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I want FOSS alternatives for every genre.

I tried to make a FOSS MTG clone and I keep running into weird edge cases. Anyway, even small games need solid teams to get started.

Even if the games are ultimately monetized , it would be nice to have a FOSS core.

I want to play COD without a bunch of stupid skins and side effects. I would pay 60$ over the base 60$ to disable that non sense, it’ll never happen though. Back during the CS Source days I could just select a no skin server

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Nexuiz (foss multiplayer quake) and beyond all reason (supreme commander rts) are both excellent and have large online communities. Battle for Wesnoth (turn based) is also fantastic. 0 ad has been coming along for ages (rts). We're missing a good, well written and big RPG but a lot of other things do exist ...

Nexuiz is still alive? There is OpenArena too, and lots of ioquake3 forks such as Tremulous, Urban Terror, etc.

Urban Terror low gravity CTF was an amazing game. So incredibly satisfying to get the jump just right to swoop up the enemy flag, and make the jump back to capture. I loaded it up some time ago and it was mostly a ghost town. Same thing with Tremulous. Could be my timezone. I really enjoyed the ioq3 total conversions.

Tremulous is more or less dead. Its players moved to Unvanquished, but it is still pretty empty. I remember back when the player count of Tremulous used to be in the hundreds. Good times, had a great childhood. :)

If you're interested in a FOSS MTG clone check out XMAGE and Forge. They don't have every card but they do have a whole lot.

https://github.com/magefree/mage https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge

Or https://cockatrice.github.io/

I agree. I feel pretty discouraged from investing the amount of time it would take to get really involved and proficient in a game, if that game is ultimately not owned by me fully and can be paywalled. There's something more satisfying and timeless about a game like Chess or Go which partly I feel is due to them being owned by everyone/nobody (I mean, yes they're also centuries/millenia old but still).

If you're into RuneScape, check out 20xxscape.org. It lists a bunch of authentic remakes, many of them open source

[0] https://20xxscape.org

You can check Open Source clones, inspired by, recreations of the engine, etc at OS Game Clones

https://osgameclones.com/

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