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:video_game: A list of popular/awesome videos games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.

Games on GitHub

Below is a list of open source games and game-related projects that can be found on GitHub - old school text adventures, educational games, 8-bit platform games, browser-based games, indie games, GameJam projects, add-ons/maps/hacks/plugins for commercial games, libraries, frameworks, engines, you name it.

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Major Companies

A selection of major game studios, publishers, etc. using GitHub:

                       

Browser-Based

Boardgame

  • 3D Hartwing Chess Set - 3D chess game done in HTML/CSS/JS.
  • Desperate Gods - Free online board game that was designed to be played just like a board game in real-life: no rules are enforced by the computer. Play it now!
  • Green Mahjong - Solitaire mahjong game done in HTML/CSS/JS.
  • Lichess - Free chess game using HTML5 & websockets, built with Scala, Play 2.1, MongoDB and Elasticsearch. Play it now!

Arcade

FPS

  • BananaBread - Port of the Cube 2/Sauerbraten 3D game engine/first person shooter to the web, compiling C++ and OpenGL to JavaScript and WebGL using Emscripten.

RPG

MMORPG

Strategy

Racing

Sandbox

Puzzle

Clicker

Others

Native

Arcade

  • C-Dogs SDL - Overhead shoot-em-up port of the classic DOS game.
  • Chaos Projectile - 2D run'n'gun action game with RPG elements.
  • Clonepoint - Libre clone of Gunpoint, a game in which you hack and punch your way to victory.
  • DynaDungeons - Bomberman clone using the awesome open source Godot game engine.
  • Epic Inventor - Indie, side-scrolling, action, RPG.
  • Falling Time - Arcade game inspired by Fall Down.
  • Kroniax - Sidescrolling skill-based game.
  • Mystic Mine - Single and multiplayer action game with mining carts.
  • OpenLieroX - Liero clone, like realtime Worms, or a 2D Quake.
  • Savage Wheels - 2D car crashing game similar to the old classic Destruction Derby.
  • Taisei - Fan-made, open Source clone of the Touhou series.
  • Teeworlds - Online multi-player platform 2D shooter.
  • Wannabe Tempest - Tempest(80's arcade game) clone in Java, and a small project for playing with git.

FPS

  • AssaultCube - Total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen's FPS called Cube.
  • ioquake3 - The free software FPS engine that can be used to play Quake 3, or make your own game.
  • LWJake2 - LWJGL port of Quake 2.
  • openspades - Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75.
  • Red Eclipse - Free, casual arena shooter featuring parkour.
  • Smokin' Guns - Semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere.
  • Turtle Arena - Third-person action game using the Spearmint engine.
  • Unvanquished - Fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements.
  • Warsow - Fast-paced FPS in a futuristic cartoonish world.

MMORPG

  • Open Meridian - The first 3D MMORPG, released in 1996 and open sourced in 2012. Forked in 2013, Actively developed. Play it now!
  • Meridian 59 - The first 3D MMORPG, released in 1996 and open sourced in 2012. The original codebase for Meridian 59, less frequently updated. Play it now!

RPG

  • Angband - Single-player dungeon exploration game in the universe of JRR Tolkien.
  • Arx Fatalis - Cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game.
  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • Crystal Picnic - Lighthearted and colourful tribute to the classic era of action RPGs.
  • Dungeon Monkey Eternal - Party-based fantasy roguelike role-playing game.
  • Egoboo - Cool 3D dungeon crawling game in the spirit of NetHack.
  • Flare RPG - Fantasy action RPG game with its own engine.
  • Monster 1 - Classic-style J-RPG, prequel to Monster RPG 2.
  • Monster RPG 2 - Turn-based J-RPG in a fantasy universe.
  • Open MW - Reimplementation of the game Morrowind.
  • Valyria Tear - Single-player medieval-fantasy 2D J-RPG.

Platform

Puzzle/card/board

Racing

  • Stunt Rally - Rally game with Track Editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.
  • SuperTuxKart - Free 3D kart racing game featuring open source mascots.

Sandbox

  • Blackvoxel - Sandbox game based on a molecular voxel interaction engine.
  • Craft - Simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL.
  • Endless Sky - Space trading and combat game similar to the classic Escape Velocity series.
  • Freeminer - Sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.
  • Minecraft - Simple Minecraft-inspired demo written in Python and Pyglet.
  • Minetest - Infinite-world block sandbox game with survival and crafting.
  • Space Engineers - Space Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game set in an asteroid field in space.
  • Terasology - Voxel world game engine inspired by Minecraft and others with fancy graphic effects and a heavy focus on extensibility.
  • The Powder Toy - Falling-sand physics sandbox game.

