Open Source Games

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Awesome Open Source Games Awesome

Open source games that have the source code available.

Contents

Major Companies

A selection of major game studios, publishers, etc. using GitHub:

<img src="https://github.com/zynga.png" title="Zynga" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/mojang.png" title="Mojang" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/riotgames.png" title="Riot Games" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/epicgames.png" title="Epic Games" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/OculusVR.png" title="Oculus VR Inc" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/unity-technologies.png" title="Unity Technologies" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/electronicarts.png" title="Electronic Arts" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/valvesoftware.png" title="Valve" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/gree.png" title="GREE" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/dena.png" title="DeNA" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/playgameservices.png" title="Google Play Game Services" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/blizzard.png" title="Blizzard" height="50">  <img src="https://github.com/ccpgames.png" title="CCP Games" height="50"> 

Browser-Based

Boardgame

  • [3D Hartwing Chess Set](https://github.com/juliangarnier/3D-Hartwig-chess-set) - 3D chess game done in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
  • c4 - Connect Four game where player is playing against an AI.
  • Desperate Gods - Free online board game that was designed to be played just like a board game in real-life: no rules are enforced by the computer.
  • Green Mahjong - Solitaire mahjong game done in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
  • Kriegspiel - The game of imperfect information, the Kriegspiel chess variant.
  • Lichess - Free chess game using HTML5 & websockets built with Scala, Play 2.8, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

