Cloned Games

Free & Open Source Adventure Games

243 free, open-source adventure games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify. Not just free to play: the code itself is open.

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Clone of Super ZZT

A byte-accurate reverse-engineered reconstruction of Super ZZT 2.0's source code, released under the MIT license.
Platforms:DOS
Stars44
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of Shrek 2

A fan-made Unreal Engine 5 remake of Shrek 2, using textures exported from the original game, with several levels already playable.
Platforms:None
Stars44
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnlicense
Release2023
Genre: Action
Theme: Fantasy
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OpenGTA screenshot

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.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars43
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Action
Theme: Crime
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Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars41
Updated16 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2010
Genre: Action
Theme: Fantasy
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Chrono Trigger C screenshot

Clone of Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger C is an archived, unplayable game engine built with SDL2, referencing Chrono Trigger.
Platforms:None
Stars41
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
Genre: Action
Theme: Anime
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Hexoshi screenshot

Clone of Super Metroid

Hexoshi is a Python clone, run from source with listed dependencies or via prebuilt executables that cache map data on first startup.
Platforms:None
Stars37
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Slaine screenshot

Clone of Sláine

Original C64 source code for Slaine, which used the console's bitmap screen for text-adventure-style storytelling.
Platforms:C64
Stars36
Updated7 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Fantasy
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Platforms:DOSAmiga
Stars33
Updated11 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Clone of Transylvania

Re-Comprehend is a public-domain reimplementation of the Graphics Magician engine behind Transylvania, Crimson Crown, and Oo-Topos.
Platforms:Linux
Stars32
Updated11 years ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2015
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Horror
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Clone of The Black Cauldron

This is catalogued as an official historical release for The Black Cauldron, though its README has no content beyond the project name.
Platforms:None
Stars32
Updated3 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Fantasy
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L'Abbaye des morts screenshot

Clone of l'Abbaye des Morts

An HTML5/JavaScript port of locomalito's freeware platformer L'Abbaye des Morts, built with Phaser and playable in a browser.
Platforms:Web
Stars31
Updated8 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Clone of Metroid

A cleaned-up disassembly of NES Metroid that reassembles the game's eight banks and checks them against the original.
Platforms:NES
Stars31
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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zztgo screenshot

Clone of ZZT

A Go port of a reconstructed ZZT source code base, using a custom Pascal-to-Go converter and the tcell terminal library.
Platforms:None
Stars30
Updated6 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2020
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Archived
REminiscence screenshot

Clone of Flashback

REminiscence is a re-implementation of Flashback's 1992 engine, supporting its DOS, Amiga, Macintosh, and PC98 releases.
Platforms:Windows
Stars29
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Clone of Bermuda Syndrome

A reimplementation of the game engine for the 1995 adventure game Bermuda Syndrome, built by reverse-engineering the original executable.
Platforms:Windows
Stars28
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Clone of Exile

A buildable reconstruction of the BBC Micro game Exile that produces disk images matching the original byte-for-byte, verified by SHA1.
Platforms:BBC Micro
Stars28
Updated5 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Genre: Action
Theme: Sci-Fi
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Clone of Legend of Zelda

Zelda-inspired game-development software that combines the Lux engine, a quest designer and a content package.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars27
Updated11 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX screenshot

Clone of Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past

Mystery of Solarus DX is a fan-made Zelda game, distributed as a quest data package for the open-source Solarus engine, required to run it.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars27
Updated5 months ago
Licensecc-by-sa-4.0
Release2018
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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WinTex screenshot

Clone of Under a Killing Moon

A Windows-native engine reimplementation of the 1994 adventure game Under a Killing Moon, requiring the original game files.
Platforms:Windows
Stars27
Updated11 days ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2022
Archived
linyaga screenshot

Clone of Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff!

linyaga is a Linux compatibility wrapper for the Yaga engine used by two Humongous Entertainment adventure games, now archived.
Platforms:Linux
Stars27
Updated4 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Portable Executable Zork screenshot

Clone of Zork

A toolkit that builds classic interactive-fiction tools, including Infocom's own original Zork interpreter, as portable executables.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars26
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Platforms:None
Stars26
Updated11 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Crime
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Der Clou! screenshot

Clone of The Clue!

An SDL-based port of Der Clou!, a burglary simulation game originally made by neo Software Produktions GmbH.
Platforms:Linux
Stars24
Updated4 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Encounter HD screenshot

Clone of Encounter

A near-total C/assembler rewrite of the 1983 Oric text adventure Encounter, retaining its story while running natively on Oric hardware.
Platforms:Windows
Stars24
Updated19 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Clone of Super ZZT

A C# emulator of the ZZT and Super ZZT game-creation engines, with an SDL-based Lyon frontend.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars24
Updated12 days ago
LicenseISC
Release2015
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Archived
Igor screenshot

Clone of Igor: Objective Uikokahonia

A from-scratch x86 decoder/interpreter for Igor: Objetivo Uikokahonia, reimplementing higher-level functions atop the original executable.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxAndroid
Stars22
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Ultimate Play the Game disassemblies screenshot

Clone of Gunfright

SkoolKit-based disassemblies of several 1980s Ultimate Play the Game ZX Spectrum titles, including Atic Atac and Jetpac.
Platforms:ZX Spectrum
Stars22
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of Legend of Zelda

A C++ remake of the original Legend of Zelda built with Allegro, plus C# tools that extract graphics and data from the original ROM.
Platforms:None
Stars19
Updated5 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2021
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Pyskool screenshot

Clone of Skool Daze

Pyskool is a Python/Pygame remake of the ZX Spectrum games Skool Daze and Back to Skool, built to be customizable.
Platforms:Linux
Stars19
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of The Hobbit

A from-scratch reimplementation of the graphics engine used by The Hobbit, with a browser-based demo, not a recreation of the full game.
Platforms:Web
Stars19
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Zork

An early-stage, from-scratch Java reimplementation of Zork I-III with a modern command window and autocomplete.
Platforms:None
Stars19
Updated3 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2016
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Castle Adventure screenshot

Clone of Castle Adventure

A C++ remake of the 1984 DOS game Castle Adventure reusing the original's map, now running via a dxwrapper layer to Direct3D9/DirectInput8.
Platforms:Windows
Stars17
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Adventure
Theme: —
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Children of Solarus screenshot

Clone of Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past

A free, open-source 2D game on the Solarus engine, remaking the team's earlier fangame Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX with free assets.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars17
Updated5 months ago
Licensecc-by-sa-4.0
Release2018
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Sporadic
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Dream screenshot

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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Clone of Sonic '06

A recompiled, playable-start-to-finish rebuild of the Sonic '06 tech demo using the ReXGlue SDK.
Platforms:Windows
Stars15
Updated7 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of The Hobbit

A full disassembly of the ZX Spectrum version of The Hobbit, published as an annotated code listing rather than a playable remake.
Platforms:ZX Spectrum
Stars13
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Star Control 2

The recovered original 3DO source code for Star Control 2, found in 2024 after the 2002 release used incomplete code.
Platforms:3DO
Stars12
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Sci-Fi
Sporadic
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Clone of Sid Meier's Pirates!

A browser naval battle game inspired by the ship fights in Sid Meier's Pirates!, with wind-based sailing and three ship types.
Platforms:Web
Stars11
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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abadia screenshot

Clone of La Abadía del Crimen

A browser-based JavaScript reimplementation of La Abadía del Crimen using Amstrad CPC assets; fully playable but still a work in progress.
Platforms:Web
Stars11
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Crime

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