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:
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Mindustry
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Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart
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Powder Toy
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GZDoom (and all the amazing mods for it)
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Veloren (even though it’s still in alpha)
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Endless Sky.
It’s an open world 2D spacefaring game, with a good core story and more being added by the surprisingly-active dev community.
Not without its flaws, but anyway I think it’s a fantastic game in its own right. And it’s both “finishable” and under continued development & expansion.
Xonotic, if you like very fast paced shooters.
People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven’t aged well and don’t play well.
What’s the issue with SuperTuxKart? I thought that it was great fun when I played it.
osu! is an amazing rhythm game. Try osu!lazer, it’s the new client: https://osu.ppy.sh/home/download
I also like Pioneers and Endless Sky, both space sims.
This might not count, but both Lichess, a chess website, and OGS, a Go website are open source.
There is also Mindustry, but I haven’t played it.
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- Battle for Wesnoth
- Tales of Maj’Eyal
Adding to this:
- Veloren
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
- Mindustry
- The Dark Mod
- Oolite
- Flare: Empyrean Campaign
- Xonotic
- Unvanquished
- Frozen Bubble
- Nethack
Yes the interface is a mess. But it’s ridiculously deep once you get into it.
CDDA and Shatered Pixel Dungeon arey favorites.
I’m not giving any of these a chance.
MineClone2 is addictive. All that Minecraft style fun, but free and open source. It’s pretty comprehensive and solid for the most part.
How does it differ from Minetest?
Minetest is the engine, MineClone2 is the game. Minetest has a default game (Minetest game), which has no mobs or anything. It’s dull without mods. MineClone2 is recreation of Minecraft on Minetest, but with some differences. For example, you can use a burger to lure villagers. It’s great fun and worth a try.
Beyond All Reason is a RTS made with Spring Engine that’s an open source implementation of Total Annhilation.
When I played open source games around 15 years ago, these were all the same games mentioned. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of progress
SuperTuxKart Xonotic Openarena
Xonotic is a fun spin on the Quake formula. Loved dueling with that guided rocket on aerowalk. Just a shame all the fallout that happened with Nexuiz
Open arena is just quake 3 with bad art assets, might as well play quake live to find real players.
What happend to Nexuiz?
Like the other poster said, it was an open source project but the rights were sold to illfonic. Xonotic is the fork the community made to keep the open source project going
