I personally love Naev and Mindustry
Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.
This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.
Right now I’m basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It’s a game in the Total Annihilation “tree” of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can’t believe it’s an open source game. It’s still in alpha, but it’s been way more stable than most AAA games I’ve been playing recently.
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
Could you elaborate on why zero-k is better than BAR in your opinion?
Sounds amazing thanks!
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
DCSS has been one of my automatic installs on any PC I have for years now.
I’ve gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times
Apart some of the already mentioned (mindustry, 0ad, beyond all reasons, zero-k), also minetest (minecraft), destination sol.
l’ve tried hege wars (worms clone) but found it meh. Sometimes supertux.
Nethack. I remember playing it at university 30 years ago when it was text only. Amazingly, there is a version available for android and its fucking addictive.
More recently, I’m a fan of shapez (shapez.io) for my recommended daily allowance of factory building gaming.
Going back further, I have a soft spot for Ri-li, a nice little game about toy trains with very charming music! It was this which set me on an adventure with the mod tracking scene. A surprising amount of open source games use them, it feels like open source music!
Reminded me also of Alex the Allegator 4, a very original 2D platformer
I’d better stay away from shapez or I will probably exceed my recommended daily allowance of factory building gaming and disappear for 10 years
0AD, so good
For those who don’t know: It’s basically an Age of Empires clone.
I like Ltris, Gweled, and Frozen-Bubble. I like simple games. I wish there was a good pacman for Linux too.
I played Warzone 2100 for a long time. It isn’t as good as Total Annihilation (nothing is), but it had some interesting component-based units.
I should try Veloren some day. It seems very interesting.
I found that game so difficult
I played Warzone 2100 for a long time. It isn’t as good as Total Annihilation (nothing is)
Have you tried Beyond All Reason? It comes pretty close
Yeah, I should.
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I’m missing stuff at times
Angband
Open RCT 2
Stalker anomaly 🥸
/s Forcefully open sourced