is winnable, but there are some patterns that I've observed.
Mage and Huntress seem to be my best classes. The Mage's staff means that you are guaranteed to have something that's worth upgrading. The Huntress' bow and her special abilities like growing grass by walking can make for some truly interesting gameplay changes, whereas I feel like most of the other classes' abilities are more about moderate improvements to quality of life.
A Ring of Haste is probably my favorite ring to find, since being able to kite monsters is a great path to victory. Tenacity, Elements, and Strength are boring. Wealth can be good if it comes upgraded, but I wouldn't put scrolls into it. Evasion always seems to turn on me sooner or later. Energy and Arcana can improve quality of life but are otherwise pretty mid.
A Wand of Regrowth is almost always a path to victory, especially if it comes upgraded, doubly so if you become a Warden, and triply so if you can combine it with the Sandals of Regrowth.
A Wand of Blast Wave is incredibly useful when used to knock enemies off ledges or into traps, saving yourself the trouble of killing them.
Other wands are a super mixed bag, depending on what you can manage to do with them, but I'll say that some of my most fun and successful runs are putting a Wand of Corruption into my Mage's Staff and becoming a Corruption Battlemage. You whack an enemy, Amok him on his friends, then corrupt them, then rinse and repeat until you win.
I've already mentioned the Sandals, which I'd say are incredibly useful if you've got a Wand of Regrowth or a Blooming enchanted weapon, but are otherwise hard to keep getting enough fresh grass to make worthwhile. I think the Ethereal Chains and Hourglass are my favorite and most useful artifacts. Horn of Plenty is okay but not great, unless you can combine it with being filled by the Battlemage's energy generating ability. Other artifacts are mid, but I'll make a special mention of the Unstable Spellbook which seems to screw me as often as it helps and yet I can't deny that I have a great time with the mayhem it adds to my run. The Alchemist's Toolkit is terrible; I hope a future patch significantly alters or replaces it, because honestly why bother using it at all?
I think my favorite runs are Corruption Battlemage or a Sniper with a nicely upgraded Boomerang; I always get a lot of fun out of using the boomerangs.
There's no end to the conversation but that's all I've got for now. It's far and away the most played game on my phone... possibly my most played game ever, measured by eternal hours. The publisher is an absolute treasure and he deserves all the praise and success in the world.
if you get a wand of corruption and the corpse dust quest, you can just keep the corpse dust, which constantly spawns 1 hp wraiths. As long as you keep the wand upgraded you can play as a necromancer.
Right now I'm basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It's a game in the Total Annihilation "tree" of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can't believe it's an open source game. It's still in alpha, but it's been way more stable than most AAA games I've been playing recently.
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
it's about the single player storyline. It feels like BAR is more geared towards online/multiplayer, while zero-k has a proper full single player campaign. Don't get me wrong, I played with BAR for quite some time and it's still a great game, I just "clicked" better with zero-k.
Ah cool, didn't know that Zero-K had a whole campaign going on. I think we're kinda opposites though, because I really don't enjoy the RTS campaign gameplay experience. I'd much rather play against bots (or maybe online).
oh wow, didn't know about that. I did play TA a lot (I mean, I still play it sometimes, big bertha feels sooo good!). But yes, the idea behind them is pretty much the same as TA
I'd never heard of BAR, just gave it a go. I can see myself wasting alot of time on this
Never heard of this and I'm a big fan of the TA/Sup Com series. I will try it when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!
Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).
Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I'm not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.
They've been working on the Hai storyline a lot, and last time I played there was a lot more in Coalition space.
Endless Sky is amazing. I've put so many hours into it. It's available on Steam or as an AppImage from https://endless-sky.github.io
I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly
Tried this just couldn't get past the tiles I'm probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn't get past the graphics.
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I'm missing stuff at times
Does DOOM count? It's been officially open sourced recently, even though it was already treated as such for decades.Either way, I can't stop playing it, there's 30 years of user created content to go through.
That's what I'd go with it. Came here to comment it, but I was beaten to it. There are so many great ways to play through it, as the modding community has made so much amazing stuff over the years.
Id Tech 1 (Doom) source has been available since 1997 under a restrictive license and under the GPL since 1999, so not "recently". But yeah, that's my answer. Original Doom.
