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5. SuperTuxKart
At number five we have SuperTuxKart, a hugely popular racing game.SuperTuxKart's gameplay is similar to Mario Kart. What makes it unique is that it is open source, and its characters are open source mascots, with Mozilla Thunderbird being the race referee. A major update for SuperTuxKart was its 0.9 release in April 2015. This release included a highly modified version of Irrlicht, including an entirely new graphics renderer dubbed Antarctica, which enabled better graphics appearance and features such as dynamic lighting, ambient occlusion, depth of field, global illumination, and more. The game has been downloaded more than 2 million times so far. This number applies to the fork of TuxKart, and also when Joerg Henrichs resurrected the project with the help of Eduardo Hernandez Munoz. More of the game’s history is available on Wikipedia.
Credit and copyright SuperTuxKart blog.
4. Magarena
At number four comes Magarena, a single-player fantasy card game.Based on Magic: The Gathering, the game lets you play Magarena against a computer opponent. Magarena includes an advanced AI, intuitive interface, engaging gameplay, and program stability.
Credit and copyright Magarena website.
3. Battle of Wesnoth
With number three, we head into a classic, Battle of Wesnoth. Gamers that prefer a turn-based tactical strategy game will love Battle for Wesnoth. Making this game unique is its high fantasy theme. The game allows you to build your own army, out of 200 unit types. It also includes 16 races, 6 major factions, and hundreds of years of history. As player, you are the heir to Wesnoth, and you fight to regain its throne. "The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and only limited by your creativity—make your own custom units, create your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns."
Credit and copyright Battle of Wesnoth website.
2. 0 A.D.
Switching to a historical real time strategy game, at number two, we have 0 A.D.Although you can already download 0 A.D., this game is in alpha; still, it is playable, and available as native client for Linux. 0 A.D. is unique in its graphics and rendering, backed by positive acclaim. As leader of an ancient civilization, your goal is to gather the resources you need to raise a military force and dominate your enemies. Your civilizations and battles take part over the millennium of 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. Hence, the name of this game, being the midpoint: 0 A.D.
Credit play0ad.com, license CC-BY-SA.
1. Minetest
That leaves us with number one, Minetest, an open source alternative to Minecraft.Minetest's gameplay is similar to Minecraft's. You can create and remove various types of blocks in a 3D open world. Minetest supports singleplayer and multiplayer games. Minetest also includes many features, such as support for mods, texture packs, and more. Minetest is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Credit Minetest, license CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.
Honorable mentions
My top 5 is not a complete list of great open games. For example, we covered some interesting and fun games in our weekly roundups, including:Relic Hunters Zero is a nice game in which you get to shoot evil space ducks in the face with tiny cute guns. “It’s fast, it’s tactical, and feels delicious and smooth to play.”
Scrabble3D is open source, based on a GPLv3 license. You can play against the computer, against players on your local network, or connect to a game server online. The real fun in this game is that you can create words in three directions instead of just two.
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe. As entrepreneur, your goal is to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea, and air.
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GNU GPL.
You can also find a list of open source games and projects on GitHub.
| Title | First release | Last release | Genre | Engine license | Content license | Dimensions | Other information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 A.D. | 2009 | 2016 | RTS | GPLv2+ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 3D | Historical, cross-platform RTS, using an original engine named Pyrogenesis. Game source-code released July 10, 2009.[1] |
| 2048 | 2014 | 2014 | Puzzle | MIT | MIT | 2D | A sliding block puzzle game. |
| Abuse | 1996 | 2011 | Run and gun | Public domain software | Public domain | 2D | |
| Armagetron Advanced | 2001 | 2016 | Racing | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 3D | A multiplayer, 3D Tron lightcycle racing game. |
