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 Puzzle Bobble
Bubble Shooter HTML5 is a browser-based Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble-style game built with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript.
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Clone of Marble Madness
Open-source marble-rolling game inspired by Marble Madness, with 3D graphics, Guile scripting support, and a built-in level editor.
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Clone of Flappy Bird
A JavaScript clone of Flappy Bird built with the Canvas 2D API, released under the MIT license.
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Clone of Battle City
A from-scratch TypeScript clone of Battle City, playable in the browser (not mobile), released under the MIT license for learning purposes.
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Clone of Space Invaders
A text-mode, Curses-based recreation of Space Invaders written in C in 2001, playable on Linux; development has halted.
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Clone of BOOM
A faithful remake of BOOM, maintained as the active 'boom' branch of the Lifish project, built with SFML for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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Clone of Tetris: The Grand Master
An open-source Tetris-like puzzle game that adds pentomino pieces alongside standard tetrominoes.
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Clone of Zero Gravity
An archive of the original 1980s Macintosh source code for three Duane Blehm games, targeting Classic Mac OS.
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Original game imageClone of Arkanoid
An Arkanoid-style web game split into two episodes, 'space' and 'pegasus', playable via a hosted browser demo.
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Clone of Pac-Man
A recreation of Google's 2010 Pac-Man 30th-anniversary homepage doodle, a framework-free browser game with synthesized Web Audio API sound.
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Clone of Achtung, die Kurve!
This is a browser-based recreation of Achtung, die Kurve! written in Elm, playable at kurve.se with a legacy JS build too.
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Clone of Scramble
Arduino UNO Game Engine is a custom 2D engine for the Arduino UNO, playable with ports of Manic Miner, Scramble, and Space Invaders.
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Clone of Achtung, die Kurve!
A hardware-accelerated, C++/Qt6 remake of Achtung, die Kurve! with local/online multiplayer, bots, and items.
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Original game imageClone of Space Invaders
A browser-based Space Invaders re-imagining in BabylonJS, playable in 2D, 3D, or a CRT-emulation mode with scanlines.
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Clone of Super Monkey Ball
A Godot Engine 'roll the ball' game inspired by Super Monkey Ball, collecting coins to reach the goal.
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Original game imageClone of Balloon Fight
This is a full disassembly of the USA NES release of Balloon Fight, reassembled with bass into working iNES and PRG ROM images.
Platforms:NES
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Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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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+.
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Original game imageClone of Sonic Spinball
A disassembly of Sonic Spinball for Sega Genesis, converted into a buildable, bit-perfect ROM source.
Platforms:Genesis
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Updated7 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: action game
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Original game imageClone of Battle City
BattleCity2014, a from-scratch C++/Ogre3D remake of Battle City using the EntityX ECS library, is unplayable and no longer developed.
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Original game imageClone of Geometry Dash
A work-in-progress decompilation of Geometry Dash 1.710 that is not yet in a usable state.
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Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Rhythm
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Wizard of Wor
A reverse-engineered disassembly, not original source, of the C64 Wizard of Wor, published as commented assembler with an internals writeup.
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Clone of Duck Hunt
A Python/Pygame fan remake of Duck Hunt, run directly with python duckhunt.py after installing Pygame.
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Clone of The Castles of Dr. Creep
An open-source reimplementation of Dr. Creep's C64 game, featuring thirteen timed castles and a built-in castle builder.
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Clone of Lode Runner
Lode Runner 2020 is a C++/OpenGL remake of Lode Runner and its sequel, including all 150 original Apple II levels.
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Clone of Tetris Attack
FreeBlocks is a GPLv3 puzzle game similar to Tetris Attack, using separately licensed third-party graphics and music.
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Clone of Space Invaders
An educational Haskell reimplementation of Space Invaders demonstrating Functional Reactive Programming with Yampa.
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Clone of Fall Down
Falling Time is a C/SDL2 game where a ball must drop through holes to avoid being crushed by the descending screen top.
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Original game imageClone of Tetris Attack
A Tetris Attack remake built with LÖVE, with beta and stable releases for desktop and Android.