For example veloren

Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

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    Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I’ll add OpenMW to the thread. It’s a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

    Another worthy mention is Endless Sky, it’s an open source game inspired by the classic space trading and combat game Escape Velocity.

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      Since you mentioned OpenMW I thought I should mention Daggerfall Unity. It’s an rewrite of Daggerfall using the Unity engine, also requiring the original files. The best thing about is that the developers have made it easily moddable and a very healthy modding community has sprung up for it, some of which really make the game feel like what the original developers were going for but had to deal with the technical limitations of the time.

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      Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!

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        I also played through most of the content at some point, but when they eventually updated with new content I couldn’t get back into it. Maybe I should try again because that was such a fun game.

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      Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

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    Cataclysm DDA Is THE open world zombie survival experience. So long as you like obtuse roguelikes with nearly no graphics.

    Although Im obviously biased what with being a dev and all.

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      CDDA is mind bogglingly cool. I play a weekend of it every few months. I know it won’t ever happen, but if it got the Dwarf Fortress Steam treatment one day, it could be the last game I ever bought and I’d be happy.

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    I haven’t seen any incremental games get posted. They aren’t exactly traditional games, but so many of them are open source like Antimatter Dimensions or Synergism. Bitburner is a unique one as an incremental hacking sim, since it relies on actual scripting to grow and automate tasks.

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    Battle for Wesnoth is a personal favorite of mine that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere in the thread. It’s a pixel art, hex-grid turn based strategy game with fantasy armies. It’s mixed with mild RPG elements, and there’s tons and tons of campaigns and fanmade content accessible directly through a mod browser in game.
    The other games I enjoy that I see being mentioned here are in the same vein. BAR, Warzone 2100, OpenTTD. And the open mods based on the STALKER engine, like Anomaly. I love those.

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    Beyond All Reason is AMAZING. I can’t say enough about it. Its my favourite game, and totally annihilates (!) the competition.

    Though I guess the competition is pretty small for large scale RTS. Maybe:

    • Total Annihilation
    • Supreme Commander
    • Ashes of the Singularity
    • Sins of the Solar Empire (sorta)

    BAR has fixed all the UI/UX problem, scales well, has a big community, is free, fun, and super deep and complex.

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      And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license

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        Thank you for this! I have already logged hours playing with my kid since seeing your suggestion. We have only played mineclone2 so far. I will look into veloren next.

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        Minetest in general has such a good mod selection it’s insane! My siblings and I never fail to have a good time goofing around with the plugins people have created.

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    Classic roguelikes have the most longetivity for me. Crawl, Brogue, Nethack.

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      ADOM was always my favourite, but Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is my go-to these days.

      Shattered Pixel Dungeon on android is also fantastic and has wonderful touch screen controls.