First-person shooter games
Shooter games from the view point of the shooter
List of First-person shooter games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre first-person shooter games:
| Game | Screenshot | Last Release | Genres | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Adanaxis | 
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A single-player 4D first person shooter in outer space |
Adanaxis is a deep space first-person shooter game in four spatial dimensions, written by Andy Southgate. The latest version of the game is 1.2.5. It is written in the C++ programming language using the GLUT library. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arena of Honour | 
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January 11, 2005 | FPS |
Arena of Honour is a multiplayer first-person shooter game written by Artur hallman and Nils Keller. The latest release of the game is version .83 on January 11, 2005. [2] It is written in the C++ programming language. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| BZFlag | 
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2017-03-12 | Online Multiplayer FPS |
BZFlag, short for Battle Zone capture the Flag, is an online first-person shooter game. The code and media is licensed under the LGPL 2.1, with pieces of code and fonts being under other free licenses.[3] Originally written by Chris Schoeneman, it is now maintained by Tim Riker. The game is written in the C++ programming language. Earlier versions were written in C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balder3D | no image | Oct. 26th, 2003 | FPS |
Balder3D is a GPL zero-gravity first-person shooter game created by Bjørn Hansen. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black Shades Elite | 
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FPS |
Black Shades Elite is a fork of the game Black Shades, originally written by David Rosen and ported to linux by icculus.org. It is licensed under GPLv2 or later.[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blasphemer | 
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2012-04-29 | FPS |
Blasphemer is an FPS project whose initial goal is to serve as a Free data package for engines based on the GPLed Heretic source. The IWAD data is released under a 3-clause BSD license. Its theme is dark fantasy with inspirations from metal music and horror. G. Wessner aka "Stilgar" and Jute Gyte are the project maintainers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chaos Esque Anthology | 
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2015-08-24 | 1st person shooter |
Chaos Esque Anthology is a first-person shooter forked of Xonotic, it includes new features such as extended number of weapons (including medieval weapons), new maps, vehicles, spellcasting, monsters, player characters, textures and game modes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Freedoom | 
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2017-03-15 | FPS |
Freedoom is a project aimed to create a complete and free Doom IWAD file, which contains all game media. Combined with the GPLed Doom Source, this makes a completely Free (as in speech) game. Freedoom's data is licensed under the Modified BSD License.[7] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nexuiz | 
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1st October 2009 | First person shooter | This article needs update. Some news: a non-free fork called "Nexuiz", a free fork called Xonotic.
Nexuiz is a multiplayer 3d first person shooter, based on Forest Hale's DarkPlaces engine, As of 2010-02-22 on release 2.5.2, released on October 1st, 2009.[8] Lee Vermeulen and Forest Hale are the project leaders. The development team is called Alientrap. Source code and content are both licensed under the GPL.[9][10][11] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenArena | 
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February 20th, 2012 | FPS |
OpenArena is a FPS game intended to be a free replacement for the proprietary Quake III Arena. Both the media and the game are licensed under the GPLv2.[12][13]. The OpenArena project was established on August 19, 2005, the day after the id Tech 3 GPL source code release. A "mission pack" add-on is also planned, to take advantage of the GPL'd Quake III: Team Arena source code. OpenArena is included in quite a few Linux distributions, including Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and Mandriva. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Quartz | 
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August 1st, 2004 |
Open Quartz is an implementation of the GPL Quake source, which includes data also under the GNU General Public License. The latest version of Open Quartz is 2004.08.01. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Openfrag | 
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May 20th, 2008 | FPS |
Openfrag is a GPL medieval-themed open-source FPS currently in development written in C++ and Lua.[14][15]The latest version of the game is the Demo 0.5 released on May 20th, 2008.[16] Several Openfrag developers, and the Openfrag leader, have announced that they would be leaving the Openfrag project,[17] however, the leader of the Bullets Project has said that the latter would like to continue the Openfrag Project.[17] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red Eclipse | 
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2017-01-17 | First‐person shooter |
