Mindustry is a really fun automation/tower defense game
Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll just leave this here ;) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330750/Cataclysm_Dark_Days_Ahead/
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?
Aaaah, I love that idea, I wonder if there are any good controller configs for it that might help for that
Beyond All Reason
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
It a grand scale RTS game with robots and insects loosely inspired by Total Annihilation.
Holy shit, this looks awesome! Maybe I can scratch that TA itch - thanks!
I’ve really enjoyed it.
If you like Supreme Commander, you will be sooo very happy with this.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon ! And its origin, Pixel Dungeon.
A really nice rogue-like, among the best Android games I know, it’s still fun after all those years and very actively developed !
You can also fairly easily get Shattered Pixel Dungeon to run on a PinePhone or PinePhonePro!
Great classical roguelike
Would love to checkout the code for this thanks for the suggestion
Did you guys tried Endless sky? Awesome game if you love space
And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license
Thank you for this! I have already logged hours playing with my kid since seeing your suggestion. We have only played mineclone2 so far. I will look into veloren next.
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.
Yeah that’s cool
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.
If you like RTS games similar to Total Annihilation, you should definitely check out Beyond All Reason, it’s gorgeous and fun: https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Another supcom similar is zero-k. Didn’t know there were so many open source options! Available on steam or at https://zero-k.info/
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.
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.
Spring is dead. The fork Recoil is going strong and fast. :-)
This looks really cool. SupCom wasn’t quite the same for me so I’ll have to check this out.
It’s really good. Recently some streamers like wintergaming and day9 started playing it and overnight the community exploded.
Full disclosure, I am a gavedev that uses the same engine working on my own RTS game (the gamedev community for recoil engine is pretty close and we commonly work with one another).
Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.
And there are so many campaigns, it is incredible.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Oof, I have a huge boner for roguelikes, and most of them are open source. My biggest time sink is still Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, playable online at https://crawl.develz.org/
This one is great, I have spent many hours on it!
OpenTTD is good
I love OpenTTD, came here looking for it.
For the uninitiated, it’s a reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transportation empire of trains, lorrys ships and planes.
There’s also a modern spiritual successor in Transport Fever (commercial, not open source)
Veloren is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!
You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.
The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.
It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!
Totally agree, one of the best open-source games ever
Tux Racer. Hands down.
I will say that 0 A.D. and veloren are my favourites!
Warzone 2100 is an RTS from 1999 that went open source at some point and can be played on just about anything. It’s unit design functionality is really cool and I’m a sucker for post-apocalyptic worlds.
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)
