Disclaimer: I changed a little the layout and thanks for the contributions!
The Idea:
On my old Mastodon Profile i’ve made a list of Rebuilds/Fan Remakes/SourcePorts (when possible opensource, no commercial remakes) for old PC Games, and i want to share it here on Lemmy too, so people can easily find it.
Why?
I’ve played lot of these games, and i’m glad there a Fans who still working on these games, to make it accessible on modern systems and giving them some QoL improvments. In my opinion, that’s a great way to preserve old games from being forgotten and keep playable for new players. Also these people need some recognition (at least) for their hard work.
I’m glad If you help to complete this list and contribute some games you know.
In the moment there are alphabetical sorted:
- 68 PC Games in total
- 53 Remakes, SourcePorts etc.
New additions will be marked with *
The List:
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Ambermoon - Ambermoon.net
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Arx Fatalis - Arx Libertatis
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Baldurs Gate (I, II, also Icewind Dale I and II) - GemRB
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Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)
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Caesar III - Julius
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Call to Power II - Apolyton Call to Power II Source Code Project *
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Civilization V - Unciv *
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Clonk - OpenClonk *
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Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA
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Descent (1, 2) - Descent Rebirth
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Descent 3 - Descent 3 *
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Diablo - DevilutionX
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Doom (I, II) - ZDoom
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Dune II - Dune Legacy
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Dungeon Keeper - KeeperFX
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Elite - Elite: The New Kind
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Fallout - Fallout Community Edition *
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Fallout 2 - Fallout 2 Community Edition *
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Final Fantasy IX - Memoria *
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Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *
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Half Life - xash3d *
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Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2
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Heroes of Might and Magic III - VCMI *
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Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Jazz² *
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LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *
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Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion - OpenLoco *
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Marathon (1,2 and Infinity) - Aleph One
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Master of Orion - 1oom *
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Might and Magic VI (also VII and VIII is in work) - OpenEnroth
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Quake - Ironwail
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Quake III: Arena - ioquake3 *
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Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *
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The Settlers - FreeSerf *
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The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)
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Stalker (Call of Pripyat and Call of Chernobyl) - OpenXRay*
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Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters
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Star Wars : Dark Forces - The Force Engine *
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - OpenJKDF2 *
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Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy - OpenJK
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TES II : Daggerfall - Daggerfall Unity
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TES III: Morrowind - OpenMW
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Theme Hospital - CorsixTH
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Tomb Raider I and II - TRX *
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe - OpenTTD
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Ultima IV - xu4
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Ultima VII - Exult
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Ultima Underworld I (and II) - Underworld Exporter
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Rollercoaster Tycoon (I and II) - openRCT2
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Warzone 2100 - Warzone 2100 *
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WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - ET: Legacy *
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X-COM: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep - OpenXcom *
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X-COM Apocalypse - OpenApoc
There is also the List here https://osgameclones.com/, who did unknown to me the same.
Addendum SCUMMVM:
SCUMMVM is the first place for adventure games from Lucas Arts (Monkey Island etc.) or Sierra (Kings Quest etc) anf for the RPGs from Origin (Ultima VI), Westwood (Eye of the Beholder) and New World Compting (Might and Magic I, III and IV), but also many more. Here you can check the list of games out.
Addendum “Inspired Games”
I think that games divergence too much from the original games, but also should be mentioned.
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Age of Empires - 0.A.D.
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Cataclysm - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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Civilization II and III - FreeCiv
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Colonization - FreeCol
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Escape Velocity - Endless Sky
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Elite II - Pioneer
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Lemmings - Pingus
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The Settlers II - Widelands
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Total Annihilation - Beyond all Reason
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Warlords II - LordsAWar!
Addendum Console Games:
If you are looking for Ports for Console Games to PC here is this list on GitHub
Also i would recommend the Open Source Port of the First two Jake and Daxter games
Addendum Source Ports for Android
moonpiedumplings made a list of Source Ports for Android on reddit
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I just found Shockolate, a GPL-3 source port of system shock:
Morrowind: https://openmw.org/
Is already on the list ;)
It’s not finished yet but OpenXray Gunslinger is probably going to be a better STALKER: Call of Pripyat remaster than the official one that just got announced.
