List of open-source games by genre

See also: Alphabetical list of open source games

This article is a list of open source games with articles, sorted by genre. Several games are listed under more than one genre.

2D platformers

Screenshot of XEvil

• Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid is a platform game.
• SuperTux is a classic 2D jump and run game.
• X-Moto is a 2D motorbike game.
• XEvil is a 2D side scroller notable for its exceptionally graphic violence.

3D platformers

• irrlamb is a 3D physics game.
• Neverball is a 3D platform game similar to Super Monkey Ball.

Artillery

• BZFlag is a free multiplayer multiplatform 3D tank battle game.
• Gusanos is a clone of Liero.
• Scorched 3D is a game based on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.
• Wormux is a Worms clone.

Boardgame

• GNU Chess is a chess program. Xboard (a.k.a. Winboard) is an open-source front-end for it.
• GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go.
• TEG (Tenés Empanadas Graciela) is a Risk-like game.

Business simulation

• Oolite is a recreation of the classic Elite, with updated graphics.
• OpenTTD is an open source port of the Chris Sawyer game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
• Simutrans is a game that focuses on building a transportation network, similar to Transport Tycoon.

Card

• PySol is a card based game with many features.

First-Person Shooters (FPS)

• Aleph One is Bungie's freed Marathon first-person shooter.
• FreeDoom is a set of open source graphics files for open source versions of the Doom engine.
• Nexuiz is a multiplayer first-person shooter.
• OpenArena is a first-person shooter based on id Tech 3.
• Tremulous blends a team-based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans.
• War§ow is a fast-paced FPS focussing on E-Sports.

Interactive fiction / text adventure

• Adventure (1976), Crowther/Woods – the original text adventure game, source code is public domain.
• OpenTTD is an open source port of the Chris Sawyer game Transport Tycoon Deluxe
• Pingus is a real-time puzzle game inspired by Lemmings.

Music/dance

• Frets on Fire is a cross-platform game based on Guitar Hero.
• StepMania is a simulator of dance games, mainly Dance Dance Revolution.
• UltraStar is a SingStar clone.

Other simulation

• FlightGear is a multi-platform flight simulator.
• Darwinbots is an artificial life simulator.

Puzzle/action/arcade

• Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
• Crack Attack! is a free OpenGL game based on Tetris Attack.
• Enigma is an Oxyd clone.
• Frozen Bubble is a Puzzle Bobble-type game.
• KAsteroids
• KBounce is a clone of JezzBall.
• Liquid War is a real-time competitive game based on directing liquid particles around a complex environment.
• Pingus is a real-time puzzle game inspired by Lemmings.
• PiX Frogger is a clone of Frogger, but up to 4 players at the same time.
• PiX Pang is a clone of Super Pang, but with many new features.
• Rocks'n'Diamonds is an cross-platform, arcade game that contains clones of Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine, Supaplex and Sokoban.
• Solarwolf is a 2d action arcade game.
• Tile World is a clone of Chip's Challenge made by Brian Raiter.
• XBlast is a multiplayer Bomberman-like game.

Racing

• Armagetron Advanced is a multiplayer, 3D Tron lightcycle racing game.
• GLtron is a light cycle racing game.
• HoverRace is an online multiplayer hovercraft racing game that was once shareware.
• Tux Racer is a 3D OpenGL racing game starring the Linux mascot.
• Xconq is a generic turn-based strategic game.

Real-time strategy/tactical

• Allegiance is a multiplayer, online-only RTS/space combat hybrid originally developed by Microsoft Research.
• Globulation 2 is a cross-platform RTS.
• Lincity (and its successor LinCity-NG) is a city building game like SimCity.
• Netrek is a multiplayer hybrid shooter and real-time strategy game.
• Spring is a 3D remake of the Total Annihilation RTS, fully compatible with the original game's units.
• Vega Strike is a 3D space shooter/strategy game which combines trading, bounty hunting and exploration.
• Warzone 2100 is a RTS very different from the standard C&C or StarCraft approach.

Role-Playing

Roguelikes

• Moria
• NetHack
• Rogue - origin of the genre.
• Slash'EM - a branch of NetHack.
• ToME - based on J.R.R. Tolkien's work.
• Vulture's Eye & Vulture's Claw - graphical versions of NetHack and Slash'EM, respectively.

MMORPGs

• Crossfire is an MMORPG.
• Stendhal is a multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) using the Arianne framework.
• Deliantra is an MMORPG.

Space shooters

• Allegiance is a multiplayer, online-only RTS/space combat hybrid originally developed by Microsoft Research.
• Netrek is a multiplayer hybrid shooter and real-time strategy game.
• Project: Starfighter is a two-dimensional, non-linear space shooter with an intricate plot.
• rRootage is an abstract scrolling shooter game.
• Sopwith is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up.
• Ur-Quan Masters is the classic Star Control 2 game, re-released under the GPL license.
• Vega Strike is a 3D space shooter/strategy game which combines trading, bounty hunting and exploration.
• XPilot is a multiplayer asteroids-like game.
• Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.

Sports

• Kolf

Turn-based strategy/tactical

• Battle for Wesnoth is a strategy game with RPG elements.
• Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
• Freeciv is a clone of Civilization II.
• FreeCol is a remake of Colonization.
• FreeOrion is a multiplayer, turn-based strategy computer game, inspired by the Master of Orion series.
• Konquest is a galactic conquest strategy game.
• MegaMek is a computer version of the BattleTech miniatures wargame.
• rRootage is an abstract scrolling shooter game.
• Simutrans is a game that focuses on building a transportation network and is similar to Transport Tycoon.
• TEG (Tenés Empanadas Graciela) is a Risk-like game.
• Thousand Parsec is a project with the goal of creating a framework for turn-based space empire building games.
• TripleA is an Axis & Allies-based game.
• UFO: Alien Invasion is a 3D, turn-based strategy game that pits humans against aliens.
• Xconq is a generic turn-based strategic game.