SAsaubeidl·Nov 7, 2025
There's a whole lot! Here's a list I found: https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
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awesome-game-remakes
Actively maintained open-source game remakes.
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesWhat made OpenTTD a great success that it's playable out of the box. Most open source game remakes [0] are engine-only and you still need the graphics, arts, sound, and music assets to make it a 100%, and actual playable experience. OpenTTD started like that too but from the very beginning it was a goal to "detach" the game from the original as quickly as possible. It was released in 2004, the actual graphics replacement project started in 2007 and by 2009 100% of the sprites were finished so the original game files were not needed anymore [1]
And actually there are now 5 different basesets on top of the original TTD one [2]
It also made possible things like releasing the game on Steam and GOG.
0, https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
1, https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Archive/Community/Graphics%20Rep...
2, https://bananas.opent
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In Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 releasedHere's a nice list of open source remakes of commercial game engines in the spirit of OpenRA: https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
Note a lot of these like OpenRA are reimplementations of the game engines but want the original game media. A good deal work with GoG or Steam releases of the old games while some will want original media. For ones that want original media a lot of old game ISOs can be found on the Internet Archive.
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