Open source video games
Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?
Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?
Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.
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.
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!
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.
I love the game, but absolutely hate the inability to freely save and load in a game where maps can last for hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Highly recommend. Easier to grasp than dwarf fortress, although finding community can be a bit hard since reddit shutdown
They also took the trouble and respect to make the game multi-language, unlike dwarf fortress.
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
Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs got open sourced if that counts.
Holy f— really? I used to love Amnesia back in the day. This is such a strange and unexpected, but really cool news!
I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn't look like it's very active any more.
Oh, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I also used to play that years ago and I think even spent some time trying to create some maps.
Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)
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