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:
- 68 PC Games in total
- 53 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 and II) - GemRB
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Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)
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Caesar III - Julius
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Call to Power II - Apolyton Call to Power II Source Code Project *
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Civilization V - Unciv *
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Clonk - OpenClonk *
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Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA
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Descent (1, 2) - Descent Rebirth
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Descent 3 - Descent 3 *
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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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Final Fantasy IX - Memoria *
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Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *
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Half Life - xash3d *
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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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Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Jazz² *
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LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *
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Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion - OpenLoco *
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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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Quake III: Arena - ioquake3 *
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Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *
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The Settlers - FreeSerf *
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The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)
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Stalker (Call of Pripyat and Call of Chernobyl) - OpenXRay*
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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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Warzone 2100 - Warzone 2100 *
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WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - ET: Legacy *
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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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Age of Empires - 0.A.D.
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Cataclysm - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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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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Elite II - Pioneer
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Lemmings - Pingus
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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
Addendum Source Ports for Android
moonpiedumplings made a list of Source Ports for Android on reddit
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Morrowind: https://openmw.org/
Is already on the list ;)
Ah sorry, I missed it somehow. Thanks!
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
There’s a guy called BlenderDumbass who is attempting to make a Libre/FOSS GTA clone called Dani’s Race in UPBGE engine
Here’s his Matrix-Room if you wish to contact him
It’s a shame that Another Metroid 2 Remake got Cease & Desisted, purely because Nintendo was about to release Samus Returns and didn’t want to compete with a fan game that was better.
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 ;)
How come there’s no mention of 0.A.D, it has amazing graphics, at least from the videos and screenshots. Haven’t gotten a chance to play it unfortunately.
Hi, i’ve put it in the “Addendum “Inspired Games””
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
Whole Lee Shit jazz jackrabbit brings back memories. I remember my first time playing it at a friend of the family’s house, there was a dude there talking shit about how Windows was for lazy people (I was very young and windows was still kinda newish)
But how dare you not include OpenMW! Imagine having an og Xbox masterpiece on your phone, and you can mod it!
It was already on the list (TES III: Morrowind) ;)
I think I was looking for it under “M” like the idiot I tend to be when trying to launch it through steam.
Oh, I didn’t even see it even though I was looking for it. My b homie
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 actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I’ve got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I’m used to autosave points in linear games like that.
As far as I know they don’t add autosaves. I think the priority was things like proper wide-screen support and higher resolutions for the older games.
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
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.
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.
Thanks, added to the list :)
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.
Thanks. I put it on the List :)
OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ to play Red Alert, Command and Conquer and Dune 2000
- 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.