Arcade

  • Alge's Escapade - Help Alge escape by moving through the levels to the escape tube.
  • Alien Invasion - Don't let the aliens reach the bottom, eliminate them using your spaceship.
  • Arashi - Clone of the Arcade game Tempest. Survive as long as possible and score many points as possible.
  • Asteroids - Pure JavaScript asteroids. Destroy asteroids ans saucers controlling a triangular ship rotating left and right.
  • Avabranch - Get your Ava away from the blocks moving between them.
  • Ball And Wall - Destroy the blocks using the Vaus, that is ejected from the ship.
  • Breakout - Multiplayer with HTML5. Destroy the blocks using one ball from your ship.
  • Captain Rogers - HTML5 mobile game created using ImpactJavaScript.
  • Ceros Snake - A remake of the iconic 70's Snake game.
  • CHANG€ - Intense game about the extreme life of supermarket cashiers.
  • Chromacore - 2D musical platformer set in a dark, black & white world that progressively becomes more colorful and happy through successful gameplay.
  • Jolly Jumper - Infinite jumping style game inspired by Doodle jump.
  • Clumsy Bird - Flappy Bird clone in JavaScript using MelonJavaScript.
  • Coffee Snake - HTML5 snake game written in CoffeeScript.
  • Coil - HTML5 canvas game where you defeat enemies by wrapping enemies in your trail.
  • Color Quest - Infinite runner following a black and white pixel's quest to change into a color pixel.
  • Core Commiter - Choose an open source project and help that project by sorting code to proper branches.
  • Crappy Bird - Flappy Bird clone in JavaScript and Canvas2D API.
  • Custom Tetris - Play the classic Tetris game the way you like it.
  • D3shooter - Asteroids style game in HTML5 as a demo of the d3 library.
  • Digger - The player is placed in an underground maze and can dig horizontal and vertical tunnels through it.
  • Drakonas - Classic shoot 'em up game build with the Three.js library.
  • Drill Bunny - Drill game with a bunny finding good stuff under the earth.
  • DuckHunt JavaScript - DuckHunt ported to JavaScript and HTML5 with a level creator.
  • Emberwind - Fantasy game port of the indie platform game Emberwind.
  • ExecutiveMan - Clone of NES game MegaMan, written in JavaScript.
  • Fluid Table Tennis - Renders a table tennis game interacting with a full-color real-time fluid simulation at 60 FPS.
  • Heal 'em All - Explore old, abandoned graveyard, heal as many zombies as you can, and find your way out. But be careful not to become one of them.
  • HotFix - Help Hotfix collect stargazers and avoid enemies. Collect commits to upgrade hotfix and add new features.
  • Hyperspace Garbage Collector - Guide N4n through the dangerous trash-heap caverns to reach the Primary Systems Core and restore compliance to the Trash.
  • I Spy A Ghost - An experimental p2p multiplayer game made in HTML5/Phaser using WebRTC.
  • Jekyll & Hyde Collide - Simple Unity 2d game that is very literally based around the theme of "change" using the classic Jeykll and Hyde story.
  • JumpSuit - With your awesome suit, jump from planet to planet to conquer them.
  • Mario 5 HTML - Infinite Mario in HTML5 JavaScript using Canvas and Audio elements.
  • Mega Girl - The hyper-deluxed-super-mega software that beats back those malicious apps.
  • [Masonry JavaScript Tetris Clone](https://github.com/gamedolphin/Masonry-JavaScript-Tetris-Clone) - Tetris clone created using HTML5/JavaScript/Phaser.
  • Monster Wants Candy - Simple HTML5 game created with Phaser 2.0.7.
  • Octocat Jump - Navigate your ever-jumping Octocat and collect stars for extra points.
  • Onslaught Arena - Fight off hordes of classic medieval monsters in this fast paced arcade shooter.
  • Pappu Pakia - Addictive game where you guide little Pappu around obstacles while collecting coins, stars, and berries and avoiding enemies known as Pakias.
  • Phaser Snake - JavaScript version of the snake game, created using the Phaser Engine.
  • PixelPlatformer - Simple platformer game that demostrates the power of the Entity game engine.
  • PolyBranch - Minimalist 3D game. Dodging branches may seem easy at first, let's see how long can you hold up as you approach terminal velocity.
  • Protocol 390 - To survive in People's Park, you must supply the prophet with change.
  • Raging Gardens - JavaScript/HTML5 web browser game where a a hungry (ninja) rabbit farts too often.
  • Release Cycles - Abstract racing game where you fight against the clock and the computer to get as far as you can in a product's life-cycle.
  • Save The Forest - Fully canvas based HTML5 game where a player has to extinguish fire on tress using his magical water tank in order to save the Burning Forests.
  • Ski Free - Controls a skier on a mountain slope, avoiding obstacles while racing against time or performing stunts for points, depending on the game mode.
  • Snake - Simple clone of the snake game, using canvas and JavaScript.
  • Snake_new - Classic nokia snake game using web.
  • Space-Shooter - Classic shoot'em up space shooter build in HTML5 with multiplayer.
  • Spashal - Danger lurks around every corner in space.
  • Square Off! - Multiplayer 1v1 air-hockey style game, place squares to deflect the ball.
  • Space Crusade - HTML5 game developped with PhaserJavaScript Framework.
  • Super Mario Bros - One level written with Backbone Game Engine.
  • Survivor - Playable HTML + CSS + JavaScript remake of a space-based "shoot-'em-up" arcade game for Atari / Commodore 64 from 1982, including a level editor and design tool.
  • WPilot - Browser-based remake of the famous XPilot game, built with Node.js and HTML5.
  • Zedinvaders - Game is based on our original comic ZED, seen inside "zero-episode" called "Game Over".
  • 111 one-button games - One button games are famous for realizing various actions with one button.

FPS

  • Backdooms - Game inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms, small enough to be self contained inside a QR code.
  • BananaBread - Port of the Cube 2/Sauerbraten 3D game engine/first person shooter to the web, compiling C++ and OpenGL to JavaScript and WebGL using Emscripten.
  • Nazi Zombies Portable - Call of Duty: Zombies "de-make" powered by various enhanced forks of the Quake engine.

RPG

MMORPG

  • BrowserQuest - HTML5/JavaScript multiplayer game experiment.
  • Reia - RPG game action-adventure MMO focusing heavily on story, combat, and an open-world sandox adventure. Built with Godot, Rust, and Zig.

