Free & Open Source Clones & Remakes of Retro Games

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asteroid-diamonds

Clone of 2048

A 2048-inspired sliding-tile puzzle game built for AsteroidOS, the open-source smartwatch OS, under active development.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated22 days ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Halted

bash-pac

Clone of Pac-Man

A Pac-Man/Snake-inspired terminal game written in Bash, rendered in ASCII, where you dodge a ghost while collecting food for points.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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breaker

Clone of Breaker

A browser-playable Breakout-style clone built with the Godot Engine.

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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digger-cs

Clone of Digger

A C#/.NET remaster of Digger, publishable as a self-contained Linux build via the .NET SDK.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated18 days ago

LicenseAGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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earthbound_beginnings

Clone of EarthBound Beginnings

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated2 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: RPG

Theme: —

Halted

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eshaansmart

Clone of Monkey Mart

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT*

Release2025

Genre: —

Theme: —

Halted

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ff1snes

Clone of Final Fantasy

A from-the-ground-up port of Final Fantasy to the SNES, using the original NES disassembly only as reference; currently semi-playable.

Platforms:SNES

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2025

Genre: RPG

Theme: Fantasy

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glpong

Clone of Pong

An open-source reimplementation of Pong for Linux using OpenGL and SDL, licensed under the GPL, single-player against the computer.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

irrlamb

Clone of Super Monkey Ball

An open-source 3D physics-based game for Windows and Linux by Alan Witkowski, with keyboard/gamepad controls and a replay system.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars1

Updated6 months ago

Licensegpl-3.0

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

jag2048

Clone of 2048

A port of the sliding-tile puzzle game 2048 to the Atari Jaguar console, built with the vbcc/vasm/vlink toolchain; development has halted.

Platforms:Jaguar

Stars1

Updated9 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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legion

Clone of Legion

A Windows game project with almost no documentation, whose only repository note says it was created years ago and hasn't been touched since.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated13 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: Adventure

Theme: —

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minex

Clone of Minesweeper

A terminal Minesweeper in Python with mouse support, five themes and saved statistics.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2025

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Halted

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newtron

Clone of Tron

An unfinished web project described only as "a remake of an old game".

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

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open-heavy-smash

Clone of Heavy Smash

An archived remake project of the arcade game Heavy Smash, listed as unplayable.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sci-Fi

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opene2140

Clone of Earth 2140

An early, not-yet-playable C++ reimplementation of the 1997 RTS Earth 2140 that uses the original game files.

Platforms:LinuxOSX

Stars1

Updated3 years ago

Licensegpl-3.0+

Release2020

Genre: Real-Time Strategy

Theme: Sci-Fi

Halted

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pucpr-ld-parodius

Clone of Fantastic Journey

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Shmup

Theme: —

Archived

sdl2-pong

Clone of Pong

A straightforward SDL2 remake of the classic two-player arcade game Pong.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

space-invaders-niklas-mueller

Clone of Space Invaders

A pygame rebuild of Space Invaders that also exposes a custom Gymnasium reinforcement-learning environment for AI agents.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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thromolusng

Clone of Thromolus

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated16 years ago

LicenseGPL3*

Release2009

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Halted

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uninvited

Clone of Uninvited

An unauthorized Inform reimplementation of the 1986 Macintosh adventure Uninvited, built without the original's source code.

Platforms:LinuxOSX

Stars1

Updated7 years ago

Licenseartistic-2.0

Release2018

Genre: Adventure

Theme: —

Halted

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vkHexen

Clone of Hexen

An experimental Vulkan learning-project port of Hexen; currently not functional and crashes on startup.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2023

Genre: FPS

Theme: Fantasy

Halted

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wordle-clone

Clone of Wordle

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Halted

wordlemini

Clone of Wordle

wordlemini is a terminal Wordle clone built with Textual, supporting nine languages and a personal stats tracker.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

Halted

xhyperoid

Clone of Asteroids

A Unix/X11 port of Hyperoid, a 1991 Windows Asteroids variant, with added sound support.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated7 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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