12 Free Open Source Games That You Do Not Want To Miss
We had earlier featured Top 10 Open Source Applications For Windows. Here, we will be seeing 12 cool free open source games that are as good as the commercial games out there and all of them support Windows OS. If you want more, do not miss to check 10 More Free Open Source Games that are more addictive! For 3D Shooter games, take a look at the 10 Highly Addictive Open Source and Free 3D Shooter Games - Part 1.
Please contribute to these Open Source games either as a user by installing and testing them or as a developer by contributing to the open source code. You could also contribute by making a donation via their websites as most of them accept.
Also check-out 30 Open Source Games List ( consolidated) If you think that some of your games are missing in the list. Also check our new set of 12 Free and Awesome First Person Shooter Games and Sexy City Building Simulation Games That You Might Not Have Played Before.
Here is the list of 12 games:
1. AssaultCube
AssaultCube was formerly known as ActionCube It is a free first-person-shooter game that is based on the game Cube. It provides a realistic looking environment while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.
Check out the video here.
Supported Operating Systems: 64-bit MS Windows, All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS Portable (Source code to work with many OS platforms), Linux, OS X, Vista, Win2K, WinXP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Commander Stalin is a Soviet real time strategy game (RTS) based on Boswars. In a RTS game, the player has to combat its enemies while running his war economy. Its so called real-time, as opposed to turn based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building the economy and building and army to defend an attack the enemies.
Operating System : Windows, Linux
3. PokerTH
PokerTH is a poker game written in C++/QT4. You can play the popular “Texas Hold’em” poker variant against up to six computer-opponents or play network games with people all over the world.
Operating system: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), Linux, OS X
4. SuperTuxKart
SuperTuxKart is a a kart racing game featuring Tux and friends. It is a fun-racer game, focusing on fun and ease of play. Great for both children and adults.
Operating system: Windows (XP/Vista) , Linux and Mac OSX. The source code is OS Portable.
You can download the game here.
Strings on Speed is a music video game similar to Frets on Fire in which players simulate guitar play using their keyboard. It features a single player as well as a multiplayer mode.
Operating system: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), Linux, Vista
Download the software here.
6. Glest
Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.
Operating system: Linux, Windows 2000/XP. Source code is OS Portable
Download the game here.
OpenRock Curling is a free curling game with network support. It is written in Java and should run all platforms with JRE 6 or later. Yeah, a Curling game is here in the list!
Operating system: OS Independent as its written in Java
Download the game here.
Blender breakout is a simple open source game much like super breakout. it is developed in Blender
Operating System: Windows XP
Download the game here.
UltraStar Delus is a karaoke game inspired by the Singstar game available on the Playstation. It allows up to six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points, depending on the pitch of the voice and the rhythm of singing.
Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X), Linux, OS X
Download the software here.
10. Rigs of Rods
Rigs of Rods is a 3D simulator game where you can drive, fly and sail various vehicles using an accurate and unique soft-body physics engine.
Operating system: Windows. Its source code is OS portable
11. Blood Frontier
The game is a single-player and multi-player first-person shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of tactics and low gravity.
Operating System: Windows, Linux/BSD and Mac OSX. The source code is OP portable.
Download the software here.
12. Torcs-NG
TORCS-NG is a fork of the famous racing car simulator TORCS, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game.
Operating system: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
Download the software here.
Try these free games and enjoy!
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Hello,
I just wanted to say your list is very bad. You make a list of the 12 open source games you do not want to miss and you leave out warsow? http://www.warsow.net Go there and try it out. It is an open source, first person shooter. It is probably the best open source game till date!
http://open-tube.com/10-more-free-open-source-games-that-you-would-not-want-to-miss
You forgot Armagetron Advanced licensed under the GNU GPL v3.
Check our next post on 10 More Free Open Source Games
Armagetron Advanced is one of them.
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Thank you much for this useful post.
I was surprised not to find OpenTTD on here. A very immersive game, much more so than Openrock Curling
Nice list. You were able to name two fine RTS games, but forgot the best one IMO:
http://springrts.com/
Only goes to show that there’s lots of free and opensource games that are worth playing.