| AstroMenace | 2007 | 2013 | Arcade | GPLv3+ | GPLv3+, CC BY-SA 4.0 | 3D | A top-scrolling space shooter. |
| Ballerburg | 1987 | 2008 (ports) | Artillery game | Public domain software | Public domain | 2D | Public domain software on the authors website with source code.[2] Later ported to other systems as Linux, MacOS, iOS etc. |
| Battle for Wesnoth, The | 2005 | 2016 | TBТ | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | Turn-based tactical strategy game with RPG elements. Includes single-player campaign and skirmish modes as well as multiplayer. |
| Biniax | 2005 | 2012 | Puzzle | zlib | zlib | 2D | ? |
| Blob Wars | 2003 | 2009 | Platformer, Action-adventure | GPLv2 | GPLv2, CC BY-SA, other open source | 2D, 3D | ? |
| Bos Wars | 2004 | 2013 | RTS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | Isometric 2D | 2D RTS running on a modified version of the Stratagus engine. |
| BZFlag | 1997 | 2016 | Tank FPS | LGPLv2.1 | LGPLv2.1 | 3D | A first-person shooter 3D tank based multiplayer online game. |
| C-Dogs SDL | 2002 | 2016 | Run and gun | GPLv2 | CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA | 2D | Overhead run and gun, with hotseat co-operative and deathmatch play for up to four players. |
| Candy Box 2 | 2013 | 2013 | incremental browser video game | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | 2D | The typescript source code of Candybox2 was released under the GPLv3.[3][4] |
| Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead | 2013 | 2015 | RPG/Roguelike | CC BY-SA | CC BY-SA | 2D | A post-apocalyptic, survival roguelike with an open-ended gameplay. Had a successful crowdfunding campaign on kickstarter.com on 22 June 2013.[5] |
| Chromium B.S.U. | 2000 | 2013 | Arcade | Clarified Artistic | MIT | ? | A fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter |
| Colobot | 2001 | 2012 | RTS, Educational | GPLv3+ | GPLv3+ | 3D | Source code released in 2012 |
| Colossal Cave Adventure | 1976 | 1995 | Text adventure | Public domain software[6] | Public domain | Text | The original text adventure game by Crowther / Woods. |
| Crossfire | 1992 | 2014 | MMORPG | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | ? | Crossfire originally started as a Gauntlet clone[7] developed by Frank Tore Johansen at the University of Oslo, Norway.[8] |
| Diamond Trust of London | 2012 | 2012 | TBS | Public domain software | Public domain | 2D | Following a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign Diamond Trust of London was developed by Jason Rohrer and published by indiePub. On August 28, 2012 it was released for the Nintendo DS. The game has been placed in the public domain, hosted on SourceForge, like most of Rohrer's games.[9] |
| DRL | 2013 | 2016 | Roguelike | GPLv2+ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 2.5D | Based on Doom and Doom II. |
| Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup | 2006 | 2016 | Roguelike | GPLv2+ | CC0 | ? | An open-source fork of the 1997 game Linley's Dungeon Crawl. |
| Endgame: Singularity | 2005 | 2011 | science fiction/AI simulation game | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | written in Python |
| Enigma | 2003 | 2014 | Puzzle | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | Oxyd clone. |
| Fish Fillets NG | 2004 | 2011 | Puzzle | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | ? | Released commercially as Fish Fillets in 1998. Source released in 2002 under the GPL. |
| FlightGear | 1997 | 2016 | Flight Sim | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 3D | Microsoft Flight Simulator inspired clone. |
| Freeciv | 1996 | 2016 | TBS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | Isometric 2D | Civilization II clone. |
| FreeCol | 2003 | 2015 | TBS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | Isometric 2D | Sid Meier's Colonization clone. |
| Freedoom | 1993 (2001) | 2015 | FPS | BSD 3-clause | BSD 3-clause[10] | 2.5D | Doom content/resource clone. |
| Frozen Bubble | 2002 | 2008 | Puzzle | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | Puzzle Bobble clone. |
| Gang Garrison 2 | 2008 | 2016 | Shooter | MPLv2 | MPLv2 | 2D | A retro "demake" of Team Fortress 2. The project was previously been under GPLv3. |
| Glest | 2004 | 2008 | RTS | GPL | CC BY-SA | 3D | 3D RTS game with two factions, A.I. and same-platform networking support. Development ceased in 2008. Two forks exist, named MegaGlest and Glest Advanced Engine. |
| Globulation 2 | 2008 | 2009 | RTS | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | 2D | Currently[when?] in open beta. |