In my AP Computer Science class in high school, every now and then our teacher would give us a free day. We would sit around playing Unreal Tournament on the LAN.
At one point the teacher decided he wasnβt comfortable with a game with guns in class.
Soβ¦I got everyone to install Cube, the open source first person shooter. Specifically a copy of it where I had removed all of the gun models. So we just ran around punching and bullets would fly from our fists. Or, in the case of the rocket launcher, an exploding sofa would fly from our fists.
I donβt know if I would call it my favorite, but we had a lot of fun with it.
OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)
Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD
Battle for Wesnoth. There's several FOSS games that are pretty good, but BfW I've played the most.
Apart some of the already mentioned (mindustry, 0ad, beyond all reasons, zero-k), also minetest (minecraft), destination sol.
l've tried hege wars (worms clone) but found it meh. Sometimes supertux.
Haven't played Minetest in a while. I remember having lots of fun with modding. 0ad is also another great open source title
Lately the modding has been getting really good, and while the game engine already has volumetric lighting (or something), there are even mods now that render everything beautifully that probably need a really good graphics card to keep up with.
I had the same experience with Hedgewars, but I can't really say why it doesn't click like Worms for me.
Someone on lemmy a few months ago mentioned this rts beyond all reason. Since then I've easily put 100 hours in. The game is so dam fun.
Another great one is Osu
I was introduced to BAR like 3 months ago and I still have no idea wtf I'm doing.
Online matches typically vary between these 3 experiences:
It took me about 40 hours to go from Openskill 1 to os 2. I'm now os 5. I mainly play core front and just ball up tanks with a repairing station behind or I use my com to repair. Works great when it works but sometimes I get pushed before I have enough of a mass and then I'm useless and get crushed. It's definitely a chaotic game
I have no idea what os I actually am because private matches mess with it. But I usually fulfill the role of air support and it always goes one of two ways:
I really want to be the economy daddy but unfortunately I am not good at it. I'll have to try your strat next time I'm core front instead of flooding assault tanks with no backup.
I just heard about it for the first time in this thread, I think I'm hooked, haven't managed to beat the AI yet
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Zombie survival roguelike, forked from the original cataclysm by whales. Also check out Cataclysm: Bright Nights which is a fork of CDDA that makes it more gamey like the original, and less like you're playing 2d arma.
My favorite thing is when I come back after a hiatus and my favorite strat's been nerfed and I get to struggle to survive like its my first time playing again. I remember when you could make a silent burst fire BB gun that shredded anything that didn't have armor, and mount them to your deathmobile en masse to just drive through cities untouched by the horde. The Radio Activated Noise Emitter + Caltrops strat's still good as ever, though the crafting requirements are a lot more complex since the last time I played.
Nethack. I remember playing it at university 30 years ago when it was text only. Amazingly, there is a version available for android and its fucking addictive.
And it's better - nicer graphics and gameplay. It feels more like Age of Empires III though
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
That, or the tire arena mode thing. Both are pretty fun when you are bored of all the official tracks and your favorite add-on tracks.
Yeah. Don't know how to have them uploaded or even make them, but you can download a ton of different tracks, carts, and arenas from inside the game itself. All for free, with variable quality since pretty much all but maybe a few tracks are all fan made originals or old versions of official maps.
Don't know how old of an update you can be on to use the feature, but on the latest version you'll definitely have the ability to use it. I think it's on the right hand side of the screen, either in the bottom corner or above it. It adds a lot of longevity after you get bored of the official tracks.
True.
Also, a single keyboard can be used to setup the controls of both user 1 and 2.
Was awesome to play games together, without needing a separate computer or input device.
More recently, I'm a fan of shapez (shapez.io) for my recommended daily allowance of factory building gaming.
Going back further, I have a soft spot for Ri-li, a nice little game about toy trains with very charming music! It was this which set me on an adventure with the mod tracking scene. A surprising amount of open source games use them, it feels like open source music!
Reminded me also of Alex the Allegator 4, a very original 2D platformer
I'd better stay away from shapez or I will probably exceed my recommended daily allowance of factory building gaming and disappear for 10 years
Yes - https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io Though it's also on Steam for a small price to support the developers
I got it for free from Epic Games and loved it so I bought it on Steam to throw a coin to my indie dev