dominus vs Mindustry

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dominus		Mindustry
	Project
1	Mentions	272
101	Stars	21,152
-	Growth	-
1.9	Activity	9.9
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Java
-	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.

dominus

Posts with mentions or reviews of dominus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-01.

Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2022

Mindustry

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mindustry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.

Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
76 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2024

Mindustry - The automation tower defence RTS. Java
Ask HN: Factorio-Like Game for Kids?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024

Mindustry[1] is quite similar.
This one isn't quite the same, but OpenTTD[2] might be of interest to you. It's fun and it's simple enough for kids to get the hang of.
- [1]: https://mindustrygame.github.io/
- [2]: https://openttd.org/
Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023

Does it make sense to publish Deb packages for this game?
Also this commit: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479...
Mindustry: Full game source code [Java, NotGodot]
1 project | /r/GodotCSharp | 2 Oct 2023
Factorio: Space Age
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023

Or (while on the subject of Factorio) Mindustry:
[0] https://mindustrygame.github.io/
[Steam] Summer Sale 2023 (Final Day)
1 project | /r/GameDeals | 12 Jul 2023

Mindustry is free and open source. Download the latest release from here.
Why nobody plays competitively? :D PvP
1 project | /r/factorio | 10 Jul 2023

It's not Factorio, but it's very similar and IMO has a much better PVP experience. Check it out! https://mindustrygame.github.io/
3d co-op tower defense game
1 project | /r/gameideas | 10 Jul 2023

Sounds close to Mindustry.
I can't find a single good game
1 project | /r/AndroidGaming | 7 Jul 2023
The complete guide to publishing free software video games
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2023

Not sure what qualifies as 'highly successful', 'from the start', etc. but Mindustry[0] is GPL, is actively updated, accepts and includes contributions from third parties and is available commercially.
[0] https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dominus and Mindustry you can also consider the following projects:

Fable: F# |> BABEL - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust and Dart Compiler

shapez.io - shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!

NXEngine - A port of the open-source rewrite Cave Story game engine for various platforms. Original author is Caitlin "rogueeve" Shaw, https://nxengine.sourceforge.io/

playforia-minigolf - Client & Server for Minigolf Game known from Playforia/Playray/Appeli. Written in Java.

osu - rhythm is just a *click* away!

steam - ☁️ Python package for interacting with Steam

tgstation - The /tg/station branch of SS13.

MindustryBuilds - Latest builds for Mindustry

OpenLara - Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine

Minetest - Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

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.

Lila - ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞ [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila]