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One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.
I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.
Breakout 71
since no one’s mentioned them:
- Oolite
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I love DC:SS.
It is like a refined nethack
Battle for Wesnoth. It’s a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.
Though I haven’t played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.
The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is “Under The Burning Suns”, which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn’t be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.
Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point. Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there’s not much writing, what’s there is generally good. I’d rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver’s gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
I still think about garak and under the burning suns from time to time. The plot is decent and while there’s not much writing, what’s there is generally good. I’d rate it better than the vast majority of games, but general consensus would probably place it below planescape torment and disco elysium. I really liked it.
Recently, battle for wesnoth has remade the delfador campaign and heir to the throne and tried to unify a bunch of the mainline campaigns together. Deceiver’s gambit and the new httt are imo respectively second and third best wesnoth campaigns now.
Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.
I’m maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It’s still very well written, maybe just not my “book”. But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.
Thank you for this! I played it long ago when I used Ubuntu but couldn’t remember the name when I wanted to play it again!
Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).
I’m not very good at it, but NetHack catches me every now and then.
Beyond All Reason or Xonotic.
BAR is the greatest RTS.
Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.
Also, I’m not sure you can count OpenRCT2 as fully open source, as it still requires the closed-source game files to run – they haven’t replaced all the game assets yet.
(That said, it’s still fantastic and by far the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.)
I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.
The source is here.
Holy shit, I played Frogatto YEARS ago and totally forgot about it. Thank you!
Not sure if it’s my favorite, but openttd was already mentioned.
It’s such a fun game, especially after you beat a campaign level. I love that part purely for the freedom it provides after a hard fought battle.
Space Station 14 for me.
Mineclonia has like 95% of the features of Minecraft but is way better because you don’t need a Microsoft account, plus modding is easier.
Also awesome:
- Pingus - Puzzle game with mechanics similar to Lemmings
- Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers - Kart racing game based on Sonic Robo Blast 2 (SRB2), itself based on a modified version of Doom Legacy
- The Powder Toy - 2D physics sandbox game
From the Luanti/Minetest games, I also like Exile very much.
It is a bit hard and nerdy (you’ll have to read the PDF guide/tutorial as you progress), but I found it oddly calming. I recommend single-player only.
In contrast to other Luanti/Minecraft-Like games, in Exile it feels very rewarding just to have found shelter from a storm and a cozy fire going, after you were on the edge of collapsing from exhaustion. Though you’re almost certainly out of food and it would be dangerous to go out looking before the storm passes, you’re not quite dying yet and you have time to make your mud hole a bit more cozy. (It’s not a good game if you want to build huge creative castles, but you’ll need to build and improve your home a bit.)
What’s different between Mineclonia and Voxelibre?
Mineclonia is a fork of VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) that adds various improvements:
Differences from MineClone 2
- Overworld depth increased from 64 to 128 nodes
- Improved nether portals
- Improved leaf decay
- Improved villages
- Wandering traders and trader llamas
- Suspicious nodes, pottery sherds and decorated pots
- Conduits
- Deep dark biome and ancient hermitage (structure corresponding to ancient city)
- Functional loom to apply banner patterns
- Lush caves biome
- Cherry grove biome
- No in-game music, twice as small compared to VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2)
- No hamburgers (but villagers follow dropped food as in Minecraft)
- No renamed mobs (e.g. Creepers remain Creepers, not Stalkers)
- Overhauled mob pathfinding, physics, and AI
- Custom Lua map generator featuring terrain and biomes that closely comport to Minecraft and which is compatible with Minecraft seeds
I had only heard of minetest. How does it compare?
An unofficial Minecraft-like game for luanti
Luanti is what Minetest was renamed to so it basically is Minetest
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a little weird, in that it’s really just meant to be the game engine, not the full game. Mineclonia is basically a mod that adds back in all the extra mobs and whatnot Minecraft has.
Oh, now I understand. Thanks so much for the explanation.
