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bobeff / open-source-games

open-source-games

A list of open source games.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A list of open source games.

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-15 23:10:59 UTC to 2026-10-22 16:28:25 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

9 sources
rdmuser·Sep 4, 2026
There are a fair amount of open source games out there and some great lists but I mainly wanted to highlight with this comment that itch and steam both have ways to find them. Hell I was just playing one earlier to check out the new content (drl). Steam has this handy curator: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-S... Itch has this filter: https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source As a bonus here are some random non abandoned lists I found with quick search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game... https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games
In The Death of Physical Media
tomaytotomato·Jan 29, 2026
Over the last year I have seen some really nice exploration posts on HN with people poking around on: - Splinter Cell - Deus Ex - Thief - Civ This is great work and will help tell the story of how these games were made. It would be great if all games after a certain period of time were opensourced like some companies are doing: https://github.com/electronicarts https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games?tab=readme-ov-fi...
In Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info

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