Third-person shooter games

In third-person shooter games, you play a protagonist who walks around and shoots things. These games are played from the third-person perspective (but not from the top), i.e. you see the shooter that you control.

List of Third-person shooter games

This is a list of free/libre third-person shooter games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Blob Wars Episode 2 : Blob And Conquer		2009-11-4	Third-person shooter	Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer Genre Third-person shooter Latest release 1.10 Release date November 4th, 2009 Developer Parallel Realities Code license GPL Media license Graphics: GPL Audio: non-free P. language C++ Library SDL Homepage https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/games/blobAndConquer/ Contribute Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer is a 3D action game created by Parallel Realities using the SDL library. The source code of the game is licensed under the GPL. The music and sound effects are not free, and thus have been removed from the Debian package. It is the sequel to Blob Wars Episode 1 : Metal Blob Solid. The latest version of the game is 1.10 released on November 4th, 2009.
Nightfall		2023-11-01	Scrolling shooter	Nightfall Genres Scrolling shooter Latest release 1.5.1  (Announcement) Release date November 1, 2023 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Engine Gambas Arcade Engine 2.0 P. language Gambas 3.x Libraries Qt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Homepage https://pigalore.miraheze.org/wiki/Nightfall Contribute Nightfall is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Nightfall is a game made by Piga Software for Halloween 2022 and updated for Halloween 2023. It is a scrolling shooter where the player armed with a shotgun faces attacks from various monsters and has to dodge or shoot them, before facing a final battle with a vampire at the five minute mark. It was written in Gambas 3.17.3 and uses Qt 5 for windowing and SDL 2 for audio. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 library from Openclipart with sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound with music from OpenGameArt.org. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux. The 1.5.0 update added a splash screen, main menu, help screen, various options, multiple new enemies and a beast mode that activates if the player gets a kill streak.
Dave Gnukem		2022-11-28	Third-person shooter, Platformer, Side-scrolling	Dave Gnukem Dave Gnukem Genres Third-person shooter, Platformer, Side-scrolling Latest release 1.0.3  (Announcement) Release date November, 28, 2022 Platform GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS Developer David Joffe Code license GPLv2, MIT Media license CC-BY, CC0 P. language C++ Library SDL (previously GGI and DirectX) Homepage https://djoffe.com/gnukem Contribute Dave Gnukem is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Bug/Feature Tracker Dave Gnukem is a 2D retro-style platformer shooter inspired by a famous proprietary side scroller game Duke Nukem.
Adventures on Planet Zephulor		2006-01-17	Side-scrolling platform shooter	Adventures on Planet Zephulor Genres Side-scrolling platform shooter Latest release Stable Release date January 17, 2006 Platforms GNU/Linux, Windows Developers Aaron Hachez, Andrew A. Meier Code license GPL 2-or-later Media license GPL 2-or-later P. language Python Library Pygame Homepage https://web.archive.org/web/20051026062759/http://games.hollowworks.com/index.php Contribute Adventures on Planet Zephulor is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Adventures on Planet Zephulor is a side-scrolling platform shooter with a science fiction setting. Taking on the role of a stranded astronaut on a distant planet, the player has to fight through the alien environs to make it to a ship to get off world. There are no lives and upon death the player simply restarts the level, although quicksaves are provided. The game features fifteen levels in two distinct regions and five different enemy types. The artwork was initially under the non-free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, but was later all released under the GNU GPL 2-or-later. The game was included on the LinuxCenter Game Collection from 2004.
Triplane Classic	no image	2013-02-24	Side-scrolling, Third-person shooter	Triplane Classic Genre Side-scrolling, Third-person shooter Latest release 1.0.8  (Announcement) Release date 2013-02-24 Platforms GNU/Linux Code license GPLv3 P. language C++ Homepage https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplane/ Contribute Triplane Classic is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   Arch: triplane  Debian: triplane   FreeBSD: triplane  openSUSE: triplane  Ubuntu: triplane Triplane Classic is a side-scrolling third-person dogfighting shooter. The game is a port of the game Triplane Turmoil.
FRaBs		2000-12-10	Side-scrolling, Third-person shooter, Platformer	fRaBs fRaBs Genres Side-scrolling, Third-person shooter, Platformer Latest release 2.1  (Announcement) Release date December 10th, 2000 Code license public domain Media license public domain Homepage http://web.archive.org/web/20061207140937/http://www.cs.uidaho.edu:80/~cass0664/fRaBs/index.html Contribute fRaBs is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker fRaBs, short for Free Abuse, is a liberated version of a 1995 shareware game Abuse. Abuse was mostly released into public domain, with the exception of music, sounds effects and data exclusive to the commercial (registered) version, which included all levels above 4. To fill in the missing pieces, fRaBs project was started.
0verkill		2001-12-16	Third-person shooter, side-scrolling	0verkill 0verkill Genre Third-person shooter, side-scrolling Latest release 0.16  (Announcement) Release date December 16, 2001 Platform GNU/Linux Code license GNU General Public License v2 or later Media license GNU General Public License v2 or later P. language C Homepage http://www.xevil.com/ Contribute 0verkill is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   AUR: 0verkill-git   FreeBSD: 0verkill  Gentoo: games-action/0verkill 0verkill is a terminal-based client-server deathmatch game featuring ASCII graphics.
LieroLibre		2012-12-15	Third-person shooter	LieroLibre LieroLibre Genre Third-person shooter Latest release 0.5  (Announcement) Release date Nov 15, 2012 Platform GNU/Linux, Windows Code license BSD-2-Clause Media license WTFPL Homepage http://www.liero.be/ Contribute LieroLibre is a free game. This means that the source code and media files are available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker LieroLibre is a 2D shooter game where two worms compete against each other.

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