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Mineclonia has like 95% of the features of Minecraft but is way better because you don't need a Microsoft account, plus modding is easier.
Also awesome:
- Pingus - Puzzle game with mechanics similar to Lemmings
- Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers - Kart racing game based on Sonic Robo Blast 2 (SRB2), itself based on a modified version of Doom Legacy
- The Powder Toy - 2D physics sandbox game
Not sure if it's my favorite, but openttd was already mentioned.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The dev is even active on Lemmy! !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
beyond all reason
I don't see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it's a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
The source is here.
Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.
Isn't Doom open source now? Does that count?
Battle for Wesnoth. It's a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.
Though I haven't played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is "Under The Burning Suns", which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn't be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
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Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
Xonotic is so fast and smooth.
People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow
It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.
This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.
Edit:
I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.
I still play 0AD every now and then
I played hundreds and hundreds of hours of Tremulous back in the day, and at least a few of its successor Unvanquished -- before mostly falling out of playing online games.
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I highly recommend Space Station 14.
It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.
Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".
And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".
It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.
Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.
If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE
Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.
Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.
Lots of great games. Gonna add Endless Sky. 2D top down space sim RPG. Think Escape Velocity series.
Space Station 14 for me.
I'm not very good at it, but NetHack catches me every now and then.
One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
since no one's mentioned them:
- Oolite
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.
Cubyz is also similar to minecraft
Breakout 71
Pixel dungeon.
VintageStory is kinda open source, and far more polished than any other minecraft clone.
Friday Night Funkin!
Dwarf Fortress
I also really like Nightmare Kart which is free on steam, but I don't think it is open souce...?
Despite not actually playing it myself, i'd say Unciv just because it actually straight up reimplements civlization and is super moddable, it's really well done (aside from the acceptable graphics, but hey that's """easily""" fixable by some future helpful artist)
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).
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