| GLtron | 2003 | 2016 | Racing | GPL | GPL | 3D | Based on the light cycle portion of the film Tron. |
| GNOME Games | 1997 | 2016 | Various | GPL | GPL | ? | A collection of games accompanying the rest of the GNOME desktop environment. |
| GNU Chess | 1984 | 2016 | TBS | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | 2D | ? |
| GNU Go | 1999 | 2009 | TBS | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | ? | ? |
| Hedgewars | 2007 | 2015 | Artillery game | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | Worms clone. |
| heXon | 2016 | 2016 | Arcade | MIT | GPLv2, CC BY-SA | 3D | Twin-stick-shooter |
| kdegames | 1997[11] 1998[12] | 2009 | Various* | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | *Collection of games provided with the official release of KDE. | |
| kiki the nano bot | 2003 | 2007 | Puzzle | Public domain software | Public domain | ? | Mixture of Sokoban and Kula World. |
| Lincity | 1999 | 2013 | City-building game | GPL | GPL | 2.5D | SimCity clone. |
| Linley's Dungeon Crawl | 1997 | 2005 | Roguelike | LGPL | LGPL | ? | Roguelike game. |
| Liquid War | 1995 | 2015 | Maze games | GPL | GPL | 2D | 2D game in which you control particles and move them to defeat the opposing side. |
| Lugaru | 2005 | 2010 | Action Third Person | GPLv2+ | CC BY-SA[13] | 3D | A game where the player is an anthropomorphic rabbit who seeks revenge when a group of enemy rabbits kill their family. |
| Maelstrom | 1992 | 2010 | Shoot 'em up | GPL | CC-BY | 2D | |
| MegaGlest | 2010 | 2016 | RTS | GPL | CC BY-SA | 3D | Cross-platform 3D RTS for up to eight players (can be A.I. controlled) on seven factions. MegaGlest is a fork of Glest. |
| MegaMek | 2005 | 2009 | TBТ | GPL | GPL | ? | Simulates the Classic BattleTech board game. |
| Micropolis | 1989 (as SimCity) 2008 (as Micropolis) |
2008 | City-building game | GPLv3[14] | GPLv3 | ? | Open-source release of SimCity. Also known as OLPC SimCity.[15] |
| Moria | 1983 | 1999 | RPG/Roguelike | GPL[16] | GPL | 2D | A roguelike RPG based heavily on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. |
| NetHack | 1987 | 2015 | RPG/Roguelike | Nethack GPL | Nethack GPL | Text | A single player dungeon exploration game. |
| Netrek | 1988 | 2011 | Shoot 'em up | MIT | MIT | 2D | Successor to 1986's Xtrek, Netrek was first played in 1988. It was the third Internet game, the first Internet team game, and as of 2011 is the oldest Internet game still actively played. |
| Neverball | 2003 | 2014 | Platform | GPL | GPL | 3D | |
| Nexuiz | 2005 | 2009 | FPS | GPL | GPL | 3D | Forked into Xonotic following a commercial licensing agreement by a minority of the development team. |
| Oolite | 2006 | 2016 | Space Sim | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 3D | Elite Clone |
| OpenArena | 2005 | 2012 | FPS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 3D | Quake III Clone |
| OpenCity | 2003 | 2008 | City-building game | GPL | GPL | 3D | SimCity Clone. |
| OpenClonk | 2010 | 2016 | Action, RTS, Platform | ISC | CC BY | 2D | Successor of the Clonk shareware series |
| Passage | 2007 | 2007 | Side-scroller | Public domain software | Public domain | 2D | In 2007 Rohrer released the game's source code and assets into the public domain,[17] while asking for donations (Donationware) and selling the iOS version for $0.99.[18] |
| Pingus | 1998 | 2011 | Puzzle | GPL | GPL | 2D | Lemmings clone. |
| Pioneer | 2006 | 2016 | Space sim | GPLv3 | CC BY-SA | 3D | Inspired by Frontier: Elite 2 |
| PokerTH | 2006 | 2014 | Card | GPL | GPL | 2D | ? |
| PySol | 2001[19] | 2009 | Card games, Patience | GPLv3 | Public domain and GPLv3 | 2D | ? |
| Rigs of Rods | 2007 | 2016 | Vehicle Sim | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | 3D | Rigs of Rods was initially created as an off-road truck simulator, but has developed into a versatile physics sandbox. |
| Rocks'n'Diamonds | 1995 | 2013 | Puzzle | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | A scrolling tile-based computer puzzle game that can be described as a combined Boulder Dash, Supaplex, Emerald Mine, and Sokoban clone. |
| Ryzom | 2004 | 2016 | MMORPG | AGPL | CC BY-SA | 3D | All textures and effects, 3D models, animations, characters and clothing (no music or sounds) are under CC BY-SA. |
| Scorched 3D | 2001 | 2012 | Artillery game | GPL | GPL | 3D | Clone of Scorched Earth (video game) |
| Secret Maryo Chronicles | 2003 | 2009 | Platformer | GPLv3 | GPLv3 | 2D | 2D platformer inspired by the Super Mario series. |
| Seven Kingdoms | 1997 | 2016 | RTS | GPL | GPL | 2D | Source code released in 2009. |
