List of free game software

Free games are computer games assembled out of free software and open content.

All these titles are free software that are under a license such as the GNU General Public License or other similar licenses. Because the source code is available and modifications can be freely (re)distributed, most of these titles will run on many platforms.

For freely available games without a public license, see List of freeware games.

List of free game software

0-9

• 0 A.D. is a multi-platform RTS currently being developed by Wildfire Games, taking place between 500 BC and 500 AD.

A

• Ace of Penguins is a set of solitaire games (freecell, mastermind, minesweeper, solitaire etc.) for Unix/Linux/X written by DJ Delorie Homepage
• Advanced Strategic Command is a turn based strategy based on the Bluebyte Battle Isle series. Homepage
• Arianne is an open source MMORPG in development and a framework to develop new online games.
• Armagetron is a multiplayer, 3D Tron lightcycle racing game.
• Atlantik is a multiplayer clone of Monopoly, in which players can pick some of their own rules and use different and uncommon boards.
• Avanor is an open source roguelike game.

B

• Battle for Wesnoth is an open source strategy game with RPG elements resembling the Battle Isle series, but in a fantasy setting with elves, dwarves, orcs and mermen [1].
• Beats of Rage inspiration in the classic Streets of Rage.
• Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid - A platform game where Bob the Blob must rescue the Blob MIAs. Many stages, intricate gameplay. http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php
• Blockland - a game where you build using lego like "blocks" allong with others online.
• Boson is an OpenGL real-time strategy game, with the feeling of Command and Conquer or StarCraft. It is designed to run on Unix (Linux) computers, and is built on top of the KDE, Qt and kdegames libraries. [2]
• Bygfoot is a football management game.
• BZFlag is a free multiplayer multiplatform 3D tank battle game.

C

• Charred Dirt is an open source Scorched Earth clone. http://www.charreddirt.com/
• Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter
• ClanBomber is a free DynaBlaster clone at http://clanbomber.sourceforge.net/
• CodeRED: Alien Arena is a free first person shooter
• Crack Attack! is a free OpenGL game based on Tetris Attack at http://aluminumangel.org/attack/
• Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle at http://crimson.seul.org/about.php
• Crossfire is an open source MMORPG.
• Cuyo is a free Puyo Puyo clone at http://www.karimmi.de/cuyo/ (german).

D

• Daimonin is an Isometric MMORPG based on Crossfire in its first Beta.
• Darwinbots is an ALife simulator that can also be run as a competitive programming platform.
• Devet is a multiplatform strategy/puzzle game at http://devet.tuzsuzov.com/
• Digital Paintball 2 is a paintball Quake II mod in development at http://www.digitalpaint.org
• Dink Smallwood is an Zelda like rpg with a quirky player identity.
• Dispatch Of Army is a First Person Shooter game at http://doa.cube-asia.com
• Dnafight is a programming game with bacterials using the Seed7 programming language. http://seed7.sourceforge.net

E

• Enigma, an Oxyd clone where the player has to maneuver a marble around a "landscape" to touch matching pairs of "Oxyd"-stones.

F

• Freeciv is a clone of the game Civilization.
• FreeDoom is an open content Doom game.
• FreeOrion is a free game inspired by Master of Orion, at http://www.freeorion.org/
• Frozen Bubble, a non-violent "shoot the bubbles"-game, can be downloaded at http://www.frozen-bubble.org
• FlightGear, an open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.

G

• GGZ Gaming Zone develops game servers and clients and provides online gaming services
• Glest is an Real-Time Strategy [RTS] game like Warcraft or Command & Conquer. Linux: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/glest/ Windows: http://www.glest.org/
• Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy RTS, which minimizes micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to the units.

I

• Iter Vehemens ad Necem is a graphical roguelike using SDL

K

• Several games are included in KDE; for instance:
  • KAsteroids
  • KAtomic
  • KBounce
  • Kolf
  • KSokoban

L

• Lentilwars is a 2D "quasi-isometric" arcade shooter written in Free Pascal.
• Liquid War is a multiplayer wargame available at http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/.

N

• NetHack is a popular free RPG available at http://www.nethack.org.
• Nexuiz is a highly polished multiplayer first person shooter available at http://www.nexuiz.com/

O

• OpenArena is a First-person shooter based on the GPLed Quake 3 engine
• Openglad is a port of the DOS Gauntlet-style game Gladiator at http://snowstorm.sf.net.

P

• Panic - A rewrite of the Apple_Panic game in the Seed7 programming language. http://seed7.sourceforge.net
• Pingus, a Lemmings clone with animated penguins.
• Project: Starfighter - A two-dimensional, non-linear space shooter with an intricate plot. http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php
• Project Xenocide - Game inspired by X-Com: UFO Defense (also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown), strategy game in which you take the seat of the commander of a secret organisation to fend off an Alien Invasion. Home at http://www.projectxenocide.com

R

• Raptor is a space shoot-em-up game at http://raptorv2.sf.net

S

• Scorched3D, a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth. Available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems. http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
• Smoothris is a tetris game, featuring vector graphics, smooth movements and rotations of the figure, sub-pixel accuracy and motion blur, all done with software rendering. It is written in Free Pascal.
• Spice Trade is an open source (LGPL), Java based adventure/rpg game that can be downloaded (with source code) from http://www.spicetrade.org/download.html
• The Ur-Quan Masters is an open-source free port of Star_Control_II based on the source code and media files of the 3DO version of the game - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
• StepMania simulates dance games, mainly Dance Dance Revolution.
• SuperTux classic 2D jump and run game.
• Silk Road Online a free MMORPG, great graphics for its price. http://www.silkroadonline.net/
• Stick Soldiers, also a side scrolling shooter. http://www.whitespaceunlimited.com/

T

• TA Spring, A 3D RTS (strategy) game that currently uses content from the abandonware Total Annihilation or total conversion mods.
• Tile World is a clone of Chip's Challenge made by Brian Raiter.
• Tux Racer, a 3D OpenGL racing game starring the Linux mascot.
• Tyrant, a graphical Roguelike Java adventure game.

U

• UFO: Alien Invasion is a 3D, turn-based strategy game that pits humans against aliens. http://ufo.myexp.de/

V

• Vega Strike is a 3D space shooter/strategy game. http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

W

• Warsow is a 3D fast-paced first person shooter based on the qfusion engine. http://www.warsow.net/
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a freeware LAN and Internet multiplayer FPS.
• Warzone 2100, A RTS very different from the standard C&C or Starcraft approach. Developed by Pumpkin Studios and released to the open source community in 2004.

X

• XEvil, a 2D side scroller with an excessive amount of violence. http://www.xevil.com/
• XPilot, a multiplayer asteroids like game, one of the first multiplayer games with good gameplay. http://www.xpilot.org/
• XPilot-ng, a modern version of xpilot with high frame rate, polygons, and opengl support. http://xpilot.sf.net/