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Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?

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[-] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

[-] SinJab0n@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

Are we talking about serious business civ 2 style, or something more relax like the 5th one ?

[-] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I believe it's based on Civ4 by default but can be modded to be more like 3 or 5

[-] RavelsBolero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or if you like something a little less complex, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, are fantastic roguelike games. Proper traditional, turn based, tileset ones.

Imagine a mix of Fallout and The Walking Dead, that's what it's like. It's superb. The possibilities are endless

[-] SinJab0n@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

Gonna try it!

[-] drifty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Veloren is based on Cube World and it's an RPG with server builds and everything

[-] fafff@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.

  • Libregamewiki: it is really comprehensive (sometimes too much, including even not-so-good-games). They care about licencing and is is very easy to browse, top-notch for me.
  • Open source games: a more relaxed repository, with lots of material.
  • bobeff open source list: this is curated, which means that there are not so many games but each and every one is stable, good, maintained.
  • Arcane Cache: a fantastic blog with reviews of libre games — or more precisely, underground games, there is a lot of discussion on how gamedevving philosophy too. The reviews are always in-depth and allow you to experience the games on another level, and each game is a small jewel in its category. Strongly recommended!
[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like some very useful sites there. Thank you

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked oolite and doomrl .

[-] PeterCxy@metapowers.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] 413j0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)

[-] dill@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ive been playing a lot of MineClone2 which is a modpack for Minetest!

[-] SinJab0n@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Battle for westnoth !

And I can't remember right now the stealth game I used to play, it was the dark something, gonna search it later.

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I like re3, reVC and reLCS. These are reverse engineered versions of GTA 3, Vice City and Liberty City Stories with improvements. Take Two has thrown a strike on the main repository, but you can still find mirrors or builds in the internet.

[-] wmassingham@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn't look like it's very active any more.

[-] lz0@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of good tips here, but you should have a look at Endless Sky! Really cool space game
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

[-] CyanPurple@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs got open sourced if that counts.

[-] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Holy f— really? I used to love Amnesia back in the day. This is such a strange and unexpected, but really cool news!

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Xonotic is a great old school, Quake style FPS with an active community
  • 0 A.D. is a pretty polished historical RTS
  • The Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn based strategy
  • OpenRA is an open implementation of the Red Alert engine that's got an active community
  • Openhv is an OpenRA based sci-fi RTS
[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Similar to OpenRA, OpenMW is also an open recreation of the engine for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago
[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NetHack - Roguelike

Space Cadet Pinball - Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

The Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme

Mindustry - Sandbox tower-defense game

Minetest - Voxel game engine

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