Also, I'm not sure you can count OpenRCT2 as fully open source, as it still requires the closed-source game files to run -- they haven't replaced all the game assets yet.
(That said, it's still fantastic and by far the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.)
Technically, it's still an open source mod of a closed source game.
And am I too lazy to finish the job? ... Yeah, I guess I am. I am too lazy to go out there and re-do all of the thousands of graphics sprites and all the sound effects and music all on my own. Feel free to do it yourself if you're not that lazy. I'm sure the devs would appreciate your effort.
From the Luanti/Minetest games, I also like Exile very much.
It is a bit hard and nerdy (you'll have to read the PDF guide/tutorial as you progress), but I found it oddly calming. I recommend single-player only.
In contrast to other Luanti/Minecraft-Like games, in Exile it feels very rewarding just to have found shelter from a storm and a cozy fire going, after you were on the edge of collapsing from exhaustion. Though you're almost certainly out of food and it would be dangerous to go out looking before the storm passes, you're not quite dying yet and you have time to make your mud hole a bit more cozy. (It's not a good game if you want to build huge creative castles, but you'll need to build and improve your home a bit.)
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a little weird, in that it's really just meant to be the game engine, not the full game. Mineclonia is basically a mod that adds back in all the extra mobs and whatnot Minecraft has.
Came here to say exactly this. Played it for years and it keeps getting better and better. It's based on a game called Pixel Dungeon, which the original developer open sourced when they got bored with it. There are several other forks of PD, and I've also played most of them too, and SPD is definitely the best, and possibly the only one still in development.
I don't see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it's a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
Or a trading grind, depending on your playstyle. I've barely ever mined in it.
How are they doing on the campaign/storyline, BTW? Last time I played it (a year or so ago) I managed to capture a jump drive and explored a bunch of really interesting areas outside human space, but it really felt like I wasn't intended to be there yet and the story wasn't really ready for it.
Endless sky follows the old and storied tradition where 90% of the game's content is locked behind speaking to a specific random NPC near the starting town, and not giving any hints at all that you're going the wrong way. You probably fell victim to that.
No, I was following the human space campaign just fine (although maybe I didn't go far enough along it for it to take me to alien space "naturally").
I've also picked up at least one non-randomly-generated quest from the
::: spoiler spoiler
Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris.
:::
I've also made it
::: spoiler spoiler
through the Tangled Shroud to Avgi space, and maybe I'm legitimately on their main questline there (as I currently have a job marker for "Meet up with the Avgi Strike force at Navigeo Yards in the Symphony system" on my map)
:::
It's just that those last two things I mentioned, especially the latter one, don't feel all that fleshed out compared to the human campaign.
I've wandered through the territories of a couple of other species, but they're either hostile or I haven't figured out how to talk to them yet.
Oh you did! Indeed, you have to complete the human campaign all the way through (to the point that you get an epilogue) to even be able to start the 2nd largest storyline after the human things.
Came here to say this, although I would not categorize it as a "shooter mining grind" (FWIF I never mine grind).
There are tons of things to do and stories to play. The community is quite active especially on the Git and Discord. Lot's do to but you really need to explore to get the full experience.
Also
::: spoiler spoiler
Republic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already?
:::
Though I haven't played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is "Under The Burning Suns", which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn't be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.
I'm maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It's still very well written, maybe just not my "book". But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.
Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point.
Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.
Haven't played Unciv, how does it compare to Freeciv? If I see correctly, Freeciv is much closer to the original game, while Unciv tries to add some more "fun" features?
I really can't say anything about this, because I never played Freeciv. The reason is, that Freeciv has no Android APK (AFAIK). I play Unciv exclusively on my phone during my work breaks.
People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow
It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.
This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.
Edit:
I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.
I played hundreds and hundreds of hours of Tremulous back in the day, and at least a few of its successor Unvanquished -- before mostly falling out of playing online games.
Tremulous was THE game for me for a couple of years, I remember people praising Natural Selection 2 as the FPS/RTS combo and I was like "but that's just one player playing an RTS and the rest playing an FPS". I always preferred the natural way we built in first person, and anyone could build anything, from Tremulous.
