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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Clone of Tyrian
An open-source port of the DOS shooter Tyrian that includes the freeware game data and supports networked play.
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Clone of Sonic the Hedgehog
A 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame running on a modified Doom Legacy engine, made independently and unaffiliated with Sega.
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Clone of Cave Story
An upgraded NXEngine fork for Cave Story with SDL2, widescreen up to Full HD, localization and initial mod support.
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Clone of Jagged Alliance 2
A community-maintained continuation of JA2-Stracciatella, running Jagged Alliance 2 on modern systems using data from an original copy.
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Clone of Super Mario
An open-source SDL multiplayer deathmatch game using Mario-style characters, with online play, a level editor, and 1,000+ maps.
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Clone of Pharaoh
A reimplementation of the Pharaoh game engine for modern systems, forked from the Julius/Augustus project and retargeted at Pharaoh.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
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Updated1 month ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of The Simpsons: Hit & Run
An open-source C++ reimplementation of The Simpsons: Hit & Run using modern OpenGL, requiring the original game's asset files.
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Original game imageClone of Command & Conquer
A portable open-source reimplementation of the original Command & Conquer engine, running Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars462
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Quake
DarkPlaces is a Quake engine fork adding modern rendering and an expanded QuakeC scripting language, running many Quake-based games.
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Clone of Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
R.E.L.I.V.E. is an open-source, bug-fixing engine replacement for Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars435
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Platform
Theme: —
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Clone of Age of Empires
Chariot is an early-stage Rust and SDL2 reimplementation of the 1997 Age of Empires engine, with no playable game yet as of 2016.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars432
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Mario Kart
A Sonic-themed kart racer built on the Sonic Robo Blast 2 engine, in the style of Mario Kart.
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario
TheXTech is a faithful C++ rewrite of the SMBX 1.3 Mario-style level engine, running cross-platform with an added editor.
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Clone of Cortex Command
CCOSS is the open-source release of Cortex Command's engine under AGPLv3, without game data, requiring the original game and Steam DLLs.
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Original game imageClone of Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
BStone is an actively maintained source port of the Blake Stone series, adding high-res 3D rendering, texture upscaling, and 3D audio.
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Clone of Minecraft
A C port of Minecraft Classic 0.0.30a using SDL2 and OpenGL, with optional raytracing in its modded build.
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Clone of Star Wars Episode I: Racer
A partial open-source port of Star Wars Episode I: Racer that uses CPU emulation to run the original game cross-platform.
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Original game imageClone of Mario Kart
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is a free kart racing game on the Sonic Robo Blast 2 codebase, released as non-commercial fan art under GPL.
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Clone of Cortex Command
CCCP is a community-driven continuation of Cortex Command's development, free and open source under AGPLv3, with an active mod portal.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars322
Updated3 months ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2024
Genre: Action
Theme: Sci-Fi
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Clone of Commander Keen Series
A pixel-perfect, bug-for-bug reimplementation of Commander Keen episodes 4-6 that reads the original game's data files.
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Clone of Pac-Man
A Pac-Man clone built as a tutorial example for the EnTT entity-component-system framework, using SDL2 and CMake.
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Clone of Doom
A portable, enhanced source port supporting Doom I/II, Heretic, and Hexen, built as cross-platform C++ libraries.
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Clone of Supaplex
A 1:1 C/SDL reimplementation of Supaplex that runs on PC, Mac, Linux and many consoles, from PSP to Switch.
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Original game imageClone of Caesar III
An open-source remake of Caesar III on its own SDL2-based engine, playable but still in an early, experimental stage.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars296
Updated9 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
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Clone of AstroMenace
An open-source 3D space shoot-'em-up with 15 levels, boss fights, and a weapon-upgrade shop, under active development.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars289
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Shmup
Theme: —
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Clone of Stronghold
An open-source engine reimplementation of Stronghold; development is frozen pending Firefly's Definitive Edition release.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars281
Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario
An open-source engine and dev kit for building Mario-style platform games, with SMBX compatibility.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars280
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
Genre: Platform
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