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Free open-source games that bring back a forgotten classic: any favourites? (lemmy.world)
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I love when fans keep an old game alive. OpenTTD, OpenRA, OpenMoHAA and friends are the obvious ones.

A recent one I came across is OpenZ, a free 3D fan remake of Z, the 1996 Bitmap Brothers RTS with no resources at all, just flags and territory. The Zod Engine did the 2D version years ago, so it's nice to see that odd little game still has people caring about it.

What other projects like this should more people know about?

(OpenZ is on itch, Game Jolt and GitHub, for anyone curious: https://github.com/playopenz/OpenZ)

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[–] 6 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

Not official clones, and I haven't tried them but they look good:

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    BAR is one of the best rts games ever.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I got into BAR for a little bit, and while I think the game itself is fantastic, I stopped because of the game's community. If you don't already know the meta, and how to effectively play a multiplayer RTS, you just get harassed out of lobbies that are titled as being for noobs. I'm just waiting for the single-player content they are supposed to be releasing on steam, so I can play that.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    https://play0ad.com/

    Basically age of empires

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I used to spend way too much time on Freeciv.

    I wish there was some kind of open-source Total War.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I love openRA for dune and I love openRTC too.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    openbounty

    fheroes2

    DevilutionX

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    [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    https://panzermarshal.com/

    Panzer General with lots of campaigns and quite deep gameplay, also runs in browser and on mobile

    https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors

    Master of Orion fan remake

    https://xonotic.org/

    Xonotic doesn't really count, its mechanics are purposefully unique to itself but it keeps the Darkplaces engine going, you can play lots of wayyyy old quake maps and it is fun as hell.

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    [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I always loved the total annihilation clone made with springrts

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