cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3160775

I’m usually a fan of open source games but rarely do they manage to be actually great. People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven’t aged well and don’t play well. What are some open source games that are legitimately good that I’ve missed?

My favorites are:

  • Mindustry

  • Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart

  • Powder Toy

  • GZDoom (and all the amazing mods for it)

  • Veloren (even though it’s still in alpha)

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51Y

Open Hexagon is pretty good if you enjoy music reaction/arcade games. It’s an open source successor of Super Hexagon with several community made level packs. The only flaw is the steep learning curve of the gameplay.

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41Y

Pixel Dungeon, or its more updated and popular fork, Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Randomized Dungeon Crawler.

Available on PC and Android (at least)

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Games rarely work with an open source business model, so that’s why there aren’t any really great ones.

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111Y

Tell me you have no clue about video games without telling me you have no clue about video games.

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71Y

its funny how wrong they are, like games are probably the best suited case for it - no massive security risks, players could implement features they want.

if Minecraft was open source from the get go, it’d probably be bigger than unreal by now

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41Y

Big or not, they talked about great games, and there are many incredible open source games, however not always very popular.

I mean, technically even games like morrowind could be called open source now, with Open Morrowind.

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131Y

It’s not all about business models. People make things out of personal interest too.

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91Y

Honestly, I’ve been playing quite a lot of SuperTuxKart recently and it is by any standards a great game! The amount of mods and skins is just the cherry on top.

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301Y

OpenTTD ( https://www.openttd.org/ ) is pretty popular and has been for a long time.

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ASCII survival isn’t for everyone, but I do very much enjoy Cataclysm, Dark Days Ahead or Bright Nights depending on your preferences in realism.

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21Y

Technimo, a fantastic android version of tetris with tons of options and modes.

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71Y

Sauerbraten (Cube3D)

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21Y

I used to play it a lot about a decade ago. Good times.

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41Y

Like many open source games, it has that distinctly ‘alpha’ feel to it right now, but I do enjoy NodeCore on occasion. It’s a zen minimalist block game with a unique diagetic crafting system. Instead of a traditional “recipe book” or “crafting grid”, you produce new materials through in-world transformations. For instance, to make glass, you have to surround sand with fire, and to control fire, you basically want to build a deliberately-shaped dirt or stone pit… the whole thing feels a little like minecraft and a little like a sand physics sim or cellular automata.

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31Y

Pretty interesting, reminds me of Vintage Story. Thanks for sharing.

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41Y

Xonotic

Tee Worlds

Hedgewars

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41Y

Xonotic is the only one I’ve played out of all the games in this post. Only tried it for a couple hours, but it was fun.

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41Y

If you like classic RPGs, I can’t recommebd you Andor’s Trail enough \o

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51Y
  • Battle for Wesnoth
  • Mindustry is the clear winner though
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Forge, the open sourced MTG client. It’s written in java, fully portable with an android version even. Full rules enforcement, an incredibly active dev community with the new sets implemented pretty quickly after release. I’ve honestly put more hours into just playing against the AI in 4v4 commander games than most steam games I own.

https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge

wait with this i can play magic the gathering for free?

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Yes*

It’s got all the cards with art, a good deck builder, and it supports multiple game modes, including Commander. It’s also got bot players that are good to test decks against and it forces game rules, so it’s good for learning.

*I’ve never gotten the multiplayer to work. My friends use Cockatrice for that. (Also FOSS) Cockatrice is clunkier and much more manual to use but, the multiplayer works.

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Helium Rain launched a few years ago as a commercial game with an open source launcher (BSD-3), and as of a few weeks ago the game became free on Steam. The developer is no longer maintaining it, but there’s still a small community that are interested in it.

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