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Browse free open source Games and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Games by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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simutrans
A free transportation simulator game
Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game where players try to successfully manage transportation systems between places by land, air, and water for passengers, mail, and goods. Planes, ships, trains, trams, trucks, buses, or monorails are at your disposal, but factories operate based on contracts and passengers can only travel to their set destinations. -
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OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform Battle Zone capture the Flag. 3D first person tank game. Download the latest version at https://www.bzflag.org/downloads/ Development has moved to Github: https://github.com/BZFlag-Dev/bzflag (The SourceForge binary releases for Windows and macOS are very outdated. Please download the latest version from our website.)
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Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor
A very efficient tutor.
A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process. -
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ZSNES is a SNES/Super Famicom emulator for x86 computers. It runs on Windows, MS-DOS and Linux/FreeBSD and supports mode 7, sound, Super FX, and a lot more.
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Irrlicht Engine
3D Engine c++
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderers. -
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VisualBoyAdvance
An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems
An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems. -
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2025 UPDATE: we have finally moved to Git! https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/speed-dreams-code/ This SourceForge project will be kept as a read-only archive and will be eventually removed! Speed Dreams is a Motorsport Simulator featuring high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine, all targeting maximum realism. Initially forked from TORCS, it has now reached a clearly higher realism level in visual and physics simulation, thanks to its active development team and growing community. It mainly aims to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, while constantly pushing forward visual and physics realism. It is also intended for any research, study or teaching activity, around physics and AI, thanks to its GPL V2+ license, and the clear and modular architecture of its C/C++ code base.
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Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion
A cross-platform port of Hexen II game.
Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) is a cross-platform port of Raven Software's Hexen II source. It is based on an older linux port, Anvil of Thyrion. HoT includes countless bug fixes, improved music, sound and video modes, opengl improvements, support for many operating systems and architectures, and documentation among many others. -
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VBA-M
A merge of the original Visual Boy Advance forks
The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator. -
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RetroArch
RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
RetroArch is a way to run classic games on a wide assortment of Operating Systems and Consoles. Support the Developers on their Patron! https://www.patreon.com/libretro -
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Tux Typing is an educational typing program for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. The program includes two video game-style activities for younger players, with phrases and finger lessons for older students. Extensive i18n. License: GPL.
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SaveParser
Total War Savegame Editor / Parser
Savegame editor for Total War games savegames. Supports Total War "Warhammer 2", "Warhammer", "Attila", "Rome 2", "Shogun 2", "Napoleon" and "Empire" savegame files, Includes also some tools which could be needed for developer for savegame-based application. -
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EE Keeper
EE Keeper is a saved game editor for Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition.
EE Keeper is saved game editor for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. This project is a continuation of Shadow Keeper, originally released by Aaron O'Neil in 2000 for Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal. This version will still work with the original BG2. Currently, it will only work natively on Windows, although it has been tried through Wineskin on Mac OS X and currently works, though no guarantee is in place that this will continue to be. Maximising that support is a priority, however. Please note: unless otherwise stated, EE Keeper will be archived in Zip format and uploaded. Please note, any support ticket that is created should be watched in case any extra information is needed. If you do not plan to keep and eye on your ticket and you have an account on the official Baldur's Gate forum, please be sure to provide your user name with the ticket in case any further information is required. -
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nesDS
NES console emulator on NDS
A open-source NES emulator for the Nintendo DS. It can be compiled with GCC(devkitPRO/devkitARM, the version supported) or ADS(the original version, no update). -
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Commander Genius
Commander Keen Interpreter
This is a fork of CloneKeen. It fully interprets the classic dos games Commander Keen 1-6 including some fanmade mods and adds some nice twists like smoother gameplay, some special graphical effects and also music, which was missing in the first trilogy. Use our High Quality Pack and enjoy the Commander Keen series in a new way. -
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TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64, ARM and PPC), FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and Windows.
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Scorched 3D
A simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game.
Scorched3D incorporates lively, fully destructible 3D landscapes that include animated jets, naval vessels, water and even birds, with detailed tanks and projectiles and stunning visual effects. A simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others' weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Test your skill in timing, aiming and judgement of distance, move around on the landscape, or outsmart your opponent economically. -
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ScummVM
A cross-platform interpreter for many point-and-click adventure games
ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for many point-and-click adventure games. This includes LucasArts SCUMM games (such as Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, ...), many of Sierra's AGI and SCI games (such as King's Quest 1-6, Space Quest 1-5, ...), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins 1-3, The Legend of Kyrandia 1-3, many of Humongous Entertainment's children's SCUMM games (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt games) and many more. The project mailing lists have been moved to http://lists.scummvm.org The project tracker has been moved to https://bugs.scummvm.org -
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IDTE- ID3 Tag Editor
A Smarter Way to Tag FLAC, Vorbis, Lyrics, WMA, WavPack, and ID3 Tags
IDTE is a full-featured tag editor for Windows that supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3v1.x/2.x, WMA, Lyrics, and Vorbis metadata in audio files. It also includes a powerful audio player with support for 40+ lossy and lossless formats, including FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3, and more. IDTE offers a wide range of advanced features: • Rename files using tag information • Export and manage tag data • Create and manage playlists • Search online for missing or incomplete tags • Fetch lyrics and album artwork • Full CUE sheet support • Batch processing and multi-file editing • SFX, visualizations, and more A new, minimalistic version of IDTE is also available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/idte ⚠️ Important Notice Tagging MP4 video files and WAV audio files using IDTE is not recommended. WAV tag support is ambiguous and inconsistently handled across players (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV). -
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Open RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features. All of the data files are in XML format and are easily editable with any text editor.
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UltraStar Deluxe
A free sing-along karaoke game for your PC
Karaoke sing-along game for PC which is similar to Playstation® Singstar™. It allows up to six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points, depending on the pitch of the voice and the rhythm of singing. -
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200 card games for Windows (Freecell, Klondike, Fan, Spider, Pyramid, Gaps, ...). Games layout and rules are declared in XML format. User can add his own cards and background images.
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CaesarIA (openCaesar3)
Remake of the classic Caesar III game
CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android. The original Caesar3 game is needed to play openCaesar3. We start crowdfunding campaign for renew graphic set at www.igg.me/at/caesaria-game. Help us set new stage in good old Caesar. -
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GCompris : I got IT
Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational. -
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Media Player
The most powerful media player for video, audio, DVD & online videos
MW Media Player is a all-in-one audio video player classic which provides the best possible media experience. MW Media Player its open source multimedia player and the framework is based on mpui mplayer code. The Player runs almost all multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols,decodes most of codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs all at glance without the need to install any codec. A simple, fast, and powerful easy to use video player that allows you to create, download or save videos from youtube or any other tube site with the help of an integrated video downloader.
