Just curious 🙂
The Sims.
It will never happen but one can dream
Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!
It’s funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I’ve been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small “break” and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I’ve always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂
I post my progress at !projectharmonia@lemmy.ml and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven’t managed to come up with a nice name yet.
started following it on github.
EA are pretty smart here to kill any community interest in developing a free clone, by letting their end users mod the main game very easily.
Hard to compete with that
Kerbal Space Program 2
I’d really love to see a polished version of Quake 3 as open source. I know Nexuiz exists, but it’d be nice to see some work done to make it look nicer and more visually consistent. I find aesthetics tend to be the weak spot for FOSS games in general.
FOSS Quake 3 alternatives are plentiful
Yes… to be honest I feel old-school deathmatch arena shooters is the one genre where the FOSS world has actually already taken over what can be found in the proprietary world.
Most of the industry has moved on to some variation of hero-based abilities and/or some form of “mission” objective to try and add more tactical elements that essentially make it no longer the same play-style. Even the faster paced franchises like the modern Doom Eternal have given up on old-school deathmatch.
As I said, in terms of engine and gameplay they’re fine, but the aesthetic polish is lacking in my opinion.
Binding of Isaac
Freelancer!
Train Sim World, yes it will sort of run via Proton, but it properly ported and optimized for Linux with fully opensource routes would be amazing. The commercial version has to be one of the most expensive games to collect a large number of routes. Ideally I would want it to support fully FOSS and commercially sold routes.
Phasmophobia & other multiplayer horror games of sorts (eg. ghost watchers, Labyrinthine, Pacify, devour, etc). I don’t think there’s any multiplayer horror game like any of those in the open source world.
I searched and I think there was at least one attempt at the idea (openphobia), but I don’t think it ever had a playable release before it was abandoned.
SSBM Melee, straight clone.
Not a player of the SSB games. But I would love a straight clone of Double Dash keeping the specific physics of things and simple kart choices like they had. The love of the way things worked and feel for that are on par with how SSDM fans love that game!
For real, a Double Dash remake would go so hard.
AoE2 Expansion.
Woukd really like to see FOSS gaming community around that as well.Something like Tetris Effect: Connected, Breakout: Recharged or Space Invaders Extreme. Oldschool classic games, but made with fancy new bells and whistles.
Magic Carpet and Startopia
- Wurm: Unlimited, but without the adventure parts. Just building a farm, cultivating things, making food, beer and stuff, community life, villages;
- Football Manager, but make it highly customizable not only on teams and players, but on sports too - you want to create a ruleset for handball or water polo? Do it;
- Gran Turismo 2, but you can upload your cars, paintjobs and tracks. Cars could be highly customizable in order to support engine, transmission, suspension or rim changes, making these separate objects from the basic body for example. In that way one could build, for example, a Vauxhall Chevette with an electric pack, all-around independent suspension and rally tires;
- ETS2 with ProMods.
Shadow President/CyberJudas. I know that it’s an extremely unknown series, but I would kill for a spiritual successor that doesn’t need dosbox. I’d also love to be able to play as other nations.
A president simulator? This sounds great! Never heard about these games, thanks for sharing!
- Super Street Fighter 2
- Street Fighter 3
- Starcraft: Brood War
- Warcraft 3
- Age of Empires 2
- Age of Mythology
- Grand Theft Auto 3/VC/SA
- Sim City 2000
- Counter-Strike 1.6
- Apex Legends
Earth Defense Force. Something where a single player or a bunch of them level city blocks with overpowered equipment in order to stop giant insects, aliens, robots and whatever the hell else from destroying the city
Never heard about it, but looks cool!
EDF4 and EDF5 go on sale every once in a while on Steam. Both games can feel extremely repetitive, so ymmv. 4 has the best story (it’s 100% grade B-movie cheese) and the best soldier song, 5 has significant quality of life improvements and is overall better to play and fuck around, but tries to take its story more seriously (though it has one of the best lines to my knowledge, when the first frog aliens come along)
