• asm_x86@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    Definetly openTTD. I love trains and its so cool to see your little trains drive around, load some cargo, etc.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      I really wish someone would do an OpenRCT3. It was so much fun being able to ride your creations. I had a 3D projector back then too, which made the game even more awesome. Such an underrated sequel.

      And yes I’m aware that Planet Coaster exists but has anyone actually tried playing that game? They made everything way too complicated and I just can’t get into it. I don’t want to engineer every single bend and design the perfect landscaping from scratch, I just want to slap some rides together, see the guests come pouring in, and occasionally ride one of my rides (in VR, ideally). No game since RCT 3 has satisfied that itch for me.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      2·
      8 months ago

      OpenRCT2 is awesome, but as of now you still need the original commercial game to play it, since the open source version doesn’t have graphics.

      Maybe one day they’re going to recreate graphics from scratch, like they did with the other Chris Sawyer’s reversed engineered game OpenTTD.

  • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    Haven’t played it much but for all fans of Thief games there’s foss game called The Dark Mod. And I haven’t seen it mentioned here, which is a shame.

    • viking@infosec.pub
      2·
      8 months ago

      That still requires you to own the original Thief Gold though, so I’m not sure it qualifies as truly open source.

      The mod is excellent though, played it earlier this year. Thief is still one of the best games out there.

      • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        requires you to own the original Thief Gold

        Happily, that’s no longer the case these days. TDM was originally a mod, but despite keeping the name, it’s now a standalone game using the open-sourced Doom 3 engine. The whole game is currently free without any purchases necessary!

        • viking@infosec.pub
          4·
          8 months ago

          Ohhhhh that’s news indeed! I played the add-on, didn’t know there’s another one. Then I guess it’s time to replay on the doom engine, thanks a lot!

          Edit: Wait, that happened in 2013. The mod I played was only finished in 2023.

          Edit 2: So I played “The Black Parade”. Guess I must have confused "dark"and “black” somewhere…

  • Lemuria@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago
    • Endless Sky – open-source space game. I actually contributed to it back in the day; a date format option and a full-blown storyline about an author. Unfortunately the storyline is in development hell cause I lost motivation to work on it.
    • OpenTTD – really awesome, with NewGRFs and mods you can have a somewhat “realistic” rail experience (as in, using actual real-life trains. Obviously a pixel game isn’t the most “realistic” with graphics)
    • Mindustry
    • Pioneer Space Sim
  • Swampman@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    Space Station 13.

    Too many amazing moments and memories to even count, always more to learn. I love how the open source nature of the game means there’s many different servers branching off from each other, running their own custom versions of the game. Smaller servers “downstream” pick and choose which features they want to keep when the upstream servers implement something new.

    • Thomrade@lemm.ee
      3·
      8 months ago

      You might not be aware but there’s also a fairly content-rich successor project called SpaceStation 14! Its obviously nowhere near as featureful as 13 is, due to lack of development time but has a very active development community around it.

      One of the major (imo) improvements is a move to per pixel “real time” movement instead of the tile movement of ss13, it helps make them game feel much more alive and interactive.

      Definitely worth a look for fans of ss13, and its also open source and Linux compatible.

      https://spacestation14.com/

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 months ago

      It’s not open source, but I do want to mention Barotrauma here – it’s not totally unheard of, but I don’t think many people realize that it’s a spiritual successor to SS13. Supports a lot less players, but still up to 12 or something on the bigger ships, and it manages to turn the absolute insanity of SS13 into a compelling survival game that still has plenty of goofiness.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      8 months ago

      I entered SS13 with the ssethtide and I stuck around past the worst of it but I haven’t logged in since probably 2021. Is it a good time to come back and see what’s up? I enjoyed high population servers and a lot of people were leaving with the tide around and before when I did. What’s an average server pop these days?

      The overcomplexity of the game is part of why I love it so much but it’s also what drove me off of it, because I couldn’t figure out how to run an offline server to practice roles and I wasn’t trying to do my first day of engineering or doctoring on a public lobby if I could help it. I had a lot of fun in Mining and Cargo and occasionally just faffing about as an assistant helping Botany grow weed or bringing monkeys to the chef - but I’d like to learn “a real job” one of these days (he says, knowing exactly how pissed off everyone gets if mining or cargo either die or are understaffed). And most folks didn’t usually seem inclined to adopt assistants, unfortunately. Remember folks, adopt wandering assistants and then spay and neuter them because unattended assistants will cook their hands off trying to break into the armory.

      • Swampman@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        I mostly play on tgstation’s european server Terry, which often gets up to 100 players in the busy hours.

        I know exactly the kind of anxiety you mention when it comes to having to learn a new role. That was partly why I also had the idea of installing a server locally to tinker with the mechanics in, which fortunately tgstation actually makes very easy. My problem then is that I only have like 10 minutes alone on the station before the power runs out, and I have to go set up the solar panels to continue my experiments. Turns out being solo crew on a space station isn’t all that easy.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      1·
      8 months ago

      Is there anyway to play on Linux? I’ve always wanted to try a role playing game but never found one that I think I’d vibe but ss13 looks right up my alley.

  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
    5·
    8 months ago

    Widelands is a great strategy / building game. The gameplay and UI style is a niche - but that’s one of the things I like about it. It’s doing something different to most games.

    (The gameplay is similar to Settlers 2; before that franchise changed direction.)

    [edit] But the open-source game I’ve spent the most time playing would be OpenXcom-extended, with xpiratez. That game is truly huge.