I personally love Naev and Mindustry
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Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.
This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.
I wish that the original use-case for Battle of Wesnoth’s engine, Wargus, was still being actively developed
Wasn’t Wargus an StarCraft like engine?
Wargus and Wesnoth both run on the Stratagus engine, which was originally developed as a reimplimentation of Warcraft 2 . The engine split to allow for new games to be made, and the War2 functionality was shunted into Wargus where the project remains to this day
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
DCSS has been one of my automatic installs on any PC I have for years now.
They ever end up taking magic dart out of dcss?
I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it’s good but I really never get past the mining stage and can’t understand the crafting.
One day I’m hoping for a fluke we’re I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.
Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.
Right now I’m basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It’s a game in the Total Annihilation “tree” of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can’t believe it’s an open source game. It’s still in alpha, but it’s been way more stable than most AAA games I’ve been playing recently.
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
Could you elaborate on why zero-k is better than BAR in your opinion?
I’d never heard of BAR, just gave it a go. I can see myself wasting alot of time on this
Never heard of this and I’m a big fan of the TA/Sup Com series. I will try it when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!
Sounds amazing thanks!
I’ve gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times
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.
I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly
Endless Sky is amazing. I’ve put so many hours into it. It’s available on Steam or as an AppImage from https://endless-sky.github.io
I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).
Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I’m not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.
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
Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
openttd is great
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.
0AD, so good
For those who don’t know: It’s basically an Age of Empires clone.
And it’s better - nicer graphics and gameplay. It feels more like Age of Empires III though
Nethack. I remember playing it at university 30 years ago when it was text only. Amazingly, there is a version available for android and its fucking addictive.
I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
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
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
That, or the tire arena mode thing. Both are pretty fun when you are bored of all the official tracks and your favorite add-on tracks.
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.
Only 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
