# bobeff/open-source-games

> A curated list of open-source video games and open-source remakes of commercial games, grouped by genre from shooters and strategies to city builders.

- Magnitude: 1.6 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 17,248 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-31, 00:33–01:16 UTC, ≈ 16 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Python · License: CC0-1.0 · Created: 2021-09-15 · Last push: 2026-02-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/bobeff/open-source-games

## Useful for

- Find an open-source alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or Transport Tycoon
- Pick an open-source game to play on Linux without buying a license
- Study the source code of classic game remakes like Caesar III or Zelda

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-31 (UTC), 00:33–01:16: 17246 → 17248 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +16 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 14% of the previous week and a half.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,546
- Issues and pull requests: 144
- Watchers: 154
- Average over the last week: 36 per day
- Usual pace: 88 per day

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 66, 49, 24, 44, 26, 20, 13, 24, 30, 26, 18, 27, 58, 82, 368, 211, 191, 96, 60, 42, 31, 50, 66, 45, 34, 23, 14, 0, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-29 1.7, 10-19 4.9, 10-20 4.4, 10-21 3.8, 10-22 3.5, 10-23 3.0, 10-24 2.6, 10-25 2.1, 10-26 2.4, 10-27 2.5, 10-28 2.2, 10-29 2.0, 10-30 1.9, 10-31 1.6

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-31 01:21 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.