Thanks for mentioning NS2, I would've scrolled past this game otherwise. NS2 was my most favorite competitive game, that I never found people to play with for (aside from once being approached by someone at a bar, who overheard me talking about NS2 and that I play Starcraft, that they're looking for an RTS player for their e-sport NS2 team. I... wasn't good at Starcraft, so it didn't work out, but it was a funny random happenstance).
I love asymmetric games, and the mix of RTS + FPS for the rest seems like a really interesting game from the competitive/meta standpoint.
I'll check out these two games, sounds like it might be right up my alley.
It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.
Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".
And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".
It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.
Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.
If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE
Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.
Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.
Didn't know they actually published some source code. I looked at their GitHub account, unfortunately almost all of their repositories have this in their readme:
This is proprietary software owned by Anego Studios. All rights reserved.
You may NOT sell this software in any way, shape or form. You may NOT distribute this software in its unmodified form.
Despite not actually playing it myself, i'd say Unciv just because it actually straight up reimplements civlization and is super moddable, it's really well done (aside from the acceptable graphics, but hey that's """easily""" fixable by some future helpful artist)
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).
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kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 41d
OpenTTD
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 41d
Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 10 pts · 41d
Also, I'm not sure you can count OpenRCT2 as fully open source, as it still requires the closed-source game files to run -- they haven't replaced all the game assets yet.
(That said, it's still fantastic and by far the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.)
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 39d
Its open source. You're just too lazy to finish the job.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 39d
Technically, it's still an open source mod of a closed source game.
And am I too lazy to finish the job? ... Yeah, I guess I am. I am too lazy to go out there and re-do all of the thousands of graphics sprites and all the sound effects and music all on my own. Feel free to do it yourself if you're not that lazy. I'm sure the devs would appreciate your effort.
shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 41d
Mineclonia has like 95% of the features of Minecraft but is way better because you don't need a Microsoft account, plus modding is easier.
Also awesome:
popcar2@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 41d
What's different between Mineclonia and Voxelibre?
shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 40d
Mineclonia is a fork of VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) that adds various improvements:
maxy@piefed.social · 4 pts · 40d
From the Luanti/Minetest games, I also like Exile very much.
It is a bit hard and nerdy (you'll have to read the PDF guide/tutorial as you progress), but I found it oddly calming. I recommend single-player only.
In contrast to other Luanti/Minecraft-Like games, in Exile it feels very rewarding just to have found shelter from a storm and a cozy fire going, after you were on the edge of collapsing from exhaustion. Though you're almost certainly out of food and it would be dangerous to go out looking before the storm passes, you're not quite dying yet and you have time to make your mud hole a bit more cozy. (It's not a good game if you want to build huge creative castles, but you'll need to build and improve your home a bit.)
Seimhe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
I had only heard of minetest. How does it compare?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 41d
Luanti is what Minetest was renamed to so it basically is Minetest
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 41d
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a little weird, in that it's really just meant to be the game engine, not the full game. Mineclonia is basically a mod that adds back in all the extra mobs and whatnot Minecraft has.
Seimhe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 40d
Oh, now I understand. Thanks so much for the explanation.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 37 pts · 41d
Mindustry
Not sure if it's my favorite, but openttd was already mentioned.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 41d
It's such a fun game, especially after you beat a campaign level. I love that part purely for the freedom it provides after a hard fought battle.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 41d
Veloren
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 41d
Didn't know that one, seems cool.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 41d
Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The dev is even active on Lemmy! !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
cybervegan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 40d
Came here to say exactly this. Played it for years and it keeps getting better and better. It's based on a game called Pixel Dungeon, which the original developer open sourced when they got bored with it. There are several other forks of PD, and I've also played most of them too, and SPD is definitely the best, and possibly the only one still in development.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 39d
I love shattered PD!
nullPointer@programming.dev · 28 pts · 41d
beyond all reason
lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 41d
I don't see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it's a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
The source is here.
KingKong33@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 40d
Holy shit, I played Frogatto YEARS ago and totally forgot about it. Thank you!
667@lemmy.radio · 25 pts · 41d
Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 41d
Or a trading grind, depending on your playstyle. I've barely ever mined in it.
