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Similar projects and alternatives to Mindustry
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Cataclysm-DDA
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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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.
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shapez.io
shapez.io is an open source base building game inspired by factorio! Available on web & desktop (by Sense101)
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BrogueCE
Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
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0ad
Discontinued [DEPRECATED] Git mirror of the 0 A.D. SVN source code (migrated to https://gitea.wildfiregames.com on August 20th 2024)
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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+
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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 better Mindustry alternative or higher similarity.
Mindustry discussion
Mindustry reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mindustry.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-11-23.
- Mindustry
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Why isn't There a open-source (project) game?
There are many open-source games. There are few large-scale high-polish open source games because it's difficult to build a business model around that. Unlike non-game software, games are ~exclusively consumer-facing, so you can't sell support or use them as a loss leader, and they're standalone applications that are difficult to monetize with online features or to use as the core of a closed-source commercial product.
That said, there are still lots of great projects out there (some of which have even had commercial success), for example:
- https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX
- https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason
- https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky
- https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry
- Mindustry: Open-source sandbox tower-defense game
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Mindustry - The automation tower defence RTS. Java
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Ask HN: Factorio-Like Game for Kids?
Mindustry[1] is quite similar.
This one isn't quite the same, but OpenTTD[2] might be of interest to you. It's fun and it's simple enough for kids to get the hang of.
- [1]: https://mindustrygame.github.io/
- [2]: https://openttd.org/
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Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
Does it make sense to publish Deb packages for this game?
Also this commit: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479...
- Mindustry: Full game source code [Java, NotGodot]
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Factorio: Space Age
Or (while on the subject of Factorio) Mindustry:
[0] https://mindustrygame.github.io/
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[Steam] Summer Sale 2023 (Final Day)
Mindustry is free and open source. Download the latest release from here.
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Why nobody plays competitively? :D PvP
It's not Factorio, but it's very similar and IMO has a much better PVP experience. Check it out! https://mindustrygame.github.io/
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Stats
Basic Mindustry repo stats
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Anuken/Mindustry is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
Mindustry is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Mindustry is Java.
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