Ask HN: Favourite open source game?

Post by anthk » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 3:15 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #202

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — the absolute best roguelikes around. -- The first has a very focused philosophy of removing all tedious and spoilery game mechanics, optimal strategies and no-brainers from the game. Some hate that, I love it. DCSS is the anti-Nethack. You can play online on your browser, with graphical tiles, spectators and even information bots for all your queries. https://…

Post by cowb0yl0gic » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

sliken wrote: post #265

BlueTemplar wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time controls are not that unique - you can have it even in Dawn of War 1 ! And even less unique in low budget / open source RTSes ? Special mention to Achron with literal time travel as a game mechanic !

Heh, I believe I played Achron (chess like) on a C64, don't recall the time travel aspect. I never played Dawn of War 1. In any case I enjoy being able to control time from 1.5x faster than normal, all the way down to literally zero (paused) if you want. One annoying thing (even if it's an intentional part of the game), when a unit dies, it doesn't tell you which unit. Most importantly if you are trying to level up y…

Post by em-bee » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 3:23 PM UTC

akavel wrote: post #120

https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/ A car race simulator in mildly offroad tracks (think WRC). I spent a decent amount of time glued to the screen with it; the game is especially stunning with regards to its visuals, a rare quality in the world of open-source games. Notes to the beginners: don't be afraid to dial down its quality settings if your machine is struggling, the defaults seem to require crazy beefy hardware;…

Post by dubswithus » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

geff82 wrote: post #119

bzflag! It carries this nice 90s-feeling in a multiplayer online world.

Post by andruc » Thu, Jun 02, 2022, 3:27 PM UTC

tasuki wrote: post #224

ninjin wrote: post #31

OpenTTD is probably my favourite, but let me put a classic that I really enjoyed into the mix: XBattle [1]. Real-time strategy with an emphasis on area of control and supply line “flow”. All while “abusing” X11 to get multi-player support. It gave me many hours of joy at the Solaris boxes we had at university in the mid 00s. My only concern would be whether it counts as open source with its home-made license [2]. [1]…

I never understood OpenTTD. Passengers just board your vehicles and go wherever you take them? That makes no sense to me. How is that supposed to work? I've played a bit of Simutrans, where each prospective passenger has an origin and a destination, and if you can take them there, they use your services, otherwise they don't.