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This page is to propose games that are not included, not on the Rejected games list, and apparently are free, but either additional research is needed to confirm that, or someone just needs to create an article.

Games by last release[edit]

2024[edit]

  • Starcatcher - Simple 2d puzzle game featuring controls with only one button (Apache2.0).

2023[edit]

  • Boxcars (*) - Client for playing backgammon online via bgammon.org. Both Boxcars and the bgammon server are free and open source (AGPL).

2022[edit]

  • Supertux advance (*) - fast paced 2d platformer that's visually styled to resemble a game boy advance game, top level license is affero GPL but research into assets may be needed
  • AstroMenace (*) - third person 3D rendered space shooter
  • Darworms (*) - territory capture game written in JavaScript
    • The official version includes Google Analytics which is nonfree, but it's a separate JavaScript file so it's easy to run the game without that; regardless, I think an article for the game should point to a completely free version. The reason I put the game in the "Suggested" rather than "Rejected" section is because of how trivial the changes needed are.
  • Moon Rider (*) - VR music game where you punch stars as they move along a track
  • EmptyEpsilon (*) - open-source "clone" of Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, with new features and gameplay not found in the orignial. (GPL-2.0)
    • Just a quick look: It uses sounds with CC-BY-NC. And looking at the music Dream Raid Full Version (Mock Up).ogg is listed but no license named; Imminent Threat.ogg not even listed. No mentioning about graphic sources!? Kribbel (talk) 11:14, 31 January 2023 (CET)
  • Slaughter (*) - first person shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Only 1 of the 5 source files has a license header, so someone should probably ask for clarification on whether that is supposed to apply to all of the software/graphics.
  • Open Duelyst (*) - originally proprietary Hybrid CCG/TBS recently freed under CC0 license[1][2]
  • DDraceNetwork (*) - Cooperative 2D online platformer. zlib license with CC-BY-SA 3.0 art
  • AAAAXY (*) - small-scale 2D non-euclidian puzzle platformer, originally released in 2021. This game seems libre, but I'm not sure about aaaaxy-1.2.280/AndroidStudioProjects/AAAAXY/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and I haven't checked any build-time-downloaded-dependencies yet. NOTE: jar file removed in https://github.com/divVerent/aaaaxy/commit/2c4529e14a81715b2447a70ca6de87a38aa7dfbd
  • AstroMenace (*) -a 3D vertically scrolling shooter - was commercial at first, then code was released, then assets were relesed - License Code: GPLv3, Assets: most GPLv3, some CC BY-SA 4.0, OFL-1.1 homepage additional artwork repo - last release 1.4.2 on Nov. 27, 2022 (OpenAstroMenace was rejected 11 February 2011)
  • Thrive (*) - Spore-like game, GPL + CC-BY-SA (mentioned on this page). That confusing page first says media is cc-by-sa, then non-commercial??
    • Code is GPL3+; Assets are mostly CC BY-SA 3.0, except some fonts with SIL OFL. Likely problematic are social media icons because »Assets in the folder "assets/textures/gui/social_media/" and subfolders are licenses by their individual corporations.« Game is also on Itch Kribbel (talk) 17:46, 15 December 2022 (CET)
  • YSFlight - released as open source. wikipedia article

2021[edit]

  • Trillek (*) - A space sandbox game; I don't see a license for the "Textual assets" so maybe someone should ask, or just dig a bit deeper because I didn't look that hard.
  • Nuclear Blaze (*) - Source is MIT-licensed but need to check the art licence. Cute little firefighter game.
  • Mk48.io (*) - A browser-based multiplayer naval combat game. Source, assets, and everything else under AGPL v3.0

2020[edit]

