For example veloren

Do you play open-source games? If yes, which games do you enjoy?

    • hydra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Second Mindustry, I played it up once and it was great. Basically Factorio for phones.

      • nublug@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        vor 2 Jahren

        thirded. played it years ago and got into it again recently. you should check it out again, there’s a lot of new stuff they’ve added.

    • klangcola@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      vor 2 Jahren

      I love OpenTTD, came here looking for it.

      For the uninitiated, it’s a reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transportation empire of trains, lorrys ships and planes.

      There’s also a modern spiritual successor in Transport Fever (commercial, not open source)

  • Vitaly@feddit.ukOPEnglish
    19·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Did you guys tried Endless sky? Awesome game if you love space

    • Vitaly@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      5·
      vor 2 Jahren

      And minetest+mineclone2 is pretty good if you want to play minecraft but don’t have a license

      • beedog@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Thank you for this! I have already logged hours playing with my kid since seeing your suggestion. We have only played mineclone2 so far. I will look into veloren next.

        • Vitaly@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          1·
          vor 2 Jahren

          Nice to hear it! Mineclone is actually very good mod and you definitely should try veloren, good luck

      • jmf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Minetest in general has such a good mod selection it’s insane! My siblings and I never fail to have a good time goofing around with the plugins people have created.

    • harky@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      vor 2 Jahren

      I recently got into that game quite a bit. Playing it on steam. Just the other day I discovered I can board pirate ships and kill the crew to claim the ship as my own. That has been a significant power boost for me and really unlocked the game.

      Even before that I was having fun trying to survive with limited power while still exploring the world

    • HighPriestOfALowCult@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      0·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!

      Don’t be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you’ll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don’t carry over.

      • threetimes@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        vor 2 Jahren

        I grew up playing the EV series and I love Endless Sky. Is there something about the clone that you don’t like? I can’t thing of a change that I dislike. For example, fleet management is improved. Being able to dock your various ships and escorts is pretty cool.

  • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
    18·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Beyond All Reason is AMAZING. I can’t say enough about it. Its my favourite game, and totally annihilates (!) the competition.

    Though I guess the competition is pretty small for large scale RTS. Maybe:

    • Total Annihilation
    • Supreme Commander
    • Ashes of the Singularity
    • Sins of the Solar Empire (sorta)
    • Vitaly@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      vor 2 Jahren

      I don’t really like this type of games but the game looks pretty cool

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
        4·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Yeah its a specific type of person that would enjoy it, perhaps a Factorio/Factory Must Grow genre mixed with small scale RTS.

        Still, playing 20v20 games are incredible.

      • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev
        4·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Its also gone gangbusters over the past few months, unsure why. Hundreds of concurrent players at any time which is pretty amazing.

        • Syreniac@lemmy.world
          1·
          vor 2 Jahren

          ZeroK has some of the nicest QoL features I’ve seen in an RTS game, I’ve always wanted to see if the other big Spring games are similar.

          • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev
            1·
            vor 2 Jahren

            I found all the ZK ones made it to BAR, right click formations, area mexes, repeat queues, fancy waypointing etc. Maybe its just an inherent part of Spring RTS so they all share the benefits, who knows.

  • candlebury@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Cataclysm DDA Is THE open world zombie survival experience. So long as you like obtuse roguelikes with nearly no graphics.

    Although Im obviously biased what with being a dev and all.

    • Haatveit@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      vor 2 Jahren

      CDDA is mind bogglingly cool. I play a weekend of it every few months. I know it won’t ever happen, but if it got the Dwarf Fortress Steam treatment one day, it could be the last game I ever bought and I’d be happy.

        • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          vor 2 Jahren

          I wish that there was a way to take better advantage of the Steam Deck controller with this version. I bought a copy to check it out, as I don’t really like playing on mobile but would love to take it on the go. It was… Harder than just playing on my phone.

          To the uninitiated: despite my comment, Cataclysm DDA is still worth trying out! Where else could you skateboard down the street naked while holding a plank covered with nails?

          • Nyanix@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            vor 2 Jahren

            Aaaah, I love that idea, I wonder if there are any good controller configs for it that might help for that

  • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.netEnglish
    13·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Several, but my number one fav so far is Battle for Wesnoth. An old school hex tile turn based strategy game. Like something out of the 90’s or very early 2000’s.

    Great art, awesome music, solid gameplay, and runs on a potato.

    My best friend and I play it whenever we want a casual chill, play n’ chat gaming session.

    It runs great on the Steam Deck too with a few interface tweaks.

    • Serenus@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I sank way too many hours into this (started off as a TA clone but branched off into other game modes too) a decade or two ago, and it looks like it’s still going.

      https://springrts.com/

      • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        vor 2 Jahren

        ZeroK uses the same engine as BAR, my game, and quite a few others. 😋 And yes, definitely should check out ZK, it’s a mature project with a nice community and awesome devs.

        Recoil is pretty much the only foss engine purpose built for modern rts games of all types.

  • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Veloren is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

    You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!

    You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.

    The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.

    It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!

    See https://veloren.net/

  • TotoroTheGreat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Battle of Wesnoth. Haven’t played it in a while, but I remember spending hours playing that at one point.

  • sorenant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    vor 2 Jahren

    Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has been mentioned so I’ll add OpenMW to the thread. It’s a open source engine rewrite of Morrowind and requires the base game to run Morrowind but it has the potential to be used to create new games and the devs are looking to expand it to allow the creation of ARPGs as well.

    Another worthy mention is Endless Sky, it’s an open source game inspired by the classic space trading and combat game Escape Velocity.

    • dracul104@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Since you mentioned OpenMW I thought I should mention Daggerfall Unity. It’s an rewrite of Daggerfall using the Unity engine, also requiring the original files. The best thing about is that the developers have made it easily moddable and a very healthy modding community has sprung up for it, some of which really make the game feel like what the original developers were going for but had to deal with the technical limitations of the time.

    • xamino@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Endless Sky was surprisingly addictive to me, it really scratched the exploration itch. Sadly I played through most content at some point, so now I’m waiting for there to be enough new stuff for me to play again. I really enjoyed it, including the stories and lore and universe!

      • authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        vor 2 Jahren

        I also played through most of the content at some point, but when they eventually updated with new content I couldn’t get back into it. Maybe I should try again because that was such a fun game.