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Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

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    Cataclysm DDA Is THE open world zombie survival experience. So long as you like obtuse roguelikes with nearly no graphics.

    Although Im obviously biased what with being a dev and all.

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      CDDA is mind bogglingly cool. I play a weekend of it every few months. I know it won’t ever happen, but if it got the Dwarf Fortress Steam treatment one day, it could be the last game I ever bought and I’d be happy.

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          I wish that there was a way to take better advantage of the Steam Deck controller with this version. I bought a copy to check it out, as I don’t really like playing on mobile but would love to take it on the go. It was… Harder than just playing on my phone.

          To the uninitiated: despite my comment, Cataclysm DDA is still worth trying out! Where else could you skateboard down the street naked while holding a plank covered with nails?

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            Aaaah, I love that idea, I wonder if there are any good controller configs for it that might help for that

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    Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I’ll add OpenMW to the thread. It’s a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

    Another worthy mention is Endless Sky, it’s an open source game inspired by the classic space trading and combat game Escape Velocity.

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      Since you mentioned OpenMW I thought I should mention Daggerfall Unity. It’s an rewrite of Daggerfall using the Unity engine, also requiring the original files. The best thing about is that the developers have made it easily moddable and a very healthy modding community has sprung up for it, some of which really make the game feel like what the original developers were going for but had to deal with the technical limitations of the time.

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      Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!

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        I also played through most of the content at some point, but when they eventually updated with new content I couldn’t get back into it. Maybe I should try again because that was such a fun game.

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      Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

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        thirded. played it years ago and got into it again recently. you should check it out again, there’s a lot of new stuff they’ve added.

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    Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.

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      And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license

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        Minetest in general has such a good mod selection it’s insane! My siblings and I never fail to have a good time goofing around with the plugins people have created.

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      Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!

      Don’t be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you’ll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don’t carry over.

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    Here’s a good start.

    Fillets-ng (sokoban puzzler)

    Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection (sgt-puzzles)

    Sauerbraten (FPS)

    0 A.D. (RTS)

    Holotz Castle (platformer)

    Xmoto (motorbike trials riding)

    Kobodeluxe (shmup)

    Neverputt (minigolf)

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        ZeroK uses the same engine as BAR, my game, and quite a few others. 😋 And yes, definitely should check out ZK, it’s a mature project with a nice community and awesome devs.

        Recoil is pretty much the only foss engine purpose built for modern rts games of all types.

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      Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I sank way too many hours into this (started off as a TA clone but branched off into other game modes too) a decade or two ago, and it looks like it’s still going.

      https://springrts.com/

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    https://github.com/open-duelyst/duelyst

    Duelyst was a very popular online card game that shutdown around 3 years ago. The developers have recently released it into the public domain (via CC0 license).

    You can completely selfhost a private instance (repo has a good straight forward guide)

    There is a public instance available to try https://duelyst.org/. Though it might be pretty barren.

    There is also a closed fork which should have a more active userbase https://duelyst2.com/, the game rules are a little different (draw 2 vs draw1), but should have more users to get a feeling for the game.

    The game in a nutshell is basically Hearthstone on a chessboard. It’s very fun and approachable and in my opinion one of the best cardgames right next to MagicTCG :). Hopefully the community for it will grow more and we can have a sort of second renaissance for it :)

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      I seriously think that every online only game should have to make the server assets public if they’ve abandoned it longer than 10 years. So many good games are just lost to time.

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    I haven’t seen any incremental games get posted. They aren’t exactly traditional games, but so many of them are open source like Antimatter Dimensions or Synergism. Bitburner is a unique one as an incremental hacking sim, since it relies on actual scripting to grow and automate tasks.

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    Beyond All Reason is AMAZING. I can’t say enough about it. Its my favourite game, and totally annihilates (!) the competition.

    Though I guess the competition is pretty small for large scale RTS. Maybe:

    • Total Annihilation
    • Supreme Commander
    • Ashes of the Singularity
    • Sins of the Solar Empire (sorta)

    BAR has fixed all the UI/UX problem, scales well, has a big community, is free, fun, and super deep and complex.

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        Its also gone gangbusters over the past few months, unsure why. Hundreds of concurrent players at any time which is pretty amazing.