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Open source video games

Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or if you like something a little less complex, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, are fantastic roguelike games. Proper traditional, turn based, tileset ones.

Imagine a mix of Fallout and The Walking Dead, that's what it's like. It's superb. The possibilities are endless

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- Gonna try it!
  
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Veloren is based on Cube World and it's an RPG with server builds and everything

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Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

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- Are we talking about serious business civ 2 style, or something more relax like the 5th one ?
  
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  I believe it's based on Civ4 by default but can be modded to be more like 3 or 5
  
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Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.

Libregamewiki: it is really comprehensive (sometimes too much, including even not-so-good-games). They care about licencing and is is very easy to browse, top-notch for me.

Open source games: a more relaxed repository, with lots of material.

bobeff open source list: this is curated, which means that there are not so many games but each and every one is stable, good, maintained.

Arcane Cache: a fantastic blog with reviews of libre games — or more precisely, underground games, there is a lot of discussion on how gamedevving philosophy too. The reviews are always in-depth and allow you to experience the games on another level, and each game is a small jewel in its category. Strongly recommended!
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- Looks like some very useful sites there. Thank you
  
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I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn't look like it's very active any more.

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I liked oolite and doomrl .

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon Roguelike, very addctive :)

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- Make sure to help jumpstart the community here a PixelDuneon@lemmy.ml
  
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Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)

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Ive been playing a lot of MineClone2 which is a modpack for Minetest!

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Battle for westnoth !

And I can't remember right now the stealth game I used to play, it was the dark something, gonna search it later.

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I like re3, reVC and reLCS. These are reverse engineered versions of GTA 3, Vice City and Liberty City Stories with improvements. Take Two has thrown a strike on the main repository, but you can still find mirrors or builds in the internet.

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A lot of good tips here, but you should have a look at Endless Sky! Really cool space game
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs got open sourced if that counts.

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- Holy f— really? I used to love Amnesia back in the day. This is such a strange and unexpected, but really cool news!
  
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Xonotic is a great old school, Quake style FPS with an active community

0 A.D. is a pretty polished historical RTS

The Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn based strategy

OpenRA is an open implementation of the Red Alert engine that's got an active community

Openhv is an OpenRA based sci-fi RTS
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- Similar to OpenRA, OpenMW is also an open recreation of the engine for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  
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  Nice!
  
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NetHack - Roguelike

Space Cadet Pinball - Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

The Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme

Mindustry - Sandbox tower-defense game

Minetest - Voxel game engine

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