FOSS Games, Part II
Thu 07 December 2023
I got a lot of wonderful feedback on my original FOSS Games are actually pretty good! article, and I wanted to share with you all the information that was so kindly shared with me.
Here are some FOSS games highly recommended by the community, although I have not personally played most of them:
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0AD - "A multiplayer online game where you command an ancient empire." According to one Fediverse commenter, it has a very good soundtrack and design.
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AAAAXY - "A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces." (Android Port)
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Angband - Text-based single-player dungeon exploration game
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Battle for Wesnoth - A turn-based strategy game
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Beyond All Reason - Realtime strategy game
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) - Post-apocalyptic 2D turn-based survival game
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - "An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot."
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Falling Lightblocks a clone of a very popular Soviet tetromino-based bame. Available for Android and Desktop
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FeudalTactics - Medieval strategy game for Android
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FlightGear - An excellent and realistic flight simulator
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FreeCIV - A FOSS take on the Civlization series of games
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Fruity Game (Android) - Not sure what this is, but the commenters seemed to indicate it is super addictive. I'm almost afraid to try it. ;)
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Heroes - Similar to Tron, "you must maneuver a small vehicle around a world and collect powerups while avoiding obstacles, your opponents' trails, and even your own trail."
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HyperRogue - A top-down heptagon non-Euclidian rogue-likegame
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Me and My Shadow - Puzzle/Platformer
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Nethack - Still being updated!! "...an open source single-player roguelike video game," according to Wikipedia
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Neverball - a FOSS game inspired by "Super Monkey Ball" (GameCube, 2001)
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Oolite - an amazing recreation of the original Elite game of the 8-bit era
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OpenTTD - Transportation-oriented business simulation game
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OSU - "A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!" (source)
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Simon Tatham's Puzzles - Puzzles created by the author of PuTTY
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Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters - (not sure??)
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Unciv - Civilization V remake for Android & Desktop
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Veloren - A voxel-based action/adventure multiplayer role-playing game (this looks pretty cool!!)
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Widelands - "a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode."
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Xonotic - "The Free and Fast Arena Shooter" (an FPS)
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xskat (Android) - A version of the German card game, "Skat." (F-Droid link)
Credits:
Many thanks to the people who responded to my original thread, and additionally, the many commenters on this thread kindly shared by @ericjmorey@alpha.polymaths.social.
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Gaming Linux Non-religious post UNIX