What Open Source games do you thing that is the best?

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  • widelands

    Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

    Here is my take on what I think that is the best: Widelands ://www.widelands.org/ FreeCol: http://www.freecol.org/ 0AD https://play0ad.com/ Battle for Wesnoth: https://www.wesnoth.org/ Open TTD: https://www.openttd.org/

  • wesnoth

    An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.

    Here is my take on what I think that is the best: Widelands ://www.widelands.org/ FreeCol: http://www.freecol.org/ 0AD https://play0ad.com/ Battle for Wesnoth: https://www.wesnoth.org/ Open TTD: https://www.openttd.org/

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  • OpenTTD

    OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

    Here is my take on what I think that is the best: Widelands ://www.widelands.org/ FreeCol: http://www.freecol.org/ 0AD https://play0ad.com/ Battle for Wesnoth: https://www.wesnoth.org/ Open TTD: https://www.openttd.org/

  • 0ad

    Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)

    Here is my take on what I think that is the best: Widelands ://www.widelands.org/ FreeCol: http://www.freecol.org/ 0AD https://play0ad.com/ Battle for Wesnoth: https://www.wesnoth.org/ Open TTD: https://www.openttd.org/

  • warzone2100

    Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

    I forgot Warzone 2100: https://wz2100.net/

  • Mindustry

    The automation tower defense RTS

    Mindustry is an open source tower defense where you have to make factories to defend your tower. https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry

  • doomrl

    D**m, the Roguelike

    Came here to post this one, and also my other favorite roguelike, DoomRL. It's pretty much the opposite of CDDA in terms of gameplay.

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  • flare-game

    Fantasy action RPG using the FLARE engine

    Flare rpg https://flarerpg.org/

  • ddnet

    DDraceNetwork, a free cooperative platformer game

    Are multiplayer games count too? https://ddnet.tw

  • awesome-games

    Discontinued Collection of Games that have the source code available on GitHub [Moved to: https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games]

  • shapez.io

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

    shapez.io The only way to get it is to build from source or buy it on steam, but it's worth the few bucks.

  • cocainediesel

    OFFICIAL COCAINE DIESEL REPOSITORY

    COCAINE DIESEL https://cocainediesel.fun/

  • Unciv

    Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V

    UnCiv is a recreation of Civilization with lots of mods, except UnCiv is optimized for mobile/tablet players which makes it great game to play on slow or lazy days https://github.com/yairm210/UnCiv

  • teiserver

    Middleware server for online gaming

    Beyond All Reason is a modernized Total Annihilation based on the venerable Spring engine https://www.beyondallreason.info/ It's been getting a lot of polish lately and is hopefully going to end up on Steam, but you can already play it now as lots of people do.

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