Free & Open Source Games Made with SDL2

394 free, open-source games made with SDL2 — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify.

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MCTest

Clone of Minecraft

A Minecraft-inspired 3D voxel demo adapted from an ATmega32 microcontroller project, ported to PC via SDL 1.2 and optimized for weak CPUs.

Platforms:None

Stars6

Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Action

Theme: Fantasy

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Pang for Linux!

Clone of Buster Bros.

A GPLv2 clone of the 1989 Pang! arcade game for Linux, ported to SDL2.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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Spacewars

Clone of Spacewar!

A solo-built Rust/Amethyst remake of 1962's Spacewar!, made to learn the engine and language.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars6

Updated6 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2020

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

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TsumuLightRecomp

Clone of Tsumu Light

A native PC recompilation of the Japan-only PS1 puzzle game Tsumu Light, with a built-in English fan translation.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated17 days ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Wolfenstein 3D (embedded)

Clone of Spear of Destiny

A stripped-down Wolfenstein 3D port for the Stellaris LM3S6965EVB microcontroller, using 4-bit greyscale graphics.

Platforms:Stellaris

Stars6

Updated15 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2010

Genre: FPS

Theme: —

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ativayeban

Clone of Fall Down

A simple C/SDL 1.2 game where a ball must fall into holes to avoid being crushed from above, optimized for low-resolution screens.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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MigAlleySrc

Clone of MiG Alley

Source code of Rowan Software's 1999 Korean War flight sim MiG Alley, buildable on Windows with Visual Studio.

Platforms:Windows

Stars5

Updated8 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Flight

Theme: —

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Lilium Salvation

Clone of Dark Salvation

An open-source engine reimplementation compatible with Dark Salvation, built without the original source, targeting Linux and macOS.

Platforms:LinuxOSX

Stars4

Updated4 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2021

Genre: FPS

Theme: Adult

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Marble Madness 3d

Clone of Marble Madness

A remake of Marble Madness rendered in true 3D rather than the original's isometric view; movement controls are not yet implemented.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars4

Updated14 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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NakedLinuxDoom

Clone of Doom

The Linux Doom source converted to SDL3 and 64-bit, with no other changes, for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars4

Updated7 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2025

Genre: FPS

Theme: Sci-Fi

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SDL2-Breakout

Clone of Breakout

An SDL2 remake of Breakout with one- and two-player modes and brick-color-based scoring.

Platforms:Windows

Stars4

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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v64tng

Clone of The 7th Guest

A from-scratch C++23 reimplementation of The 7th Guest's engine, built to run inside the original game's own data files.

Platforms:Windows

Stars4

Updated12 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2023

Genre: Adventure

Theme: Horror

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LBA2 Ida edition

Clone of Little Big Adventure 2

A Windows-only fork of LBA2 Classic Community engine source, focused on making the port fully playable and bug-free.

Platforms:Windows

Stars2

Updated6 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2025

Genre: Action

Theme: Fantasy

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Lab3dGLES

Clone of Ken's Labyrinth

A port of Ken's Labyrinth to modern systems using OpenGL/OpenGLES, built on LAB3D/SDL with Wiz and Caanoo handheld support.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars2

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: FPS

Theme: —

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Poink

Clone of Poing

A demake of the Amiga game Poing, built entirely on iPad using the Lowres NX fantasy console.

Platforms:WebAndroid

Stars2

Updated1 year ago

LicenseZlib

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Vectoroids

Clone of Asteroids

An SDL vector-graphics take on Asteroids, adapted from the author's earlier PDA game Agendaroids.

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars2

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Willy the Worm

Clone of Willy the Worm

An open-source remake of the 1985 Pascal platformer Willy the Worm, with Python and C++ versions.

Platforms:Windows

Stars2

Updated11 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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XBoing

Clone of Breakout

A faithful SDL2 modernization of Justin Kibell's 1996 XBoing, preserving all 80 original levels and physics.

Platforms:LinuxOSX

Stars2

Updated19 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2026

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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asm2048

Clone of 2048

A low-level 2048 implementation in x86-64 assembly and C with SDL2 graphics, targeting GNU/Linux; archived and no longer maintained.

Platforms:Linux

Stars2

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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libmx2

Clone of Acid Drop

A cross-platform C++20 multimedia library bundling example 2D clones of Breakout, Asteroids, Pong, Tetris, and Frogger.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars2

Updated24 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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EliteGL

Clone of Elite

An OpenGL/SDL port to Linux of Christian Pinder's Elite: The New Kind, itself a Windows/Allegro remake of the original Elite.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2020

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

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Groove Board

Clone of Dance Dance Revolution

A music rhythm game demo written in Perl using SDL, similar to Dance Dance Revolution and StepMania.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated15 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Rhythm

Theme: —

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HoverX

Clone of HoverRace

A hover-racing game built with SDL2, OpenGL/GLEW, and ENet networking, supporting single-player races and networked multiplayer.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated2 months ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2023

Genre: Racing

Theme: —

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SDL Tunneler

Clone of Tunneler

An SDL port of the 1991 DOS split-screen tank game Tunneler, built for Linux and Windows.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated14 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2012

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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Saving Sue

Clone of Frogger

A Frogger-style road-crossing game starring a character named Sue, made for the SDL Game Contest.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated15 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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SolarConflict

Clone of Spacewar!

A Spacewar! clone written in Perl with SDL, created as an entry for the SDL Perl Game Contest.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated14 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

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Space Invaders Part II

Clone of Space Invaders Part II

A from-scratch C++/SDL2/OpenGL clone of the 1979 arcade game Space Invaders Part II, using a custom single-file rendering engine.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated7 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: Sci-Fi

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TunnelTanks

Clone of Tunneler

TunnelTanks is a modernized SDL-powered port of the 1991 DOS game Tunneler, with an experimental Android build.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Action

Theme: —

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XLode

Clone of Lode Runner

A small Lode Runner clone the author wrote in college in 2001, later updated from Allegro to SDL.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated13 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2013

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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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: —

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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: —

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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

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Billig-Sweeper

Clone of Minesweeper

Billig-Sweeper is a simple SDL2 Minesweeper clone with keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen controls, including pinch-zoom and swipe panning.

Platforms:Linux

Stars0

Updated4 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2022

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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C Pong SDL

Clone of Pong

C Pong SDL is a basic C/SDL2 Pong implementation with ball physics and scoring, called an unpolished first SDL project by its author.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnlicense

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Centicrawler

Clone of Centipede

Centicrawler is an SDL2/C++17 clone of the 1981 arcade game Centipede, adding new elements like a two-player mode not in the original.

Platforms:Linux

Stars0

Updated1 month ago

LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Release2026

Genre: Shooter

Theme: Fantasy

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Detritus

Clone of Asteroids

Detritus is an Asteroids clone built with SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, and SQLite, run directly from the build directory via a 'make run' target.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated11 months ago

LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Games-Minesweeper

Clone of Minesweeper

A Perl implementation of Minesweeper distributed as a CPAN module, built on AnyEvent, Gtk2, SDL, and SDL::Mixer.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Gauntlet of Thyrion

Clone of Hexen II

A fork of Hammer of Thyrion focused exclusively on a singleplayer macOS port of Hexen II, built via an included Xcode project.

Platforms:OSX

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2023

Genre: FPS

Theme: Ancient History

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Gem Drop X

Clone of Magical Drop III

A cross-platform SDL port of the Atari 8-bit puzzle game Gem Drop, playable on Windows, Linux, macOS, Classic Mac OS, Amiga, and Dreamcast.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2022

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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