Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Gaming
From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!
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Veloren
There's not a whole lot of activity around it these days, but Zelda Classic is an engine for Zelda 1 with a number of additions and improvements, that allows for custom maps, tilesets, scripts, items, enemies, etc. etc.
I've whiled away an unreasonable amount of time on quests that are on par mechanically and quality-wise with Link's Awakening and the Oracle games. Shame I can't get the tarball to work properly on Steam Deck, it's a great fit for that hardware.
Shapez is a fairly relaxing factory game. Pretty minimalistic style but easy to lose tons of time to if you aren't careful.
Warzone 2100. It reminds me of the older Command & Conquer games with a ton of upgrades and customization for your units.
osu!lazer
Aside from the other choices already mentioned (especially Doom stuff, FreeDoom ftw) any of the free games derived from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games and early builds, mostly Anomaly and Lost Alpha. There are also a few stabilized versions of the Build 1935 alpha out there which are worth playing and probably a bit more approachable for most people.
Battle for Wesnoth is a personal favorite of mine that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere in the thread. It's a pixel art, hex-grid turn based strategy game with fantasy armies. It's mixed with mild RPG elements, and there's tons and tons of campaigns and fanmade content accessible directly through a mod browser in game.
The other games I enjoy that I see being mentioned here are in the same vein. BAR, Warzone 2100, OpenTTD. And the open mods based on the STALKER engine, like Anomaly. I love those.
I still jump into Quake 3 DeFRaG sometimes. It's a movement game, probably one of the earliest examples of a game / mod where the primary focus is on movement as opposed to shooting or some other mechanic. Its mere existence heavily inspired a lot of source engine movement communities like surf, bhop, kz, etc.
Here's a good video showcasing what DeFRaG movement looks like. Each map is ran on two variations of the physics. One is VQ3 (vanilla quake 3) and CPM (Challenge ProMode Arena, which was originally a Quake 3 mod that heavily altered the physics to make it more fun for professional play). While there's no one DeFRaG game, there's a shitload of open source mods to the original game that modify the physics and allow you to join servers running DeFRaG maps. Some of them even hook up to the online database allowing you to register times without recording your runs and submitting them the traditional way. There's usually a new open source defrag mod rolling out every 3 years or so, and each one builds upon the successes of the previous one. The one I currently use is iDFe which I think came out around 2018 or so? I'm pretty sure there's a new one, and there are other games in the works in both modified Source Engine and Unreal Engine 4 that are looking to emulate the VQ3 and CPM physics for modern engines.
The community is pretty dead, but it rises from the ashes every few years for DFWC (the video I linked above was DFWC 2017). You can always play any one of the thousands of maps in singleplayer too.
0 A.D. is the closest experience to Empire Earth I've had on the FOSS side. Great fun!
Hum more Age of Empire than Empire Earth I think
OpenRCT2, eDuke32, the various Doom and Quake games
Also ScummVM is open source and supports many games
Xonotic. I even got a server in my region!
Pokemon Emerald 😉
There are a few open source game projects I follow. I suppose the most famous one is the Freespace 2 source code project. Although it didn't start open source, the original devs open-sourced it later. It has great support, and a great modding launcher called Knossos. To play the game, even with the source code, you either need the original disks or a copy of the installer from GoG, but it's really cheap. Getting it working on Windows is pretty easy, but Linux is only slightly more complicated. (Fortunately, there's a new launcher that makes it way easier).
If you're interested, let me know.
I am a big fan of Neverball
0 A.D. and Beyond All Reasons for me ^^
I'm surprised to not see Flare RPG mentioned. It's nothing groundbreaking on its own, but it's actually got two nicely fleshed out campaigns, and tooling for people to make new ones. It's a nice, fun, FOSS single-player RPG, and it's great if you want that old fashioned Diablo feel.
Another vote for Endless Sky here as well, it's just excellent, and surprisingly expansive.
Doom :)
Only one that comes to mind is Lugaru. The creator had this weird legal battle where someone stole the game, ported it to iOS, and the thief claimed because it was open source he was allowed to sell it.
It's old but I always really liked WARSAW it was/is a quake3 port but with more cartoony outline graphics similar to Borderlands style.
I'd say Pokemon Infinite Fusion. It's written in Rails and the artwork is done by the community