  • nbsdgames (*) - 17 Super-modern command line games.
  • textflight (*) - Text-only multiplayer game. archived homepageForked repo on GitHub itch.io announcement FreeGameDev Forums It seems developer Katherine Peeters has stopped the project.
  • Libre TrainSim (*) - "Train Simulator written in Godot Engine - Free for everyone. Licensed under GPL 3.0"
  • dMagnetic (*) - dMagnetic is a Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter. It allows the play to enjoy classic text adventure games, such as "The Pawn", "The Guild of Thieves", "Jinxter", "Corruption", "Myth", "Fish!" or "Wonderland" It uses ANSI art to render the beautiful images.
  • Among Sus (*) - Among Us clone as a text adventure.
  • Worldforge (*) - A 3D MMO engine which includes client, server, etc. and has distinct online worlds accessible from a single client interface.
  • UltraStar Deluxe (*) Karaoke game similar to Singstar. There is a repository of Creative Commons songs which does contain some NC-licensed songs but that shouldn't matter since you can use your own songs. GPLv2.
  • Meeting Time (*)
    • This was made for Adventuron Treasure Hunt Jam by »using Adventuron Classroom«. Which is »Licensed for personal non-commercial use only.« Isn't putting the game under GPL a violation of the license/EULA? Kribbel (talk) 13:43, 17 December 2022 (CET)
Let's rather take this to the talk page. FacelessLinuxUser (talk) 18:02, 17 December 2022 (CET)

2019[edit]

2018[edit]

2017[edit]

  • Blue Nebula (*) - A fork of Red Eclipse to stay with the engine from Version 1. I checked the license files for code and media and it's Free unless I missed something buried deep.
  • SSHTron

2016[edit]

2015[edit]

2014[edit]

  • Slappa (*), a simple fighting game.

2013[edit]

2012[edit]

  • .kkrieger (*) - Award-winning 96k 3D FPS demo, released under BSD and public domain.
  • Spacejunk (*) A gravitational game in which the user collects space junk while moving through gravitational fields in 2D.

2011[edit]

2010[edit]

2009[edit]

2008[edit]

2007[edit]

2004[edit]

2002[edit]

  • GlkChess is a GPL chess game written in Inform 6. (*)

Games from the List of games[edit]

