OpenXcom VS devilution

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/

Reverse engineered from some partial leaks: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution#introduction

Diablo 1 https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

Devilution is a reversed-engineered recreation of the Blizzard's Diablo engine. Still need the original game, and optionally Hellfire, for maps and assets.

For Diablo you might be interested to learn about https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution - and, if you like both Icewind Dale and Diablo, you might be interested in the in-between game that is Nox by Westwood, which is also native on Linux thanks to https://github.com/noxworld-dev/opennox

> Now imagine the code base of original Diablo.

No need to imagine! https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

This is >99% binary exact when compiling with the original toolchain.

This github issue is continually adding to that list:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution/issues/64

If you get really nostalgic, check out my links page. There are well over 600 links. Many thanks to archive.org!

Making games is hard. Code is never going to be perfect and you could always contrive corner-case scenarios that break your design at any given point. For some perspective, Diablo 1 declared all the items and spells in a giant array. Do what ships the game.

Super Mario 64 and Diablo come to mind.