Thanks, added to the list :)
Star Wars Jedi Knight I and II: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast (Not stable) - OpenJK https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
Despite the official name being “Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy” it is not Jedi Knight I. It is actually a sequel to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It came out only a year after JO and was announced in April. At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke because the screenshots looked like something that could easily be made with the mod tools at the time.
It wasn’t called Jedi Knight III because you play a different character.
Anyways, the real Jedi Knight I was “Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II”. An open source implementation is available at https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2
And to round it off, the open source implementation of Dark Forces is available at https://theforceengine.github.io/. I think it even supports the remaster.
I actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I’ve got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I’m used to autosave points in linear games like that.
As far as I know they don’t add autosaves. I think the priority was things like proper wide-screen support and higher resolutions for the older games.
Got them working, and was pleasantly surprised to find most of them had flatpack installers! Manual saving is still a pain but the engines running smoothly does make a big difference.
Although the dark forces installer doesn’t work with the steam install so you have to copy the game data to the data folder to make it work.
Honestly anything to deal with the horrendous friction and instability of the original would be welcome. Even modded I think I had to stick with 4:3 which even with black bars was still not quite right on my modern system. It would have to be a better experience, even if I have to re-learn manual quicksaves.
I See where i went wrong. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the Links to Dark Forces.
I 'll add that to the list and change the names
Thanks again
Whole Lee Shit jazz jackrabbit brings back memories. I remember my first time playing it at a friend of the family’s house, there was a dude there talking shit about how Windows was for lazy people (I was very young and windows was still kinda newish)
But how dare you not include OpenMW! Imagine having an og Xbox masterpiece on your phone, and you can mod it!
It was already on the list (TES III: Morrowind) ;)
How come there’s no mention of 0.A.D, it has amazing graphics, at least from the videos and screenshots. Haven’t gotten a chance to play it unfortunately.
Hi, i’ve put it in the “Addendum “Inspired Games””
There is also Warzone 2100 https://wz2100.net/
Added to the list. Thanks :)
There’s an open source roller coaster tycoon
Do you mean https://openrct2.io/? That’s already on the list :)
Would Ship of Harkinian go on here?
My list focus more on PC Games source ports/remakes etc. but the “Addendum Console Games” it’s in this list (with many others) https://github.com/Sebastrion/awesome-unofficial-pc-ports
Thanks :) But i’ve to ask, on what games does X-Moto based of?
I’ve edited the post, so it looks more appealing. Sorry, that it was so hard to read at first, i hope now it’s better
Throw Manic Miners on there. It’s a fan remake of the old Lego Rock Raiders game, and it’s really fun. There’s a custom level builder and I think there’s a browser you can search for other custom levels.
Thanks for the Tip! I added it to the list!
Don’t forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it’s faithful. It relies on the original assets.
Thanks. I put it on the List :)
XCOM 1 (UFO Defense) and XCOM 2: Terror From The Deep - OpenXCOM https://openxcom.org/
Master of Orion 1 - 1oom https://github.com/1oom-fork/1oom
Ultima 6 - Nuvie https://github.com/nuvie/nuvie (apparently now part of ScummVM)
A few more honorable mentions that are not exact re-implementations with compatibility with the original datafiles, but more spiritual followups:
Total Annihilation - TA Spring > Spring Engine > Recoil Engine > Beyond All Reason https://github.com/beyond-all-reason (I think there are mods that make it “Basically TA”)
Escape Velocity/EV Nova - Endless Sky https://endless-sky.github.io/
Goldeneye 64 (multiplayer only) - Goldeneye Source https://forums.geshl2.com/index.php?topic=7823.0
Warlords II - LordsAWar! https://libregamewiki.org/LordsAWar!
Thanks for the games. I’ve added them to the “Addendum “Inspired Games””
Thanks. I’ve added the games to the Addendum “Inspired Games”, but i think UnCIV is more a remake
