Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.
TheTechnician27 28 points 4 months ago
OwOarchist 10 points 4 months ago
Also, I'm not sure you can count OpenRCT2 as fully open source, as it still requires the closed-source game files to run -- they haven't replaced all the game assets yet.
(That said, it's still fantastic and by far the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.)
OwOarchist 1 point 4 months ago
Technically, it's still an open source mod of a closed source game.
And am I too lazy to finish the job? ... Yeah, I guess I am. I am too lazy to go out there and re-do all of the thousands of graphics sprites and all the sound effects and music all on my own. Feel free to do it yourself if you're not that lazy. I'm sure the devs would appreciate your effort.
shrek_is_love 41 points 4 months ago
Mineclonia has like 95% of the features of Minecraft but is way better because you don't need a Microsoft account, plus modding is easier.
Also awesome:
- Pingus - Puzzle game with mechanics similar to Lemmings
- Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers - Kart racing game based on Sonic Robo Blast 2 (SRB2), itself based on a modified version of Doom Legacy
- The Powder Toy - 2D physics sandbox game
shrek_is_love 7 points 4 months ago
Mineclonia is a fork of VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) that adds various improvements:
Differences from MineClone 2
- Overworld depth increased from 64 to 128 nodes
- Improved nether portals
- Improved leaf decay
- Improved villages
- Wandering traders and trader llamas
- Suspicious nodes, pottery sherds and decorated pots
- Conduits
- Deep dark biome and ancient hermitage (structure corresponding to ancient city)
- Functional loom to apply banner patterns
- Lush caves biome
- Cherry grove biome
- No in-game music, twice as small compared to VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2)
- No hamburgers (but villagers follow dropped food as in Minecraft)
- No renamed mobs (e.g. Creepers remain Creepers, not Stalkers)
- Overhauled mob pathfinding, physics, and AI
- Custom Lua map generator featuring terrain and biomes that closely comport to Minecraft and which is compatible with Minecraft seeds
maxy 4 points 4 months ago
From the Luanti/Minetest games, I also like Exile very much.
It is a bit hard and nerdy (you'll have to read the PDF guide/tutorial as you progress), but I found it oddly calming. I recommend single-player only.
In contrast to other Luanti/Minecraft-Like games, in Exile it feels very rewarding just to have found shelter from a storm and a cozy fire going, after you were on the edge of collapsing from exhaustion. Though you're almost certainly out of food and it would be dangerous to go out looking before the storm passes, you're not quite dying yet and you have time to make your mud hole a bit more cozy. (It's not a good game if you want to build huge creative castles, but you'll need to build and improve your home a bit.)
grue 8 points 4 months ago
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a little weird, in that it's really just meant to be the game engine, not the full game. Mineclonia is basically a mod that adds back in all the extra mobs and whatnot Minecraft has.
JustJack23 38 points 4 months ago
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Not sure if it's my favorite, but openttd was already mentioned.
AceFuzzLord 3 points 4 months ago
It's such a fun game, especially after you beat a campaign level. I love that part purely for the freedom it provides after a hard fought battle.
JustJack23 4 points 4 months ago
Didn't know that one, seems cool.
wizardbeard 30 points 4 months ago
Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The dev is even active on Lemmy! !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
cybervegan 4 points 4 months ago
Came here to say exactly this. Played it for years and it keeps getting better and better. It's based on a game called Pixel Dungeon, which the original developer open sourced when they got bored with it. There are several other forks of PD, and I've also played most of them too, and SPD is definitely the best, and possibly the only one still in development.
nullPointer 28 points 4 months ago
beyond all reason
lukecooperatus 25 points 4 months ago
I don't see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it's a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
The source is here.
KingKong33 3 points 4 months ago
Holy shit, I played Frogatto YEARS ago and totally forgot about it. Thank you!
grue 9 points 4 months ago
Or a trading grind, depending on your playstyle. I've barely ever mined in it.
How are they doing on the campaign/storyline, BTW? Last time I played it (a year or so ago) I managed to capture a jump drive and explored a bunch of really interesting areas outside human space, but it really felt like I wasn't intended to be there yet and the story wasn't really ready for it.
sus 7 points 4 months ago
Endless sky follows the old and storied tradition where 90% of the game's content is locked behind speaking to a specific random NPC near the starting town, and not giving any hints at all that you're going the wrong way. You probably fell victim to that.
grue 2 points 4 months ago
No, I was following the human space campaign just fine (although maybe I didn't go far enough along it for it to take me to alien space "naturally").
I've also picked up at least one non-randomly-generated quest from the
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Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris.
I've also made it
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through the Tangled Shroud to Avgi space, and maybe I'm legitimately on their main questline there (as I currently have a job marker for "Meet up with the Avgi Strike force at Navigeo Yards in the Symphony system" on my map)
It's just that those last two things I mentioned, especially the latter one, don't feel all that fleshed out compared to the human campaign.
I've wandered through the territories of a couple of other species, but they're either hostile or I haven't figured out how to talk to them yet.
sus 5 points 4 months ago
Oh you did! Indeed, you have to complete the human campaign all the way through (to the point that you get an epilogue) to even be able to start the 2nd largest storyline after the human things.
