cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/3160775
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:
Mindustry
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart
Powder Toy
GZDoom (and all the amazing mods for it)
Veloren (even though it’s still in alpha)
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Endless Sky
It’s a single player, top-down, 2D space combat and trading game. If you ever played Escape Velocity back in the mid 90s(?), it’s essentially a clone of that setting and gameplay.
Should also be available in most Linux Repo’s from what I know.
Try not to crush me for the wrong words there, its 3am
ASCII survival isn’t for everyone, but I do very much enjoy Cataclysm, Dark Days Ahead or Bright Nights depending on your preferences in realism.
The selection isn’t huge to begin with but shattered pixel dungeon is a great one, it’s cross platform but I love to play it on my phone when I am bored!
Sauerbraten (Cube3D)
I used to play it a lot about a decade ago. Good times.
BAR is also nice if you like RTS games
Open Hexagon is pretty good if you enjoy music reaction/arcade games. It’s an open source successor of Super Hexagon with several community made level packs. The only flaw is the steep learning curve of the gameplay.
Pixel Dungeon, or its more updated and popular fork, Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
Randomized Dungeon Crawler.
Available on PC and Android (at least)
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Mindustry is the clear winner though
Helium Rain launched a few years ago as a commercial game with an open source launcher (BSD-3), and as of a few weeks ago the game became free on Steam. The developer is no longer maintaining it, but there’s still a small community that are interested in it.
If you like classic RPGs, I can’t recommebd you Andor’s Trail enough \o
Like many open source games, it has that distinctly ‘alpha’ feel to it right now, but I do enjoy NodeCore on occasion. It’s a zen minimalist block game with a unique diagetic crafting system. Instead of a traditional “recipe book” or “crafting grid”, you produce new materials through in-world transformations. For instance, to make glass, you have to surround sand with fire, and to control fire, you basically want to build a deliberately-shaped dirt or stone pit… the whole thing feels a little like minecraft and a little like a sand physics sim or cellular automata.
Pretty interesting, reminds me of Vintage Story. Thanks for sharing.
Space Station 13. it’s great.
Honestly, I’ve been playing quite a lot of SuperTuxKart recently and it is by any standards a great game! The amount of mods and skins is just the cherry on top.
Technimo, a fantastic android version of tetris with tons of options and modes.
