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Open Source Games List

Overview

A curated GitHub/GitCode list of open-source video games and commercial game open-source remakes. Organized across 18 game genres, spanning classic FPS reverse-engineering, city builders, roguelikes, RTS, RPG, racing, and more.

Source: https://gitcode.com/GitHub_Trending/op/open-source-games License: MIT (per CONTRIBUTING.md)

Scope

18+ game genres covered:

Genre Notable Projects
Action Hypersomnia (top-down shooter, pixely nostalgia)
Adventure Endless Sky, ScummVM, Zelda TP decomp, Pioneer space sim
Business/Tycoon CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), OpenTTD, OpenRCT2, OpenLoco
City-Building Cytopia, Egregoria, Julius (Caesar III), Unknown Horizons (Godot port), Citybound
First-Person Xonotic, .kkrieger, Liblast (Godot 4), Descent 3
Platformers Super Mario 64 decomp, VVVVVV, OpenGOAL (Jak & Daxter), DDraceNetwork
Puzzle BlockOut II, Portal64 demake
Racing SuperTuxKart, TORCS, Rigs of Rods, RVGL (Re-Volt), wipEout rewrite
Roguelike Brogue CE, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, NetHack, Shattered Pixel Dungeon
RPG OpenMW (Morrowind), Daggerfall Unity, Veloren (Rust voxel), Space Station 14 (SS13 remake)
RTS 0 A.D., OpenRA (C&C), Beyond All Reason, Warzone 2100, Widelands, Mindustry
Sandbox Minosoft (Minecraft client, Kotlin)
Shoot 'em up Taisei Project (Touhou fangame, SDL3)
Sport Pooltool (billiards), Open Golf
Third-Person OpenRW (GTA III), OpenLara (Tomb Raider), Lugaru
Tower Defense Server Survival (cloud architecture teaching game)
Turn-Based Strategy Wesnoth, Unciv (Civilization V), FreeCol, Freeciv, VCMI (Heroes III), OpenXcom

Key Patterns

Reverse Engineering Remakes

Many entries are clean-room reverse-engineered clones of commercial classics:

  • id Software: Doom, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Wolfenstein 3D — all source-available
  • Build Engine: Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood — via EDuke32, Raze, NBlood
  • Classic RPGs: Ultima VII, Daggerfall, Fallout 1/2, Diablo, Heroes II, Caesar III
  • Zelda/Nintendo: Zelda 3 (Link to the Past), Super Mario 64, Jak & Daxter (OpenGOAL)

Popular Engines Used

  • Godot: Unknown Horizons godot-port, Liblast, OpenGOAL
  • Bevy: Fish Folk games (Jumpy, Punchy)
  • Unity: Daggerfall Unity
  • CUBE: AssaultCube, Cube 2: Sauerbraten, Red Eclipse
  • Spring: Beyond All Reason, Zero-K (RTS)
  • Custom: OpenMW, OpenRA, Wesnoth, etc.

Highly Active Projects (large communities)

  • OpenTTD, OpenRA, OpenMW, Wesnoth, Xonotic, SuperTuxKart, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Space Station 14, Mindustry

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