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