OpenXcom VS Librelancer

OpenXCOM - XCOM clone. C++, SDL2

Love(ed) that game.

Always wonder where they get their "recruits", who seem to have trouble with aiming their weapons towards the enemy.

There's an open-source & cross platform remake of the engine. You still need the original game assets.

Easy to mod - he config files are YAML.

https://openxcom.org/

(Before I say anything I just want to say that I've only played TFTD on beginner. I don't know if this works on the harder difficulties, but I feel like the strategy is relatively sound. Please don't take my word as gospel lol. Also, PLEASE USE OPENXCOM! It's a lifesaver.)

If you want to go for that ride I highly recommend to buy the game and install OpenXCom which comes with full compability on modern systems and QoL improvements and a ton of mods and bugfixes (note you need a copy of the original to play openxcom as it uses the sprites, music etc.): https://openxcom.org/

X-Com was just so hard, and I kept naming all my soldiers various family and friend names ... and boy did they die a lot. I still go back and play it randomly to this day, thanks to the https://openxcom.org project 🤘🤘🤘

Are you talking about this? That's a homage to the original X-COM games, not the two revived XCOM games (Enemy Unknown and 2).

With the amount of streams I have with modded openxcom, I'm pretty sure I'm already addicted to it.

Til dem der ikke er færdig med at spille UFO: Enemy Unknown, så er der ret meget at hente i OpenXcom. Spil var bare bedre dengang.

Good old one :) https://openxcom.org/

Librelancer - Freelancer clone. C#, OpenGL

Work is ongoing on making a modern engine to run Freelancer as well; https://librelancer.net/

Neither did I! https://librelancer.net/

There's also Librelancer (Win and Linux) which is an open source Freelancer re-implementation project.

People should check out Librelancer if they get their hands in the game.

Fans of Freelancer should take a look at Librelancer. It's an open source re-implementation of the game for Windows and Linux with high resolution support, multi-threading, better user interface and bug fixes.

No it's Librelancer. I've just checked. Link: https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer

LibreLancer - Freelancer

[Librelancer]: https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer

The scale of Star Citizen is way larger than Freelancer, and the potential of the game is greater as well since you can do many things in the game. If one day Star Citizen releases and delivered what's promised, the game will last for a very long time. So for the fans, the wait maybe worth it.

(And hopefully it will be released before Elon Musk, NASA, ESA, CNSA or ROSCOSMOS etc give us the real-world version and make us actual 1-heart space-slaves LOL)

For the non-fans, however, the market is largely fulfilled by Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky etc.