Free & Open Source Arcade Games
668 free, open-source arcade 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 Pong
Javascript Pong is a small, now-halted HTML5 canvas Pong implementation, also distributed as a Chrome Web Store app with no mobile support.
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Clone of Duck Game
Duck Game Rebuilt is a C#/.NET decompilation of Duck Game with improved performance, compatibility, and quality-of-life features.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars191
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Battle City
A JavaScript and HTML5 remake of the Famicom game Battle City, built with test-driven development, playable in a browser.
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Clone of Puzzle Bobble
A Perl implementation of Frozen Bubble, distributed as a CPAN module and built using Pango and SDL for its graphics.
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Clone of Gauntlet
An HTML5 canvas remake of Gauntlet released under the MIT license, supporting modern browsers; development has halted.
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Clone of Ugh!
A repo with two games: CaveExpress, a physics platformer, and CavePacker, a Sokoban puzzle, both playable across desktop, mobile, and web.
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Original game imageClone of The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy
An official source release covering the Game Boy Color pinball titles from Left Field Productions, including 3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride.
Platforms:Game Boy
Stars154
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: pinball machine game
Theme: —
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Clone of The Great Escape
A portable C reimplementation of The Great Escape, reverse-engineered from Z80 assembly to run on macOS, Windows, and RISC OS.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars132
Updated3 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Arcade
Theme: World War II
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Clone of Armor Alley
Armor Alley: Remastered is a browser-based JavaScript/HTML5 remake of the Mac and MS-DOS original, still in sporadic development.
Platforms:Web
Stars129
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Arcade
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Puzzle Bobble
The Android port of Frozen Bubble, based on Glenn Sanson's Java version, distributed via F-Droid, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.
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Clone of Flappy Bird
Flappy Bird for Gymnasium is a Python package wrapping Flappy Bird as a reinforcement-learning environment for Gymnasium.
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Clone of Tetris: The Grand Master
A TGM-inspired block-stacking game for the original Game Boy, written in assembly.
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Clone of Boulder Dash
Javascript BoulderDash is an HTML5 remake of Boulder Dash playable in-browser, MIT-licensed, with development now halted.
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Clone of Defender
An open-source shooter in the spirit of Defender, built with PortAudio and libvorbisfile for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Clone of Snake
A browser-based Snake variant played on the surface of a sphere instead of a flat grid.
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Clone of Nebulus
An HTML5 homage to Nebulus's rotating-tower platforming, MIT-licensed but development halted at a semi-complete stage.
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Original game imageClone of Space Invaders
A modular JavaScript/Phaser remake of the classic Space Invaders example, organized with RequireJS.
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Clone of Boulder Dash
A browser-based HTML5 canvas implementation of Digger, playable directly on the project's GitHub Pages site.
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Clone of Space Invaders
Hopson-Arcade is a C++17/SFML collection of small arcade games, currently holding just its first entry, a Space Invaders clone.
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Clone of Pac-Man
An ASCII-art Pac-Man for the terminal with 9 premade levels and support for custom level files.
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Original game imageClone of Dandy
Dandy Dungeon is a collection of reimplementations of a simple 2D dungeon game in over a dozen languages, playable via WebAssembly.
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Clone of Tetris
An unfinished Tetris clone for Arduino Nano/Uno with an SSD1306 OLED display.
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Clone of Breakout
An HTML5 canvas implementation of Breakout, built as a teaching project with an accompanying blog series on its development.
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Clone of Tron
A Rust/ggez implementation of Tron's light-cycle concept with AI opponents, local two-player matches, and an 8-bit retro look.
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Clone of Achtung, die Kurve!
achtungkurve.com is an open-source HTML5 implementation of Achtung, die Kurve!, playable offline or built with Node.js and Gulp.
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Original game imageClone of Achtung, die Kurve!
A modern, free remake of Achtung, die Kurve! adding weapons, updated graphics, and AI opponents.
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Clone of SkiFree
A from-original-EXE source reconstruction of 32-bit SkiFree, aiming for byte-identical rebuilding via Visual Studio 6.
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Original game imageClone of Lode Runner
This project is a commented disassembly of the Commodore 64 version of Lode Runner, including its copy-protection routines.
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Clone of Glypha III
This repository contains the official source code for Glypha III, a shareware game originally written for early-1990s Macintosh.
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Original game imageClone of Super Monkey Ball
A work-in-progress disassembly/decompilation of the program code of the NTSC-U version of Super Monkey Ball (GMBE8P).
Stars63
Updated3 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
