Awesome

GitHub projects from awesome lists

Search awesome repositories

Search names, descriptions, topics, tags, and stacks, then tune results by ecosystem, freshness, health, and cross-list signal.

Continue with GitHub Browse awesome lists Request a list

Repos indexed: 21,464
Awesome lists tracked: 149
Current results: 156

Find repositories

Start broad, then narrow by ecosystem, freshness, health, and growth.

Unsure which signals matter? Read the repository shortlisting guide.

Clear 1 refinement

Search repositories

Search mode

Keyword Semantic

Tune results

The controls most people need first.

Awesome list

Language

Freshness

Sort

Direction

More filters Topics, generated tags, stack, files, age, archive status, and growth.

Ecosystem

GitHub topic

Generated tag

Framework or stack

Package manager

Files

Has file

Choose a suggestion or use commas to require multiple files.

Health

Minimum stars

Repository age

Uses known first-commit dates.

Archive status

AI development signals

Momentum

Unmaintained for

Commit velocity

Star growth

Reset filters

156 repos shown

List: open-source-games

Browse

Highlighted

Open highlighted repo slot

Put your repository first

Promote a GitHub repo at the top of Awesome repository list views for 7 days.

videogamepreservation/dukenukem3d

Duke Nukem 3D (1996) by 3D Realms Entertainment, Inc.

Archived

Stack

C++

Updated: 2013-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

330

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sulix/omnispeak

An open-source re-implementation of "Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy"

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-13
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 14 open

317

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 1,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fishfolk/punchy

A 2.5D side-scroller beatemup, made in Bevy

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #fish-game #game #game-engine #multiplayer #rust

Updated: 2024-06-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-10
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 29 open

311

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

seedhartha/reone

Game engine capable of running KotOR and TSL

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #kotor #kotor2

Updated: 2025-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-02
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

311

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 3,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

stohrendorf/CroftEngine

An open-source Tomb Raider 1 engine remake

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #linux #modernization #opengl #reimplementation

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-12
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

310

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 4,842 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

AbyssEngine/AbyssEngine

Abyss Engine clean-room reimplementation of Diablo 2, written in C. The goal is to recreate the original game engine, but on a portable platform that can also easily be modded and extended.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #diablo #diablo2 #game-engine

Updated: 2024-04-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

290

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Erick194/DOOM64-RE

Doom 64 Reverse Engineering By [GEC]

Stack

Updated: 2025-05-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-18
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1 open

235

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 45 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

OpenBW/openbw

OpenBW - free and open-source Best Wargame

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-26
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 19 open

219

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Henrique194/chocolate-quake

A purist Quake source port that restores the original look and feel of v1.09 and earlier.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #fps #fps-game #games #gplv3 #quake

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-05-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

216

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 97 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stuntrally/stuntrally3

3D racing game with Sci-Fi elements and own Track Editor. The main repository with sources and data. Using Ogre-Next 3.0 and VDrift.

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#3d #bullet-physics #c-plus-plus #car #cmake #cpp

Updated: 2026-04-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-24
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 13 open

210

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ArnoAnsems/CatacombGL

CatacombGL is a source port with OpenGL graphics for Catacomb 3D (1991), The Catacomb Abyss (1992), The Catacomb Armageddon (1992) and The Catacomb Apocalypse (1993).

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#first-person-shooter #opengl #retrogaming #sdl2 #source-port

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-10
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 19 open

189

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cflavio/yorg

Yorg (Yorg's an Open Racing Game) is a free open source racing game developed by Ya2 using Panda3D for Windows, OSX and Linux.

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2024-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-29
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

186

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 1,375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nicupavel/openpanzer

Javascript/HTML5 rewrite of Panzer General 2 game

Stack

JavaScript

GitHub topics

#browser-game #cross-platform #game #html5 #openpanzer #panzergeneral

Updated: 2021-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-26
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 25 open

185

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Pyrdacor/freeserf.net

Settlers 1 clone written in C#

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#classic #clone #freeserf #game #port #remake

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-26
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 41 open

169

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 1,314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Wargus/stargus

Importer and scripts for Starcraft

Stack

C++ Tornado CMake Conan Meson

GitHub topics

#incomplete #unmaintained

Updated: 2025-12-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-04-13
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 11 open

154

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 965 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

OpenNefia/OpenNefia

Moddable engine reimplementation of the Japanese roguelike Elona.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#elona #love2d-game #roguelike-game

Updated: 2024-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-25
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

152

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 1,268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

VideogameSources/gta3-decomp-alt

Fuck you, T2

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2021-02-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-20
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

141

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jonof/jfduke3d

Port of the 3D Realms game "Duke Nukem 3D"

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2004-09-15
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

140

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 396 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Wargus/war1gus

Importer and scripts for Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

Stack

Lua CMake

GitHub topics

#help-wanted

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-03-14
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 37 open

131

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 1,354 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fragglet/sdl-sopwith

Classic bi-plane shoot-'em up

Stack

GitHub topics

#biplane #camel #flight #game #gplv2 #libsdl

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-15
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 16 open

116

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 900 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

atsb/NakedAVP

NakedAVP is a port of Aliens vs Predator Classic (2000) to modern systems, based on the icculus port for Linux, macOS and Windows using SDL3

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#aliens-vs-predator #avp #avp-classic

Updated: 2026-02-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-05
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 75 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

OpenBW/bwapi

Brood War API

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2021-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-04-28
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 2,530 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

larpon/DeadAscend

A 2D point'n'click-like adventure game written in Qt/QML and Javascript

Stack

QML Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#adventure-game #android #ascend #game #game-2d #javascript

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-26
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 173 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

djeada/Standard-of-Iron

Standard of Iron is an open-source, single-player real-time strategy game in which Rome and Carthage fight across an altered Second Punic War. Command whole formations from above, take direct control of a battlefield commander, build and defend supply lines, and carry Hannibal's army from the Rhône to Zama while the Iron Sepulcher gathers forces.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-09-27
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 2,042 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WolfireGames/lugaru

Open Source Lugaru upstreamed from the osslugaru project https://gitlab.com/osslugaru/lugaru

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2022-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-08-05
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 990 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bsegovia/cube

Wouter van Oortmerssen's Cube source code

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2013-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-20
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

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

GitHub

noxworld-dev/opennox

OpenNox main repository.

Archived

Stack

Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

Updated: 2024-11-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-17
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 5,361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

atsb/NuBuildGDX

NuBuildGDX is a fork of BuildGDX aiming for stability, bug fixing and performance.

Archived

Stack

Java

GitHub topics

#blood #build #buildgdx #duke3d #exhumed #gdx

Updated: 2025-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-04
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mbait/avpmp

Fork of the original AvP port for Linux, expanded with multiplayer and other features

Stack

Updated: 2011-01-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-07-01
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Azarien/shadow-warrior

Official source release for Shadow Warrior

Stack

Updated: 2014-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-01
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Search awesome repositories

Find repositories

Put your repository first

How it works

Pricing

How it works

Pricing