sleepybisexualWhat are your favourite open source games?
OvermindCortex Command Community Edition
LinuturkTremulous is a free and open source asymmetric team-based first-person shooter with real-time strategy elements. The game features two opposing teams: humans and aliens. Each team must attack the enemy’s base and team members while defending their own base.
tremulous.net
Currently downloading but is it still active? Is there still a player base?
I’m not sure. I used to play more but my free time has fallen off.
Reminds me of Natural Selection 1/2. Loved thos games and I wonder if this was their inspiration. And of course they ended up making Subnautica with their expertise in creature design.
I’d actually recommend Unvanquished instead! It’s a fork of Tremulous that has more active development, including a rehaul of the rendering engine. unvanquished.net
Unvanquished
So you want to be a hero? Play the game and save your species from the invasion! Handle your big weapon and dress that impressive exoskeleton to save the human race like a boss. Or if you prefer, be a monstrous beast and save those cute grangers from those two-legged invaders who only know how to turn beautiful organic equilibrium into lifeless machines and dead concreted worlds.
AnissemOpen source game based on Transportation Tycoon Deluxe.
SubArcticTundraI wish it had a modern GUI though. The old one is almost unusable even though they’ve made an attempt to implement DPI scaling.
Not a very original answer, but I still enjoy The Battle for Wesnoth after many years.
nelsonI’m surprised hardly anyone else has mentioned Wesnoth yet. I last played it over a decade ago, so I’m not sure if it’s still as well-known now as it used to be, but it’s one of the highest-quality open-source games out there.
It’s a turn-based fantasy strategy game that feels like a combination of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, and D&D. And I suppose it was a lot more unique back in the 2000’s when there weren’t a dozen indie games out there that fit the same description.
EdriMareyemiMindustry is neat if you like tower defenses and factory/automation games.
Github link for convenience
github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the post. Mindustry is awesome, I got so addicted to it for a bit haha
Mindustry is great! I’ve put a ton of hours into it and I’ve gotten my kids into it. Super active dev and good community.
I prefer it to factorio
TheImpressiveX3 out of 4 begin with “Super”!
Ooh, those all look so fun! Thanks for the links! :)
cryballWhen I did play foss games, I played battle for wesnoth, teeworlds, minetest, super tux csrt and openarena. Lsst one might be dead due to being a mainly multiplayer game.
I’m a big fan of Thrive!
janWilejanI haven't tried thrive in a while. I hear they've switched engines again, to Godot this time. Is it playable? Is it fun? Do they have more than the single-cell phase?
I’ve spent a solid 30-40 hours playing it since December last year so I’d say it’s pretty fun and playable! IIRC it has prototypes up to the interplanetary phase though only the single-cell and multicellular stages were really playable when I last gave them a go.
AatubeIf Roblox counts as a game instead of a platform, then I guess Minetest also counts as an open-source game.
Roblow isn’t a game. Minetest is an engine (providing it’s own API that game developers use to develop games), and a platform to distribute them. In a sense, Minetest is like Unity or Godot. Games built on Minetest include MineClone2/5, Nodecore, Exile etc.
Yeah, let me open up Unity for that vanilla gameplay experience, oh wait…
Also, are wc3 and hl also not games because they were used to develop and distribute games that ended up being more popular?
You cannot play default minetest without a game. It comes installed with minetest game (which is a crappy game and more of a modding base). Delete it and see if you can play, yeah?
What is wc3 and hl?
Sure, it’s a crappy game, but when you install Minetest you can play Minetest, and you install Minetest mods to mod the Minetest game. You can’t use Minetest mods on Mineclone. If you install unity you can’t play unity, you make a game in unity.
Warcraft and half life
Basically, you’re saying because an engine also has a packaging element (contentDB is the packaging and distribution part maintained by 1 developer, it cannot be an engine). It is both.
“Minetest is an open source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation”. github.com/minetest/minetest
I’m more inclined to believe the team who make it rather than some random internet stranger though.