Name Homepage Latest Release Date of Latest Release
0verkill Homepage 0.16 2001-12-16
Arrows Homepage 0.6 2004-01-12
Adventures on Planet Zephulor Homepage 2004-10-26
Alien Blaster Homepage 1.1.0 2004-08-19
Atrinik Homepage d1f83b1 2016-11-20
Alpha Shooter Homepage 0.0.3 2007-08-13
Batrachians Homepage 0.1.0 2004-05-02
BloodsPilot Homepage 1.5.0 2012-09-02
Brian Homepage 0.1.2 2003-06-25
Briquilo Homepage 0.5.7 2008-03-24
Booruatsukaigaumai Homepage 2007-11-22
Bombic Hompepage 0.1 2005-03-19
Camel Trouble entry, source code 2004-04-07
Chickennix Homepage 0.1 2009-02-22
Charge Homepage 1.0.1 2008
Copter Commander Homepage 1.8 2002-02-11
Critical Mass Homepage 1.5.0-RC 2010-10-17
Cretan Hubris Homeapage 0.1 2012-02-29
Construder Homepage 5eeb33a 2013-04-07
Conquests Homepage 1.2
Cube Escape Homepage 0.9 2013-08-23
Cycles 3D homepage, SourceForge 1.9 2002-11-03
Cylindrix Homepage 1.0 2002-11-25
Crystal Core Homepage 0.0.1 2007-04-18
Duck Punt website 2008-01-01
DuduSDL website 0.1.3 2002-06-30
Dungeon Hack Homepage 0.10 2009-09-09
Dreams Eternal Homepage Pre-Alpha 2001-07-19
DSI Homepage 0.1 alpha 2003-01-14
Ecksdee Homepage 0.0.9 2006-11-24
Eletris Homepage 1.0 2005-04-09
Exobius0 Homepage 0.3 2004-10-13
Enemy Lines (except 8) Homepage 1-8 2006-07-20
Farspice [2] 0.46 2011-11-20
Falsoyd Website 0.9 2004-05-17
Flubopoyo Website
Foo @sf.net 1.0 2008-04-10 (as of 2011-07-26)
Freelord ? ? ?
Free Awale homepage 1.3 2008-05-06
Forever War Sourceforge tech demo 2008-08-23
freeVikings Data CC-BY-NC-SA homepage 0.6 2006-06-06
Friq homepage 0701-2 2007-09-17
Frogger Homepage 525d5df 2017-07-29
GalaxyMage Redux homepage ? ?
Galatic Killdozer Homepage 20080706 2008-07-07
Geki source archive, mirror 2.0.3 2001-12-07
Ghouls and Ghosts Homepage 0.56 2011-09-17
Gigalomania Homepage 1.0.1
GNU Robbo (seems like some data are non-free) homepage 0.66 2010-11-12
GNU Robots homepage 1.2.0 2008-08-03
Gold Chest Homepage 0.6 2013-04-14
Government Sanctioned Homepage 69802 2012-10-8
gPlanarity homepage 16554 2009-09-12
Hexalate homepage 1.0.0 2009-04-08
Heart of the Alien Homepage 1.2.2 2005-01-12
Hell World Website 0.1.4 27-05-2003
High Moon Homepage 1.2.3 2005-07-27
Holotz Castle homepage 1.3.13 ?
infector Homepage 0.2 2009-03-01
Infernal Contractor Homepage 0_1_1 2003-06-29
iSoccer project page test 2008-04-13
iteam Homepage ? ?
John the Sorcerer Homepage 8d5be44 2014-03-24
JXFire Homepage 1.0 2011-05-15
Kraptor Homepage final_apr_03_2004 2004-04-14
KBattleship ?, KDE Games 2.0 2009
Keys of Naand ? ? ?
KGoldrunner info page 3.0 2009?
Kloben project page 0.7 2007-09-14
Koules homepage 1.4 1995-06-10
Krucenigmo homepage 2003-05
KSame information 0.5.1 2009-??-??
KSokoban an old KDE Games page 0.4.2? ?
Ktuberling homepage KDE Games ? ?
Ladder Website 1.3 December 2005
Late Homepage 0.1.0 2003-08-21
Lavirinto3d Homepage@SF.net ? ?
Leges Motus GitHub a708c11 2013-11-16
Lemming Ball Z Homepage ? ?
Linley's Dungeon Crawl Homepage 4.0.0 ?
Mad Bomber homepage 0.2.5 2003-03-16
Mass Homepage 0.4.0 2004-07-25
Mazzuoro! Homepage 1.02 2009-07-14
Maze Runner Homepage 0.63 2007-04-06
Microracers Homepage 0.2 2005-11-05
MiniRacer Homepage 1.04 2005-05-08
MineCrisis Homepage 8049bdb 2015-10-04
Monsterz Homepage 0.7.1 2007-12-17
Monster RPG Homepage 1-3
