Third-person shooter games

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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[edit]

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



Game Screenshot Last Release Genres Description
Blob Wars Episode 2 : Blob And Conquer Blob Wars 2 - screenshot01.jpg 2009-11-4 Third-person shooter
Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer
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GenreThird-person shooter
Latest release1.10
Release dateNovember 4th, 2009
DeveloperParallel Realities
Code licenseGPL
Media licenseGraphics: GPL
Audio: non-free
P. languageC++
LibrarySDL
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Blob Wars: Blob And Conquer is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

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,[1] and thus have been removed from the Debian package.[2] 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 Nightfall.png 2023-11-01 Scrolling shooter
Nightfall
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GenresScrolling shooter
Latest release1.5.1  (Announcement)
Release dateNovember 1, 2023
DevelopersPiga Software
Code licenseGPLv3
Media licenseGPLv3
EngineGambas Arcade Engine 2.0
P. languageGambas 3.x
LibrariesQt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment.
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Nightfall is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

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 DaveGnukem.png 2022-11-28 Side-scrolling, Platform game
Dave Gnukem
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Dave Gnukem
GenreSide-scrolling, Platform game
Latest release1.0.3  (Announcement)
Release dateNovember, 28, 2022
DeveloperDavid Joffe[3]
Code licenseGPLv2, MIT
Media licenseCC-BY, CC0[4]
P. languageC++
LibrarySDL (previously GGI and DirectX)
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Dave Gnukem is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

Dave Gnukem is a 2D retro-style platformer shooter inspired by a famous proprietary side scroller game Duke Nukem.[5]

Adventures on Planet Zephulor Zephulor.png 2006-01-17 Side-scrolling platform shooter
Adventures on Planet Zephulor
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GenresSide-scrolling platform shooter
Latest releaseStable
Release dateJanuary 17, 2006
PlatformsLinux, Windows
DevelopersAaron Hachez, Andrew A. Meier
Code licenseGPL 2-or-later
Media licenseGPL 2-or-later
P. languagePython
LibraryPygame
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Adventures on Planet Zephulor is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well.

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.