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There was some interest in the previous discussion topic, there were some interesting replies, and I heard about some games I did not know about.
So I am doing another one. This time it is about open-source games. Do you play any? Do you have a favorite game?
I often play open-source games and enjoy a few. Freeciv and SuperTux, but I think I enjoy SuperTuxKart the most. It is a Mario Kart clone done very well, it has many courses and characters. All characters are mascots for open-source projects. And you can download additional courses and characters. Also, it supports online multiplayer. So what do you enjoy?

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Space Station 14 is incredible. Absolutely the most fun I've ever had playing any sort of multiplayer game. And since it's open source there are dozens of servers running their own forks, and lots of features or mechanics or improvements spread across the community when they work out well in their particular forks.

Basically, it's Among Us on steroids. Dozens or a hundred or two players all working to keep a space station running, except for the few randomly selected antagonists with goals to kill certain people, steal certain items, blow up the station, demonstrate wizardry prowess by conjuring wedges of cheese, turn people into intelligent corgis...the list is endless.

Bit of a learning curve but it's so worth it, each department has such depth to it and they're all so much fun to learn.

And the culture is just so wonderful. Folks are SO eager to help out new players. It's always so exciting to meet a newbie who's joined.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Basically, it’s Among Us on steroids

Have you heard of Space Station 13?

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I figured anyone who knows about ss13 will know about ss14 and vice versa, but I assume WAY more people have played Among Us than have ever glimpsed the word Nanotrasen

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My favourite at the moment is Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

But I always love that former closed games were opened up like Doom.

And let's not forget my own Diarrhea 4. It has enough fun for at least ten seconds!

[–] original_reader@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Diarrhea 4. Huh.

Pure awesomeness! Thank you for the tip. This is one of the most realistic simulations I've ever played!

100% would recommend.

[–] falseprophet@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. I have played Shattered Pixel Dungeon quite a lot but I am really bad at it. Diarrhea 4 looks fun I will try it out.

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

My favorites are

  1. SuperTuxKart
  2. Osu
  3. Rigs of Rods
  4. Luanti/Minetest
  5. Mindustry
[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, osu (as in the rythm-game) is OS?

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The original wasn't, but the modern "Lazer" rewrite is MIT licensed

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Beyond All Reason is a spiritual successor to Total Annihilation and is super cool. https://www.beyondallreason.info/

They're in alpha but it's very playable. They've got three factions, lore, pve (vs bots and vs one of 2 extra "factions" that are totally unique and only for pve), pvp, tons of customisation options.

And they're looking to release on steam soonish.

[–] falseprophet@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting, looks promising

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've surely got hundreds of hours on shattered pixel dungeon because the mobile version is a pretty great portable roguelike

OpenRCT2 and OpenRA are also great projects that have claimed their share of hours off me

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have played a few but the only one I play a lot is domination which is a risk clone. Still kinda irks me though the the computer opponents won't go after other computer opponents as it does to you.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I see you mentioned FreeCiv, I used to play that a lot. I quit, but it's one of those things i have to stop myself from playing or else I'll fall once more into that timesink.

[–] falseprophet@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I understand, it can be addicting. I used to play FreeCiv a lot but it has been a while since I last played it.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I keep meaning to try out FreeCol https://www.freecol.org/ ... I think I did once but it was a while back and I kept having some problem, don't remember what. Tho now that I look at it, it must makes me miss that expansion to (non-open-source) Total War Empire in which you could play the natives fighting back against the colonists lel. Yeah that's the time-sink I'd willingly fall into, an open-source version of Total War, doesn't seem to be anything like that tho.

[–] falseprophet@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe one someone will make a open source version of total war. I would play that too.