Did you guys tried Endless sky? Awesome game if you love space
And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have the license
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.
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.
Yeah that’s cool
Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!
Don’t be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you’ll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don’t carry over.
I grew up playing the EV series and I love Endless Sky. Is there something about the clone that you don’t like? I can’t thing of a change that I dislike. For example, fleet management is improved. Being able to dock your various ships and escorts is pretty cool.
Such a great game.
I recently got into that game quite a bit. Playing it on steam. Just the other day I discovered I can board pirate ships and kill the crew to claim the ship as my own. That has been a significant power boost for me and really unlocked the game.
Even before that I was having fun trying to survive with limited power while still exploring the world
CataclysmDDA is an amazing open source roguelike. Has a bunch of tilesets if you don’t like ASCII
Also most og roguelikes are open source which is great!
What other game you can play as neckbeard otaku on a quest to become a real catgirl in the world infested with zombies and whatnot? God I love Cata
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.
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.
Tilesets are out and many many mods if thats what you mean
I’ll just leave this here ;) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330750/Cataclysm_Dark_Days_Ahead/
I wish that there was a way to take better advantage of the Steam Deck controller with this version. I bought a copy to check it out, as I don’t really like playing on mobile but would love to take it on the go. It was… Harder than just playing on my phone.
To the uninitiated: despite my comment, Cataclysm DDA is still worth trying out! Where else could you skateboard down the street naked while holding a plank covered with nails?
Aaaah, I love that idea, I wonder if there are any good controller configs for it that might help for that
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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.
Had too scroll way too far for BAR. It’s amazing!
Its also gone gangbusters over the past few months, unsure why. Hundreds of concurrent players at any time which is pretty amazing.
I don’t really like this type of games but the game looks pretty cool
Yeah its a specific type of person that would enjoy it, perhaps a Factorio/Factory Must Grow genre mixed with small scale RTS.
Still, playing 20v20 games are incredible.
Also ZeroK, on the same springRTS engine
Zero K is also great, but they’ve changed the gameplay a lot from the original TA
ZeroK has some of the nicest QoL features I’ve seen in an RTS game, I’ve always wanted to see if the other big Spring games are similar.
I found all the ZK ones made it to BAR, right click formations, area mexes, repeat queues, fancy waypointing etc. Maybe its just an inherent part of Spring RTS so they all share the benefits, who knows.
Puzzle
- Rocks’n’Diamonds - Digging for diamonds while avoiding boulders and enemies
- Enigma | github - Marble puzzles (and much more) inspired by the classic game Oxyd
- GNU Robbo - Solve rooms (puzzles) with your robot
Space
- Oolite | github - an open-world space opera (inspired by classic game Elite)
- Kobo Deluxe - 2D scrolling space shooter, destroy star bases with your ship
- Open Tyrian - Arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter
Open Tyrian is great, the original is always free on GOG Tyrian 2000
Veloren
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.
Beyond All Reason
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
It a grand scale RTS game with robots and insects loosely inspired by Total Annihilation.
Holy shit, this looks awesome! Maybe I can scratch that TA itch - thanks!
Unciv civilization 5 replica
Edit: added description
Oh I am saving this post! It’s a goldmine
shattered pixel dungeon
+1. I probably spent 100s of hours on this game across commutes
0 A.D. is the closest experience to Empire Earth I’ve had on the FOSS side. Great fun!
Hum more Age of Empire than Empire Earth I think
Hmm, maybe, I’ve not got much experience with AoE compared to EE, though so I can’t really give an opinion.
InfraArcana was a little bit tough but is a very good roguelike
How does it compare to something like Brogue?
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