Indie-friendly game engine with strong 2D workflow and permissive license.
Gaming & Game Development
Godot leads for indie FOSS game development; content pipelines often pair with Blender. Emulators such as PCSX2, DOSBox, and Stella preserve console and DOS history; Luanti (Minetest) and Warzone 2100 show active open game communities.
Tools in this category (27)
Arcade kart racer with libre mascots, LAN play, and moddable tracks.
Historical real-time strategy game with open development and mod support.
PlayStation 2 emulator focused on compatibility, upscaling, and controller mapping.
x86 DOS emulator for running classic games and demos with mounted folder images.
Atari 2600 (VCS) emulator with debugger, ROM bank switching support, and controllers.
Voxel sandbox engine and game with Lua modding—community rebranding toward Luanti.
Real-time strategy with persistent unit design and campaign—GPL-2.0 classic.
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.
A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.
A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.
Pelican Panel is an open-source, web-based application designed for easy management of game servers.
Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V
An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
[mirror of https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren] An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please submit all PRs and issues on our GitLab page.
♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞
Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
Lutris desktop client
Hydra Launcher is an open-source gaming platform created to be the single tool that you need
The automation tower defense RTS
GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)
The main repository for the development of the evolution game Thrive.
Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.
s&box is a modern game engine, built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET technology, it provides a modern intuitive editor for creating games