Strategy

  • Ancient Beast - Materialize and control beasts in order to defeat your opponents.
  • Command & Conquer - Recreation of the original Command and Conquer, Real Time Strategy game entirely in HTML5 and JavaScript.
  • Freeciv-web - Build cities, collect resources, organize your government, and build an army, with the ultimate goal of creating the best civilization.
  • Hexa Battle - Turn based dungeon crawler written with TypeScript, using React and SVG.
  • Rapid Dominance - Open source turn-based strategy game. Clone of the Enemy Flag.
  • Tower Defense - 3D Tower Defense build with Three.js in HTML5.

Racing

Sandbox

  • 3d.city - Goal was to build a city in 3D to test the performance of WebGL and and Three.js.
  • Blk Game - Fully modifiable multiplayer voxel world in JS that can run efficiently in the browser.
  • Cube Engine - Resembles that of Minecraft, a popular voxel-type 3D game based on boxes.
  • Sandboxels - Falling-sand experimentation game with over 500 materials to play with.

Puzzle

  • 2048 - Clone of 1024, based on Saming's 2048.
  • A Dark Room - Dodge and shoot the red targets, grabbing the bombs as you go. Survive as long as possible and try to get a high score.
  • Anagramica - A word game and API for anagrams.
  • Astry - WebGL maze game built with Three.js and Box2dWeb.
  • Beatrix - Music game where you arrange the drums to catch the beats and play the right rhythm.
  • BitBot - HTML/JavaScript game where you control a bot, which must sense, plan, and act.
  • BlicblockJavaScript - JavaScript game based on Blicblock in The Sims 4. Match tetrominoes to clear the board.
  • Blockrain.js - Embed & play the classic game on your site. Simple as that.
  • Branching Out - Minimalist game about leaving home.
  • Clone Man - Puzzle, memory, retro game with simple graphics.
  • Couch 2048 - A physics-based puzzle, loosely related to the original 2048 game.
  • cube-composer - A puzzle game inspired by functional programming.
  • Drunken Viking - Retrace your drunken rampage in reverse time.
  • Ending - Roguelike puzzle game.
  • Follow me! A Simon Clone - Fully commented version of the famous game in JavaScript, built using Phaser game engine.
  • For King - Puzzle platformer game about a king in search for his lost crown.
  • Genetic Drift - Victor, an annoyed janitor dealing with a lot of annoyed clones and the problems that inevitably arise from genetic duplication. Will he make it home to feed his faithful pet companion?.
  • Hex 2048 - Hexgrid-based clone of 2048.
  • Hexahedral - Push down all the blocks in the minimum number of moves.
  • Hextris - Addictive puzzle game inspired by Tetris.
  • Infectors - Sokoban-like puzzle game developed with Phaser.
  • Lost! Beneath the Surface - You're a firefly lost in the dark, beneath the surface and must find a way out of the mazes created by the horrors in the dark.
  • Maze 3D - A 3D maze game.
  • Monkey Rally - JavaScript game created for the Ludum Dare #28 jam.
  • Ned Et Les Maki - Puzzle game with isometric 3D graphics inspired by Sokoban.
  • Orbium - Modern version of the 90's game Logical.
  • Parity - A numbers puzzle game.
  • Pond - The Pound is about relaxing and exploring a beautiful world.
  • Pop Pop Win - Implementation of Minesweeper in Dart.
  • Prism - Match all the colors.
  • Push and Fork - Puzzle game in which you carry a fork, push blocks, and go back in time.
  • Shape Experiment - The shape recognition reflex game.
  • Sliding Puzzle - Sliding blocks puzzle game.
  • Sudoku JavaScript - A Sudoku puzzle game with a clean design and mobile devices in mind.
  • Swap - New take on the classic tile-based puzzle game, where you change which character you're controlling to reach your goal.
  • TransCube - 2d puzzle platformer based on the concept of transforming into different "blocks", with their unique properties, and making you way to the end of the level with the provided transformations.
  • Untrusted - Meta-JavaScript adventure game by Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin.
  • Matching Pairs - Made in HTML5 using Phaser as the framework, original assets and generated music.
  • Zoko - 3D version of Sokoban.
  • Zop - Connect like colors.

Clicker

  • Particle Clicker - Addictive incremental game that teaches players the history of high energy particle physics.