Strategy

  • 0 A.D. - 3D RTS similar to Age of Empires II
  • Caesaria - Remake of the popular citybuilder and economic sim Caesar III.
  • Colobot - A real-time strategy game with programmable bots.
  • CorsixTH - Clone of Theme Hospital.
  • Curse of War - Fast-paced action strategy game with ncurses and SDL frontends.
  • Harris - Strategy game based around the actions of RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War.
  • Last Colony - RTS game with both a single player campaign mode as well as a multiplayer mode, created entirely in HTML5 and JavaScript. Play it now!
  • MegaGlest - MegaGlest real-time strategy game engine (cross-platform, 3-d).
  • Micropolis - City-building game based on the original code for SimCity.
  • openage - Clone of the Age of Empires II engine.
  • [OpenDungeons] (https://github.com/OpenDungeons/OpenDungeons) - Open source game inspired by Dungeon Keeper - Dark, damp and dangerous...
  • OpenRA - Open-source implementation of the Red Alert engine using .NET/mono and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux and OSX.
  • OpenXcom - Clone of the original X-COM.
  • Pax Britannica - Underwater one-button real-time strategy game.
  • PCOTM (Phone Case of the Monster) - Ruby game, where you play as a phone-collecting monster.
  • Pioneer - Game of lonely space adventure.
  • Polly-B-Gone - Physics platform game about a plucky wheeled robot named Polly.
  • OpenRCT2 - Open source recreation of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2.
  • Race into Space - Turn-based space race strategy game originally by Interplay.
  • Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - Classic RTS game liberated in 2009.
  • Source of Tales - Entry in the Liberated Pixel Cup 2012.
  • Tanks of Freedom - Turn-based strategy game in isometric pixel-art style.
  • The Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
  • Unknown Horizons - 2D isometric RTS economic strategy game written in C++ & Python, built on the Flexible Isometric Free Engine.
  • Voxeliq - Block-based game engine implementation developed with C#.
  • Warzone 2100 - Postnuclear realtime strategy.
  • Wyrmsun - Strategy game based on history, mythology and fiction.
  • Zero-K - Open source RTS game with physical projectiles and smart units

Mobile Games

Android

  • ChaseWhisplyProject - Chase Whisply is a FPS. You have to seek, find and kill the ghosts living around you.
  • Gidi Games - Lexis, TicTacToe, Puzzlemania - a collection of 3 board games done with Cocos2d for Android.
  • Green Mahjong - Solitaire mahjong game done in HTML/CSS/JS.
  • Green Wall - Weirdly addictive arcade-style android game, where you fling fruit at a wall. Project developed using Android Studio 1.0.
  • Pixel Dungeon - Traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.
  • PuzzleGame - Slider puzzle game implementation created with Cocos2d for Android.
  • Wannabe Tempest - Clone of 80's coin-op arcade game Tempest(80's arcade game).

IOS

  • Bridges - Puzzle game with bridges, houses, tolls, and subways for iOS.
  • Canabalt - Release of Canabalt for iOS.
  • Doom - Doom Classic for iOS.
  • DrugsNRock - Simple multiplayer rhythm game designed during the 2013 Global Game Jam.
  • Frogatto - Action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog.
  • Gorillas - iPhone(or iPod touch) port of the popular old QBasic game.
  • Green Mahjong - Solitaire mahjong game done in HTML/CSS/JS.
  • Light Jockey - iOS Auditorium-like game.
  • Lumio - Puzzle game for iOS developed using Cocos2D. Available free on the App Store.
  • Wolfenstein 3D - Wolfenstein 3D for iOS Source Release.

Just The Source

  • Aquaria - Breath-taking underwater fantasy game. Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2007 Independent Games Festival.
  • Doom 3 - Doom 3 GPL source code release.
  • ID Software - Includes Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein and more.
  • MaNGOS - Full featured World of Warcraft server.
  • Miner Wars 2081 - For modders of Miner Wars 2081, a 6DOF action-survival space-shooter simulation-game set in the year 2081.
  • Prince of Persia - Source code for the original Prince of Persia game that was written on the Apple II, in 6502 assembly language, between 1985-89.
  • UFO RUN - Real time multiplayer with Nextpeer.

