Open Source Windows Side-Scrolling Games

SuperTuxKart is a kart racing game featuring Tux and friends. It is a fun-racer game, focusing on fun and ease of play.

Official continuation of the famous Blobby Volley 1.x arcade game.

Open Sonic is a free open-source game based on the "Sonic the Hedgehog" universe. It introduces a different style of gameplay called cooperative play, in which it's possible to control 3 characters simultaneously. It works on Windows, Linux and MacOSX

Another version of the simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. We're using SourceForge only for file releases and news these days. Development has moved on to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/armagetronad/armagetronad

StepMania is a music/rhythm game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode, and more! WE HAVE MOVED TO GITHUB.

You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling shooter. It uses OpenGL for graphics, and OpenAL for sound effects.

nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output.

Etterna is a community developed version of StepMania 5 specifically made with keyboard players in mind. If you like this game consider supporting the developer on Patreon https://patreon.com/etternaonline

A classic Bomberman game with multiplayer support, cloned on original SNES games. Also similar to Dynablaster. Developed in C++. Runs on Win32 and Linux. Update 2019-09-22: sorry, there's no progress currently.

A Jump and Run game like Super Mario World with an advanced Editor and highly detailed Graphics based on SDL with a OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer developed in C++. Runs under Linux, Windows and Mac and can be easily ported to other platforms.

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.

OpenLierox is an extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community. Dozens of levels and mods are available to provide endless gaming pleasure.

Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone. It features everything the original features - with better graphics, higher resolution, smoother movement and new levels. The story of Mario and Luigi continues, in old-school style. Also visit the official HP.

A cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros. Now for Windows (fixed) and AmigaOS 4*! Requires: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf *Thanks to Michael Trebilcock for the port

Fast 2d tank arcade game with multiplayer and split-screen modes.

AstroMenace is an astonishing hardcore scroll-shooter where brave space warriors may find a great opportunity to hone their combat skills. Gather money during the battle to spend them on turning your spaceship into an ultimate weapon of mass destruction and give hell to swarms of adversaries. Enjoy the wonderfully crafted 3d graphics and high-quality special effects along with a detailed difficulty adjustment and a handy interface of AstroMenace.

Metal Blob Solid is a 2D platform game, the first in the Blobwars series. You take on the role of a fearless Blob agent, Bob, who's mission is to infiltrate various enemy bases and rescue as many MIAs as possible, while battling many vicious aliens.

Paintown is a 2d side scrolling beatem-up engine. Paintown supports game styles similar to the Sega Genesis game, Streets of Rage 2, as well as traditional 1 vs 1 fighting games through an implementation of MUGEN. Many aspects of Paintown are customizable, from the menu system to the levels and players that can be controlled. Paintown is highly portable. So far Paintown can run on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, Wii, PS3, Android and other systems.

A UNIX/Windows/Linux remake of the DOS-game "stunts", providing modern features like openGL graphics, 3D sound and internet multiplaying. Design your own tracks, choose your opponents and try the most spectacular stunts you've ever seen.

A jump-and-run game starring Tux the Penguin. (Now lives at http://supertux.lethargik.org/ )

Please note: OpenBOR has moved to GitHUB. Latest source and binaries may be found here - https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor OpenBOR is the open source continuation of Beats of Rage, a Streets of Rage tribute game originally developed by Senile Team. In the years since it has grown into arguably the single most powerful two dimensional sprite based engine in the world and certainly the most versatile. While intended to allow creation of side scrolling beat em’ ups like Double Dragon or Final Fight, the engine is also capable of replicating Shumps, RPGs, platformers and the like. A built in scripting engine allows authors to take it even further, making imagination the only real limit. See www.chronocrash.com for more details and to download the latest versions.

MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.

I Have No Tomatoes is an extreme leisure time activity idea of which culminates in the following question: How many tomatoes can you smash in ten short minutes? If you have the time to spare, this game has the vegetables just waiting to be eliminated!

A scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore+4. The game is intended to show young people (I'm writing it for my son's birthday) all the cool games they missed.

This game, I hope it will be soon, a good Clone of the game AtomicBomberMan. It supports multiplayer over the Internet. It's a funny smal game which can be very funny with other human players.