Top 7 C++ Shooter Projects

Hypersomnia

5 902 9.8 C++

Multiplayer top-down shooter made from scratch in C++. Comes with an in-game Editor!

Project mention: My competitive top-down shooter brings open-source to eSports. Written from scratch, in bare C++ - runs natively on Linux. AppImage is just 30 MB. Coming to Steam on 28th. | /r/linux_gaming | 2023-12-11

Cool part? Part of the game's source code was used in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, as well as Skydio drones. See our GitHub for details: https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia

SimpleFPSTemplate

1 589 3.7 C++

Simple C++ FPS Template for Unreal Engine
WorkOS

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doom-nano

10 243 0.0 C++

A 3d raycast engine for Arduino

Project mention: Doom(1993) on SSD1306 | /r/arduino | 2023-06-24

astromenace

2 209 5.2 C++

Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities.

Project mention: AstroMenace: Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities | /r/opensourcegames | 2023-05-09

Avara

3 118 9.1 C++

Port of the original 1996 game from Ambrosia Software.

Project mention: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave” | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-08

This site design is one of the best retro Mac site designs I've seen. The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays.
If anyone's interested, there's an active HyperCard community with some fun projects. There's a Discord server, too. https://hypercard.org/
(I found that community through the Avara community, a port of the classic Mac multiplayer networked mech shooter from Ambrosia: https://github.com/avaraline/Avara)

ultimatetapankaikki

1 34 0.0 C++

Open source port of Ultimate Tapan Kaikki
RAG3

1 22 10.0 C++

Top-down single/multiplayer shooter game with time manipulation mechanics.
InfluxDB

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).