These suggestions rock, I guess my weekend is set!
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Xonotic is really fun if you enjoyed Quake 3 and Unreal. Has an active community as well. Beyond All Reason is a pretty polished RTS using Spring engine.
Battle for Wesnoth. There's several FOSS games that are pretty good, but BfW I've played the most.
Neverball is a fantastic ball-in-a-maze (Monkey Ball) OSS game
Chess
Thought about trying it, but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while.
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How is Linwarrior 3D? Has anyone played it? It claims it's an open source game similar to MechWarrior 2.
What! Mindustry is open source!? Makes me love it even more
Sauerbraten
In my AP Computer Science class in high school, every now and then our teacher would give us a free day. We would sit around playing Unreal Tournament on the LAN.
At one point the teacher decided he wasnβt comfortable with a game with guns in class.
Soβ¦I got everyone to install Cube, the open source first person shooter. Specifically a copy of it where I had removed all of the gun models. So we just ran around punching and bullets would fly from our fists. Or, in the case of the rocket launcher, an exploding sofa would fly from our fists.
I donβt know if I would call it my favorite, but we had a lot of fun with it.
Project 1999 and Project Quarm. Emulators of EverQuest, which was released in 1999. Official EverQuest is still going strong 25 years later, but the emulator developers (the are several projects) have an agreement to run their versions of the game.
I'm playing Project Quarm version now and spend way too much time on it.
OpenClonk
openarena?
Does DOOM count? It's been officially open sourced recently, even though it was already treated as such for decades.Either way, I can't stop playing it, there's 30 years of user created content to go through.
That's what I'd go with it. Came here to comment it, but I was beaten to it. There are so many great ways to play through it, as the modding community has made so much amazing stuff over the years.
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I've had a lot of fun with Brogue.
Super Tux and Super Tux Kart
One of my favorites recently has been playing MineClone2 with some extra mods (can't remember which) through Minetest.
I've been boycotting minecraft since the news of chat reporting potentially coming to Java and MineClone2 is such a good replacement. Biggest gripe I have is not being able to get any of the mods that add sprint to work. Pretty much the only feature not available in MineClone2 (as far as I'm aware) from minecraft that I actively miss.
Is there any mod you know for making the world larger/infinite?
I was a big fan of just traveling in Minecraft and finding new areas along the way. But minetest space constrains seems not to fit that playstyle unless there's a mod I don't know of.
Have no clue. I don't even know how far out MC2 allows you to go because I've never gone to the edges of the world before. Only thing I know about world limits is that you can go thousands of blocks down in just the base game Minetest comes with, which doesn't apply to MC2.
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Mineclone2 has sprint since the "sprint update" long ago. You get it by pressing "E" (or the "use" key if you remapped it)
I'll definitely have to look into that! That is an absolute game changer that will definitely make the game a lot more bearable for me.
Thanks for the info! I would have never figured that out on my own.
Edit:
Found it in the package manager. I definitely have that selective male blindness where I can look right at something and it won't appear in my vision.
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Antimatter dimensions is an idle game that recently became open source
Someone on lemmy a few months ago mentioned this rts beyond all reason. Since then I've easily put 100 hours in. The game is so dam fun.
Another great one is Osu
I just heard about it for the first time in this thread, I think I'm hooked, haven't managed to beat the AI yet
I was introduced to BAR like 3 months ago and I still have no idea wtf I'm doing.
Online matches typically vary between these 3 experiences:
- Your teams seem evenly matched in skill, 3 people on each team still have no units to speak of 30 minutes in.
- One team has a true 20 openSkill player. They are consuming the other team's players whole at the 18 minute mark.
- It has been 3 hours, your's and your allies' units are a river flowing forth from your bases. They clash with the sea of enemies in a flurry of dazzling sounds. The frontline has held exactly at the middle for the past hour.
It took me about 40 hours to go from Openskill 1 to os 2. I'm now os 5. I mainly play core front and just ball up tanks with a repairing station behind or I use my com to repair. Works great when it works but sometimes I get pushed before I have enough of a mass and then I'm useless and get crushed. It's definitely a chaotic game
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mindustry. I've kinda quit playing games. But still play mindustry on my ipad. :)
Yeah I originally discovered it on FlatHub. Now have it on Steam and Android, such a versatile game