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View 8484 business solutionsBrowse free open source Simulation Games and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Simulation Games by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Rigs of Rods 0.4+
Soft-body physics simulator
Rigs of Rods is a free/libre soft-body physics simulator mainly targeted at simulating vehicle physics. The soft-body physics system is based on mass-spring-damper theory. This is a mirror of the Rigs of Rods GitHub repository: https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods The old SourceForge project can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rigsofrods/ -
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Stellarium
A planetarium software that shows a 3D simulation of the night sky
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. -
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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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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
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The Powder Toy
Sandbox video game with a powerful physics engine
Have you ever wanted to blow something up? Or maybe you always dreamt of operating an atomic power plant? Do you have a will to develop your own CPU? The Powder Toy lets you to do all of these, and even more! The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own -
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Stunt Rally
3D racing game with Sci-Fi elements and Track Editor
ONLY for Releases. Downloads in Files. Homepage: https://cryham.org/stuntrally/ Sources, Issues, etc: https://github.com/stuntrally/stuntrally3/ Documentation: https://github.com/stuntrally/stuntrally3/blob/main/docs/_menu.md Browsers for: Vehicles: https://cryham.org/stuntrally/vehicles/ Tracks: https://cryham.org/stuntrally/tracks/ -
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AirSim
A simulator for drones, cars and more, built on Unreal Engine
AirSim is an open-source, cross platform simulator for drones, cars and more vehicles, built on Unreal Engine with an experimental Unity release in the works. It supports software-in-the-loop simulation with popular flight controllers such as PX4 & ArduPilot and hardware-in-loop with PX4 for physically and visually realistic simulations. It is developed as an Unreal plugin that can simply be dropped into any Unreal environment. AirSim's development is oriented towards the goal of creating a platform for AI research to experiment with deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. For this purpose, AirSim also exposes APIs to retrieve data and control vehicles in a platform independent way. AirSim is fully enabled for multiple vehicles. This capability allows you to create multiple vehicles easily and use APIs to control them. -
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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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ModAssistant
Simple Beat Saber Mod Installer
ModAssistant is a simple PC mod installer for Beat Saber, using mods from BeatMods. Beat Saber is the popular VR rhythm game where players must slash the beats as they fly towards them to the beat of lively music. ModAssistant comes with a number of great features like dependency resolution, mod uninstallation, and a complex theming engine. It features light, dark, BSMG and light pink themes, and can even have your own custom theme! Have more fun playing Beat Saber by customizing your experience with ModAssistant! -
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Rigs of Rods
A 3D simulator game where you can drive, fly, and sail
Rigs of Rods is a 3D simulator game where you can drive, fly and sail various vehicles using an accurate and unique soft-body physics engine. Since 2014, the development continued at https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods UPDATE: 10/30/2016: removed opencandy installers, replaced with zip files. -
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Corewar is a game played vicariously through the action of assembly language programs written in a language called Redcode. Corewar is discussed in the Usenet group REC.GAMES.COREWAR; the reference implementation of this game, pMARS, is maintained here.