How are they doing on the campaign/storyline, BTW? Last time I played it (a year or so ago) I managed to capture a jump drive and explored a bunch of really interesting areas outside human space, but it really felt like I wasn't intended to be there yet and the story wasn't really ready for it.
sus@programming.dev · 7 pts · 40d
Endless sky follows the old and storied tradition where 90% of the game's content is locked behind speaking to a specific random NPC near the starting town, and not giving any hints at all that you're going the wrong way. You probably fell victim to that.
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 40d
No, I was following the human space campaign just fine (although maybe I didn't go far enough along it for it to take me to alien space "naturally").
I've also picked up at least one non-randomly-generated quest from the
::: spoiler spoiler
Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris. :::
I've also made it
::: spoiler spoiler
through the Tangled Shroud to Avgi space, and maybe I'm legitimately on their main questline there (as I currently have a job marker for "Meet up with the Avgi Strike force at Navigeo Yards in the Symphony system" on my map) :::
It's just that those last two things I mentioned, especially the latter one, don't feel all that fleshed out compared to the human campaign.
I've wandered through the territories of a couple of other species, but they're either hostile or I haven't figured out how to talk to them yet.
sus@programming.dev · 5 pts · 40d
Oh you did! Indeed, you have to complete the human campaign all the way through (to the point that you get an epilogue) to even be able to start the 2nd largest storyline after the human things.
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 2 pts · 39d
They have specifically gotten better about adding in other opportunities especially for starting the ::: spoiler spoiler Free Worlds ::: story line.
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 1 pts · 39d
Came here to say this, although I would not categorize it as a "shooter mining grind" (FWIF I never mine grind).
There are tons of things to do and stories to play. The community is quite active especially on the Git and Discord. Lot's do to but you really need to explore to get the full experience.
Also ::: spoiler spoiler Republic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already? :::
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 1 pts · 39d
Forgot to add a key detail! This game is a direct homage to the old Escape Velocity games if you remember those.
667@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 39d
Actually it was my search for Escape Velocity which led me to it!
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 1 pts · 39d
Same! But long, long ago, like 2017 or so. I am overdue for another play through soon!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 22 pts · 41d
Isn't Doom open source now? Does that count?
Klear@piefed.world · 16 pts · 41d
It is and it does.
FiniteBanjo@programming.dev · 3 pts · 40d
However it is unclear where Diablo stands. We have open source decompilations and remakes but as for the legality: grey area.
maxy@piefed.social · 20 pts · 40d
Battle for Wesnoth. It's a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.
Though I haven't played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is "Under The Burning Suns", which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn't be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
vestigeofgreen@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 40d
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
vestigeofgreen@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 40d
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there's not much writing, what's there is generally good. I'd rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver's gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
maxy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 40d
Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.
I'm maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It's still very well written, maybe just not my "book". But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.
monomon@programming.dev · 1 pts · 40d
Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point. Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 40d
Thank you for this! I played it long ago when I used Ubuntu but couldn't remember the name when I wanted to play it again!
Captain_Baka@feddit.org · 18 pts · 41d
Unciv
Tux Kart
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered
These 3 games are my favourites at the moment.
monomon@programming.dev · 1 pts · 40d
Haven't played Unciv, how does it compare to Freeciv? If I see correctly, Freeciv is much closer to the original game, while Unciv tries to add some more "fun" features?
m532@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 39d
Unciv - civ5 g&k
Freeciv - idk, civ2 maybe?
Captain_Baka@feddit.org · 1 pts · 40d
I really can't say anything about this, because I never played Freeciv. The reason is, that Freeciv has no Android APK (AFAIK). I play Unciv exclusively on my phone during my work breaks.
monomon@programming.dev · 1 pts · 39d
Oh it's on Android? Nice.
c64z86@piefed.world · 16 pts · 41d
SuperTux! 🐧
bruce965@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 41d
Can I do a shameless plug? Not necessarily all of these are my favourites, but most of these are pretty nice. Here's my list.
My top fav is Mindustry, which has already been mentioned. Another not very popular FOSS game which is pretty good imho is OpenClonk.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 40d
Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
Xonotic is so fast and smooth.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FoeKWm5a0
UFODivebomb@programming.dev · 4 pts · 40d
BAR is the greatest RTS.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 41d
People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow
It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.
