I personally love Naev and Mindustry
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.
This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.
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.
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
That’s a continuation of TA Spring? Neat, played that a looong time ago.
I’d never heard of BAR, just gave it a go. I can see myself wasting alot of time on this
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!
Sounds amazing thanks!
I’ve gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
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
Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).
Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I’m not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.
Endless Sky is amazing. I’ve put so many hours into it. It’s available on Steam or as an AppImage from https://endless-sky.github.io
I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly
Battle for Wesnoth. There’s several FOSS games that are pretty good, but BfW I’ve played the most.
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
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
Simutrans is also pretty cool.
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
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.
openttd is great
Apart some of the already mentioned (mindustry, 0ad, beyond all reasons, zero-k), also minetest (minecraft), destination sol.
l’ve tried hege wars (worms clone) but found it meh. Sometimes supertux.
Haven’t played Minetest in a while. I remember having lots of fun with modding. 0ad is also another great open source title
Lately the modding has been getting really good, and while the game engine already has volumetric lighting (or something), there are even mods now that render everything beautifully that probably need a really good graphics card to keep up with.
I had the same experience with Hedgewars, but I can’t really say why it doesn’t click like Worms for me.
Nethack.
0AD, so good
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
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
They ever end up taking magic dart out of dcss?
Story?
the devs suck.
I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it’s good but I really never get past the mining stage and can’t understand the crafting.
One day I’m hoping for a fluke we’re I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.
Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.
I’ve been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon virtually every day for years, through I don’t know how many updates. I’m far from convinced that every run is winnable, but there are some patterns that I’ve observed.
Mage and Huntress seem to be my best classes. The Mage’s staff means that you are guaranteed to have something that’s worth upgrading. The Huntress’ bow and her special abilities like growing grass by walking can make for some truly interesting gameplay changes, whereas I feel like most of the other classes’ abilities are more about moderate improvements to quality of life.
A Ring of Haste is probably my favorite ring to find, since being able to kite monsters is a great path to victory. Tenacity, Elements, and Strength are boring. Wealth can be good if it comes upgraded, but I wouldn’t put scrolls into it. Evasion always seems to turn on me sooner or later. Energy and Arcana can improve quality of life but are otherwise pretty mid.
A Wand of Regrowth is almost always a path to victory, especially if it comes upgraded, doubly so if you become a Warden, and triply so if you can combine it with the Sandals of Regrowth.
A Wand of Blast Wave is incredibly useful when used to knock enemies off ledges or into traps, saving yourself the trouble of killing them.
Other wands are a super mixed bag, depending on what you can manage to do with them, but I’ll say that some of my most fun and successful runs are putting a Wand of Corruption into my Mage’s Staff and becoming a Corruption Battlemage. You whack an enemy, Amok him on his friends, then corrupt them, then rinse and repeat until you win.
I’ve already mentioned the Sandals, which I’d say are incredibly useful if you’ve got a Wand of Regrowth or a Blooming enchanted weapon, but are otherwise hard to keep getting enough fresh grass to make worthwhile. I think the Ethereal Chains and Hourglass are my favorite and most useful artifacts. Horn of Plenty is okay but not great, unless you can combine it with being filled by the Battlemage’s energy generating ability. Other artifacts are mid, but I’ll make a special mention of the Unstable Spellbook which seems to screw me as often as it helps and yet I can’t deny that I have a great time with the mayhem it adds to my run. The Alchemist’s Toolkit is terrible; I hope a future patch significantly alters or replaces it, because honestly why bother using it at all?
I think my favorite runs are Corruption Battlemage or a Sniper with a nicely upgraded Boomerang; I always get a lot of fun out of using the boomerangs.
There’s no end to the conversation but that’s all I’ve got for now. It’s far and away the most played game on my phone… possibly my most played game ever, measured by eternal hours. The publisher is an absolute treasure and he deserves all the praise and success in the world.
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One of my favorites recently has been playing MineClone2 with some extra mods (can’t remember which) through Minetest.
I’ve been boycotting minecraft since the news of chat reporting potentially coming to Java and MineClone2 is such a good replacement. Biggest gripe I have is not being able to get any of the mods that add sprint to work. Pretty much the only feature not available in MineClone2 (as far as I’m aware) from minecraft that I actively miss.
Mineclone2 has sprint since the “sprint update” long ago. You get it by pressing “E” (or the “use” key if you remapped it)
I’ll definitely have to look into that! That is an absolute game changer that will definitely make the game a lot more bearable for me.
Thanks for the info! I would have never figured that out on my own.
Edit:
Found it in the package manager. I definitely have that selective male blindness where I can look right at something and it won’t appear in my vision.
i havent done anything with mineclone, but have messed with minetest, it’s pretty cool. Whats mineclone like?