Easily the best: Dungeon Crawl https://crawl.develz.org/ OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/ FreeCiv http://freeciv.org/ Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/
DCSS for life.
Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
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#182WordWarVI:
https://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/
Video demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPfI5B9Cjc
Its just so silly - editor (vi/emacs) wars manifest in a Defender-like arcade game - but extremely fun, and the source code is fun to read also.
Plus, its been my go-to for a "quick code base to port", its really fun to port.
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#183GNU Backgammon
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#184Thinking back I can probably list all the open source games I've enjoyed on one hand. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the one I enjoy daily, also enjoyed the predecessor. Play it every time I'm on the toilet. ;) Konquest was a really fun old game that came with KDE back in the late 90s, early 2000s. I assume it was open source, I was just a kid playing it. Nethack of course, enjoyed many hours in that dungeon. Doom counts…
Doom is not an open content game. Neither is Quake.
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#185Parallel Realities[1] has made several nice games, including Blobwars, Starfighter and Legend of Edgar, which have fully open source game engines, and they tried to use free sounds and graphics. However, the devil is in the detail with many "free" assets, and it turns out a lot of them actually did not have a free enough license for most Linux distributions. I've been involved in getting Blobwars 1 and 2 and Starfighter updated with truly open content with some success, unfortunately Blobwars 2 still needs a lot of work.
Open content is still hard; a lot of sound, music, and textures might be under a relatively free license, but often source material is lacking. I've given a talk about this at FOSDEM 2017[2].
[1]: https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/games/
[2]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/ogd_gpl_asset...
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just installed the Kittens game on my phone. That may have been a mistake. I am already hooked.
It took me months to break the addiction. It's an idle game and years later, I'm only halfway through the content. I am sorry, I should have added a warning.
Just be happy you never got into Antimatter Dimensions...
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#187I really enjoy Bitburner
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#188Sauerbraten: http://sauerbraten.org/
But I do not play it anymore. I fear it would become too addictive again.
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#189Empty Epsilon bridge simulator: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon The game itself is fun, but the best stuff I've seen is it being reused, modified, and adapted for LARPs and crowdplay. Out of Orbit is a great and ongoing example, a Finnish escape room-ish experience that also has a Twitch game putting stream chat in the role of the ship's AI: https://outoforbit.fi/ and https://www.twitch.tv/outoforbitgame/about E…
Ahhh, a spaceship command bridge, not a connecting the banks of a river bridge!... I assumed a physics simulator, but fortunately the readme explains it's a FOSS remake of Artemis.
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#190Shameless self promotion: Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/ I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it. I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in…
It's very fun! Would love to dig around in the source code.