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A curated list of open-source video games and open-source remakes of commercial games, grouped by genre.
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Useful for finding free, source-available games across genres like tycoon, city-building, adventure, and roguelikes, with links to each project's source. Good for players looking for something to install or developers looking for existing reimplementations to study.
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LanguagePython
LicenseCC0-1.0
Created2021-09-15 (5y ago)
Last push7mo ago
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# Open source games This is a list of different open-source video games and commercial video games open-source remakes. ## Table of contents - Action games - Adventure games - Business and Tycoon games - City-Building games - First-Person games - Platformers - Puzzle games - Racing games - Real-Time strategies - Roguelikes - Role-Playing games - Sandbox games - Shoot 'em up games - Sport games - Third-Person games - Tower Defense games - Turn-Based strategies - Other lists ## Action games - **Hypersomnia** - Competitive top-down shooter with extreme dynamics and pixely nostalgia. Comes with a built-in map Editor. [[source]](https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia) ## Adventure games - **Dead Ascend** - A zombie adventure, escape room, with twists. [[source]](https://github.com/larpon/DeadAscend) - **Endless Sky** - Space exploration, trading, and combat game. [[source]](https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky) - **Pioneer** - A space adventure game set in our galaxy at the turn of the 33rd century. [[source]](https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer) - **ScummVM** - A program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games. [[source]](https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm) - **The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess** - A reverse engineering project to decompile *Twilight Princess* into human-readable and modifiable source code. [[source]](https://github.com/zeldaret/tp) - **Zelda 3** - A reverse engineered clone of *The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past*. [[source]](https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3) ## Business and Tycoon games - **CorsixTH** - Open source clone of Theme Hospital. [[source]](https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH) - **Hurry Curry!** - Cooperative fast-paced multiplayer cooking game. [[source]](https://codeberg.org/hurrycurry/hurrycurry) - **OpenLoco** - An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion. [[source]](https://github.com/OpenLoco/OpenLoco) - **OpenRCT2** - An open-source re-implementation of *RollerCoaster Tycoon 2*. [[source]](https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2) - **OpenTTD** - An open source simulation game based upon *Transport Tycoon Deluxe*. [[source]](https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD) ## City-Building games - **Akhenaten** - A strategic city-building game, based on assets and gameplay mechanics from *Pharaoh + Cleopatra)* title, where players take on the role of a ruler and mayor of ancient Egyptian civilization. [[source]](https://github.com/dalerank/Akhenaten) - **Citybound** - A city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals. [[source]](https://github.com/citybound/citybound) - **Cytopia** - A free, open source retro pixel-art city building game. [[source]](https://github.com/CytopiaTeam/Cytopia) - **Egregoria** - Egregoria is an indie city builder, mostly inspired by *Cities: Skylines*. [[source]](https://github.com/Uriopass/Egregoria) - **IsoCity**
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