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id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

Doom 3 BFG Edition

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-26
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,375

stars

Forks: 1,445
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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supertuxkart/stk-code

The code base of SuperTuxKart

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 522 open

5,351

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 23,877 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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panda3d/panda3d

Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU

Stack

C++ pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2000-10-04
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 367 open

5,219

stars

Forks: 890
Commits: 26,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

XProger/OpenLara

Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#openlara #tombraider

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 164 open

5,081

stars

Forks: 411
Commits: 1,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

snesrev/zelda3

No description.

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2023-12-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-11
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 89 open

4,758

stars

Forks: 433
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Archived

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#command-and-conquer #open-source #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-27
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,717

stars

Forks: 1,854
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CorsixTH/CorsixTH

Open source clone of Theme Hospital

Stack

Lua CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#game #opensource #remake #strategy-game #theme-hospital

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-24
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 251 open

4,555

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 5,698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason

Main game repository for Beyond All Reason.

AI dev

Stack

Lua

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 772 open

4,202

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 30,853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,992

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #campaign #cheats #cmake #freebsd #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 609 open

3,950

stars

Forks: 615
Commits: 22,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NetHack/NetHack

Official NetHack Git Repository

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2002-01-05
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 143 open

3,905

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 19,268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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space-wizards/space-station-14

A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.

Stack

C# Entity Framework .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #game #space-station-13 #space-station-14 #ss13 #ss14

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-22
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4,308 open

3,785

stars

Forks: 5,690
Commits: 37,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

farbrausch/fr_public

Farbrausch demo tools 2001-2011

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#demoscene #direct3d

Updated: 2019-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-11
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 27 open

3,776

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

open-goal/jak-project

Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series

AI dev

Stack

Common Lisp Android pytest Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#jak #jak-and-daxter #lisp #ps2 #reverse-engineering #scheme

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-22
History: 1 history point
License: ISC
Issues: 187 open

3,506

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 3,064 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Interkarma/daggerfall-unity

Open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine

Stack

C# npm

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 78 open

3,494

stars

Forks: 419
Commits: 10,726 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ihhub/fheroes2

fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #game #game-development #game-engine #heroes-2 #heroes-of-might-and-magic-2

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-30
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 431 open

3,473

stars

Forks: 482
Commits: 5,979 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bvschaik/julius

An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#citybuilder #clone #game

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 11 open

3,371

stars

Forks: 440
Commits: 2,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

id-Software/Quake-2

Quake 2 GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2023-12-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

3,343

stars

Forks: 757
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

widelands/widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #bsd #c-plus-plus #cmake #floss #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-02-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 568 open

3,054

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 27,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DescentDevelopers/Descent3

Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #game-engine

Updated: 2026-01-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

3,005

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 1,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

crawl/crawl

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository

Stack

C++ Android .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 437 open

2,989

stars

Forks: 1,723
Commits: 74,783 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

No description.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-10
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 71 open

2,962

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alexbatalov/fallout1-ce

Fallout for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 136 open

2,911

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 75 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

WolfireGames/overgrowth

Open Source codebase of the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games LLC

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-08
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 92 open

2,900

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

scummvm/scummvm

ScummVM main repository

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#adventure-engine #adventure-games #multiplatform #rpg-engine

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-09
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,807

stars

Forks: 1,374
Commits: 178,901 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c #game-engine #game-engine-3d #opengl #python #real-time-strategy

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,760

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 1,889 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

id-Software/wolf3d

The original open source release of Wolfenstein 3D

Updated: 2012-02-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

2,538

stars

Forks: 524
Commits: 3 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alexbatalov/fallout2-ce

Fallout 2 for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout2 #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-19
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,421

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom

Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port that is minimalist and historically accurate.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #doom #fps #fps-game #games #gplv2

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-23
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 335 open

2,411

stars

Forks: 718
Commits: 5,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

amilich/isometric-city

IsoCity: City building simulation game.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS Vite npm

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-11-25
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 70 open

2,303

stars

Forks: 261
Commits: 947 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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