For example veloren

Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

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    Beyond All Reason is AMAZING. I can’t say enough about it. Its my favourite game, and totally annihilates (!) the competition.

    Though I guess the competition is pretty small for large scale RTS. Maybe:

    • Total Annihilation
    • Supreme Commander
    • Ashes of the Singularity
    • Sins of the Solar Empire (sorta)

    BAR has fixed all the UI/UX problem, scales well, has a big community, is free, fun, and super deep and complex.

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      I don’t really like this type of games but the game looks pretty cool

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        Yeah its a specific type of person that would enjoy it, perhaps a Factorio/Factory Must Grow genre mixed with small scale RTS.

        Still, playing 20v20 games are incredible.

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          ZeroK has some of the nicest QoL features I’ve seen in an RTS game, I’ve always wanted to see if the other big Spring games are similar.

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            I found all the ZK ones made it to BAR, right click formations, area mexes, repeat queues, fancy waypointing etc. Maybe its just an inherent part of Spring RTS so they all share the benefits, who knows.

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        Its also gone gangbusters over the past few months, unsure why. Hundreds of concurrent players at any time which is pretty amazing.

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      Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

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        thirded. played it years ago and got into it again recently. you should check it out again, there’s a lot of new stuff they’ve added.

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      I love OpenTTD, came here looking for it.

      For the uninitiated, it’s a reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transportation empire of trains, lorrys ships and planes.

      There’s also a modern spiritual successor in Transport Fever (commercial, not open source)

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      And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license

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        Minetest in general has such a good mod selection it’s insane! My siblings and I never fail to have a good time goofing around with the plugins people have created.

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      I recently got into that game quite a bit. Playing it on steam. Just the other day I discovered I can board pirate ships and kill the crew to claim the ship as my own. That has been a significant power boost for me and really unlocked the game.

      Even before that I was having fun trying to survive with limited power while still exploring the world

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      Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!

      Don’t be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you’ll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don’t carry over.

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        I grew up playing the EV series and I love Endless Sky. Is there something about the clone that you don’t like? I can’t thing of a change that I dislike. For example, fleet management is improved. Being able to dock your various ships and escorts is pretty cool.

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      I haven’t played that in awhile but it’s awesome, a perfect homage to Escape Velocity, my very favorite Mac game.

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    Veloren is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

    You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!

    You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.

    The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.

    It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!

    See https://veloren.net/

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    Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I’ll add OpenMW to the thread. It’s a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

    Another worthy mention is Endless Sky, it’s an open source game inspired by the classic space trading and combat game Escape Velocity.

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      Since you mentioned OpenMW I thought I should mention Daggerfall Unity. It’s an rewrite of Daggerfall using the Unity engine, also requiring the original files. The best thing about is that the developers have made it easily moddable and a very healthy modding community has sprung up for it, some of which really make the game feel like what the original developers were going for but had to deal with the technical limitations of the time.

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      Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!

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        I also played through most of the content at some point, but when they eventually updated with new content I couldn’t get back into it. Maybe I should try again because that was such a fun game.

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    Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.

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    Mindustry is an awesome strategy game that combines Factorio with tower defense.

    Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (ridiculous name I know) is one of the most underrated games ever. It’s a super polished, high quality Kart game with an insane amount of mods and maps. The online isn’t that populated but the singleplayer time trial is TONS of fun. If you like hunting for medals, it can be a pretty deep rabbit hole. There’s a sequel in development but no release date.

    GzDoom is the most popular Doom source port and there’s a practically infinite amount of user generated content. If you don’t know where to start I highly recommend Doom: The Golden Souls Remastered and Castlevania: Simon’s Destiny. They’re good enough to be premium games.

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    https://github.com/open-duelyst/duelyst

    Duelyst was a very popular online card game that shutdown around 3 years ago. The developers have recently released it into the public domain (via CC0 license).

    You can completely selfhost a private instance (repo has a good straight forward guide)

    There is a public instance available to try https://duelyst.org/. Though it might be pretty barren.

    There is also a closed fork which should have a more active userbase https://duelyst2.com/, the game rules are a little different (draw 2 vs draw1), but should have more users to get a feeling for the game.

    The game in a nutshell is basically Hearthstone on a chessboard. It’s very fun and approachable and in my opinion one of the best cardgames right next to MagicTCG :). Hopefully the community for it will grow more and we can have a sort of second renaissance for it :)

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      I seriously think that every online only game should have to make the server assets public if they’ve abandoned it longer than 10 years. So many good games are just lost to time.

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    Cataclysm DDA Is THE open world zombie survival experience. So long as you like obtuse roguelikes with nearly no graphics.

    Although Im obviously biased what with being a dev and all.

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    Have not seen anyone mention one of the best rogue like games out there, Tales of Maj’Eyal

    https://te4.org

    Base game is free to download and play from their website. Massive world, tons of loot, an incredible number of classes and abilities to combine, it’s such a fantastic game that also has native Linux support.