Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
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Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
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I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
There are a lot of great responses on here! I've been playing (at least until my steam deck shit the bed two days ago) around with OpenRA and Minetest.
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Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
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CDDA probably. One of the more comprehensive zombie survival experiences
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Star Ruler 2, the company closed down and open sourced the game, it's a space 4X real time, has pretty good fleet combat and u can design ships, i think wasn't popular because the resource management and card system is a bit weird and harder to understand than other strategy games, but pretty fun after u get used to it...
I think I've heard of this one. It's really good that they released the source.
There's a community maintained fork, but i think it's missing some files (ship blueprints for some races)
openttd is great
Doom, or, gzdoom! You can use it to play the original Doom 1 and 2 games with modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays. And there's an endless number of fan made level packs to try.
As for open source AND free / open resources, there's Freedoom 1 and 2. I occasionally play them, they're fun, but a little lacking in stage design.
modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays
No thanks I'll stick to my John Deere tractor drm to run it
Open RCT 2
I used to play Tremulous. That was a blast. Very clever game.
That takes me back. Waiting on 1.2 release, any day now...
I heard Unvanquished maybe scratches the same itch
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Unciv
Stalker anomaly π₯Έ
/s Forcefully open sourced
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.
Haven't played Minetest in a while. I remember having lots of fun with modding. 0ad is also another great open source title
Lately the modding has been getting really good, and while the game engine already has volumetric lighting (or something), there are even mods now that render everything beautifully that probably need a really good graphics card to keep up with.
I had the same experience with Hedgewars, but I can't really say why it doesn't click like Worms for me.
Angband
I like Ltris, Gweled, and Frozen-Bubble. I like simple games. I wish there was a good pacman for Linux too.
Have you considered emulating the original ones?
Yeah, I have had in the past, but it's a pain to find roms with the right version of mame. At least that's how it was back in the day.
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0AD, so good
For those who donβt know: Itβs basically an Age of Empires clone.
And it's better - nicer graphics and gameplay. It feels more like Age of Empires III though
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
Is Shapez open source?
Yes - https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io Though it's also on Steam for a small price to support the developers
I got it for free from Epic Games and loved it so I bought it on Steam to throw a coin to my indie dev
Looks like the online demo is