Im always om the look out for foss games. Any recommendations? Gonna be on a bus trip for 5 hours. 🤣🤣

        • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Not OP lol

          Looked it up, and it’s not truly OSS, but you can actually look at and modify the source code by executing the game as a zip instead.

  • zolar@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    OpenTTD

    “OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe.”

    5 hours is enough to get addicted to this crack…

      • cevn@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Word. I did not see foss originally. Gunz is hard at first but everyone is willing to help out new players since the community is so small. As long as you have internet and maybe a mouse you shud be fine.

      • cevn@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        My bad, missed foss. I wish I could get the source, there is one at opengunz servergithub but it missed a huge amount of the work the FGunz developers have done inside the game engine.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    So… I understand OP asked for FOSS games, so here is 1 suggestion : HyperRogue, an SDL roguelike in non Euclidian space https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

    … but I mostly come to argue that in this specific case, namely short lived entertainment, FOSSness is IMHO not as important as elsewhere. I am NOT promoting closed source software here but I want to highlight the fact that unlike an OS or a DE or any software recurrently used within that setup, e.g. a video editor or a script, a game is typically not combined with other tools and is supposed (most games at least, not all!) to be used “as-is”. Namely that one typically (counter example, Minecraft, with its countless FOSS alternatives) play the game, finishes it and moves on. One does not have a game being a building block or a workflow nor do they finish it and… keep on playing it (counter examples here being online games, due to competition and collaboration, user generated content).

    So yes I understand the desire to want to keep a system “pure”, namely rely entirely on FOSS software but I for example enjoyed Baldur’s Gate 3 last year or Elden Ring at the moment despite them NOT being FOSS precisely because… they are not central to my workflow, or the way I think. Do I wish they were FOSS? Yes, absolutely! Do I wish all the content I consume, from music to books, would be DRM-free at least? Totally and that’s why I typically look for this kind of content first. Yet… if there is one place where I’m more leniant than elsewhere, it’d be games.

    My 2 cents, anyway HyperRogue is cool! ;)

    TL;DR: FOSS games are near but arguably when it’s for a short period of time, in some cases depending on your worldview, maybe non FOSS games can be acceptable.

    • pandorabox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Yeah youre right the developer have to make money! And games need a lot of resources.

      I heard baldur gate was a lot of fun, gotta check it out.

      Thanks so much for sharing!

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    11 days ago

    Doom is always great. FOSS up to Doom 3, but you still need the full games for the assets. If you don’t have them there is still Freedoom. And The Dark Mod is a great free Thief like game on the Doom 3 engine.

    • toastmeister@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Stronghold Defense mod is amazing. It’s basically a base defense game against hundreds of enemies parading towards you, with custom weapons and power ups.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      11 days ago

      The Dark Mod is certainly the best and most advanced OpenSource game I know (well, not full OpenSource, because the user created missions, currently 170, are with several CC licensed assets, released because of this as freeware)