MotoGT Homepage 20101127 2010-12-14
Morris Homepage 0.3 2020-09-27
Nature Calls Homepage 0.2 2004-02-12
Nanobot homepage 3.0.1 2014-08-01
Neohunt Homepage
Njam @SF.net 1.25
nSnake Homepage
nV@derz! Homepage 0.9.2 2017-04-25
Noiz2sa Linux port, Windows version 0.51a 2004-07-17
Orchestra: The Restoration 2009-08-11 2009-08-11
Offender Homepage 0.2 2007-01-07
OilWar Homepage, Review 1.2.1 2003-04-02
Om@r Cockroach @SF.net Feast Edition 2008-12-10
Om@r Missing Treasure @SF.net 0.1 2008-09-15
On Sight homepage 1.1 2001-11-30
OpenMW homepage 0.19.0 2012-11-10
Pang Zero @ SF.net 1.3 2007-07-15
Panzers Homepage 0.4.0 2002-12-17
Papercut Homepage 0.1.2 2012-11-20
Patricia Attack Homepage 0.6 2008-12-21
Phavon Homepage 0.0.32 2003-01-07
Phlipple Homepage 0.8.5 2012-05-19
Physics Defense project page "FirstTest" 2007-09-07
Piano Booster @sf.net 0.6.4 2009-12-02
Pineapple3 Homepage 3.0 2004-06-02
Pipepanic homepage 0.1.3 2006-05-16
Pixelman ? ? ?
Poopmup Homepages 1.3 Beta 2003-04-15
PyGtkPipes homepage 0.2 ?
PythonTurtle homepage 0.1.2009.8.2.1 2009
PyWright Wiki 10 2008-09-
Rafkill Homepage 1.2.3 2007-01-27
rRootage @SF.net 0.23a 2009-07-07?
RubyTet ? ? ?
Same GNOME information ? ?
Scavenger (XScavenger, SDL Scavenger) original X version;
new SDL version
sdlscav-145_2008_06_11 2008-06-11
SSC Homepage 0.8 2003-10-10
Settlers article, website 1.2 05/11/2000
Schoolsplay homepage ? ?
SDLPong Homepage RC8 2011-05-16
SDLZombies Homepage 1.0 05-31-2001
Sky Streets Website 0.2.4 2004-08-12
Space Monster homepage (404 as of 2009-06-17) 0.3 ?
SpaceFighterAce SpaceFighterAce on Kibabase 0.0.2 ?
SpaceWar! Homepages 2008-07-12
Spout home directory, Debian PTS 1.3 ?
Sporktris Homepage 1.1 2007-10-01
sNibbles Homepage 0.0.1 2003-02-08
StarGun Homepage 0.2 2003-11-17
Stone's Throw Homepage 0.3 2003-06-16
Stellar Forces Homepage 1.4 2019-10-06
Snowball Homepage 0.3 2005-10-09
T1 Car Racing Simulation Homepage t1-crs-0.1.2a 2003-02-13
TONG Website 1.3 2014-04-06
Tadpoles Homepage, SourceForge 0.5 2002-08-01
Tank Commander Homepage 0.44 2002-07-14
The CopyPirate ? ? ?
Thirsty Nellan article, website, MobyGames pygame, Scrapbook, Archive.org 2002
The '42 Project Homepage 0.3.5 2003-10-15
TONG homepage 1.0 2004-12-23
Torus Trooper Homepage, Linux port 0.22 ?
Toy Cars Homepage 0.3.9 2009-05-22
Trophy @SF.net 1.1.5 2007-08-08
Tric Tac Toe Homepage 0.6.1 2009-06-11
Tubularix @SF.net 0.2.0.1 2009-07-24
Tumiki Fighters Homepage, Linux port 0.2c ?
TuxFighter (logos and mascots probably not all free) Homepage .54 2008-02-24
Tux vs Clippy homepage 0.2.5 2004-08-31
TwigMan homepage 1.0.1 2008-02-27
Twisted Shootout entry
Untahris Homepage 4.0 2014-06-13
Vermin Exterminator Homepage 0.4 2004-04-15
vibora Homepage 0.1.1 2004-09-01
vitris Homepage 0.5.7 2009-09-11
War3D homepage 0.8.1 BETA ?
Warship Battle @freshmeat 0.3 as of 2005
WarTactical Homepage 493L 2012-12-04
Worminator Homepage 2003-07-02
WebCrossword homepage 2003-03-04
Wound Up! PyWeek 5 entry 1.0.2 2007-09-09
XenoM Homepage 0.5 2003-04-10
XBlockOut homepage 1.1.5 2007?
XBomb homepage 2.2 2008-01-22
xfi Homepage Revision 306 2010-12-25
XInvasion Homepage 1.02 2009-07-14
zeRace Homepage 0.7 2007-07-19
Zoid's Quest Homepage 0.0.1 2004-09-17
Zorn Homepage 0.1.8 2007-03-22 ? ?

