Im always om the look out for foss games. Any recommendations? Gonna be on a bus trip for 5 hours. 🤣🤣
“OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe.”
5 hours is enough to get addicted to this crack…
mindustry
Mindustry.
Mindustry
maybe try out pico8
If you like an RPG, Diablo style, there is also FLARE (Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine)
I time travel with unciv. This is how I once survived a 15 hour long haul flight.
0AD. Similar to Age of Empires
Battle for Wesnoth, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Lichess.org for online chess, or (most private of all) a physical travel board if you’re with a friend who wants to play. Lichess isn’t very private but definition though. Not sure why you asked in c/privacy? Anyway what happened to reading a book on a bus trip?
Oh try universal paperclips if you haven’t. 5 hours is about right for finishing it. That’s pretty private.
Don’t know what you are into, or playing on but I’ve been enjoying endless sky recenty:
Great way to pass a little or a lot of time
I usually turn to shattered pixel dungeon
It also recently got a new class.
If you are fine with VNs (visual novels) as games, there is Katawa Shoujo. There is a “remastered” version of it in F-Droid for android: https://f-droid.org/packages/sh.fhs.ksre/
If you are going to use a laptop (linux natively supported): https://www.katawa-shoujo.online/download
friday night funkin is surprisingly apache
Anuto TD and Breakout 71 are good time killers on the phone. Open TTD if you are into sims and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead if you want post apocolyptic turn based survival horror rougelike. There are also quite a few RPG fangames based on Lisa the Painful.
Which libre software license text file does this come with?
My bad, missed foss. I wish I could get the source, there is one at opengunz servergithub but it missed a huge amount of the work the FGunz developers have done inside the game engine.
You can make that.
So… I understand OP asked for FOSS games, so here is 1 suggestion : HyperRogue, an SDL roguelike in non Euclidian space https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
… but I mostly come to argue that in this specific case, namely short lived entertainment, FOSSness is IMHO not as important as elsewhere. I am NOT promoting closed source software here but I want to highlight the fact that unlike an OS or a DE or any software recurrently used within that setup, e.g. a video editor or a script, a game is typically not combined with other tools and is supposed (most games at least, not all!) to be used “as-is”. Namely that one typically (counter example, Minecraft, with its countless FOSS alternatives) play the game, finishes it and moves on. One does not have a game being a building block or a workflow nor do they finish it and… keep on playing it (counter examples here being online games, due to competition and collaboration, user generated content).
So yes I understand the desire to want to keep a system “pure”, namely rely entirely on FOSS software but I for example enjoyed Baldur’s Gate 3 last year or Elden Ring at the moment despite them NOT being FOSS precisely because… they are not central to my workflow, or the way I think. Do I wish they were FOSS? Yes, absolutely! Do I wish all the content I consume, from music to books, would be DRM-free at least? Totally and that’s why I typically look for this kind of content first. Yet… if there is one place where I’m more leniant than elsewhere, it’d be games.
My 2 cents, anyway HyperRogue is cool! ;)
TL;DR: FOSS games are near but arguably when it’s for a short period of time, in some cases depending on your worldview, maybe non FOSS games can be acceptable.
Yeah youre right the developer have to make money! And games need a lot of resources.
I heard baldur gate was a lot of fun, gotta check it out.
Thanks so much for sharing!