Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It's also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.
This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it's good but I really never get past the mining stage and can't understand the crafting.
One day I'm hoping for a fluke we're I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.
Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.
Right now I'm basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It's a game in the Total Annihilation "tree" of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can't believe it's an open source game. It's still in alpha, but it's been way more stable than most AAA games I've been playing recently.
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
I've gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times
Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
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.
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
Does DOOM count? It's been officially open sourced recently, even though it was already treated as such for decades.Either way, I can't stop playing it, there's 30 years of user created content to go through.
Battle for Wesnoth. There's several FOSS games that are pretty good, but BfW I've played the most.
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.
Someone on lemmy a few months ago mentioned this rts beyond all reason. Since then I've easily put 100 hours in. The game is so dam fun.
Another great one is Osu
I was introduced to BAR like 3 months ago and I still have no idea wtf I'm doing.
Online matches typically vary between these 3 experiences:
openttd is great
CDDA probably. One of the more comprehensive zombie survival experiences
Apart some of the already mentioned (mindustry, 0ad, beyond all reasons, zero-k), also minetest (minecraft), destination sol.
l've tried hege wars (worms clone) but found it meh. Sometimes supertux.
Nethack. I remember playing it at university 30 years ago when it was text only. Amazingly, there is a version available for android and its fucking addictive.
0AD, so good
For those who don’t know: It’s basically an Age of Empires clone.
Super Tux and Super Tux Kart
Nethack.
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
One of my favorites recently has been playing MineClone2 with some extra mods (can't remember which) through Minetest.
I've been boycotting minecraft since the news of chat reporting potentially coming to Java and MineClone2 is such a good replacement. Biggest gripe I have is not being able to get any of the mods that add sprint to work. Pretty much the only feature not available in MineClone2 (as far as I'm aware) from minecraft that I actively miss.
I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
More recently, I'm a fan of shapez (shapez.io) for my recommended daily allowance of factory building gaming.
Going back further, I have a soft spot for Ri-li, a nice little game about toy trains with very charming music! It was this which set me on an adventure with the mod tracking scene. A surprising amount of open source games use them, it feels like open source music!
Reminded me also of Alex the Allegator 4, a very original 2D platformer
mindustry. I've kinda quit playing games. But still play mindustry on my ipad. :)
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.
Open RCT 2
I like Ltris, Gweled, and Frozen-Bubble. I like simple games. I wish there was a good pacman for Linux too.
What! Mindustry is open source!? Makes me love it even more
Morrowind with vanilla OpenMW
Sauerbraten
I like Simutrans, which is basically an OpenTTD competitor with more complexity but an uglier interface. Sadly development on it has been fairly slow, at one point there was a one-way road patch but it’s since been abandoned.
minetest is pretty cool. Highly decentralized which is nice. Very flexible, it's just a game engine essentially.
Chess
Thought about trying it, but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while.
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.
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...
Nexuiz, or whatever they call it now after the original dev trademarked and sold the brand.
Edit: Xonotic is the name of the active fork.
Veloren all the fucking way
Go / Baduk.
However the white stones are severely overpowered, and the devs refuse to do a rebalance since around the last 4000 years!
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~