Best Freeware/Open Source Lowend Games 2022 **Please add your favorites!**

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/lowendgaming

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  • Cataclysm-DDA

    Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

    TBT: Battle for Wesnoth RTS: Beyond All Reason Logistics: OpenTTD (old-school UI warning, but if you sacrifice everything you know about UIs on the altar as an offering and abase yourself in front of the Old Gods, they will reward you) Idle: paperclips Survival: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (ASCII but again, You Will Be Rewarded) Colony: [c'mon. there is no competition for this, paid or otherwise](https:/bay12games.com/dwarves)

  • Mindustry

    The automation tower defense RTS

    Mindustry! it's open source AND free if you download It through GitHub.

  • InfluxDB

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  • endless-sky

    Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

    Endless Sky just got an update https://endless-sky.github.io/

  • 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.

  • wesnoth

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

    TBT: Battle for Wesnoth RTS: Beyond All Reason Logistics: OpenTTD (old-school UI warning, but if you sacrifice everything you know about UIs on the altar as an offering and abase yourself in front of the Old Gods, they will reward you) Idle: paperclips Survival: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (ASCII but again, You Will Be Rewarded) Colony: [c'mon. there is no competition for this, paid or otherwise](https:/bay12games.com/dwarves)

  • teiserver

    Middleware server for online gaming

    TBT: Battle for Wesnoth RTS: Beyond All Reason Logistics: OpenTTD (old-school UI warning, but if you sacrifice everything you know about UIs on the altar as an offering and abase yourself in front of the Old Gods, they will reward you) Idle: paperclips Survival: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (ASCII but again, You Will Be Rewarded) Colony: [c'mon. there is no competition for this, paid or otherwise](https:/bay12games.com/dwarves)

  • brainout

    Brain/out is a multiplayer shooter with a nostalgic post-soviet feel

    Also BRAIN / OUT is a cool game and has become open source not so long ago.

  • WorkOS

    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.

  • OpenTTD

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

  • 0ad

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

  • 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+

    https://wz2100.net/ Warzone 2100 - what a gem of an RTS, unit customization, massive research tree, ridiculously good AI (I think they have AI competitions)

  • SRB2

    SRB2 2.2 Public

    Sonic Robo Blast 2. Yes, really.

  • OpenTaiko

    An improved and personalized version of TJAPlayer3-Develop-Rewrite, .tja chart player axed on entertainment and creativity.

    OpenTaiko

  • OpenXcom

    Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽

    OpenXCOM

  • SSVOpenHexagon

    C++20 FOSS clone of "Super Hexagon". Depends on SSVStart, SSVEntitySystem, SSVLuaWrapper, SSVMenuSystem, JSONcpp, SFML2.0. Features JSON/LUA customizable game files, a soundtrack by BOSSFIGHT, pseudo-3D effects.

    Open Hexagon

  • flare-game

    Fantasy action RPG using the FLARE engine

    Flare is an open source diablo-like action rpg.

  • BrogueCE

    Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game

    In a completely different vein, there's Brogue, a roguelike pretty close to the original Rogue but with many modern touches that make it both nicer to look at and, imo at least, nicer to play.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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