~~~~~~~~ Title: FOSS Games, Part II Date: 2023-12-07 8:40 PM CST Category: Tech Tags: Computing, FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), Linux, Non-religious post, UNIX ## Status: published 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. => foss-games-are-actually-pretty-good.html [a] Here are some FOSS 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. => https://play0ad.com/ [a] => on-the-fediverse-and-fedifriends.html [b] => https://programming.dev/comment/5450553 [c] * AAAAXY[a] - “A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.” (Android Port[b]) => https://divverent.github.io/aaaaxy/ [a] => https://f-droid.org/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/ [b] * Angband[a] - Text-based single-player dungeon exploration game => https://rephial.org/ [a] * Battle for Wesnoth[a] - A turn-based strategy game => https://www.wesnoth.org/ [a] * Beyond All Reason[a] - Realtime strategy game => https://www.beyondallreason.info/ [a] * Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA)[a] - Post-apocalyptic 2D turn-based survival game => https://cataclysmdda.org/ [a] * 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.” => https://crawl.develz.org/ [a] * Falling Lightblocks[a] a clone of a very popular Soviet tetromino-based bame. Available for Android and Desktop => https://github.com/MrStahlfelge/lightblocks [a] * FeudalTactics[a] - Medieval strategy game for Android => https://github.com/Sesu8642/FeudalTactics [a] * FlightGear[a] - An excellent and realistic flight simulator => https://www.flightgear.org/ [a] * FreeCIV[a] - A FOSS take on the Civlization series of games => https://www.freecivweb.org/ [a] * 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. ;) => https://f-droid.org/packages/page.codeberg.marshreaper.fruitygame/ [a] => https://programming.dev/comment/5451205 [b] * 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.” => https://heroes.sourceforge.net/ [a] * HyperRogue[a] - A top-down heptagon non-Euclidian rogue-likegame => https://github.com/zenorogue/hyperrogue/ [a] * Me and My Shadow[a] - Puzzle/Platformer => https://acmepjz.github.io/meandmyshadow/ [a] * Nethack[a] - Still being updated!! “…an open source single-player roguelike video game,” according to Wikipedia[b] => https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack [a] => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack [b] * Neverball[a] - a FOSS game inspired by “Super Monkey Ball” (GameCube, 2001) => https://neverball.org [a] * Oolite[a] - an amazing recreation of the original Elite game of the 8-bit era => https://oolite.space/ [a] * OpenTTD[a] - Transportation-oriented business simulation game => https://www.openttd.org/ [a] * OSU[a] - “A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!” (source[b]) => https://osu.ppy.sh/home [a] => https://github.com/ppy/osu [b] * Simon Tatham’s Puzzles[a] - Puzzles created by the author of PuTTY[b] (Source[c]) => https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ [a] => https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ [b] => https://github.com/veloren/veloren [c] * Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters[a] - (not sure??) => https://sc2.sourceforge.net/ [a] * Unciv[a] - Civilization V remake for Android & Desktop => https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv [a] * Veloren[a] - A voxel-based action/adventure multiplayer role-playing game (this looks pretty cool!!) => https://veloren.net/ [a] * Widelands[a] - “a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.” => https://www.widelands.org/ [a] * Xonotic[a] - “The Free and Fast Arena Shooter” (an FPS) => https://xonotic.org/ [a] * xskat[a] (Android) - A version of the German card game, “Skat.” (F-Droid link[b]) => https://github.com/rnauber/xskat-android [a] => https://tomreyn.gitlab.io/fdroid-website/en/packages/de.xskat/ [b] ###Credits: Many thanks to the people who responded to my original thread[a], and additionally, the many commenters on this thread[b] kindly shared by @ericjmorey@alpha.polymaths.social[c]. => https://alpha.polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01HGVVPSR93ZCW8KKP9TWDXKRY [a] => https://programming.dev/post/6819339 [b] => https://alpha.polymaths.social/@ericjmorey [c]