Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?

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Veloren

Veloren[1], a voxel RPG made in Rust and heavily inspired by Cube World [1]: https://veloren.net/.

#Games #Block-building Games #2D Simulator 85 social mentions

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Warzone 2100

I'm not sure it qualifies, as it was open sourced posthumously, but Warzone 2100 https://wz2100.net/ - was so original I've never played any other game with similar mechanics.

#Games #Strategy Games #Action Games 61 social mentions

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Xonotic

One the mobile side there is Shattered Pixel Dungeon[2], also to be found on F-Droid. The polish behind that project is insane for something FOSS and the hours I put into it are something to be embarrassed about. [1] https://xonotic.org/.

#Data Dashboard #Games #Action 32 social mentions

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Shattered Pixel Dungeon (Android), a very good roguelike to fill the void when you only have a phone nearby. http://shatteredpixel.com/.

#Action #Adventure #Games 12 social mentions

Sauerbraten (previously known as Cube) was always a favourite of mine, with the added twist that the game itself was also the level editor, and different players could be in different "modes" in the same map - a group of people CTFing, while others deathmatched, and a couple of others were literally redrawing the map as they played. I see there's even a release of it that's not that old - I remember it from about 15 years ago and it still seems to be developed. http://sauerbraten.org/.

#Games #Data Dashboard #Action 24 social mentions

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UnknownHorizons

To add to the list: Unknown Horizons https://unknown-horizons.org/ Globulation https://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page Widelands https://www.widelands.org/wiki/Download/ All playable games, from an engine and artwork point of view. Don't expect much in terms of storytelling campaigns.

#Games #Strategy Games #Realtime Strategy Game 6 social mentions

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Mindustry

#Games #RTS #Reputation Management 24 social mentions

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FreeCiv

#Games #Strategy Games #Action Games 19 social mentions

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Endless Sky

#Action #CMS #Adventure 32 social mentions

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Spring Engine

Total Annihilation-like: [Beyond All Reason](https://www.beyondallreason.info/). There are also a few others (or supreme commander-likes) run on the [springrts engine](https://springrts.com/) including zero-k.

#Game Development #Game Engine #Games 24 social mentions

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VVVVVV

One great Open Source game that comes to mind is definitely VVVVVV. - https://thelettervsixtim.es.

#Project Management #Action #Task Management 4 social mentions

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Zero-K

#Games #Strategy Games #Action Games 21 social mentions

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Screeps

Screeps, the open source game for programmers. It’s really, really hard though. https://screeps.com/ Side note: I don’t think downvotes should be for comments you “don’t like” or even “disagree with”. Downvotes should be used to discourage people from posting bad content, but on HN we try to be a bit more objective about what “bad” is rather than “I don’t like it”.

#Online Learning #Online Education #Education 41 social mentions

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OGS

#Chess #Games #Online Games 136 social mentions

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Brogue

#Action #Adventure #Games 23 social mentions

I put a lot of hours in Tales of Maj'Eyal/ToME4[1]. Solid graphical roguelike and very active/responsive dev in DarkGod [1]: https://te4.org/.

#Action #Adventure #Product Reviews 79 social mentions

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Heroes

I came here to rep this game. Other mostly forgotten games that I'd like to spotlight here are XEvil (https://www.xevil.com/) and Heroes (http://heroes.sourceforge.net/) which ate up tons of my time in younger years.

#Accountability #Group Chat #Note Taking 1 social mentions

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Stunt Rally

Https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/ A car race simulator in mildly offroad tracks (think WRC). I spent a decent amount of time glued to the screen with it; the game is especially stunning with regards to its visuals, a rare quality in the world of open-source games.

#CRM #Action #Project Management 2 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuclearunicorn.kittensgame I'm not sure how different it is to the git version but there are always recent updates.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1162 social mentions

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shapez.io

Shapez.io [1] - It's is great game inspired by Factorio. I would describe it as a minimalist Factorio-light. [1]: https://shapez.io/.

#Games #RTS #Factory Building 147 social mentions

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OpenMW

My favorite right now is Open Morrowind: https://openmw.org/en/ And you can download ALL of Morrowind at archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/morrowind_202103 And if you look at who uploaded it: Bethesda did. You can play this 100% legally from the authors. So yeah, I think it qualifies.

#Action #CMS #Games 161 social mentions

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Candy Box 2

#Games #Online Games #Tech 25 social mentions

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Frogatto & Friends

Frogatto and Friends is a good platformer not mentioned yet. Open source engine, not open source content. https://frogatto.com/.

#Project Management #Task Management #Action 1 social mentions

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A Dark Room

A Dark Room - https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom I actually added a JS audio engine to play sound effects, ambience, etc. And it made it into the official browser version of the game. http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com.

#Games #Online Games #CMS 54 social mentions

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Flare (game)

> Dungeon Crawl This is a favorite. And just to add, after I got a bit tired of roguelikes I tried out Flare and got hooked on the old version in my distro's repos. Later I found it is still under active development and really fun, with a greatly improved base campaign and community mods available as well. Be sure to get the AppImage rather than whatever might be in older repos if you're running Linux. https://flarerpg.org/ Recent presentation: https://flarerpg.org/2022/02/21/i-love-free-software-day-2022-presentation/ Blog: https://flarerpg.org/blog/ Forums: https://opengameart.org/forums/flare.

#Games #Action Games #Fantasy Games 10 social mentions

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esports for engineers

Nobody's mentioning old commercial games that were later released by their publishers as open source. One example is the classic combat flight sim "Rowan's Battle of Britain", initially released in the year 2000. You can find it packaged to run under linux/wine, along with other free games, here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers the source code is here:.

#Project Management #CRM #Games 3 social mentions

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Dominus

I developed Dominus 8 years ago and it's still being played. https://dominusgame.net/ https://github.com/dan335/dominus.

#Games #CMS #Strategy Games 1 social mentions