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 Bomberman Fantasy Race
A static recompilation of Bomberman Fantasy Race built on psxrecomp, requiring your own copy of the game.
Stars9
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Racing
Theme: —
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Clone of Tetris
Cascade FX is a Tetris-like puzzle game with software-rendered 3D graphics for the NEC PC-FX console, largely finished at version 0.5.
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Original game imageClone of Crystal Quest
CrystalQuest is a browser-based remake built with HTML5 Canvas, featuring fifteen levels and eight alien types with increasing difficulty.
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Original game imageClone of Boulder Dash
A fully labelled and commented disassembly of the BBC Micro version of Boulder Dash, in Beebasm and acme assembler formats.
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Sporadic
Clone of Donkey Kong (Game & Watch)
A shared repository of Oric home-computer games, demos, tools and routines by many authors.
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Clone of Space Invaders
An SDL2 remake of Space Invaders with a turn-based two-player mode and destructible shields.
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Clone of Boulder Dash
A text-mode, curses-based clone of Boulder Dash for the terminal, with a built-in level editor.
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Original game imageClone of Battle City
An annotated 6502 disassembly of Famicom Battle City plus a clean-room browser reimplementation.
Stars8
Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Arcade
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Original game imageClone of Bomberman
A Bomberman clone for Linux with an autotools-based build, supporting two local players with separate keyboard controls.
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Clone of Space Invaders
A browser-based HTML5 Space Invaders implementation supporting one or two players in turn-based play.
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Clone of Joust
A free Joust clone for up to three players, with combos, a random map generator and custom mod support.
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Clone of Snake
A Snake game built entirely in LabVIEW, where hitting the map edge wraps you to the other side.
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Original game imageClone of Tetris
A quickly-built WinForms Tetris clone in C# that supports custom blocksets defining new piece shapes.
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Clone of Space Invaders
A 3D vector-graphics Space Invaders clone for X11, with an added two-player duel mode.
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Clone of Galaga
An SDL port of Joe Rumsey's X11 Galaga clone, originally released as shareware before going GPL.
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Clone of Space Invaders
pyspaceinvaders is a 2009 Python and PyGame remake of Space Invaders, released under the GPLv2 license.
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Original game imageClone 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
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Sporadic
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Original game imageClone of Pac-Man
A JavaScript Pac-Man clone built with the Impact.js game engine, the author's second attempt at the project.
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Original game imageClone of Pac-Man
A work-in-progress NES port of Pac-Man, written as a programming exercise.
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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.
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Clone of Bomberman World
A static recompilation of Bomberman World built on psxrecomp; you must own the original game.
Stars6
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Action
Theme: —
Halted
Halted
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Original game imageClone of Frogger
The official 1998-99 Game Boy source code for Frogger by Morning Star Media, reorganized and documented for preservation by Highway Frogs.
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Original game imageClone 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+.
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Original game imageClone of Super Monkey Ball
A Java game based on Neverball, running on Windows, Linux and macOS with Java 8 or later.
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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: —
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