| Simutrans | 1997 | 2016 | Business Sim | Artistic | Artistic | 2D | Similar to Transport Tycoon and its open-source clone, OpenTTD. The player must build a profitable transportation system. |
| Sintel The Game | 2012 | 2012 | RPG | GPL | CC BY, GPL | 3D | A game based on the Blender Foundation movie, Sintel. |
| Sopwith | 1984 | 2014 | Shoot 'em up | GPL | GPL | ? | The C and x86 assembly source code to Sopwith was released in 2000,[20] at first under a non-commercial use license, but later under the GNU GPL at the request of fans.[21] |
| Space Station 13 | 2003 | 2016 | RPG | AGPLv3 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 2D | A multiplayer, 2D, sprite and tile based role playing game. Written in BYOND. |
| Speed Dreams | 2010 | 2016 | Sim racing | GPLv2+ | FAL | 3D | Forked from TORCS in late 2008. |
| StepMania | 2005(?) | 2016 | Rhythm game | MIT[22] | MIT | 2D and 3D | A DDR clone, the player must hit buttons or keys in time with the music. |
| SuperTux | 2003 | 2016 | Platformer | GPL | GPL | 2D | 2D platformer inspired by the Super Mario series. |
| SuperTuxKart | 2006 | 2016 | Racing | GPL | GPL | 3D | Arcade racing game similar to Mario Kart. |
| Teeworlds | 2007 | 2016 | Platformer | zlib | CC BY-SA 3.0 (except font) | 2D | 2D side-scrolling shooter. |
| Tenés Empanadas Graciela | 1996 | 2007 | TBS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | ? | Based on the boardgame Risk. |
| The Castle Doctrine | 2014 | 2014 | MMO | Public domain software | Public domain | 2D | A game by Jason Rohrer, developed on a Sourceforge[23] repository and sold on Steam for $14.99.[24] |
| Tremulous | 2006 | 2009 | FPS | GPLv2 | CC BY-SA 2.5[25] | 3D | Alien VS human base building, defending, and attacking opposite team. |
| TripleA | 2002 | 2016 | TBS | GPLv2 | GPLv2 | 2D | A turn based strategy game inspired by Axis & Allies and board game engine. Development is ongoing. |
| Tumiki Fighters | 2004 | 2004 | Shooter | BSD 2-clause[26] | BSD 2-clause | 3D | Written in D and released in 2004 by Kenta Cho[27] under a BSD-like license, like all his games. Later commercially ported to Wii as Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy,[28] as well as linux.[29] Included in Debian,[30] ported to Pandora.[31] |
| Tux Racer | 2000 | 2009 | Racing | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 3D | ? |
| Tux, of Math Command | 2001 | 2011 | Educational game | GPLv3+ | GPLv3+ | 2D | ? |
| UFO: Alien Invasion | 2006 | 2016 | TBТ | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+, CC BY-SA 3.0 | 3D | Inspired by the XCOM-series, but with 3D-combats on surface of the earth. |
| UltraStar Deluxe | 2007 | 2016 | Music | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 2D | SingStar clone. |
| Unknown Horizons | 2008 | 2014 | City-building game | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+, CC BY-SA 3.0, OFLv1 | Isometric 2D | Genre-mix of city-building game and real-time strategy game, inspired by the Anno series. |
| Unvanquished | 2012 | 2016 | FPS | BSD 3-clause, GPLv3+ | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 3D | Team-based first person shooter with strong RTS elements, derived from the Tremulous project. |
| Vega Strike | 2008 | 2012 | Space Sim | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 3D | Elite clone and space simulator engine. |
| Warmux | 2002 | 2011 | Artillery game | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 2D | Worms clone. |
| Warsow | 2005 | 2016 | FPS | GPLv2+ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 3D | A fast-paced arena FPS with movement tricks. |
| Warzone 2100 | 1999 | 2016 | RTS, RTT | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 3D | Post-apocalyptic, cross-platform RTS. |
| Widelands | 2002 | 2016 | RTS | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | ? | Widelands is a RTS clone of The Settlers II. |
| WorldForge | 1998 | 2014 | MMORPG | GPLv3 | GPLv2+ | 3D | An open-source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. |
| Xconq | 1987 | 2005 | TBS | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | ? | 4X strategy game engine. |
| X-Moto | 2005 | 2014 | Platformer | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 2D | Elasto Mania Clone. |
| Xonotic | 2010 | 2015 | FPS | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 3D | A fork and direct successor of the game Nexuiz. Binary files for Linux and Windows is under GPLv3+. |
| XPilot | 1992 | 2010 | Arcade | GPLv2+ | GPLv2+ | 2D | A multiplayer Asteroids-like game. |
| Yo Frankie! | 2008 | 2009 | Action-adventure | GPLv2+, LGPLv2.1 | CC BY 3.0 | 3D | ? |