Racing sims and MS flight simulator are non-violent, but lack story. Some classic games in these categories have detailed historical settings and a lot of complexity, allowing you to create your own adventure in an open world. The adventure is different every time you play. Some classic sims of this type are here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

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:. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Classic racing and flight sims such as Grand Prix Legends, Mig Alley/Battle of Britain and Falcon 4 are available for linux here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers (this is free, and does not use steam). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

However, we do have pretty good artists, some solid animatics of the bigger RCPs, and some pretty decent codefriends. A small, unique, tractable webgame might help market the community, especially if it's built around a good story. A weird, interesting little game like paperclip maximizer or dark room could perform very well - those always seem to get substantial traction. Likewise, a short visual novel with solid... Source: 11 months ago

Save for the early oughts timeframe and the lack of an explicitly high fantasy setting, A Dark Room (2013), one of the earlier lo-fi idle games, seems to somewhat fit the bill: given the browser-based interface, a mostly gray scale UI, an on-screen world map (available in the later phases of the game), and the lack of leveling in favor of infinite progression. Source: 12 months ago

A Dark Room is one of the first incremental games that came out after Cookie Clicker kicked off the craze, and it's free. Source: 12 months ago

A Dark Room - Free text based browser game where you harvest resources, hunt and explore, and develop a small society. Https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

A Dark Room: Another little game that starts simple, with unfolding mechanics, but which doesn't overstay its welcome. Source: over 1 year ago