Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?

• bgfx

  71 14,306 9.3 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)

• love

  258 4,378 9.7 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

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• halley

  11 3,474 9.8 C++

  A lightweight game engine written in modern C++

• U3D

  5 148 6.2 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

• Torque3D

  12 3,343 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

• osgameclones

  17 1,620 9.5 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

• lila

  794 14,578 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/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• awesome-ebitengine

  7 522 6.5

  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

• FileDetectionRuleSets

  3 162 8.9 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

• lovr

  35 1,651 9.7 C

  Lua Virtual Reality Framework

• Unciv

  68 7,717 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

• The-Forge

  34 4,432 6.9 C++

  The Forge Cross-Platform Rendering 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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