Free & Open Source Arcade Games

653 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.

Archived

SDL2-Space-Invaders

Clone of Space Invaders

An SDL2 remake of Space Invaders with a turn-based two-player mode and destructible shields.

Platforms:Windows

Stars9

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Sine

Clone of Asteroids

An unfinished C++/SFML remake of Atari's Asteroids, with released builds for both Windows and TempleOS.

Platforms:Windows

Stars9

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Wanderer

Clone of Boulder Dash

A text-mode, curses-based clone of Boulder Dash for the terminal, with a built-in level editor.

Platforms:DOSAtari

Stars9

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

datastorm

Clone of Turmoil

Data Storm is a Sega Master System clone of the Atari 2600 game Turmoil, built as a homebrew entry for SMS Power's coding competitions.

Platforms:Master System

Stars9

Updated9 years ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Bomb-her-man

Clone of Bomberman

A Bomberman clone for Linux with an autotools-based build, supporting two local players with separate keyboard controls.

Platforms:Linux

Stars8

Updated14 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2010

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

HTML5-Space-Invaders

Clone of Space Invaders

A browser-based HTML5 Space Invaders implementation supporting one or two players in turn-based play.

Platforms:Web

Stars8

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Ostrich Riders

Clone of Joust

A free Joust clone for up to three players, with combos, a random map generator and custom mod support.

Platforms:Linux

Stars8

Updated7 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Snake-in-LabVIEW

Clone of Snake

A Snake game built entirely in LabVIEW, where hitting the map edge wraps you to the other side.

Platforms:Windows

Stars8

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Tetris-CSharp

Clone of Tetris

A quickly-built WinForms Tetris clone in C# that supports custom blocksets defining new piece shapes.

Platforms:Windows

Stars8

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

Sporadic

XInvaders 3D

Clone of Space Invaders

A 3D vector-graphics Space Invaders clone for X11, with an added two-player duel mode.

Platforms:Linux

Stars8

Updated4 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Xgalaga SDL

Clone of Galaga

An SDL port of Joe Rumsey's X11 Galaga clone, originally released as shareware before going GPL.

Platforms:Amiga

Stars8

Updated4 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2015

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

Halted

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asdf

Clone of Simon

A keyboard-only, browser-based remake of Simon, built in JavaScript under 13KB for the js13kGames 2012 competition.

Platforms:Web

Stars8

Updated13 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

pyspaceinvaders

Clone of Space Invaders

pyspaceinvaders is a 2009 Python and PyGame remake of Space Invaders, released under the GPLv2 license.

Platforms:Linux

Stars8

Updated16 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2010

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

snake

Clone of Snake

A Java clone of the classic Snake game, built with Maven and playable with simple arrow-key controls.

Platforms:None

Stars8

Updated4 years ago

LicenseWTFPL

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Balloon Fight

Clone of Balloon Fight

A 2003 remakes-competition entry recreating Nintendo's 1984 Balloon Fight with the original graphics and sound effects.

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars7

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2016

Genre: Action

Theme: —

Sporadic

Galaga500

Clone of Galaga

Transcodes the original Z80 arcade code to 68K assembly for the Amiga, fully playable with sound at 25–50 FPS depending on hardware.

Platforms:Amiga

Stars7

Updated3 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2023

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

Halted

No preview

Hacman

Clone of Pac-Man

A quick prototype of a multiplayer take on Pac-Man, playable in a web browser.

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

No preview

Jezzball

Clone of JezzBall

A browser-based remake of JezzBall built with vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 canvas, playable with mouse or touch and embeddable anywhere.

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated3 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

jspacman-canvas

Clone of Pac-Man

A JavaScript Pac-Man clone built with the Impact.js game engine, the author's second attempt at the project.

Platforms:Web

Stars7

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

pacman (NES)

Clone of Pac-Man

A work-in-progress NES port of Pac-Man, written as a programming exercise.

