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For example veloren

Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

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[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Did you guys tried Endless sky? Awesome game if you love space

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don't have a license

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[–] Celsiuss@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mindustry is a really fun automation/tower defense game

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

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[–] axce@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon ! And its origin, Pixel Dungeon.

A really nice rogue-like, among the best Android games I know, it’s still fun after all those years and very actively developed !

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[–] asakul@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Beyond All Reason is AMAZING. I can't say enough about it. Its my favourite game, and totally annihilates (!) the competition.

Though I guess the competition is pretty small for large scale RTS. Maybe:

  • Total Annihilation
  • Supreme Commander
  • Ashes of the Singularity
  • Sins of the Solar Empire (sorta)

BAR has fixed all the UI/UX problem, scales well, has a big community, is free, fun, and super deep and complex.

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really like this type of games but the game looks pretty cool

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[–] candlebury@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] TotoroTheGreat@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Battle of Wesnoth. Haven't played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.

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[–] Hellebert@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beyond All Reason

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

It a grand scale RTS game with robots and insects loosely inspired by Total Annihilation.

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[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Oh I am saving this post! It's a goldmine

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really enjoy Thrive, it's basically modern and more scientifically accurate Spore!

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[–] Cmar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Have not seen anyone mention one of the best rogue like games out there, Tales of Maj'Eyal

https://te4.org

Base game is free to download and play from their website. Massive world, tons of loot, an incredible number of classes and abilities to combine, it's such a fantastic game that also has native Linux support.

[–] simple@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mindustry is an awesome strategy game that combines Factorio with tower defense.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (ridiculous name I know) is one of the most underrated games ever. It's a super polished, high quality Kart game with an insane amount of mods and maps. The online isn't that populated but the singleplayer time trial is TONS of fun. If you like hunting for medals, it can be a pretty deep rabbit hole. There's a sequel in development but no release date.

GzDoom is the most popular Doom source port and there's a practically infinite amount of user generated content. If you don't know where to start I highly recommend Doom: The Golden Souls Remastered and Castlevania: Simon's Destiny. They're good enough to be premium games.

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[–] nitlo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Cube 2 Sauerbraten is pretty good! Free arena shooter with built-in level editor

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[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

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!

See https://veloren.net/

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If you like RTS games similar to Total Annihilation, you should definitely check out Beyond All Reason, it's gorgeous and fun: https://www.beyondallreason.info/

[–] TemperateFox@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another supcom similar is zero-k. Didn't know there were so many open source options!

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[–] elder_lurker@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://github.com/open-duelyst/duelyst

Duelyst was a very popular online card game that shutdown around 3 years ago. The developers have recently released it into the public domain (via CC0 license).

You can completely selfhost a private instance (repo has a good straight forward guide)

There is a public instance available to try https://duelyst.org/. Though it might be pretty barren.

There is also a closed fork which should have a more active userbase https://duelyst2.com/, the game rules are a little different (draw 2 vs draw1), but should have more users to get a feeling for the game.

The game in a nutshell is basically Hearthstone on a chessboard. It’s very fun and approachable and in my opinion one of the best cardgames right next to MagicTCG :). Hopefully the community for it will grow more and we can have a sort of second renaissance for it :)

[–] Logie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I seriously think that every online only game should have to make the server assets public if they've abandoned it longer than 10 years. So many good games are just lost to time.

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[–] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Several, but my number one fav so far is Battle for Wesnoth. An old school hex tile turn based strategy game. Like something out of the 90's or very early 2000's.

Great art, awesome music, solid gameplay, and runs on a potato.

My best friend and I play it whenever we want a casual chill, play n' chat gaming session.

It runs great on the Steam Deck too with a few interface tweaks.

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[–] sorenant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I'll add OpenMW to the thread. It's a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

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[–] GiuEliNo@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

I will say that 0 A.D. and veloren are my favourites!

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Here's a good start.

Fillets-ng (sokoban puzzler)

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection (sgt-puzzles)

Sauerbraten (FPS)

0 A.D. (RTS)

Holotz Castle (platformer)

Xmoto (motorbike trials riding)

Kobodeluxe (shmup)

Neverputt (minigolf)

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Tux Racer. Hands down.

[–] SirMrR4M@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CataclysmDDA is an amazing open source roguelike. Has a bunch of tilesets if you don't like ASCII

[–] denemdenem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Also most og roguelikes are open source which is great!

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[–] asdf@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenRA has open source slightly modernized versions of Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn and Dune 2000. There's also Tiberian Sun-like and Red Alert 2 mods for it :)

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[–] holgersson@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Pixel Dungeon! Great rogue like mobile game

[–] donio@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Classic roguelikes have the most longetivity for me. Crawl, Brogue, Nethack.

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[–] bitseek@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Love this traditional roguelike!

[–] kresten@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unciv civilization 5 replica

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[–] Ackart@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Warzone 2100 is an RTS from 1999 that went open source at some point and can be played on just about anything. It's unit design functionality is really cool and I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic worlds.

[–] Brightwave@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OpenRCT if you're counting that style of open source game

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OpenRCT2, eDuke32, the various Doom and Quake games

Also ScummVM is open source and supports many games

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[–] ehsan301@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Teeworlds. There are some great community made modes for it like FNG and DDrace. Be sure to download it from ddnet.tw to access to extra features created by the community.

[–] kthxbai@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Xonotic is a fun quake-like shooter. Highly recommend.

[–] Aoetoke@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shapez is a fairly relaxing factory game. Pretty minimalistic style but easy to lose tons of time to if you aren't careful.

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[–] frank@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Warzone 2100. It reminds me of the older Command & Conquer games with a ton of upgrades and customization for your units.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

There's not a whole lot of activity around it these days, but Zelda Classic is an engine for Zelda 1 with a number of additions and improvements, that allows for custom maps, tilesets, scripts, items, enemies, etc. etc.

I've whiled away an unreasonable amount of time on quests that are on par mechanically and quality-wise with Link's Awakening and the Oracle games. Shame I can't get the tarball to work properly on Steam Deck, it's a great fit for that hardware.

[–] aMalayali@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Clazzy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Some great games already on here, but wanted to share some love for VVVVVV which released its source a few years ago.

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] carcel@lemmyrs.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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