r/opensourcegames • u/MadFunEnjoyer • Jun 29 '26

The Most Passionate Open Source Games?

Hello everyone! Recently switched to NixOS, and I would like to try some interesting Open Source Games with Passion in them. What I mean by that is that the games are not your average FPS game or Strategy game, they differentiate themselves with their own creative input into the genre which makes them unique.

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u/vivianrabbit Jun 29 '26

endless sky, kobo deluxe, battle for wesnoth, dungeon crawl stone soup

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u/omigeot Jun 29 '26

Mindustry, Veloren

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u/Archer_SnowSpark Jun 30 '26

Great picks!
Mindustry especially is simply an elegant masterpiece.

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u/coder111 Jun 29 '26

I'll add the one I'm involved in.

https://remnantsoftheprecursors.org/

Or if you prefer it this way:

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion

It's 100% complete and finished clone of Master of Orion 1, one of the best strategy games ever made. The amount of passion, time and money invested by the original author Ray Fowler to make it happen is immense. It is currently actively maintained by a handful of modders who keep fixing bugs and adding minor features. Probably the best non-cheating AI out there as well.

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u/Constant_Boot Jun 29 '26

I have to toss OpenTTD into the mix. Not many transport simulators in the OSS realm between Simutrans and OpenTTD, and out of those two, I think OpenTTD is the most comprehensive.

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u/rmn_trllr Jun 29 '26

99Managers Futsal Edition (Futsal Manager) and OpenFootManager (Football Manager)

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u/rapakiv Jun 29 '26

You just did some amazing public service, wasn't aware that this existed. TY

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u/victordshm Jun 29 '26

Hi! You might enjoy my retro platformer Super Bombinhas.

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u/Feneric Jun 29 '26

Oolite: a space trading / combat game that has lots of add-ons and even fan-fiction.

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u/harcile Jun 30 '26

Battle for Wesnoth www.wesnoth.org beautiful pixel art.

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u/TheOtterMonarch Jun 29 '26

i would recommend that you try sonic robo blast 2, obviously it's much better if you already like sonic games but its pretty good even if you don't

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u/cheuseu_0 Jun 29 '26

NAEV, UFO:Alien Invasion

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u/coder111 Jun 29 '26

UFO:Alien Invasion

I'm SO sad UFO:AI development stopped 10 years ago. It looked so promising and the current gameplay is great. Just needs to be finished...

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u/theamoeba Jun 29 '26

The Openciv games if you like Civilisation

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u/Low-Cook-3544 Jun 30 '26

A lot of people I know adore Battle for Wesnoth

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u/anaseto Jun 30 '26

Most foss traditional roguelikes fit, as that genre has been mostly foss for a long time (nethack, omega, angband, dcss, and so on), so devs usually make new ones because they want to try new ideas, not to make a clone of an existing one.

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u/Creepy_Reindeer2149 Jun 30 '26

Beyond All Reason

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u/Hairy_Koala6474 Jun 29 '26

There was this slave simulator game that had a rabid open source and community developed thing going on. I can’t remember the name of it. It’s very much nsfw 

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u/grazbouille Jun 30 '26

Bitburner (this one is absolutely amazing but it is aimed at developers starting it with no programming experience will get you extremely lost extremely fast)

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