/open-source-games

A list of open source games.

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Open source games

This is a list of different open-source video games and commercial video games open-source remakes.

Table of contents

Action games

  • Hypersomnia - Competitive top-down shooter with extreme dynamics and pixely nostalgia. Comes with a built-in map Editor. [source]

Adventure games

  • Pioneer - A space adventure game set in our galaxy at the turn of the 33rd century. [source]

  • ScummVM - A program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games. [source]

  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - A reverse engineering project to decompile Twilight Princess into human-readable and modifiable source code. [source]

  • Zelda 3 - A reverse engineered clone of Zelda 3 - A Link to the Past. [source]

Business and Tycoon games

  • OpenRCT2 - An open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. [source]

  • OpenTTD - An open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe. [source]

City-Building games

  • Akhenaten - A strategic city-building game, based on assets and gameplay mechanics from Pharaoh + Cleopatra title, where players take on the role of a ruler and mayor of ancient Egyptian civilization. [source]

  • Citybound - A city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals. [source]

  • Cytopia - A free, open source retro pixel-art city building game. [source]

  • Egregoria - Egregoria is an indie city builder, mostly inspired by Cities:Skylines. [source]

  • Julius - An open source re-implementation of Caesar III. [source]

  • micropolisJS - A handmade Javascript port of the open-source city simulator Micropolis. [source]

  • Unknown Horizons - A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. [source] [engine-source] [godot-port]

First-Person games

Platformers

Puzzle games

  • BlockOut II - A free adaptation of the original BlockOut® DOS game edited by California Dreams in 1989. [source]

  • Portal64 - A demake (remake for an older platform) of Portal for the Nintendo 64. [source]

Racing games

  • wipEout - This is a re-implementation of the 1995 PSX game wipEout. [source]

Real-Time strategies

Roguelikes

Role-Playing games

  • Ambermoon.net - A full C# rewrite of Ambermoon. [source]

  • Daggerfall Unity - An open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine. [source]

  • DevilutionX - A port of Diablo and Hellfire that strives to make it simple to run the game while providing engine improvements, bugfixes, and some optional quality of life features. [source]

  • Fallout Community Edition - A fully working re-implementation of Fallout. [source]

  • Fallout 2 Community Edition - A fully working re-implementation of Fallout 2. [source]

  • Kandria - An action RPG made in Common Lisp. [source] [engine source]

  • Naev - A 2d action/rpg space game that combines elements from the action, rpg and simulation genres. [source]

  • Oolite - An open-world space opera. [source]

  • OpenEnroth - Might and Magic VI-VIII engine remake using original data & code. [source]

  • OpenMW - A free, open source, and modern engine which re-implements and extends the 2002 Gamebryo engine for the open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. [source]

  • OpenNox - An open-source community collaboration project extending the Nox engine. [source]

  • reone - A free and open source game engine, capable of running Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, The Sith Lords. [source]

  • Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13. [source]

  • Veloren - multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. [source]

Sandbox games

  • Minosoft - An open source minecraft client, written from scratch in kotlin (and java). [source]

Shoot 'em up games

  • SDL Sopwith - A port of the classic biplane shoot ‘em-up “Sopwith” to run on modern computers and operating systems. [source]

Sport games

  • Open Golf - A cross-platform minigolf game written in C. [source]

  • Pooltool - A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics. [source]

Third-Person games

Tower Defense games

  • Izowave - Your task is to survive on chosen planet as many waves as possible. [source]

Turn-Based strategies

  • Athena Crisis - A modern-retro turn-based tactical strategy game. [source]

  • C-evo - A freeware empire-building game for Windows. [source]

  • FreeCol - A turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. [source]

  • Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game. [source]

  • FreeOrion - A free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game. [source]

  • OpenXcom - An open-source clone of the popular "UFO: Enemy Unknown" and "X-COM: Terror From the Deep" videogames by Micropros. [source]

  • The Battle for Wesnoth - A turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. [source]

  • Unciv - Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civilization V. [source]

  • VCMI Project - Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III. [source]

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