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Open source game are the best (lemmy.wtf)
submitted 3 weeks ago by PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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O.a.d iz a realy great game. Also Luanti engine and Voxelibre game in it are realy awsome. What other open source game are outthere? Your favorite?

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 51 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

My favorites:

  • Mindustry
  • OpenTTD
  • Luanti (especially MT-Game, I actually dislike MineClonia)
  • Endless Sky
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon
  • FreeCiv
  • YGO Omega & EDOPro

I keep wanting to get into Pioneers / FreeCol, but it just doesn't work for me. I know a lot of people love TuxKart and Rigs of Rods, but I can't jive with driving games. And I feel that there need to be honorable mentions to Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, and Liberal Crime Squad.

[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

...all of them excellent. Dwarf Fortress, while being the bee's knees, is not open source.

Also try out Cataclysm: DDA. It's open source, and possibly approaches Dwarf Fortress in scope and fun.

[–] TingoTenga@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Woah, thanks for the list of games! I basically knew only about Tux Kart.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

You're welcome! There's a lot of great FOSS games - and I have to admit that having started from Windows, most of my knowledge originated from PortableApps.com. The games they list there are mostly FOSS, so it's a decent launchpad into the world of FOSS gaming.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

While YGO Omega is great, only some components are open source and so not FOSS. It also runs on Unity, that is not FOSS

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is FOSS? I've never seen a paid FOSS app

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

Shattered is a fork. The original Pixel Dungeon has a permissive license and allows selling modifications with source available

[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've seen some apps free on F-droid and paid in Play Store. Best of both worlds!

Here's an example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bitfire.davdroid

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

you can download it from github for free - missing the PC improvements like more quickslots and a larger inventory screen that can stay open while dungeoneering, but it's the full game: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases

specifically those improvements are for the paid steam release.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I see, thanks for clearing that up!

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the steam release is more of a "support the dev for some goodies" type of thing :-) Dwarf fortress on steam is also paid