Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?

1. bgfx

   1 76 15,697 9.1 C++

   Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

   

   https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx for just that FOSS intermediate rendering library (includes Minecraft)

2. InfluxDB

   www.influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. love

   2 265 6,558 9.4 C++

   LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

   

   - Löve (doesn't have a separate page, but showcases a few games at the bottom of the page): https://love2d.org

4. halley

   3 11 3,710 9.8 C++

   A lightweight game engine written in modern C++

   

5. U3D

   4 5 281 9.3 C++

   Open-source, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine built in C++

   

   On a similar note, released games with open sourced code: https://osgameclones.com/?tag=official

   https://torque3d.org was used on Airship Dragoon, Marble Blast Gold, Penny Arcade Adventures, Legions: Overdrive and descends from the original Tribes engine.

   Hellbreaker, Bit Champs with https://u3d.io

   And plenty of successful games with Ogre, including Torchlight: https://www.ogre3d.org/showcase

6. Torque3D

   5 12 3,350 1.8 C++

   MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

   

   On a similar note, released games with open sourced code: https://osgameclones.com/?tag=official

   https://torque3d.org was used on Airship Dragoon, Marble Blast Gold, Penny Arcade Adventures, Legions: Overdrive and descends from the original Tribes engine.

   Hellbreaker, Bit Champs with https://u3d.io

   And plenty of successful games with Ogre, including Torchlight: https://www.ogre3d.org/showcase

7. osgameclones

   6 19 1,788 9.6 JavaScript

   Open Source Clones of Popular Games

   

   On a similar note, released games with open sourced code: https://osgameclones.com/?tag=official

   https://torque3d.org was used on Airship Dragoon, Marble Blast Gold, Penny Arcade Adventures, Legions: Overdrive and descends from the original Tribes engine.

   Hellbreaker, Bit Champs with https://u3d.io

   And plenty of successful games with Ogre, including Torchlight: https://www.ogre3d.org/showcase

8. lila

   7 823 16,620 10.0 Scala

   ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞

   

   Not necessarily the type of game you had in mind; but must be high up on the concurrent online players https://lichess.org/

9. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. awesome-ebitengine

    8 7 791 6.1

    A curated list of awesome Ebitengine frameworks, libraries and software

    

    This is a list of released, open source games created in Go using the Ebitengine game engine:

    https://github.com/sedyh/awesome-ebitengine#games

11. FileDetectionRuleSets

    9 3 201 7.4 PHP

    🔎 Rules to detect game engines and other technologies based on Steam depot file lists

    

    This is great. All their detection logic is open source: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/FileDetectionRuleSets

12. lovr

    10 39 2,310 9.6 C

    Lua Virtual Reality Framework

    

13. Unciv

    11 68 9,198 9.9 Kotlin

    Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V

    

    Sandship (not sure when released) was updated in Feb and has over a million downloads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockbite.s...

    Zombie Age III has 10m downloads.

    Deep Town: Idle Mining Tycoon has 10+m downloads (updated this year).

    Space Haven is from 2020 with over 6k reviews on Steam.

    (Open Source) Unciv has 6k stars: https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv

14. The-Forge

    12 36 5,104 7.2 C++

    The Forge Cross-Platform Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

    

    Oh, I forgot a few major ones:

    https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge was used in No Man's Sky, Hades and Starfield.

    https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics is the physics engine in Horizon Forbidden West.

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