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Pixel dungeon.
beyond all reason
Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.
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.)
they haven’t replaced all the game assets yet.
Its open source. You’re just too lazy to finish the job.
Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.
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
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Republic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already?
Forgot to add a key detail! This game is a direct homage to the old Escape Velocity games if you remember those.
Actually it was my search for Escape Velocity which led me to it!
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.
They have specifically gotten better about adding in other opportunities especially for starting the
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Free Worlds
story line.
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
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Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris.
I’ve also made it
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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.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
I also really like Nightmare Kart which is free on steam, but I don’t think it is open souce…?
DF isn’t open source tho. It’s not even source available.
Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
Xonotic is so fast and smooth.
BAR is the greatest RTS.
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.
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.
VintageStory is kinda open source, and far more polished than any other minecraft clone.
Which part of it is open source?
The core mods are source available, and the base game is open source iirc
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.
since no one’s mentioned them:
- Oolite
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I love DC:SS.
It is like a refined nethack
I’m not very good at it, but NetHack catches me every now and then.
Space Station 14 for me.
Lots of great games. Gonna add Endless Sky. 2D top down space sim RPG. Think Escape Velocity series.
One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
Your link seems to be borked.