Platforms:NES

Stars7

Updated6 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Block It Protoype HTML5

Clone of Block It

A small HTML5 Canvas/JavaScript prototype of Ketchapp Games' Block It, built as a tutorial code example rather than a full game; halted.

Platforms:Web

Stars6

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Ceros Snake

Clone of Snake

A browser-playable remake of Snake, built with HTML5 and JavaScript.

Platforms:Web

Stars6

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Frogger (Game Boy)

Clone of Frogger

The official 1998-99 Game Boy source code for Frogger by Morning Star Media, reorganized and documented for preservation by Highway Frogs.

Platforms:Game Boy

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Inertia Blast

Clone of Thrust

An SDL-based clone of Thrust, originally an MS-DOS game by Peter Ekberg, now maintained by Dennis Payne for Windows and Linux under GPL2+.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars6

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: Sci-Fi

Halted

No preview

Nuncabola

Clone of Super Monkey Ball

A Java game based on Neverball, running on Windows, Linux and macOS with Java 8 or later.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Pang for Linux!

Clone of Buster Bros.

A GPLv2 clone of the 1989 Pang! arcade game for Linux, ported to SDL2.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Action

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Python Nibbles

Clone of Snake

Python Nibbles is a snake game built in Python with the Pyxel engine, made for a YouTube tutorial series.

Platforms:None

Stars6

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Sea Defender

Clone of Missile Command

A minimalist, about 96KB clone of Missile Command for Linux, Windows, and macOS, made for a demoscene competition.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars6

Updated16 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2010

Genre: Arcade

Theme: Sci-Fi

Archived

No preview

ativayeban

Clone of Fall Down

A simple C/SDL 1.2 game where a ball must fall into holes to avoid being crushed from above, optimized for low-resolution screens.

Platforms:Linux

Stars6

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

back-to-nature-c64-remake

Clone of Frog!

A 30th-anniversary Android tribute remake keeping the C64 original's look, with slightly polished gameplay across 3 difficulty levels.

Platforms:Android

Stars6

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

Blockbomber

Clone of Bomberman

A multiplayer-only, Bomberman-style last-player-standing game built for the Minetest engine, with custom arenas made via a companion editor.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars5

Updated5 months ago

Licensemit

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

CAVEZ of PHEAR

Clone of Boulder Dash

A Linux game where players escape caves by collecting all the diamonds for points and an extra life every 1000, with a built-in map editor.

Platforms:Linux

Stars5

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

FlappyTiger

Clone of Flappy Bird

A Flappy Bird clone written in C++ with GLFW, the author's first C++ game, targeting Linux and packaged as an AUR package for Arch Linux.

Platforms:Linux

Stars5

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Floppy Dog

Clone of Flappy Bird

Floppy Dog is a small Flappy-Bird-style game about a hot dog, made as the author's first game with the Pyxel engine.

Platforms:None

Stars5

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

Galaxian500

Clone of Galaxian

Galaxian500 is a beta transcode of the original Z80 arcade code to 68K assembly, playable with sound on Amiga and Neo Geo.

Platforms:Amiga

Stars5

Updated4 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

JavaFX – Pong

Clone of Pong

A JavaFX implementation of Pong with menu, gameplay, and results scenes, supporting local two-player play; no longer maintained.

Platforms:None

Stars5

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

Rampage disassembly

Clone of Rampage

An annotated SkoolKit disassembly of the 1986 ZX Spectrum version of the arcade game Rampage.

Platforms:ZX Spectrum

Stars5

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Active

Tower Toppler

Clone of Nebulus

A from-scratch SDL2 reimplementation of the platformer Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler), with a built-in level editor.

Platforms:Linux

Stars5

Updated1 month ago

Licensegpl-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

No preview

UNIL Invaders

Clone of Space Invaders

A joke Space Invaders clone made for the Facebook group 'EPFL memes', with Facebook score-saving via the Facebook PHP SDK.

Platforms:Web

Stars5

Updated14 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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