unsorted[edit]

  • Ant Wars (*) - seems like BSD+GPL or something.
  • Arena Live (*) - I have checked nothing, according to a forum post it's based on OpenArena? --AVRS 12:40, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Atomorun (*) - GPL, but the source code link is broken. --AVRS 20:19, 27 May 2009 (UTC) Seems to work now, is the media free? GNUbie (talk) 16:43, 3 April 2013 (CEST)
  • AudioQuake (*) - GPL code, but requires Quake data files, so not a free game (maybe a free engine). But is it possible to adapt it to OpenQuartz or something else? --AVRS (talk) 21:17, 15 March 2013 (CET)
Is it completely under GPLv3, including media?
Media unclear, isn't it?
Yes, I agree. (I was the one who suggested the game, even though the IP is different.) 83.252.31.148 18:31, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Frag (*) - an FPS in Haskell
  • Haxima (*) - Haxima is a game based on the nazghul engine. Looks like released under GPLv3.
  • M.A.X. Reloaded - http://www.maxthegame.de/ (*) - I have no idea of how much of a clone it is, and if it is playable without non-free data. --AVRS 13:25, 13 April 2009 (UTC) I was told on #maxr that the original is not needed to play and the licensing looks good. GNUbie (talk) 18:40, 17 February 2013 (CET)
  • MiniTanques (*) - at Linux Game Tome - Version 0.91 on September 9, 2007 (or version 0.9.7) — not sure the tanque images are legal, they look pretty similar to the Battle City’s ones
  • MyMan (*) - a text-mode Pac-Man clone. --AVRS 12:55, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Open World Soccer (*) - Source code is released under the GPL; media content license must be verified
  • Parchís (didn't check the exact licensing) --AVRS 14:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Solipsis (*) - a P2P system for a massively shared virtual world
  • Ultimate Stunts (*) - http://ultimatestunts.nl/ - supposed to be GPL, but the data/licenses.txt file in the source archive suggests possible copyright violations. --AVRS 21:27, 26 May 2008 (CEST)
  • violetland (*) --AVRS 19:10, 28 April 2010 (UTC) This looks good to add. (GPL + CC-BY-SA) GNUbie (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2013 (CET)
  • Yoda Soccer (*) - Source code is released under the GPL; media content license must be verified

bin license git source link a review ImpossibleEngine link

Jigsaw puzzles[edit]

Tetris-like games[edit]

  • TetriNET-related software (*)
  • TETRIS Queen (*) --AVRS 14:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Yatris (*) --AVRS 15:02, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Mr. Flatland — contains the apparently non-free impact.ttf font, and maybe non-free music/sounds, which all seem optional. The rest is simple or replacable. Might try to improve that here. Author's copy at GitHub. --AVRS (talk) 16:43, 26 March 2015 (CET)

(Probably) Windows-only games[edit]

  • “Free but Shackled”
  • VirtualBus (*) is a bus simulator in Delphi, under GPLv2+. Uses the non-free BASS library for audio. --AVRS 12:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
  • VlakoSim (*), a train simulator made using SDL and OpenGL. Hopefully the licensing includes the media. --AVRS 14:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
  • [6] (*) Nine Engine is designed to be a 3D game engine based on Microsoft Xna that allows you to create games for Windows, Xbox and Windows Phones. It have a RTS demo: Isles. the Engine is under a Free Software license Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) which isn't compatible to GPL, though.
  • Dead Meets Lead (*) C# language, engine and media except audio MIT licensed.

Non-computer games[edit]

  • Libre (*), a Trading Card Game
  • Domino Knights (*), “an alternative to the numerous battle-focused, collectable card games on the market today.”
  • Moonstone RPG - don't know if the one with its own domain is related.
  • One Die System (1d6) - german pen-and-paper roleplaying system licensed under the GPL.


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