cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3160775
I’m usually a fan of open source games but rarely do they manage to be actually great. People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven’t aged well and don’t play well. What are some open source games that are legitimately good that I’ve missed?
My favorites are:
Mindustry
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart
Powder Toy
GZDoom (and all the amazing mods for it)
Veloren (even though it’s still in alpha)
OpenTTD ( https://www.openttd.org/ ) is pretty popular and has been for a long time.
Endless Sky
It’s a single player, top-down, 2D space combat and trading game. If you ever played Escape Velocity back in the mid 90s(?), it’s essentially a clone of that setting and gameplay.
Sauerbraten (Cube3D)
I used to play it a lot about a decade ago. Good times.
Honestly, I’ve been playing quite a lot of SuperTuxKart recently and it is by any standards a great game! The amount of mods and skins is just the cherry on top.
ASCII survival isn’t for everyone, but I do very much enjoy Cataclysm, Dark Days Ahead or Bright Nights depending on your preferences in realism.
Nethack
Pixel Dungeon, or its more updated and popular fork, Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
Randomized Dungeon Crawler.
Available on PC and Android (at least)
Space Station 13. Best game ever
Helium Rain launched a few years ago as a commercial game with an open source launcher (BSD-3), and as of a few weeks ago the game became free on Steam. The developer is no longer maintaining it, but there’s still a small community that are interested in it.
BAR is also nice if you like RTS games
The selection isn’t huge to begin with but shattered pixel dungeon is a great one, it’s cross platform but I love to play it on my phone when I am bored!
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Mindustry is the clear winner though
Games rarely work with an open source business model, so that’s why there aren’t any really great ones.
Tell me you have no clue about video games without telling me you have no clue about video games.
its funny how wrong they are, like games are probably the best suited case for it - no massive security risks, players could implement features they want.
if Minecraft was open source from the get go, it’d probably be bigger than unreal by now