OpenHV vs OpenSA

Our great sponsors

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

OpenHV		OpenSA
	Project
20	Mentions	10
799	Stars	86
2.8%	Growth	-
9.6	Activity	7.6
2 days ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OpenHV

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenHV. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

OpenHV 20230416
1 project | /r/RafaLagoon | 17 Apr 2023
OpenHV – Open-Source Pixelart Science-Fiction Real-Time-Strategy Game
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 10 Mar 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 10 Mar 2023

1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 10 Mar 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 10 Mar 2023

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023

https://github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV/releases
I also built it from source on my machine fine, and played a few skirmishes.
OpenHV - Free & open-source real-time strategy game gets a release two years in the making
1 project | /r/pcgaming | 9 Mar 2023
OpenHV has a new release 20220918 with new maps, effects and fixes!
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 18 Sep 2022
OpenHV - 20220807
1 project | /r/opensourcegames | 8 Aug 2022
OpenHV - an RTS from the golden era - releases version 20220102
1 project | /r/RealTimeStrategy | 3 Jan 2022

Github: https://github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV

OpenSA

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenSA. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-30.

OpenSA Version 20230730
1 project | /r/openra | 1 Aug 2023
Windows95 (electron) on steam deck (instruction in description)
1 project | /r/SteamDeckTricks | 25 Oct 2022

or you can use a opensource engine port like www.moddb.com/mods/opensa
What’s a game that you think no one but YOU seems to remember?
8 projects | /r/gaming | 30 Jan 2022

Swarm Assault an RTS where you control bugs. There is a remade version available link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/opensa
OpenSA Version 20210523
2 projects | /r/openra | 23 May 2021
OpenSA - A recreation of Swarm Assault game in OpenRA engine.
4 projects | /r/opensourcegames | 2 Apr 2021
OpenSA - a mod for Swarm Assault RTS game
1 project | /r/itchio | 27 Mar 2021

Github page for the mod is here https://github.com/Dzierzan/OpenSA
OpenSA 20210327 released
1 project | /r/openra | 27 Mar 2021
OpenSA version 20210321 has been released
1 project | /r/openra | 21 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenHV and OpenSA you can also consider the following projects:

OpenRA - Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

CorsixTH - Open source clone of Theme Hospital

Unvanquished - An FPS/RTS hybrid game powered by the Daemon engine (a combination of ioq3 and XreaL)

Bugdom - 🐛 Pangea Software's Bugdom for modern systems

ra2 - A Red Alert 2 mod for the OpenRA game engine

launcher - Launcher for Flashpoint Archive

alephone - Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie’s Marathon 2 game engine.

YaK-s-SSLTBS1-Fixpack - Fork of Yak's orignal Banner Saga 1 Mod, an unofficial fixpack that focus on addressing bugs, incosistencies and typos found in the game.

endless-sky - Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

SBCameraScroll - Creates a smooth, scrolling camera that moves with the slugcat. Based on pipi toki's CameraScroll mod.

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox