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This is a selected list of open-source video games. Open source video games are games assembled from and are themselves open source software, including public domain games with published source code. This list includes games in which the game engine is open-source but the game content (media and levels, for example) may be under a different license.


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[edit] Free engine and free content

   Title    First Release Last Update Genre Engine License Content License Additional Information
0 A.D. 2010 2012 RTS GPLv2 CC-BY-SA Historical, cross-platform RTS, using an original engine named Pyrogenesis. Game source code released July 10, 2009.[1]
Advanced Strategic Command 1999 2010 TBТ GPL GPL Tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
Adventure 1976 Text adventure Public domain[2] Public domain The original text adventure game by Crowther / Woods.
Angband 1990 2011 RPG GPL[3] GPL A roguelike dungeon crawl game.
Armagetron Advanced 2001 2010 Racing GPL GPL A multiplayer, 3D Tron lightcycle racing game.
Battle for Wesnoth 2005 2012 TBS GPL GPL Turn based strategy game with RPG elements. Includes single-player campaign and skirmish modes as well as multiplayer.
Beyond the Titanic 1986 Text adventure GPL GPL Game source released on March 20, 2009.
Blades of Exile 1997 2011 RPG GPL GPL Was originally a commercial product.
Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer 2008 2009 Action-adventure GPLv2 GPLv2, CC-by-sa, other open source 3D sequel to Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid.
Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid 2003 2009 Platformer GPL GPL
Bos Wars 2004 2010 RTS GPL GPL 2D RTS running on a modified version of the Stratagus engine.
BZFlag 1997 2011 Tank FPS LGPL LGPL
Crimson Fields[4] 2006 2009 TBТ GPL GPL Tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
Crossfire 1992 2008 MMORPG GPL GPL
Dink Smallwood 1997 2008 Action RPG GPL GPL
Doolfy's Brain Surgery 2001 2011 RPG GPL[5] GPL A surgery based photography game.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 2006 2011 Roguelike GPL CC0 An open source fork of the 1997 game Linley's Dungeon Crawl.
Egoboo 2001 2010 Action RPG GPLv2 GPLv2
Enigma 2003 2007 Puzzle GPL GPL
Fish Fillets NG 2004 2010 Puzzle GPL GPL Released commercially as Fish Fillets in 1998. Source released in 2002 under the GPL.
FlightGear 1997 2012 Flight Sim GPL GPL
Freeciv 1996 2012 TBS GPL GPL Civilization II clone.
FreeCol 2003 2012 TBS GPL GPL Sid Meier's Colonization clone.
FreeDoom 1993 (2001) 2011 FPS BSD BSD[6] Doom content/resource clone.
Freedroid 2008 2011 RPG GPL GPL Two games:
1. FreedroidRPG - FreedroidRPG is an isometric role playing game.
2. FreedroidClassic - FreedroidClassic is a clone of the game "Paradroid" which was released on Commodore 64 in 1985.
Frets on Fire 2006 2008 Music GPL GPL Guitar Hero clone.
Frets on Fire X 2008 2009 Music GPLv2 GPLv2 Frets on Fire fork.
Frozen Bubble 2002 2008 Puzzle GPLv2 GPLv2 Puzzle Bobble clone.
Gang Garrison 2 2008 2010 Shooter GPL GPL A retro "demake" of Team Fortress 2.
Glest 2004 2008 RTS GPL CC-BY-SA 3D RTS game with two factions, A.I. and same-platform networking support. Development ceased in 2008. Two forks exist, named MegaGlest and Glest Advanced Engine.
Globulation 2 2008 2009 RTS GPLv3 GPLv3 Currently[when?] in open beta.
GLtron 2003 2003 Racing GPL GPL
GNOME Games 1998 2010 Various GPL GPL A collection of games accompanying the rest of the GNOME desktop environment.
GNU Chess 1984 2011 TBS GPL GPL
GNU Go 1999 2009 TBS GPL GPL
Gunroar FPS Simplified BSD Simplified BSD A futuristic vertical shooter.
Gusanos 2004 2005 Shoot 'em up GPL GPL Clone of Liero.
Hedgewars 2007 2011 Artillery game GPLv2 GPLv2 Worms clone.
Katawa Shoujo 2012 2012 Visual Novel MIT license Creative Commons A visual novel.
KDEGames — 2009 Various* GPLv2 GPLv2 *Collection of games provided with the official release of KDE.
Kernel Panic RTS GPL GPL Real time strategy game powered by the Spring engine.
Kiki the nano bot 2003 2007 Puzzle Public domain Public domain Mixture of Sokoban and Kula World.
Kroz 1987 Maze GPL GPL Game source released on March 20, 2009.
Lincity 1999 2004 Business Sim GPL GPL
LinCity-NG 2005 2009 Business Sim GPL GPL Lincity fork.
Linley's Dungeon Crawl 1997 2005 Roguelike LGPL LGPL The current version of Dungeon Crawl, Linley's Dungeon Crawl, is one of the most popular roguelikes being played today.
Liquid War 1995 2008 Maze games GPL GPL 2D game in which you control particles and move them to defeat the opposing side.
M.A.X.R. (Mechanized Assault and eXploration Reloaded) 2007 2011 TBS GPL GPL Remake of M.A.X.
MegaMek 2005 2009 TBТ GPL GPL Simulates the Classic BattleTech board game.
Micropolis 1989 (2008) 2008 Business Sim GPLv3 GPLv3
Microwar 2000 2009 Arcade BSD BSD A 'Space Invaders' style arcade game, in the cruel world of micro-computer industry.
Moria 1983 1999 RPG/Roguelike GPL[7] GPL
NetHack 1987 2003 RPG/Roguelike Nethack GPL Nethack GPL
Netrek 1988 2011 Shoot 'em up MIT MIT
Neverball 2005(?) 2009 Platformer GPL GPL Also includes additional game Neverputt.
Nexuiz 2005 2009 FPS GPL GPL Forked into Xonotic following a commercial licensing agreement by a minority of the development team.
Oolite 2006 2011 Space Sim GPLv2 GPLv2 Elite Clone
OpenArena 2005 2012 FPS GPLv2 GPLv2 Quake III Clone
OpenDune 2009 2011 Real-time_strategy GPLv2 GPLv2
OpenCity 2003 2008 Business Sim GPL GPL
OpenTTD 2005 2012 Business Sim GPLv2 GPLv2 An open-source clone of 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe'
Pingus 1998 2007 Puzzle GPL GPL Inspired by Lemmings.
PokerTH 2006 2012 Card GPL GPL
PySol 2001[8] 2009 Card games, Patience GPLv3 Public domain and GPLv3
Rigs of Rods 2007 2012 Vehicle Sim GPLv3 GPLv3
Tenés Empanadas Graciela 1996 TBS GPLv2 GPLv2
Rocks'n'Diamonds Puzzle GPLv2 GPLv2
Ryzom 2004 2010 MMORPG AGPL CC-BY-SA All textures and effects, 3D models, animations, characters and clothing (no music or sounds) are under CC-BY-SA.
Scorched 3D 2001 2011 Artillery game GPL GPL
Secret Maryo Chronicles 2003 2009 Platformer GPLv3 GPLv3
Seven Kingdoms 1996 2011 RTS GPL GPL Source code released in November, 2008.
Smash Battle 2008 2009 Platformer GPLv3 CC Retro 8-bit style platform shooter
Sokoban 1982 2006 Transport Puzzle GPL GPL Sokoban is a puzzle which the player pushes boxes or crates around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations.
Solarwolf Arcade LGPL LGPL Clone of Solar Fox for the Atari 2600. A 2-D action game where the player must collect the blocks on every level while avoiding various obstacles.
Sopwith 1984 Shoot 'em up GPL GPL
Speed Dreams 2010 2012 Sim racing GPLv2+ FAL Forked from TORCS in late 2008.
Supernova 1987 Text adventure GPL GPL Game source released on March 20, 2009.
SuperTux 2003 2007 Platformer GPL GPL 2D platformer inspired by the Super Mario series.
SuperTuxKart 2006 2011 Racing GPL GPL Arcade racing game similar to Mario Kart.
Teeworlds 2007 2011 Platformer zlib zlib 2D side-scrolling shooter.
The Bub's Brothers 2003 2007 Platformer MIT MIT Bubble Bobble clone
http://bub-n-bros.sourceforge.net/
Tile World 2002 2006 Puzzle GPL GPL Clone of Chip's Challenge
Torus Trooper 2004 2004 Scroller BSD BSD
Tremulous 2006 FPS GPL CC-BY-SA[9] Alien VS human base building, defending, and attacking opposite team.
TripleA 2002 2012 TBS GPL GPL A turn based strategy game and board game engine. Development is ongoing.
Tux Racer 2000 2009 Racing GPL GPL
Tux, of Math Command 2001 2011 Educational game GPL GPL
UFO: Alien Invasion 2006 2012 TBТ GPL GPL, CC BY-SA, CC Sampling+ Inspired by the old XCOM-Series, but with 3D-combats on surface of earth
UltraStar Deluxe 2007 2009 Music GPL GPL, CC SingStar clone.
Unknown Horizons 2008 2011 City-building game GPL GPL, CC, OFL Genre-mix of city-building game and real-time strategy game inspired by the Anno series.
Ur-Quan Masters, The 2002 2011 Action RPG GPL Cc-by-nc-sa Open Source port of Star Control II based on the GPL-released 3DO source code.
Vega Strike 2008 2011 Space Sim GPL GPL Elite clone.
WarMUX 2002 2010 Artillery game GPL GPL Worms clone.
Warzone 2100 1999 2011 RTS GPLv2 GPLv2, CC 3D real-time strategy game with a unit design system
Widelands 2002 2012 RTS GPL GPL Widelands is a RTS similar to The Settlers II.
Word Whiz 1988 Educational game GPL GPL Game source released on March 20, 2009.
WorldForge 1998 2011 MMORPG GPL GPL An open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
Xconq 1987 2005 TBS GPL GPL 4X strategy game engine.
Xonotic 2012 FPS GPL GPL A fork of the Game Nexuiz
XPilot 1992 Arcade GPL GPL A multiplayer Asteroids-like game.
X-Moto 2005 2011 Platformer GPL GPL
Yo Frankie! 2008 Action-adventure GPL/LGPL Creative Commons
Zero-K 2010 2012 RTS GPL Zero-K is a multi-platform real time strategy game powered by the Spring engine.

[edit] Free engine, proprietary content

   Title    First Release Last Update Genre Engine License Content License Additional Information
Abuse 1995 2011 Shoot 'em up Public domain Public domain and Proprietary* Game source code was released as public domain along with the shareware-released media files.[10] *Only shareware data, excluding the sound effects, is in the public domain; the rest is proprietary.
Arx Fatalis 2002 2011 RPG GPL Proprietary The design of Arx Fatalis was heavily influenced by Ultima Underworld. Game source released on January 14, 2011.
Aleph One 2000 2010 FPS GPL Proprietary Based on the source code for Marathon 2: Durandal.
Aquaria 2010 2010 Action-adventure GPL Proprietary Open sourced with Humble Indie Bundle.[11]
AssaultCube 2006 2010 FPS GPL Proprietary Based on the Cube engine.
C-evo 1999 2008 TBТ, 4X Public domain Proprietary Inspired by Sid Meier's Civilization.
Chromium B.S.U. 2000 2010 Arcade Artistic Artistic[12] A fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter
CodeRED: Alien Arena 2004 2011 FPS GPL Proprietary[13]
CorsixTH 2009 2011 Business Sim MIT Proprietary (original game data) An open source clone of Theme Hospital
Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2004 2010 FPS zlib Proprietary Deathmatch style multiplayer gameplay with map editing.
Doom 1993 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on 1997, placed under GPL on 1999.
Doom 3 2004 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on November 22, 2011[14]
Duke Nukem 3D 1996 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on April 1, 2003.
FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project 1999 Space Sim Noncommercial/

Proprietary

 Proprietary Game source released on April 25, 2002.
Frogatto & Friends 2010 2011 Platformer GPL Proprietary Initially for Windows, Linux, and Mac; hold and toss enemies, swim, talk; scripting language included.
Gish 2010 2010 Action GPL Proprietary Open sourced with Humble Indie Bundle.[15]
Heretic 1994 FPS GPLv2 Proprietary Game source released on 1999, put under GPL on September 4, 2008.
Hexen 1996 FPS GPLv2 Proprietary Game source released on 1999, put under GPL on September 4, 2008.
Hexen II 1997 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released 2000.
Lugaru 2005 2010 Action-adventure game GPLv2 Proprietary Open sourced with Humble Indie Bundle.
M.A.X.Gold 2005 2011 TBS GPL Proprietary Remake of M.A.X.
Myst Online: Uru Live 2007 2012 MMORPG GPLv3 Proprietary
OpenTyrian 2007 2009 Scrolling shooter GPLv2 The OpenTyrian team ported the closed-source Pascal code of Tyrian to C with permission of Jason Emery.
Penumbra: Overture 2007 2009 Survival horror with FPS aspects GPL Proprietary Developed by Swedish[16] developer Frictional Games, the game blends the genres of survival horror, first-person shooter, and adventure. Open sourced with Humble Indie Bundle.
Planeshift 2001 2012 MMORPG GPL Proprietary Free to play MMORPG
Prince of Persia 1989 2012 Cinematic platformer Proprietary Proprietary Apple II source code was long-thought-lost, but was found again and released in 2012.
Project: Starfighter 2001 2008 Shoot 'em up GPL Proprietary[17]
Pushover 1992 2008 Puzzle GPLv3 Proprietary
Quake 1996 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on 1999.
Quake II 1997 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on December 21, 2001.
Quake III Arena 1999 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on August 19, 2005.
Red Eclipse 2011 2012 FPS zlib Cube 2: Sauerbraten engine.
Revenge of the Titans 2010 2011 Tower Defense, RTS Custom all-permissive[18] Proprietary Java based game.
Racer 2003 2011 (Proprietary) Sim Racing GPL /
Proprietary		 GPL /
Proprietary		 Only source code of 0.5 version is available, all other releases are closed source.
Rise of the Triad 1995 1995 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on December 20, 2002.
Shadow Warrior 1997 FPS GPL Proprietary Game source released on April 1, 2005.
Simutrans Transport Simulator 1997 2011 Business Sim Artistic Similar to Transport Tycoon and its open source clone, OpenTTD. The player must build a profitable transportation system.
Smokin' Guns 2009 2010 FPS GPLv2 Proprietary Western-themed first-person shooter using the ioquake3 engine.
Spring 2005 2011 RTS GPL Spring is a 3D engine for many RTS games. It also runs several Total Annihilation mods.
StepMania 2005(?) Rhythm game MIT A DDR clone, the player must hit buttons or keys in time with the music.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001 FPS GPL Proprietary
Steel Storm: Episode I 2010 2010 Action GPLv2 Proprietary An indie top-down arcade shooter with single-player, deathmatch, and co-op.
Thousand Parsec 2002 2009 TBS GPL, LGPL Framework for turn based space empire building games.
TORCS Racing GPL
Urban Terror 2000 2011 FPS GPL Proprietary Multiplayer tactical shooter based on the id tech 3 engine.
Vdrift 2011 Racing GPL
Warsow 2005 2011 FPS GPL Proprietary
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 2003 2003 FPS GPLv3 Proprietary Game source released on August 12, 2010.
World of Padman 2007 2008 FPS GPL Proprietary Originally a Quake 3 modification. Became stand-alone in 2007, now runs on ioquake3.
Xbattle 1991 1996 RTS Custom copyleft[19]
XEvil 1994 2003 Platformer GPL Fast paced side-scrolling action game.

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://os.wildfiregames.com/
  2. ^ Jerz, D.G.. "Colossal Cave Adventure". Seton Hill University. http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-07. 
  3. ^ "OpenSource - Angband Wiki". rephial.org. 2008-12-15. http://rephial.org/wiki/OpenSource. Retrieved 2009-04-04. 
  4. ^ "UpFront". Linux Journal. July 2005. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8231. 
  5. ^ "OpenSource - Doolfy's Brain Surgery". rephial.org. 2008-12-15. http://rephial.org/wiki/OpenSource. Retrieved 2009-04-04. 
  6. ^ "Savannah Git Hosting - freedoom.git/blob - COPYING". Git.savannah.gnu.org. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=freedoom.git;a=blob;f=COPYING;hb=HEAD. Retrieved 2009-04-04. 
  7. ^ "free-moria". http://free-moria.sourceforge.net/. Retrieved 2009-04-04. 
  8. ^ PySol Releases on Freshmeat.net
  9. ^ http://svn.icculus.org/tremulous/trunk/COPYING?revision=775&view=markup
  10. ^ "Purchasing Abuse". Archived from the original on 2003-06-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20030610094112/http://abuse2.com/public_domain.php3. Retrieved 2007-09-07. 
  11. ^ "Aquaria goes open source!". Wolfire Games blog. 2010-06-03. http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/06/Aquaria-goes-open-source. 
  12. ^ "Chromium B.S.U. About Page". 2008-06-20. http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/about.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-13. 
  13. ^ "[alienarena] Log of /trunk/docs/license.txt". Svn.icculus.org. http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/docs/license.txt. Retrieved 2010-07-13. 
  14. ^ "TTimo/doom.gpl3". Github. 2011-11-22. https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl. Retrieved 2011-11-23. 
  15. ^ "Gish goes open-source". Wolfire Games blog. 2010-05-30. http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Gish-goes-open-source. 
  16. ^ Paradox Interactive - Penumbra: Overture premieres game on Gamer's Gate
  17. ^ Debian bug #546800 - RM: starfighter -- RoM; copyright infringement
  18. ^ Official PuppyGames Blog
  19. ^ ftp://ftp.prz.rzeszow.pl/pub/gentoo/portage/licenses/xbattle

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