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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Original game imageClone of Rise of the Triad
A source port of Rise of the Triad (1994) for modern Linux, Windows, and macOS, with 64-bit and big-endian support.
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Clone of Flashback
REinforced is an enhanced fork of the Flashback engine re-implementation REminiscence, adding Russian-language support.
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Clone of Atomic Bomberman
A from-scratch Free Pascal reimplementation of Atomic Bomberman's engine, with working multiplayer but no single-player mode yet.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars54
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2023
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Halted
Clone of Thimbleweed Park
An open-source reimplementation of Thimbleweed Park's engine, rewritten from scratch in Nim, still in active development.
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Clone of Tetris: The Grand Master
An open-source Tetris-like puzzle game that adds pentomino pieces alongside standard tetrominoes.
Archived
Halted
Sporadic
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Original game imageClone of The Bard's Tale Construction Set
An open-source, in-progress reimplementation of the Bard's Tale Construction Set, with a nearly complete engine and a built-in editor.
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Archived
Clone of Lego Racers
An archived loader that runs Lego Racers through CPU emulation and patched-in open-source code, still needing the original game.
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Original game imageClone of M.A.X.
MAXR is a fan-made, community-maintained turn-based strategy remake of M.A.X., built to make multiplayer work reliably on modern systems.
Platforms:Windows
Stars47
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2023
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: —
Sporadic
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Clone of Mega Man X5
A static recompilation of Mega Man X5 (PS1) into a native Windows program, playable in alpha with widescreen and renderer options.
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Clone of Strike Commander
libRealSpace is a cross-platform reimplementation of Origin Systems' RealSpace engine, also used by Strike Commander.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars45
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Action
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Guitar Hero
Frets on Fire is a keyboard-based rhythm game with a song editor and an importer for note charts from several Guitar Hero discs.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars44
Updated3 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Rhythm
Theme: —
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Clone of Grand Theft Auto
An unplayable OpenGL engine project that renders the original GTA's cities from its data files, with a viewer and developer tools.
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Original game imageClone of Resident Evil
Reevengi is a background image and 3D model viewer for the original PS1/PC Resident Evil 1-3 games, not a reimplementation.
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Clone of Tetris Attack
Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks is an actively developed, GPL-licensed C++17/SDL2 clone of Tetris Attack for Ubuntu LTS and Windows 10+.
Archived
Clone of Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger C is an archived, unplayable game engine built with SDL2, referencing Chrono Trigger.
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Original game imageClone of Myst Online: Uru Live
DIRTSAND is an AGPLv3+ open-source C++ server platform providing a full-featured MOULa-compatible server, tested primarily on Linux.
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Original game imageClone of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985)
An in-development C++23 remake of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, using SDL2, SQLite, and TinyXML2.
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Clone of Xargon
An SDL port of the DOS platformer Xargon that plays with the original freeware data files.
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Clone of Candy Crisis
An unofficial SDL2 source port of Candy Crisis for modern macOS, Linux and Windows, adding an optional widescreen mode.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars36
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2023
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Halted
Clone of Wipeout
CoreBreach is an anti-gravity combat racer built on the open-source Core3D engine, targeting Linux, Windows, macOS and Android.
Halted
Clone of Triplane Turmoil
A DOS-faithful side-scrolling dogfighting game ported from Triplane Turmoil, with added local 4-player multiplayer and gameplay tweaks.
Platforms:Linux
Stars36
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
Genre: Flight
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Rick Dangerous
A reverse-engineered C clone of the 1989 platformer Rick Dangerous, ported across many classic and modern platforms.
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Clone of Geometry Wars
GridWars, built with the BlitzMax engine, is maintained here for better compatibility with embedded systems like the Raspberry Pi.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars34
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Genre: Shmup
Theme: —
Sporadic
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Clone of Titus the Fox
An open-source engine for Titus the Fox and Moktar that runs the original game files, with movement matching the original.
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Clone of Super Mario
A Wii port of Super Mario War, the fan-made Mario deathmatch game, built on a heavily rewritten SDL Wii.
