Disclaimer: I changed a little the layout and thanks for the contributions!
The Idea:
On my old Mastodon Profile i’ve made a list of Rebuilds/Fan Remakes/SourcePorts (when possible opensource, no commercial remakes) for old PC Games, and i want to share it here on Lemmy too, so people can easily find it.
Why?
I’ve played lot of these games, and i’m glad there a Fans who still working on these games, to make it accessible on modern systems and giving them some QoL improvments. In my opinion, that’s a great way to preserve old games from being forgotten and keep playable for new players. Also these people need some recognition (at least) for their hard work.
I’m glad If you help to complete this list and contribute some games you know.
In the moment there are alphabetical sorted:
- 54 PC Games in total
- 41 Remakes, SourcePorts etc.
New additions will be marked with *
The List:
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Ambermoon - Ambermoon.net
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Arx Fatalis - Arx Libertatis
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Baldurs Gate (I, II, also Icewind Dale I) - GemRB
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Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)
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Caesar III - Julius
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Civilization V - Unciv *
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Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA
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Descent (I, II) - Descent Rebirth
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Diablo - DevilutionX
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Doom (I, II) - ZDoom
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Dune II - Dune Legacy
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Dungeon Keeper - KeeperFX
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Elite - Elite: The New Kind
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Fallout - Fallout Community Edition *
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Fallout 2 - Fallout 2 Community Edition *
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Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *
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Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2
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Heroes of Might and Magic III - VCMI *
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LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *
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Marathon (1,2 and Infinity) - Aleph One
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Master of Orion - 1oom *
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Might and Magic VI (also VII and VIII is in work) - OpenEnroth
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Quake - Ironwail
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Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *
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The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)
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Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters
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Star Wars : Dark Forces - The Force Engine *
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - OpenJKDF2 *
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Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy - OpenJK
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TES II : Daggerfall - Daggerfall Unity
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TES III: Morrowind - OpenMW
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Theme Hospital - CorsixTH
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Tomb Raider I and II - TRX *
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe - OpenTTD
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Ultima IV - xu4
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Ultima VII - Exult
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Ultima Underworld I (and II) - Underworld Exporter
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Rollercoaster Tycoon (I and II) - openRCT2
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WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition
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X-COM: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep - OpenXcom *
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X-COM Apocalypse - OpenApoc
There is also the List here https://osgameclones.com/, who did unknown to me the same.
Addendum SCUMMVM:
SCUMMVM is the first place for adventure games from Lucas Arts (Monkey Island etc.) or Sierra (Kings Quest etc) anf for the RPGs from Origin (Ultima VI), Westwood (Eye of the Beholder) and New World Compting (Might and Magic I, III and IV), but also many more. Here you can check the list of games out.
Addendum “Inspired Games”
I think that games divergence too much from the original games, but also should be mentioned.
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Civilization II and III - FreeCiv
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Colonization - FreeCol
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Escape Velocity - Endless Sky
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The Settlers II - Widelands
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Total Annihilation - Beyond all Reason
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Warlords II - LordsAWar!
Addendum Console Games:
If you are looking for Ports for Console Games to PC here is this list on GitHub
Also i would recommend the Open Source Port of the First two Jake and Daxter games
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I’ve edited the post, so it looks more appealing. Sorry, that it was so hard to read at first, i hope now it’s better
OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ to play Red Alert, Command and Conquer and Dune 2000
Throw Manic Miners on there. It’s a fan remake of the old Lego Rock Raiders game, and it’s really fun. There’s a custom level builder and I think there’s a browser you can search for other custom levels.
Thanks for the Tip! I added it to the list!
You seem like you might like osgameclones.com. It’s absolutely massive because it includes projects even if they’re unfinished or abandoned, but you can sort by playability, development status, even programming language if you’re looking to contribute.
Thanks for the Tip. I try to look for games that are playable and almost complete and are it to the list
Beside the already mentioned Open Source Game Clones there’s also this list on GitHub.
As for specific titles, I’d like to add:
- Fallout Community Edition and Fallout 2 Community Edition
- VCMI (open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III)
- OpenGOAL (port of Jax and Daxter, second and third game in development)
- OpenGothic (officially only supports Gothic 2 but works with the first game as well)
- Perfect Dark port
- Super Mario 64 Port
- TRX – Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition
There’s also WipeOut Phantom Edition but this one isn’t open-source so I’ll just leave it here in case someone wants to check out the existing build.
Thanks for the list, but i try to keep it in the PC Side of gaming, mostly i’m more familiar with that. I’ll think about If and how i add these to the list :) Thanks again:)
Yeah, I’ve seen it after writing this. Thankfully, half of these are for PC native games so I didn’t miss completely at least.
I added them anyway to Addendum ;)
Don’t forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it’s faithful. It relies on the original assets.
Legacy of Kane Blood Omen fan remake - https://omnicide.razorwind.ru/en/
https://osgameclones.com/ is the best aggregate for this kind of thing.
https://libregamewiki.org/ also looks like something relevant.Maybe now that we have a messy thread of various links, we can go check whether some of them are not yet listed in osgameclones.
Oh, also ScummVM should always be included in such a list. It supports a ton of classic adventure games from LucasArts, Sierra and others. And by now even Might and Magic 4+5: World of Xeen.
Added at First. I forgot the obvious one, sorry :)
Star Wars Jedi Knight I and II: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast (Not stable) - OpenJK https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
Despite the official name being “Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy” it is not Jedi Knight I. It is actually a sequel to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It came out only a year after JO and was announced in April. At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke because the screenshots looked like something that could easily be made with the mod tools at the time.
It wasn’t called Jedi Knight III because you play a different character.
Anyways, the real Jedi Knight I was “Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II”. An open source implementation is available at https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2
And to round it off, the open source implementation of Dark Forces is available at https://theforceengine.github.io/. I think it even supports the remaster.
I See where i went wrong. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the Links to Dark Forces.
I 'll add that to the list and change the names
Thanks again
XCOM 1 (UFO Defense) and XCOM 2: Terror From The Deep - OpenXCOM https://openxcom.org/
Master of Orion 1 - 1oom https://github.com/1oom-fork/1oom
Ultima 6 - Nuvie https://github.com/nuvie/nuvie (apparently now part of ScummVM)
A few more honorable mentions that are not exact re-implementations with compatibility with the original datafiles, but more spiritual followups:
Total Annihilation - TA Spring > Spring Engine > Recoil Engine > Beyond All Reason https://github.com/beyond-all-reason (I think there are mods that make it “Basically TA”)
Escape Velocity/EV Nova - Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/
Goldeneye 64 (multiplayer only) - Goldeneye Source https://forums.geshl2.com/index.php?topic=7823.0
Warlords II - LordsAWar! https://libregamewiki.org/LordsAWar!
- Super Mario Bros. X is a Mario fan-game remake that uses lots of assets from the SNES era of Mario games (Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario RPG).
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a Sonic fan game made from the Doom engine, inspired by the Sega Genesis era of Sonic games.
They’re both open-source.
I like this two but i try to keep it in the pc gaming Side, less the console Side. Mostly because i never Had a console;)
I mean you can only play them on PC, so I’m not really sure what you’re saying here
Sorry it was very unclear. I’ve meant to focus this list on Remakes/source Ports of PC Games mostly. I added a link to a list of console games source Ports at the end of the list.
It’s not finished yet but OpenXray Gunslinger is probably going to be a better STALKER: Call of Pripyat remaster than the official one that just got announced.