Red Eclipse is a total conversion of Cube 2, featuring entirely free art under CC BY-SA 3.0 or a compatible license. It features many modes like deathmatch, free-for-all, and capture-the-flag. The game has a sci-fi theme and has gameplay similar to Quake-based arena games. The game uses OpenGL. In the past there was a possibility of the game going commercial, so some files were labelled Omitted to default to the included license. It was decided that the default license will be CC BY-SA, so from then on Red Eclipse is completely libre [20] and is now included in Debian main. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Terminal Overload | 
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2015-05-26 | First‐person shooter |
Terminal Overload (abbreviated TOL) is an experimental online multiplayer first-person shooter game. It is the free and open-source spiritual successor to Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet and is currently in an early stage of development. The source code is licensed under the MIT license and all media assets are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. TOL's game logic is written in TorqueScript. The engine is a modified version of the MIT-licensed Torque3D game engine, which is written in C++. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tremfusion | 
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June 5th, 2009 | FPS |
Tremfusion is a FPS game that is the fork of Tremulous. The latest version of the game is 0.99r2 released on June 5th, 2009.[22] The source code is licensed under the GPL.[23] There is a page in the project’s wiki with the goal of summarizing and tracking the licenses of the content used in Tremulous, and then replacing the non-free content with free content.[24] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tremulous | 
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March 31st, 2006 | FPS |
Tremulous is a multiplayer first-person shooter licensed under the GPL. It's media is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5.[25] Tremulous uses the ioquake3 engine which is based upon id Tech 3. The latest version of Tremulous is 1.1 and was released on March 31th, 2006.[26] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Uebergame | 
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2017-09-24 | First‐person shooter |
Uebergame is a realistic shooter with modern graphics. It's goal is to provide a modern up to date, libre gaming platform for basic multiplayer shooter gameplay types, like deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag etc taking part in different scenarios. The source code is licensed under the MIT license and the media assets are licensed under CC0 and MIT license license. The MIT licensed assets are derived from open sourced projects from garagegames, so they cannot be relicensed to CC0, but all other assets that get added are strictly under CC0 license. Uebergame's game logic is written in TorqueScript. The engine is a modified version of the MIT-licensed Torque3D game engine, which is written in C++. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xonotic | 
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2017-04-01 | First‐person shooter Online Multiplayer |
Xonotic is a GPLv2-licenced[29] first-person shooter, a fork of the GPL-version of Nexuiz. The game runs on the Darkplaces engine, based on Quake 1's engine. Gameplay is also based on Quake, but Xonotic adds some unique touches. The gameplay is very fast-paced, and includes and encourages a form of bunny hopping as well as rocket jumping (in Xonotic "laser jumping" is more common). The art is mostly futuristic, but unofficial maps exist in a variety of styles. There are 16 different game modes (including the classics: deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag), 16 weapons with secondary fires, 18 official maps (and a lot of unofficial maps), and a complex HUD editor that lets you tailor the HUD to your exact preference. Xonotic features integrated player statistics. The XonStat system tracks a bunch of stats, including win/loss ratio, frag ratio and average accuracy[30]. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zauberer | no image | FPS |
This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page Zauberer is an FPS project whose initial goal is to serve as a Free data package for engines based on the GPLed Hexen source. The IWAD data is released under a 3-clause BSD license. Eric Söderberg aka "Cire" is the project maintainer. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
- ↑ From Arena of Honour's credits.txt file
- ↑ Arena Of Honour's download page hosted by sourceforge.net
- ↑ BZFlag's copyright file at Debian Packages
- ↑ http://balder.sourceforge.net/
- ↑ Gna1 project page
- ↑ COPYING
- ↑ Freedoom about page
- ↑ News page
- ↑ Nexuiz's data copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Nexuiz's copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Nexuiz's music copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Openarea's copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Openarena-data's copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Copying file in Openfrag SVN
- ↑ Openfrag's sourceforge project page
- ↑ Sourceforge.net download page for the Openfrag project
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 [1]
- ↑ copyright for redeclipse on Debian
- ↑ copyright for redeclipse-data on Debian
- ↑ License details from the Red Eclipse wiki
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 COPYING file in the source repository
- ↑ Blog post on 0.99 release
- ↑ Licensing for source code section
- ↑ License of all contents (acc. 2009-05-23)
- ↑ Tremulous' COPYING file - from its svn tree
- ↑ Tremulous download page at SourceForge.net
- ↑ https://github.com/Duion/Uebergame
- ↑ https://github.com/Duion/Uebergame/tree/master/scripts/gui/credits
- ↑ Xonotic homepage.
- ↑ Xonotic features.