This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.
Edit:
I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.
maxy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 39d
If you like puzzles, there is also fillets! Oldie but goodie.
apt install fillets-ngpno2nr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 41d
I still play 0AD every now and then
brockhold@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 41d
I played hundreds and hundreds of hours of Tremulous back in the day, and at least a few of its successor Unvanquished -- before mostly falling out of playing online games.
ellohir@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 39d
Tremulous was THE game for me for a couple of years, I remember people praising Natural Selection 2 as the FPS/RTS combo and I was like "but that's just one player playing an RTS and the rest playing an FPS". I always preferred the natural way we built in first person, and anyone could build anything, from Tremulous.
Mikina@programming.dev · 1 pts · 37d
Thanks for mentioning NS2, I would've scrolled past this game otherwise. NS2 was my most favorite competitive game, that I never found people to play with for (aside from once being approached by someone at a bar, who overheard me talking about NS2 and that I play Starcraft, that they're looking for an RTS player for their e-sport NS2 team. I... wasn't good at Starcraft, so it didn't work out, but it was a funny random happenstance).
I love asymmetric games, and the mix of RTS + FPS for the rest seems like a really interesting game from the competitive/meta standpoint.
I'll check out these two games, sounds like it might be right up my alley.
ellohir@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Check out the old trailer here, it shows how a game usually goes. It's a shame the resolution from 20 years ago is not very good though 😅
https://youtu.be/lglC8-fXCcU
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 40d
since no one's mentioned them:
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 40d
I love DC:SS.
It is like a refined nethack
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 41d
Super Tux Kart
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 39d
Lots of great games. Gonna add Endless Sky. 2D top down space sim RPG. Think Escape Velocity series.
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 40d
Space Station 14 for me.
Mikina@programming.dev · 5 pts · 39d
I highly recommend Space Station 14.
It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.
Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".
And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".
It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.
Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.
If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE
Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.
Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.
ZiClaud@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 41d
I really like We Become What We Behold
https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
Its a gem
TheV2@programming.dev · 4 pts · 40d
I'm not very good at it, but NetHack catches me every now and then.
itsralC@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 40d
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 39d
Your link seems to be borked.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 40d
I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 39d
Played that one. Think it's a bit silly that humans discovering you is instant game over even if you're already running moon bases.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 39d
I agree, or if they discover you the freaking reality bubble?? But it doesnt bother me too mich -- i can suspend disbelief.
az04@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 40d
Cubyz is also similar to minecraft
ludrol@programming.dev · 2 pts · 40d
Beyond all reason and Friday Night Funkin
fum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 40d
Breakout 71
https://renanlecaro.itch.io/breakout71
xpey@piefed.social · 2 pts · 41d
Friday Night Funkin!
Krusty@quokk.au · 2 pts · 41d
Pixel dungeon.
FiniteBanjo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 40d
Dwarf Fortress
I also really like Nightmare Kart which is free on steam, but I don't think it is open souce...?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 40d
DF isn't open source tho. It's not even source available.
FiniteBanjo@programming.dev · 1 pts · 40d
Ah, my apologies, the binaries are closed source and the raws are public domain.
A better answer would have been KeeperRL
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
Sonic Robo Blast 2 anyone?
https://www.srb2.org/
https://github.com/stjr/srb2
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 41d
VintageStory is kinda open source, and far more polished than any other minecraft clone.
vulpivia@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 40d
Which part of it is open source?
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 40d
The core mods are source available, and the base game is open source iirc
vulpivia@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 40d
Didn't know they actually published some source code. I looked at their GitHub account, unfortunately almost all of their repositories have this in their readme:
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 40d
That's not gonna stop me mwahahahaha
Juanro49@tardigram.com · 2 pts · 39d
0ad @play0ad@mastodon.social
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 38d
Despite not actually playing it myself, i'd say Unciv just because it actually straight up reimplements civlization and is super moddable, it's really well done (aside from the acceptable graphics, but hey that's """easily""" fixable by some future helpful artist)
fum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 40d
ROTA
https://github.com/HarmonyHoney/ROTA
sobchak@programming.dev · 1 pts · 40d
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).