Frameworks/Engines/Libraries

  • Akihabara - Set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games in Javascript.
  • Allegro 5 - C++ libraries to make 2D games(graphics, sound, etc.).
  • ammo.js - Direct port of the Bullet Physics engine to JavaScript using Emscripten.
  • Babylon.js - Complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML 5 and WebGL.
  • bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library.
  • Chilli Works - An open source, cross-platform game engine designed for indie developers.
  • Chipmunk Physics - Simple, lightweight, fast and portable 2D rigid body physics library written in C.
  • Cocos2d for Android - Cocos2d for Android, based on cocos2d-android-0.82, and now ported from cocos2d-iphone 0.99.4.
  • Cocos2d for iPhone - Framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications for iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is based on the cocos2d design but instead of using python it, uses objective-C.
  • Cocos2d for HTML5 - Cocos2d for Web Browsers. Built using JavaScript.
  • Cocos2d-x - Multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications. It is based on cocos2d-iphone, but instead of using Objective-C, it uses C++. It works on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, OS X, Windows and Linux.
  • Crafty - JavaScript game library that can help you create games in a structured way.
  • CutJS - Lightweight and fast 2D HTML5 rendering engine for cross-platform game development.
  • Dash - Free and open 3D game engine written in D.
  • Duality - 2D Game Development Framework.
  • EaselJS - Library to make working with the Canvas element easier.
  • EntityJS - HTML5 JavaScript game engine utlizing the entity-component design.
  • Flare - Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine.
  • Flashpunk - Free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games.
  • Flixel - Game-making library written entirely in ActionScript 3.
  • GameJS - GameJs is a JavaScript library for writing 2D games or other interactive graphic applications for the HTML Canvas inspired by PyGame.
  • GamePlay - Cross-platform, C++ game framework/engine for creating 2D/3D mobile and desktop games.
  • GenesisEngine - GenesisEngine allows you to create and explore procedurally-generated planetary systems, from ground level all the way out into space. Experiments with procedurally-generated worlds, XNA, and design patterns.
  • Gladiator 3D - Canvas based JavaScript ray casting engine for pseudo 3D games.
  • Godot - Fully featured, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web platforms with no hassle. The editor, language and APIs are feature rich, yet simple to learn, allowing you to become productive in a matter of hours.
  • JiGS - Online RPG and Trading Game Engine built in PHP.
  • kiwi.js - Blazingly fast mobile & desktop browser based HTML5 game framework. It uses CocoonJS for publishing to the AppStore.
  • libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework.
  • libRocket - C++ user interface package based on the HTML and CSS standards. It is designed as a complete solution for any project's interface needs.
  • libSDL2pp - C++11 bindings for SDL 2.0.
  • lycheeJS - Free HTML5 + native OpenGL Game Engine for Embedded, Console, Mobile, Server and Desktop.
  • Matter.js - Matter.js is a JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web.
  • melonJS - HTML5 game framework for 2D games.
  • MonoGame - XNA Implementation for Mono based platforms (supports iOS, Android, Linux, and started work on PS Suite and NaCli ).
  • Oimo.js - Lightweight 3d physics engine for javascript.
  • panda.js - Free HTML5 game engine for mobile and desktop with Canvas and WebGL rendering.
  • Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
  • PhysicsJS - Modular, extendable, and easy-to-use physics engine for JavaScript.
  • pixi.js - Super fast HTML 5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback.
  • Plasma - Cyan Worlds's Plasma game engine.
  • PlayCanvas - 3D WebGL game engine with online toolset.
  • Quasi-Engine - a QtQuick framework that intends to be a complete toolset to ease 2d game development.
  • SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
  • Spring - Real Time Strategy game engine.
  • Starling - ActionScript 3 library that mimics the conventional Flash display tree architecture, can be deployed to mobile devices (iOS, Android), the desktop (Windows, OS X), and to the browser (via the Flash plugin).
  • Tesseract - Make mapping more fun by using modern dynamic rendering techniques, sothat you can get instant feedback on lighting changes, not just geometry.
  • three.js - JavaScript 3D library used in many browser games.
  • Torque 2D - MIT Licensed version of Torque 2D from GarageGames.
  • Torque 3D - MIT Licensed version of Torque 3D from GarageGames.
  • Turbulenz Engine - HTML5 game engine and server-side APIs available in JavaScript and TypeScript for building and distributing 2D and 3D games.
  • Urho3D - Urho3D is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

Maps/Hacks/Plugins/Utilities/All of the Things™

  • Bfxr - Flash + AIR sound effects generator. Based on Sfxr.
  • Brood War API - C++ framework to interact with the Real Time Strategy (RTS) game Starcraft: Broodwar.
  • FlxCollisions - Simple set of 2d physics + collision demos for flixel v2.0. Play it now!
  • Gamertag - Gem for retrieving Xbox Live Gamertag information from various sources.
  • Greenworks - A node.js/nw.js addon allowing you to integrate HTML5 game with Steamworks.
  • Halo::Reach::API - Ruby gem for interacting with the Halo:Reach API.
  • IodineGBA - GameBoy Advance emulator written entirely in JavaScript and powered by HTML5.
  • JavaScript Breakouts - Collection of JavaScript engine implementations of Breakout.
  • Leaderboard(Java) - Leaderboards backed by Redis(in Java).
  • Leaderboard(PHP) - Leaderboards backed by Redis(in PHP).
  • Leaderboard(Python) - Leaderboards backed by Redis(in Python).
  • Leaderboard(Ruby) - Leaderboards backed by Redis(in Ruby).
  • Leaderboard(Scala) - Leaderboards backed by Redis (in Scala).
  • libfreenect - Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on WIndows, Linux, and OS X.
  • OpenEmu - Project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen.
  • stats.js - JavaScript performance monitor.
  • Tassadar - Starcraft 2 replay parser written in pure Ruby.
  • World of Warcraft Addons - Various World of Warcraft addons written in Lua.
  • World of Warcraft API Docs - Public documentation for the RESTful web service provided as part of the World of Warcraft community site.