I personally love Naev and Mindustry
- homoludens ( @homoludens@feddit.de ) 41•6 months ago
Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.
- SplashJackson ( @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
I wish that the original use-case for Battle of Wesnoth’s engine, Wargus, was still being actively developed
- bufalo1973 ( @bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ) 2•6 months ago
Wasn’t Wargus an StarCraft like engine?
- SplashJackson ( @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) 4•6 months ago
Wargus and Wesnoth both run on the Stratagus engine, which was originally developed as a reimplimentation of Warcraft 2 . The engine split to allow for new games to be made, and the War2 functionality was shunted into Wargus where the project remains to this day
- bufalo1973 ( @bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 months ago
Last commit in Stratagus is 12 hours ago.
- SplashJackson ( @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
Stratagus is the underlying engine. My lament was directed towards Wargus. I like me some Warcraft 2, hwat can I say
- gerryflap ( @gerryflap@feddit.nl ) 30•6 months ago
Right now I’m basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It’s a game in the Total Annihilation “tree” of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can’t believe it’s an open source game. It’s still in alpha, but it’s been way more stable than most AAA games I’ve been playing recently.
I’d never heard of BAR, just gave it a go. I can see myself wasting alot of time on this
- guyrocket ( @guyrocket@kbin.social ) 6•6 months ago
Never heard of this and I’m a big fan of the TA/Sup Com series. I will try it when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!
- pootzapie ( @pootzapie@kbin.social ) 2•6 months ago
Sounds amazing thanks!
- Emily (she/her) ( @EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 27•6 months ago
I’ve gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times
- Varyag ( @Varyag@lemm.ee ) 25•6 months ago
Does DOOM count? It’s been officially open sourced recently, even though it was already treated as such for decades.Either way, I can’t stop playing it, there’s 30 years of user created content to go through.
- massivefailure ( @massivefailure@lemm.ee ) 4•6 months ago
Id Tech 1 (Doom) source has been available since 1997 under a restrictive license and under the GPL since 1999, so not “recently”. But yeah, that’s my answer. Original Doom.
- WheatleyInc ( @WheatleyInc@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•6 months ago
That’s what I’d go with it. Came here to comment it, but I was beaten to it. There are so many great ways to play through it, as the modding community has made so much amazing stuff over the years.
- NotNotMike ( @notnotmike@programming.dev ) 24•6 months ago
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
- Teknikal ( @Teknikal@lemm.ee ) English5•6 months ago
Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.
- billgamesh ( @billgamesh@lemmy.ml ) 5•6 months ago
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English1•6 months ago
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I’m missing stuff at times
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 15•6 months ago
Someone on lemmy a few months ago mentioned this rts beyond all reason. Since then I’ve easily put 100 hours in. The game is so dam fun.
Another great one is Osu
- Sanctus ( @Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•6 months ago
I was introduced to BAR like 3 months ago and I still have no idea wtf I’m doing.
Online matches typically vary between these 3 experiences:
- Your teams seem evenly matched in skill, 3 people on each team still have no units to speak of 30 minutes in.
- One team has a true 20 openSkill player. They are consuming the other team’s players whole at the 18 minute mark.
- It has been 3 hours, your’s and your allies’ units are a river flowing forth from your bases. They clash with the sea of enemies in a flurry of dazzling sounds. The frontline has held exactly at the middle for the past hour.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 4•6 months ago
It took me about 40 hours to go from Openskill 1 to os 2. I’m now os 5. I mainly play core front and just ball up tanks with a repairing station behind or I use my com to repair. Works great when it works but sometimes I get pushed before I have enough of a mass and then I’m useless and get crushed. It’s definitely a chaotic game
- Sanctus ( @Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•6 months ago
I have no idea what os I actually am because private matches mess with it. But I usually fulfill the role of air support and it always goes one of two ways:
- opponents don’t bother with air, I scramble to build bombers and gunners.
- Oppononents do build air and my fleet of fighters does something.
I really want to be the economy daddy but unfortunately I am not good at it. I’ll have to try your strat next time I’m core front instead of flooding assault tanks with no backup.
I just heard about it for the first time in this thread, I think I’m hooked, haven’t managed to beat the AI yet
- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
Battle for Wesnoth. There’s several FOSS games that are pretty good, but BfW I’ve played the most.
- billgamesh ( @billgamesh@lemmy.ml ) 14•6 months ago
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English4•6 months ago
That, or the tire arena mode thing. Both are pretty fun when you are bored of all the official tracks and your favorite add-on tracks.
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English1•6 months ago
Wait there’s addon tracks?!
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English1•6 months ago
Yeah. Don’t know how to have them uploaded or even make them, but you can download a ton of different tracks, carts, and arenas from inside the game itself. All for free, with variable quality since pretty much all but maybe a few tracks are all fan made originals or old versions of official maps.
Don’t know how old of an update you can be on to use the feature, but on the latest version you’ll definitely have the ability to use it. I think it’s on the right hand side of the screen, either in the bottom corner or above it. It adds a lot of longevity after you get bored of the official tracks.
- Achyu ( @Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•6 months ago
True.
Also, a single keyboard can be used to setup the controls of both user 1 and 2.
Was awesome to play games together, without needing a separate computer or input device.
- starman ( @starman@programming.dev ) English14•6 months ago
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English1•6 months ago
OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)
Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD
- starman ( @starman@programming.dev ) English1•6 months ago
Simutrans is also pretty cool.
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 13•6 months ago
Super Tux and Super Tux Kart
- Miss Brainfarts ( @miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•6 months ago
0AD, so good
- bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English12•6 months ago
For those who don’t know: It’s basically an Age of Empires clone.
And it’s better - nicer graphics and gameplay. It feels more like Age of Empires III though
- Kerb ( @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de ) 13•6 months ago
openttd is great
- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 12•6 months ago
I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English12•6 months ago
Nethack.
- Panos Alevropoulos ( @panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml ) 11•6 months ago