For example veloren

Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

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      Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

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        thirded. played it years ago and got into it again recently. you should check it out again, there’s a lot of new stuff they’ve added.

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      I love OpenTTD, came here looking for it.

      For the uninitiated, it’s a reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transportation empire of trains, lorrys ships and planes.

      There’s also a modern spiritual successor in Transport Fever (commercial, not open source)

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    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)
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      I don’t really like this type of games but the game looks pretty cool

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        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.

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        Its also gone gangbusters over the past few months, unsure why. Hundreds of concurrent players at any time which is pretty amazing.

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          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.

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            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.

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      And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license

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        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.

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          Nice to hear it! Mineclone is actually very good mod and you definitely should try veloren, good luck

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        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.

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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        ZeroK uses the same engine as BAR, my game, and quite a few others. 😋 And yes, definitely should check out ZK, it’s a mature project with a nice community and awesome devs.

        Recoil is pretty much the only foss engine purpose built for modern rts games of all types.

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      Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I sank way too many hours into this (started off as a TA clone but branched off into other game modes too) a decade or two ago, and it looks like it’s still going.

      https://springrts.com/

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    Several, but my number one fav so far is Battle for Wesnoth. An old school hex tile turn based strategy game. Like something out of the 90’s or very early 2000’s.

    Great art, awesome music, solid gameplay, and runs on a potato.

    My best friend and I play it whenever we want a casual chill, play n’ chat gaming session.

    It runs great on the Steam Deck too with a few interface tweaks.

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    Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.

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    Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I’ll add OpenMW to the thread. It’s a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

    Another worthy mention is Endless Sky, it’s an open source game inspired by the classic space trading and combat game Escape Velocity.

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      Since you mentioned OpenMW I thought I should mention Daggerfall Unity. It’s an rewrite of Daggerfall using the Unity engine, also requiring the original files. The best thing about is that the developers have made it easily moddable and a very healthy modding community has sprung up for it, some of which really make the game feel like what the original developers were going for but had to deal with the technical limitations of the time.

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      Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!

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        I also played through most of the content at some point, but when they eventually updated with new content I couldn’t get back into it. Maybe I should try again because that was such a fun game.

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    Mindustry is an awesome strategy game that combines Factorio with tower defense.

    Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (ridiculous name I know) is one of the most underrated games ever. It’s a super polished, high quality Kart game with an insane amount of mods and maps. The online isn’t that populated but the singleplayer time trial is TONS of fun. If you like hunting for medals, it can be a pretty deep rabbit hole. There’s a sequel in development but no release date.

    GzDoom is the most popular Doom source port and there’s a practically infinite amount of user generated content. If you don’t know where to start I highly recommend Doom: The Golden Souls Remastered and Castlevania: Simon’s Destiny. They’re good enough to be premium games.