RecursiveParadox 2 points 4 months ago
They have specifically gotten better about adding in other opportunities especially for starting the ::: spoiler spoiler Free Worlds ::: story line.
RecursiveParadox 1 point 4 months ago
Came here to say this, although I would not categorize it as a "shooter mining grind" (FWIF I never mine grind).
There are tons of things to do and stories to play. The community is quite active especially on the Git and Discord. Lot's do to but you really need to explore to get the full experience.
Also ::: spoiler spoiler Republic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already? :::
RecursiveParadox 1 point 4 months ago
Forgot to add a key detail! This game is a direct homage to the old Escape Velocity games if you remember those.
RecursiveParadox 1 point 4 months ago
Same! But long, long ago, like 2017 or so. I am overdue for another play through soon!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace 22 points 4 months ago
Isn't Doom open source now? Does that count?
FiniteBanjo 3 points 4 months ago
However it is unclear where Diablo stands. We have open source decompilations and remakes but as for the legality: grey area.
maxy 20 points 4 months ago
Battle for Wesnoth. It's a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.
Though I haven't played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is "Under The Burning Suns", which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn't be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
vestigeofgreen 3 points 4 months ago
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
vestigeofgreen 2 points 4 months ago
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
maxy 2 points 4 months ago
Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.
I'm maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It's still very well written, maybe just not my "book". But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.
Captain_Baka 18 points 4 months ago
Unciv
Tux Kart
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered
These 3 games are my favourites at the moment.
Captain_Baka 1 point 4 months ago
I really can't say anything about this, because I never played Freeciv. The reason is, that Freeciv has no Android APK (AFAIK). I play Unciv exclusively on my phone during my work breaks.
bruce965 12 points 4 months ago
Can I do a shameless plug? Not necessarily all of these are my favourites, but most of these are pretty nice. Here's my list.
My top fav is Mindustry, which has already been mentioned. Another not very popular FOSS game which is pretty good imho is OpenClonk.
supersquirrel 12 points 4 months ago
Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
Xonotic is so fast and smooth.
UFODivebomb 4 points 4 months ago
BAR is the greatest RTS.
AceFuzzLord 9 points 4 months ago
People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow
It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.
This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.
Edit:
I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.
brockhold 7 points 4 months ago
I played hundreds and hundreds of hours of Tremulous back in the day, and at least a few of its successor Unvanquished -- before mostly falling out of playing online games.
ellohir 2 points 4 months ago
Tremulous was THE game for me for a couple of years, I remember people praising Natural Selection 2 as the FPS/RTS combo and I was like "but that's just one player playing an RTS and the rest playing an FPS". I always preferred the natural way we built in first person, and anyone could build anything, from Tremulous.
Mikina 1 point 4 months ago
Thanks for mentioning NS2, I would've scrolled past this game otherwise. NS2 was my most favorite competitive game, that I never found people to play with for (aside from once being approached by someone at a bar, who overheard me talking about NS2 and that I play Starcraft, that they're looking for an RTS player for their e-sport NS2 team. I... wasn't good at Starcraft, so it didn't work out, but it was a funny random happenstance).
I love asymmetric games, and the mix of RTS + FPS for the rest seems like a really interesting game from the competitive/meta standpoint.
I'll check out these two games, sounds like it might be right up my alley.
ellohir 1 point 4 months ago
Check out the old trailer here, it shows how a game usually goes. It's a shame the resolution from 20 years ago is not very good though 😅
AstroLightz 6 points 4 months ago
Super Tux Kart
ZiClaud 5 points 4 months ago
I really like We Become What We Behold
Its a gem
Rawrosaurus 5 points 4 months ago
Space Station 14 for me.
Mikina 5 points 4 months ago
I highly recommend Space Station 14.
It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.
Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".
And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".
It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.
Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.
If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE
Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.
Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.
Chais 5 points 4 months ago
Lots of great games. Gonna add Endless Sky. 2D top down space sim RPG. Think Escape Velocity series.
itsralC 4 points 4 months ago
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One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
vulpivia 1 point 4 months ago
Didn't know they actually published some source code. I looked at their GitHub account, unfortunately almost all of their repositories have this in their readme:
This is proprietary software owned by Anego Studios. All rights reserved.
You may NOT sell this software in any way, shape or form. You may NOT distribute this software in its unmodified form.
HexesofVexes 2 points 4 months ago
Sonic Robo Blast 2 anyone?
FiniteBanjo 2 points 4 months ago
Dwarf Fortress
I also really like Nightmare Kart which is free on steam, but I don't think it is open souce...?
FiniteBanjo 1 point 4 months ago
Ah, my apologies, the binaries are closed source and the raws are public domain.
A better answer would have been KeeperRL
Swedneck 1 point 4 months ago
Despite not actually playing it myself, i'd say Unciv just because it actually straight up reimplements civlization and is super moddable, it's really well done (aside from the acceptable graphics, but hey that's """easily""" fixable by some future helpful artist)
sobchak 1 point 4 months ago
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).
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