I personally love Naev and Mindustry
How is Linwarrior 3D? Has anyone played it? It claims it’s an open source game similar to MechWarrior 2.
In my AP Computer Science class in high school, every now and then our teacher would give us a free day. We would sit around playing Unreal Tournament on the LAN.
At one point the teacher decided he wasn’t comfortable with a game with guns in class.
So…I got everyone to install Cube, the open source first person shooter. Specifically a copy of it where I had removed all of the gun models. So we just ran around punching and bullets would fly from our fists. Or, in the case of the rocket launcher, an exploding sofa would fly from our fists.
I don’t know if I would call it my favorite, but we had a lot of fun with it.
There are a lot of great responses on here! I’ve been playing (at least until my steam deck shit the bed two days ago) around with OpenRA and Minetest.
The responses have been amazing, will certainly be coming back to this thread whenever I want to find a new game
I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
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Mine would be Thrive, not so much due to its current gameplay, though it is okay, but moreso due to an unwavering commitment to a vision. It has gone on for years and is essentially a scientifically close to accurate version of spore. They have almost finished the single cell stage and are working some on the transition to multicellular now as I understand it. I find it to be an impressive project as it started from the disappointment with spore and has evolved into something that I would genuinely suggest as a learning tool in middle school biology class.
That’s the amazing thing with most Open Source games. They aren’t restricted by budget - just how much free time people have and how many people are onboard with the vision
Doom, or, gzdoom! You can use it to play the original Doom 1 and 2 games with modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays. And there’s an endless number of fan made level packs to try.
As for open source AND free / open resources, there’s Freedoom 1 and 2. I occasionally play them, they’re fun, but a little lacking in stage design.
modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays
No thanks I’ll stick to my John Deere tractor drm to run it
Space Station 14
Oh dang, someone remade SS13? There goes next weekend.
Star Ruler 2, the company closed down and open sourced the game, it’s a space 4X real time, has pretty good fleet combat and u can design ships, i think wasn’t popular because the resource management and card system is a bit weird and harder to understand than other strategy games, but pretty fun after u get used to it…
I think I’ve heard of this one. It’s really good that they released the source.
There’s a community maintained fork, but i think it’s missing some files (ship blueprints for some races)
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)
Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD
Simutrans is also pretty cool.
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Probably the Ur-Quan Masters.
https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download
An HD Remaster with optional QoL fixed and added content!
One of the best games of all time.
I’m a pretty big fan of Star Control: Origins, too.
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I’m missing stuff at times
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.
Some of the assets still come from the original game, but OpenRCT2 is wonderful.
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
True.
Also, a single keyboard can be used to setup the controls of both user 1 and 2.
Was awesome to play games together, without needing a separate computer or input device.That, or the tire arena mode thing. Both are pretty fun when you are bored of all the official tracks and your favorite add-on tracks.
Wait there’s addon tracks?!
Yeah. Don’t know how to have them uploaded or even make them, but you can download a ton of different tracks, carts, and arenas from inside the game itself. All for free, with variable quality since pretty much all but maybe a few tracks are all fan made originals or old versions of official maps.
Don’t know how old of an update you can be on to use the feature, but on the latest version you’ll definitely have the ability to use it. I think it’s on the right hand side of the screen, either in the bottom corner or above it. It adds a lot of longevity after you get bored of the official tracks.
