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  • 1oom

    1oom is a Master of Orion Classic (1993) game engine recreation that requires the original files to run.

  • aeon

    Open-source browser god-game & civilization sim where every creature is a real, evolving neural network. Fusion of WorldBox (god sandbox) and Civ (deep progression) - lead a people in Survival or shape the world in Creative. Artificial life, genetic evolution, emergent societies.

  • Allure

    A massive HJSON mod focusing around quick-action, immersive RTS gameplay. Lore package included.

  • Ancient Beast

    Spiritual successor to Heroes of Might and Magic III focusing on combat; matched based eSport.

  • Antares

    Remake of Ares, a tactical space combat game.

  • Beyond-All-Reason

    Open source RTS game built on top of the Recoil RTS Engine

Online

  • 2004scape

    A free & open-source remake of 2004 era RuneScape 2. :flower_playing_cards:

  • 2006rebotted

    A 2006 RuneScape 2 Emulation Server. :flower_playing_cards:

  • 2009scape

    A free & open-source remake of 2009 era RuneScape 2. :flower_playing_cards:

  • ACEmulator

    A custom, completely from-scratch open source server emulator for Asheron’s Call built on C#. :flower_playing_cards:

  • FreeSO

    Reimplementation of The Sims Online, targetted mainly at mobile devices. :flower_playing_cards:

  • Heart-of-Africa-Remake

    three.js/WebGPU, React, TypeScript.

FPS

  • 4TAK

    client and server based on q2pro-rerelease and q2pro

  • Aleph One

    The open source continuation of Bungie’s Marathon 2 game engine.

  • Allegiance

    Allegiance is RTS and FPS Space Combat game.

  • Barrett

    Advanced and featureful Rise of the Triad source port for modern systems.

  • BetterSpades

    Ace Of Spades open source implementation that runs on older machines.

  • BStone

    A source port of Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike.

RPG

  • Abyss Engine

    Abyss Engine is a game engine designed to run games similar to 2000's style ARPGs such as Diablo II.

  • Amber

    Engine for the Amber trilogy

  • Ambermoon.net

    Ambermoon rewrite in C#

  • Arianne RPG

    Arianne is an engine to develop multiplayer online games like Stendhal

  • Arx Libertatis

    Cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game.

  • Barony

    Open source release of Barony.

Arcade

  • AcidDrop

    Remake of classic Atari 2600 game "Acid Drop".

  • atomiks

    A remake of the classic Atomix game for modern platforms.

  • Barbarian

    Open-source clone of Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior.

  • Battle City

    Browser reimplementation of Namco's 1985 Battle City (Famicom version), built from a full annotated 6502 disassembly. Playable at

  • blips

    A Remake of the dos Bips, Bips Gold and Bips Platinum game from Bryant Brownell. It is a Puzzle game which is a variation of sokoban written in SDL 3 based on my old gp2x version.

  • C-Dogs SDL

    Classic overhead run-and-gun game. :flower_playing_cards:

Platformer

Action

  • Carnage3D

    Reimplementation of Grand Theft Auto.

  • donut

    Reimplementation of The Simpsons: Hit & Run in modern C++ and modern OpenGL.

  • heretic2

    Heretic2 playground sandbox.

  • Heretic2R

    Heretic II (1998, Raven Software) reverse-engineered source port.

  • OpenChaos

    OpenChaos — Fan Modernization of Urban Chaos

  • OpenJK

    Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast by Raven Software.

Simulator

  • darknova2

    Dark Nova ][ — cross-platform space trading game (Space Trader remake)

  • Descent3

    Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

  • DXX-Rebirth

    Source port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines for Windows, macOS, Linux.

  • dxx-redux

    Descent 1&2 source port based on DXX-Retro.

  • dxx-vr

    Descent 1&2 VR source port based on DXX-Retro

  • Endless Sky

    Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

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