Widelands is a great strategy / building game. The gameplay and UI style is a niche - but that’s one of the things I like about it. It’s doing something different to most games.
(The gameplay is similar to Settlers 2; before that franchise changed direction.)
[edit] But the open-source game I’ve spent the most time playing would be OpenXcom-extended, with xpiratez. That game is truly huge.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- OpenTTD
- Net hack
- Boom/Doom
- Quake/Quake 2
it’s not really a game, but openmw
Morrowind was Bethesda’s peak moment, so obviously foss engine keeping it alive to this day is awesome!
FreeCiv is a classic and still fun. rogue and nethack are good, too.
If you bother to write a response, then please at least write what genre of game it is.
You can easily look them up using a search engine of your choice. But I understand the lazyness.
OpenTyrian
I didn’t see anyone mention Warzone2100 yet. An excellent RTS, with a neat research system and unit customisation, and fun campaign. They’ve recently added a couple of new campaigns I haven’t played yet, and have enough ongoing dev work on skirmish/multiplayer that some AIs are listed as “X% win rate in AI matches”.
I asked this a while ago which is how I discovered Beyond All Reason which has been my FOSS game of choice as of late.
I’d also recommend Naev and Endless Sky (Both are based on the Escape Velocity Series, Naev is getting a 3D PBR renderer in the next release). Mindustry is good fun, actually purchased this one on steam to support the amazing developer. Extreme Tux Racer is a bit of fun and Super Tux Kart seems to get better with every update (did I mention it can run on the Nintendo Switch via homebrew!)
Edit: I forgot about 0ad and Minetest which I used to play a bit of a while back
BAR is great – Total Annihilation was always one of my favorite games from childhood and BAR feels the most like it compared to other spiritual successors like SupCom/FA and other community projects. I actually tried to contribute a couple commits to the project but I don’t think they took them.
I also found bar from an open source thread on Lemmy. It’s such a good game. You a cortex or Armada player?
I’ve only been spamming cortex I haven’t tried arm yet.
Quite the opposite—I’ve only played Armada, not that I have any real strategy to speak of buy I like to set up lots of radar as well as claim the airspace early then once I’ve built the nuke the game is pretty much won. Haven’t tried that on a real player yet though
Since you’re in aus timezone you might see me around. I play most nights under the name Fizzz
I need to start consistently defeating the AI first
Pixel Dungeon, Battle for Wesnoth
Wesnoth’s soundtrack is such a classic
Taisei and Minetest with VoxelLibre
NodeCore is another great Minetest game. I haven’t been able to find a game that matches the feeling of discovery it provides as you learn about the rules of the world.
VCMI - it’s re-written from scratch, open source, multiplatform Heroes 3 engine with many improvements and mods manager. It requires some files from the original game though.
Heroes 3 were the best heroes ever. Followed by Heroes 2 which are covered by fheroes engine too :-)
Minetest and Widelands
Andor’s Trail - RPG where you search for your missing brother. Still under development, but there’s a lot of content. It’s convenient to fill a few spare minutes or waste hours.
minetest is a rather neat game engine, good bit of gameplay there, even more with the mods and other games you can play.
Apotris is an excellent famous-block-stacking-game clone for the GBA (and other platforms), it has a version for Portmaster that will run on many if not all Linux handhelds like the RG35XX and similar, but will also run in any GBA emulator.
Thank you!!!