Point and Click

  • The House - You're in a strange house. Can you find the way out? Is there any?

Others

  • Beast - An homage to the 1984 ASCII game "BEAST" from Dan Baker, Alan Brown, Mark Hamilton and Derrick Shadel written in node. You have to squash little ASCII beasts between pushable blocks but watch you to not be eaten by them.
  • Binb - Competitive, multiplayer, realtime, guess the song game.
  • CyberPong - Unusual Ping Pong game, adaptable with Makey Makey Kit.
  • Dental Defender: Saga of the Candy Horde - HTML5 shooter/tower defense game for the #CandyJam.
  • Descensus 2 - A TypeScript 2D physics game.
  • Hauberk - ASCII-art based procedurally-generated dungeon crawl game. It's written in Dart and runs in your browser.
  • HeartLine - Game made in 48 hours for the 2013 Global Game Jam.
  • Project: Starfighter - Space shoot 'em up game.
  • Psiral - JavaScript/HTML5 game, GitHub Game Off 2 winner.
  • Squirts - Well-known indie game implemented in JavaScript.
  • The Killer - Flash/ActionScript3-based "nongame".
  • Turkey Cooking Simulator - You have been invited to craft the centerpiece of the American thanksgiving dinner, the turkey. Woo your girlfriend / boyfriend and be judged by your future in-laws! Apply your culinary expertise to impress your family.
  • Double Damnation - Exclusively Co-Op Metroidvania with Smash Bros Melee Movement.

Native

Action

  • Hypersomnia - Competitive top-down shooter with extreme dynamics and pixely nostalgia. Has a built-in map Editor.
  • OpenTomb - Open-source Tomb Raider 1-5 engine remake.
  • OpenLiberty - An open-source reimplementation of Grand Theft Auto III on the Godot Engine.

Arcade

  • C-Dogs SDL - Overhead shoot-em-up port of the classic DOS game.
  • Chaos Projectile - 2D run'n'gun action game with RPG elements.
  • Clonepoint - Libre clone of Gunpoint, a game in which you hack and punch your way to victory.
  • DynaDungeons - Bomberman clone using the awesome open source Godot game engine.
  • Duckmarines - A ChuChu Rocket remake for PC.
  • Epic Inventor - Indie, side-scrolling, action, RPG.
  • Falling Time - Arcade game inspired by Fall Down.
  • Kroniax - Sidescrolling skill-based game.
  • Missile Command - Clone in Lua with LÖVE.
  • Mystic Mine - Single and multiplayer action game with mining carts.
  • OpenLieroX - Liero clone, like realtime Worms, or a 2D Quake.
  • OSGG - Oldskool Gravity Game, very difficult lander game in glorious vector graphics.
  • Savage Wheels - 2D car crashing game similar to the old classic Destruction Derby.
  • Space Shooter - Cross platform, 2D space shooting game made using pygame.
  • SDL-Ball - Pretty looking breakout clone available in most distributions.
  • Taisei - Fan-made, open Source clone of the Touhou series.
  • Teeworlds - Online multi-player platform 2D shooter.
  • Wannabe Tempest - Tempest(80's arcade game) clone in Java, and a small project for playing with git.
  • Witch Blast - Roguelite dungeon crawl shooter similar to The Binding of Isaac.

Rhythm

  • osu! - Rhythm is just a click away!

FPS

  • AssaultCube - Total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen's FPS called Cube.
  • Darkest Hour - World War 2 online multiplayer tactical shooter based on Red Orchestra: Ostfront.
  • Freedoom - Free software FPS based on the classic Doom engine.
  • GlPortal - A modern 3D game and engine with portals written in C++.
  • Ioquake3 - The free software FPS engine that can be used to play Quake 3, or make your own game.
  • Nazi Zombies Portable - Call of Duty: Zombies "de-make" powered by various enhanced forks of the Quake engine.
  • OpenLara - Tomb Raider open-source engine.
  • Openspades - Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75.
  • Red Eclipse - Fun-filled new take on the first person arena shooter, featuring parkour, impulse boosts, and more.
  • Unvanquished - Fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements.
  • Urban Terror - Free multiplayer first person shooter that will run on any Quake III Arena compatible engine.
  • Warsow - Fast-paced FPS in a futuristic cartoonish world.
  • Xonotic - An addictive arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons.