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Oolite
3D space trading and combat game
Oolite is a free and open source space trading and combat simulation game where you are the pilot of a spacecraft capable of interstellar travel. Inspired by the classic 8-bit game Elite, it features many similar aspects of gameplay. You can travel to different planetary systems, encounter challenges and embark on missions in a quest for wealth and glory. Oolite runs on Mac OS X (10.6 or later), Windows (XP or later), and Linux, and does not require the latest hardware except for certain expansion packs. Powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, it is designed as a small game that users can easily pick up, modify and expand. -
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OpenRCT2
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. An open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, a construction and management simulation video game that simulates amusement park management. Chat takes place on Discord. You will need to create a Discord account if you don't yet have one. If you want to help make the game, join the developer channel.OpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2). The gameplay revolves around building and maintaining an amusement park containing attractions, shops and facilities. The player must try to make a profit and maintain a good park reputation whilst keeping the guests happy. OpenRCT2 allows for both scenario and sandbox play. Scenarios require the player to complete a certain objective in a set time limit whilst sandbox allows the player to build a more flexible park with optionally no restrictions or finance. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was originally written by Chris Sawyer in x86 assembly. -
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Endless Sky
Endless Sky is a sandbox-style space exploration game
Endless Sky starts off the player with a decision to pick their own ship based on their style of gameplay. Will you choose to be the merchant and enjoy quiet and steady work among the stars? Or will you become a bounty hunter and fight off pirates to strike it rich? You may even decide to become the bad guy and choose to be the pirate yourself. -
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Sims3 Tools
Tools using the s3pi library and other related works
sims3tools provides a set of tools for the Sims3 modder, based around the s3pi library. It includes: a package editor (s3pe), which allows most useful resources to be edited; an Object / CAS Part cloner (s3oc) for creating a base for modifications; a sims3pack packer/unpacker (s3su), which simplifies handling the content of these files; a string table editor (s3se) for allowing string table resources to be efficiently edited; plus a number of additional utilities. Note that development on sims3tools has now finished. -
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A free racing simulator with excellent physics and graphics.
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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.
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Sims 3 Package Interface
Sims 3 (and other) game package library
"Sims 3 Package Interface" provides a core library of portable code that "understands" Sims3 game packages. Note that (with some minor tweaks) the core library code also understands other game package formats (e.g. SimCity Online, Sims4). Along with the core library are a number of "wrappers" that provide the main part of the project. These handle deserialization and serialization of data within the package (or any other source). Further tools (not supplied here) can use the core library and wrappers to manipulate the data content of package files. Note that development on this library and wrappers provided here has now finished. -
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OpenTTD
Open source simulation game based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe
OpenTTD is an open source transport simulation game based on the popular game Transport Tycoon Deluxe by Chris Sawyer, with several additions. OpenTTD is as close to the original as you can get, but has been extended with plenty of great features. These include bigger maps (up to 64 times bigger than the original), stable multiplayer mode that allows for up to 255 players in 15 companies, in-game downloading of heightmaps, AIs, scenarios, and so much more. With its many additions and improvements players are sure to have a greatly enhanced gaming experience. Try it for yourself! -
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Trigger Rally
A fast-paced free software rally racing game
A 3D rally simulation with a great physics engine for drifting, over 200 maps, different terrain materials like dirt, asphalt, sand, ice etc. and various weather, light and fog conditions give this rally simulation the edge over many other free games. You need to make it through the maps in often tight time limits and can further improve by beating the recorded high scores. All attached single races must be finished in time in order to win an event, unlocking additional events and cars. Most maps are equipped with spoken co-driver notes and co-driver icons. Many configuration details for display and audio adjustments can be edited in the well documented plain text configuration file. Additional contributed maps and events are ready for download as plugins. Trigger Rally works well with common low performance laptops from about 2008. And if something like snow flakes and vegetation sprites demand to much from your system you can just disable it. -
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America's Army 2.5 Assist
Classic America's Army
A GUI client application for Downloading Installing and Playing Americas Army 2.5 on Windows, Mac and Linux with a new custom authorization system. On the server side a Desktop server manager for Windows, Mac and Linux and a Command line dedicated server manager for Windows and Linux. Backend server components include a replacement authorization system using the Battletracker account & stats database and a PunkBuster log streaming server which records players possible cheating activities. -
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PhiZone Player
HTML5 Phigros chart player/simulator
PhiZone Player is an HTML5-based simulator for Phigros charts, developed using Phaser. It allows users to play and test custom rhythm game charts within a web browser, providing a platform for chart creators and players to interact with Phigros-style gameplay. -
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FTLEditor
A tool to edit profile and saved game files for FasterThanLight.
A 3rd-party tool to edit user files for the game FasterThanLight. With this, you can unlock any or all ships and achievements in your user profile, or tweak most aspects of saved games: crew, systems, weapons, fires, breaches, etc. -
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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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Biogenesis is an artificial life program that simulates the processes involved in the evolution of organisms. It shows colored segment based organisms that mutate and evolve in a 2D environment. Biogenesis is based on Primordial Life.
