FireFlower Games VS esports for engineers

Also to avoid placing all eggs in a single basket, check out other DRM-free sites like Zoom Platform (unrelated to the Zoom service) who also do some restoration/porting themselves (they are kinda like how GOG used to be at the past, they also try to have perpetual licenses so games rarely disappear - e.g. They still sell the Duke Nukem games) and Fireflower Games (this is more of a single person shop but they've... Source: almost 2 years ago

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