Ask HN: Which Do you know any open source games?

4 Forgret 2 8/10/2025, 8:22:22 AM

I wanted to play games, but I was tired of constant programs with ads and trackers, so I'm looking for interesting open source games (genre doesn't matter), because I like looking at the code of such games.

So please tell me the games you know or maybe created yourself.

Comments (2)

JoshTriplett · 1h ago

Battle for Wesnoth is fun, and there are many great add-ons available. I particularly recommend the SX, RPG, and similar maps, which give you a single strong unit each (single-player or multiplayer co-op) that advances and levels up, facing a huge horde.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is great if you enjoy roguelikes. It's designed to avoid a lot of the manual tracking needed in other roguelikes; for instance, you can search for where you left an item, or hit one key to explore unvisited areas of the current floor until you see anything unusual.

Hedgewars is a clone of Worms, if you're familiar with that.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is fun, and available on mobile devices.

LargoLasskhyfv · 7m ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeciv / https://freecivweb.com

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simutrans / https://www.simutrans.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD / https://www.openttd.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widelands / https://www.widelands.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warzone_2100 / https://wz2100.net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRA / https://www.openra.net/ https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters / https://sc2.sourceforge.net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead / https://cataclysmdda.org

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