Free & Open Source Clones & Remakes of Retro Games

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Twisted Metal: Harbor City

Clone of Twisted Metal: Black

A work-in-progress matching decompilation of the unreleased PlayStation 2 game Twisted Metal: Harbor City.

Platforms:PS2

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Updated29 days ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Racing

Theme: —

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VirtueOS

Clone of Old School RuneScape

An open-source private server for Old School RuneScape, requiring original game assets and Java 8+.

Platforms:None

Stars16

Updated8 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2018

Genre: MMORPG

Theme: Fantasy

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Berusky II

Clone of Sokoban

Berusky II is a 3D SDL/OpenGL sequel to the Sokoban-style Berusky series, guiding bugs through levels with boxes and explosives.

Platforms:Linux

Stars15

Updated6 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2011

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Bird Strike

Clone of Bird Strike

Preserves and reconstructs the original 1984 BBC Micro source for Bird Strike, recovered from disk backups and disassembly.

Platforms:BBC Micro

Stars15

Updated5 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Shooter

Theme: —

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Bloodworks

Clone of Crimsonland

Bloodworks is a free top-down survival action game with moddable Lua/JSON content, offering 20 weapons, 5 ultimates, and 24 perks.

Platforms:Windows

Stars15

Updated8 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2016

Genre: Shmup

Theme: —

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Blupimania

Clone of Blupimania

Blupimania is the actively maintained continuation of the Blupi game, distributed for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars15

Updated2 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2023

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Command Series Engine

Clone of Conflict in Vietnam

A from-scratch engine that plays the original Atari 8-bit disk images of MicroProse's three Command Series games.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars15

Updated7 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2020

Genre: Strategy

Theme: Vietnam

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CookieClickerRemake

Clone of Cookie Clicker

Platforms:None

Stars15

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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DCMoHo

Clone of MoHo

Platforms:Dreamcast

Stars15

Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

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Desktop Adventures Engine for ScummVM

Clone of Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures

Platforms:None

Stars15

Updated7 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2011

Genre: RPG

Theme: —

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Donald Land (NES) Disassembly

Clone of Donald Land

A complete disassembly of the NES game Donald Land, produced after researching its RAM and level-data format, with a BizHawk Lua script.

Platforms:NES

Stars15

Updated7 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2018

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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Dungeons of Daggorath 3DS

Clone of Dungeons of Daggorath

A Nintendo 3DS port of Dungeons of Daggorath, adding an original graphical UI over its text-based commands, mapped to 3DS controls.

Platforms:3DS

Stars15

Updated6 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2020

Genre: RPG

Theme: Fantasy

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Dungeons of Daggorath PC-Port

Clone of Dungeons of Daggorath

An SDL-based PC port of Dungeons of Daggorath, version 0.3 by Richard Hunerlach with enhancements by Dan Gendreau.

Platforms:Linux

Stars15

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2016

Genre: RPG

Theme: Fantasy

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Eastern Front 1941

Clone of Eastern Front (1941)

A from-scratch TypeScript port of Eastern Front 1941, built from disassembled originals, running client-side as a single-page web app.

Platforms:Web

Stars15

Updated8 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Turn-Based Strategy

Theme: World War II

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HHexen

Clone of Hexen

HHexen is a source port of Hexen from the Hammer of Thyrion team, requiring the player's own WAD data and supporting OpenGL rendering.

Platforms:Linux

Stars15

Updated10 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2019

Genre: FPS

Theme: Fantasy

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Lunar Lander

Clone of Lunar Lander

Lander is a Lunar Lander-style game for Linux and Windows, steering a ship through randomly generated, increasingly hard levels.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars15

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2012

Genre: Simulation

Theme: —

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Nox Imperii

Clone of Escape Velocity

A Naev fork set in a declining galactic empire, in the vein of Escape Velocity, with a mostly random galaxy to explore.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars15

Updated9 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2016

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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Robotron

Clone of Robotron: 2084

A JavaScript remake of the arcade classic Robotron: 2084, built as a university course project.

Platforms:Web

Stars15

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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SFCDDISASM

Clone of Shining Force CD

A disassembly of Shining Force CD that documents the game's code and can rebuild a bit-perfect copy of the original ISO.

Platforms:Sega CD

Stars15

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: RPG

Theme: Fantasy

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SuperMarioWar Vita

Clone of Super Mario

Platforms:PSVita

Stars15

Updated5 years ago

LicenseGPL2*

Release2019

Genre: Platform

Theme: —

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Dream

Clone of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

A fan-made remake of Link's Awakening DX for the free, open-source Solarus engine, a single-player game with about 20 hours of play.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars15

Updated10 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2019

Genre: Action

Theme: Fantasy

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fakk2-rework

Clone of Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2

fakk2-rework is a proposed modernization for Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2's source, with ideas like CMake, cross-platform, and ioquake3 porting.

Platforms:Windows

Stars15

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2020

Genre: Shooter

Theme: Cyberpunk

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game2048-rs

Clone of 2048

game2048-rs is a Rust terminal implementation of 2048 using the Cursive TUI library, with score tracking and game-over detection.

Platforms:None

Stars15

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2023

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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h2048

Clone of 2048

h2048 is a Haskell implementation of 2048, including a library for automated play strategies and a console interface built with brick.

Platforms:None

Stars15

Updated7 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2014

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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