MMORPG

  • Meridian 59 - The first 3D MMORPG, released in 1996 and open sourced in 2012 - the game is being actively developed by the community.
  • Reia - RPG game action-adventure MMO focusing heavily on story, combat, and an open-world sandox adventure. Built with Godot, Rust, and Zig.
  • Stendhal - Fun friendly and free 2D multiplayer online adventure game with an old school feel.
  • Veloren - An action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world.

RPG

Platform

Puzzle/card/board

  • 2048-cli - CLI version of the game 2048 for your Linux terminal.
  • 2048-in-terminal - CLI version of the game 2048 made right.
  • Castles of Dr. Creep - The Castles of Dr. Creep.
  • Dominion - C# implementation of Dominion, a board/card game.
  • EbbeFlut - Really nice board game implemented in a bad way a VERY long time ago.
  • IRMINGARD - Patience card game written in Ruby.
  • Minilens - Cute puzzle platformer starring a cleaning robot on post-apocalyptic Earth.
  • Nudoku - Ncurses based CLI sudoku game.
  • PuzzleDash - Match-3 puzzle game.
  • Tictactoe - Graphical tic-tac-toe AI which never loses.
  • Wizznic - Most awesome puzzle game.
  • PokerTH - Implementation of Texas Hold'em supporting (online) multiplayer and botplay.

Racing

  • Stunt Rally - Rally game with Track Editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.
  • SuperTuxKart - Free 3D kart racing game featuring open source mascots.

Programming

  • CengBall - Soccer programming game with 2D simulation.

Sandbox

Simulation

  • Hurry Curry! - Cooperative fast-paced multiplayer cooking game.

Strategy

Mobile Games

Android

iOS

  • Bat Loves Bugs - Arcade game about a bug-craving bat.
  • Bridges - Puzzle game with bridges, houses, tolls, and subways for iOS.
  • Canabalt - Release of Canabalt for iOS.
  • Choose Figure - Simple logic game. Choose the right figure. Train your attention.
  • Doom - Classic Doom Game for iOS.
  • DrugsNRock - Simple multiplayer rhythm game designed during the 2013 Global Game Jam.
  • FinalFighter - Tank deathmatch battle game developed using Cocos2D.
  • Gorillas - Iphone port of the popular old QBasic game.
  • Light Jockey - iOS Auditorium-like game.
  • Lumio - Puzzle game for iOS developed using Cocos2D. Available free on the App Store.
  • Sakura Fly - iOS action game developed using SpriteKit. Available free on the App Store.
  • Wolfenstein 3D - iOS Source Release.

Chat bots

  • c4bot - Chat bot that plays Connect Four with you, works in web chat, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Telegram.

Just The Source

  • Aquaria - Breath-taking underwater fantasy game. Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2007 Independent Games Festival.
  • Descent 3 - Pilot a fighter in a six-degree-of-freedom shooter across underground and surface environments.
  • Doom 3 - GPL source code release.
  • ID Software - Includes Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein and more.
  • Jedi Academy - Source only, mirror of SourceForge from Raven Software.
  • Jedi Outcast - Source only, mirror of SourceForge from Raven Software.
  • MaNGOS - Full featured World of Warcraft server.
  • Miner Wars 2081 - For modders of Miner Wars 2081, a 6DOF action-survival space-shooter simulation-game set in the year 2081.
  • OpenJK - Community maintained fork of Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast development.
  • Prince of Persia - Source code for the original Prince of Persia game that was written on the Apple II, in 6502 assembly language, between 1985-89.
  • UFO RUN - Real time multiplayer with Nextpeer.
  • System Shock - Source code for original System Shock game (PowerMac version), more readable fork available here.
  • Rogue Legacy - Source code for Rogue Legacy 1.

Frameworks/Engines/Libraries


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