Some FOSS games I've been playing recently (sh.itjust.works)

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SuperTuxKart

I really like this game because it's basically just FOSS Mario Kart. It has a lot of gamemodes, an (admittedly simple) kart stat system, many tracks and a lot of mods.

OpenTTD

In OpenTTD, you transport cargo and people to different places. You can transport them using trains, buses, aeroplanes (airplanes if your American), boats and trams if you add a NewGRF (a mod). It is very addictive and it is quite easy to get into (except the signals).

Pingus

It's FOSS Lemmings with penguins.

Extreme Tux Racer

You play as Tux (or someone else) and slide yourself through terrain while you collect fish. It is fun, however I've found that it can get a bit repetitive. You can design levels, however it's a bit hard to do.

SuperTux

It's 2D Mario with a penguin. BEST GAME EVER.

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[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago

Beyond All Reason

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

That actually looks amazing.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

It is amazing

https://youtu.be/bQl_ncjcMqU

It doesn't just look cool as fuck, it actually delivers on the vibes it gives off and it does so in spades.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

WOW. I just had a vision of my potential life for the next several years.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

hell yes!

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

I'm playing a skirmish at 0.1 resource production, pausing constantly, and it's STILL pretty overwhemling. But fun and slick!

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you aren't already use shift click to que up multiple commands for units (this works for any command in the game). Once you get used to relying on it everything becomes way more manageable!

https://www.beyondallreason.info/commands/move

Also set your factories to "repeat" and set up defensive patrol routes with your factories so you can sit back a bit and not have to micro everything as hard.

Also the community is friendly don't be afraid to ask for help in getting better!

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Space-click is such a nice feature. I stopped wishing I could edit queues once I found it.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Super Tux and Wesnoth are my favorite, followed by SuperTuxKart.

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I haven't played Wesnoth (I really should lol). What's it like?

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

If you like old school turn based strategy games, it's awesome. Beautiful pixel art, great UI, great gameplay.

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Just installed it and I like it already!

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Its a stragegy game where you move units on a hexagonal board. Its a pretty unique system in my opinion. Its kinda like advanced wars.

[-] IndieSpren 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

basically foss factorio

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

I keep bouncing off but it seems awesome, how do you like it?

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

I has stronger Tower Defense elements, but it seems to be a lot of fun especially also in multiplayer.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Try UnCiv if you like Civilization 5

[-] bigb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It's my new go-to mobile time killer. I think it works well on a touchscreen.

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Will do!

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Lix is the better open-source lemmings

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you for letting me know! Indeed it does appear to be much better than Pingus.

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Xonotic & Minetest.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Xonotic is like mind butter once you learn the flow of it.

Also, friendly correction Minetest is now called Luanti (with Voxelibre mod)!

[-] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Luanti(Formerly Minetest) = Game Engine

Voxelibre(Formerly Mineclone2) = Game

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

^this is the optimum form of the information I intended to convey

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Also, afaik, "Minetest game" is still the name of one of the games (and it used to be shipped by default with the engine, though no idea if that has changed and they finally don't include any games in the initial download).

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I think the game you can now find in Luanti called "minetest" is a preservation of the mod as it was before the name change to "voxelibre" though I would imagine the actual story is more complicated than that.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

AFAIK, Voxelibre was renamed from "MineClone2" which was a fork from "MineClone" which is a different game than "Minetest game"

[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Pioneer Space Sim is my favorite. Fly around the galaxy, trade and do combat, with realistic Newtonian physics.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/#lobby -- leading edge of rogue development

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Speaking of Super Tux, I hope some day in the future that a guy, Kelvin Shadewing on yt, finishes his SuperTux Advance. Just playing what is currently available, currently just for windows, blows away SuperTux, at least in my opinion.

SuperTux is great in it's own way, but I love Advance better because of QOL things like being able to run and also having different playable characters with different abilities. If running is available in the original, I sure have not been able to figure it out, either keyboard or gamepad.

Though, will say I absolutely love SuperTuxKart because of all the custom content for the game that adds so much.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As far as I remember, holding fire while moving will make SuperTux run. Similar to the popular platformer which-must-not-be-named from the NES (which likely only did it like that because the controller had only 2 buttons).

SuperTux Advance

For reference, this is the github: https://github.com/KelvinShadewing/supertux-advance

It uses a cross-platform engine (Brux GDK), in theory you just run game.brx from the Brux engine. Is it really Windows only? ..that'd be weird for a Tux game.

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Sad if it is Windows only.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure for now it's just being developed for windows if you want prebuilt executables, but I'm sure with the source code it's possible to make it work with another OS like Linux, but that's beyond my pay grade.

No idea about running it from the Brux engine, but I can certainly try later because I would love to play it on my laptop.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Widelands for a The Settlers 2 feeling!

[-] speed_dreams@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

which one do you think we have been playing? https://www.speed-dreams.net/ We have also played great games such as Unciv, Stunt Rally and OpenRA.

[-] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Your game looks really fun! I've also played OpenRA before and it's really good.

[-] speed_dreams@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks a lot. I hope you enjoy it!

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