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Some FOSS games I've been playing recently (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  1. SuperTuxKart

I really like this game because it's basically just FOSS Mario Kart. It has a lot of gamemodes, an (admittedly simple) kart stat system, many tracks and a lot of mods.

  1. OpenTTD

In OpenTTD, you transport cargo and people to different places. You can transport them using trains, buses, aeroplanes (airplanes if your American), boats and trams if you add a NewGRF (a mod). It is very addictive and it is quite easy to get into (except the signals).

  1. Pingus

It's FOSS Lemmings with penguins.

  1. Extreme Tux Racer

You play as Tux (or someone else) and slide yourself through terrain while you collect fish. It is fun, however I've found that it can get a bit repetitive. You can design levels, however it's a bit hard to do.

  1. SuperTux

It's 2D Mario with a penguin. BEST GAME EVER.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Battle for Wesnoth and 0 A.D. are also pretty decent FOSS games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can't believe I forgot to include 0 A.D.! Can confirm, it's really fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Battle for wesnoth is such a great game

[–] uninvitedguest 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Beyond All Reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That actually looks amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is amazing

https://youtu.be/bQl_ncjcMqU

It doesn't just look cool as fuck, it actually delivers on the vibes it gives off and it does so in spades.

[–] jerkface 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

WOW. I just had a vision of my potential life for the next several years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hell yes!

[–] jerkface 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm playing a skirmish at 0.1 resource production, pausing constantly, and it's STILL pretty overwhemling. But fun and slick!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you aren't already use shift click to que up multiple commands for units (this works for any command in the game). Once you get used to relying on it everything becomes way more manageable!

https://www.beyondallreason.info/commands/move

Also set your factories to "repeat" and set up defensive patrol routes with your factories so you can sit back a bit and not have to micro everything as hard.

Also the community is friendly don't be afraid to ask for help in getting better!

[–] jerkface 3 points 1 month ago

Space-click is such a nice feature. I stopped wishing I could edit queues once I found it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Super Tux and Wesnoth are my favorite, followed by SuperTuxKart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I haven't played Wesnoth (I really should lol). What's it like?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Its a stragegy game where you move units on a hexagonal board. Its a pretty unique system in my opinion. Its kinda like advanced wars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you like old school turn based strategy games, it's awesome. Beautiful pixel art, great UI, great gameplay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just installed it and I like it already!

[–] SplashJackson 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Try UnCiv if you like Civilization 5

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's my new go-to mobile time killer. I think it works well on a touchscreen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Will do!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

basically foss factorio

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep bouncing off but it seems awesome, how do you like it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I has stronger Tower Defense elements, but it seems to be a lot of fun especially also in multiplayer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xonotic & Minetest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xonotic is like mind butter once you learn the flow of it.

Also, friendly correction Minetest is now called Luanti (with Voxelibre mod)!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Luanti(Formerly Minetest) = Game Engine

Voxelibre(Formerly Mineclone2) = Game

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

^this is the optimum form of the information I intended to convey

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, afaik, "Minetest game" is still the name of one of the games (and it used to be shipped by default with the engine, though no idea if that has changed and they finally don't include any games in the initial download).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the game you can now find in Luanti called "minetest" is a preservation of the mod as it was before the name change to "voxelibre" though I would imagine the actual story is more complicated than that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AFAIK, Voxelibre was renamed from "MineClone2" which was a fork from "MineClone" which is a different game than "Minetest game"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lix is the better open-source lemmings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for letting me know! Indeed it does appear to be much better than Pingus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Pioneer Space Sim is my favorite. Fly around the galaxy, trade and do combat, with realistic Newtonian physics.

[–] jerkface 4 points 1 month ago

http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby -- leading edge of rogue development

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Widelands for a The Settlers 2 feeling!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Speaking of Super Tux, I hope some day in the future that a guy, Kelvin Shadewing on yt, finishes his SuperTux Advance. Just playing what is currently available, currently just for windows, blows away SuperTux, at least in my opinion.

SuperTux is great in it's own way, but I love Advance better because of QOL things like being able to run and also having different playable characters with different abilities. If running is available in the original, I sure have not been able to figure it out, either keyboard or gamepad.

Though, will say I absolutely love SuperTuxKart because of all the custom content for the game that adds so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

As far as I remember, holding fire while moving will make SuperTux run. Similar to the popular platformer which-must-not-be-named from the NES (which likely only did it like that because the controller had only 2 buttons).

SuperTux Advance

For reference, this is the github: https://github.com/KelvinShadewing/supertux-advance

It uses a cross-platform engine (Brux GDK), in theory you just run game.brx from the Brux engine. Is it really Windows only? ..that'd be weird for a Tux game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure for now it's just being developed for windows if you want prebuilt executables, but I'm sure with the source code it's possible to make it work with another OS like Linux, but that's beyond my pay grade.

No idea about running it from the Brux engine, but I can certainly try later because I would love to play it on my laptop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sad if it is Windows only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

which one do you think we have been playing? https://www.speed-dreams.net/ We have also played great games such as Unciv, Stunt Rally and OpenRA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your game looks really fun! I've also played OpenRA before and it's really good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks a lot. I hope you enjoy it!