At what point did I say it’s not an engine? I’m just denying your claim that it’s not a game…
MTG - Minetest Game is the game. It’s in the name. Delete it, and you cannot play Minetest. Minetest is referred to as the engine. They renamed MTG and put it into maintenance mode because of the confusion. It was badly named initially. The team have already made the decision to remove MTG by default so it comes with no games. They are just waiting to redevelop the UI so it isn’t so painful when this happens.
Oh ok, now that makes sense. MTG is a horrible acronym, but ok.
I’ve installed Minetest like a month ago and it came with the Minetest game.
You are expanding the scope of what we're saying. Half Life is not a game engine, GoldenSrc is. Warcraft III doesn't appear to have a public game engine. However, Roblox & Minetest don't really have a bundled game.
Minetest fulfils the role of platform because of content db, it wasn’t always there, and it’s maintained by 1 person. The rest of the developers code the API’s which are used for making games. You know what else provides API’s for making games? Unity, Unreal and Godot.
Not really, wc3 and hl are definitely more “gamey” than Minetest, but you can still install Minetest to play and mod Minetest.
Minetest is the game that comes bundled with Minetest.
Minetest Game is the game that comes bundled with Minetest, not Minetest. Nobody said WC3 and HL is a game engine.
Horrible naming scheme, and I don’t think I’ve seen the Minetest Game ever mentioned as anything but just Minetest.
It's not a naming scheme, it's just the default and everything makes it clear that Minetest is the engine. It's kinda the example game.
Yeah, but truth is a lot of people do consider it a game.
Only you, it seems. First I have seen this assertion.
I could go into depth on why it’s an engine, but you seem to have already made your mind up and are going to stick with it regardless.
I also think that it and Roblox should be considered game engines, not games, but they are classified as games not platforms by the likes of Apple and random people on Reddit.
Apple has to classify their apps. Do they even have a game engine classification? I’m assuming they cannot class it as a productivity suite…
As for random people on Reddit. We’ve gone and hopefully can move on from the hive mind of regurgitating opinions and use our brains a little more. We’re not hunting karma and upvotes here, we’re here for better discussion.
VinegarI haven't played in over a year, but I really spent some hours in Veloren the last time I picked it up!
GreenPlasticSushiGrassI haven't messed with an open source game since early Sauerbraten. I gave up because of the crazy learning curve to git gud.
f00f/erisI highly recommend playing Doom with the Crispy Doom source port and the Freedoom data files.
For something more modern, Xonotic is about the best-looking FOSS game out there and an excellent multiplayer arena shooter.
Nethack! It’s basically the original roguelike, if you liked shattered pixel dungeons then you’ll like nethack. There are also several other open source rogelikes to check out as well… including the original Rogue!
Are there good UIs/tilesets for Nethack these days?
I enjoyed one on my phone called “Pathos” but I don’t know how open it is.
OPHanmaOpenMW
Doesn’t that need the oiriginal, very much not open source, data files?
yes, i think they’re working on support for custom games though
I can recommend colobot if you like to automate things with code.
Official Colobot: Gold Edition website - International Colobot Community
Colobot: Gold Edition is a real-time strategy game, where you can program your units (bots) in a language called CBOT, which is similar to C++ and Java. Your mission is to find a new planet to live and survive. You can save the humanity and get programming skills!
0AD! It's similar to age of empires
The graphics are beautiful too!
Amazing game
Beautiful. Also reminds me of Widelands
Currently Endless Sky! Although I haven’t gotten far, and playing without mods, I love the vibes
oshitwaddup
cacheson- Doom Roguelike if you want a roguelike with simple, action-oriented gameplay.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (lemmy instance) if you want one with complex, simulation-oriented gameplay.
Nia [she/her]I love Cataclysm, even if I still have yet to actually learn the controls
wizardbeardUnciv is open source civ5
Dizzy Devil DuckyIt’s pretty basic, but I’m going to say SuperTuxKart as a must if you are into kart racers (especially since I don’t know any others).
I also recommend the still in development SuperTux Advance by Kelvin Shadewing. It’s similar to just plain old SuperTux but has unique levels and more playable characters that will have different abilities (probably still mostly locked behind debug for them).
FiveCrack Attack! is a loving parody of addictive tetrislike games that is also an extremely addictive tetrislike game.