Cloned Games

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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Sea Defender screenshot

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
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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: —
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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 screenshot

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
Updated7 months ago
Licensemit
Release2021
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Sporadic
CAVEZ of PHEAR screenshot

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: —
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Flappy Bird (original game, not this project)Original game image

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: —
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Floppy Dog screenshot

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 screenshot

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
Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2023
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Archived
JavaFX – Pong screenshot

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: —
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Rampage (original game, not this project)Original game image

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: —
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Tower Toppler screenshot

Clone of Nebulus

A from-scratch SDL2 reimplementation of the platformer Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler), with a built-in level editor.
Platforms:Linux
Stars5
Updated3 months ago
Licensegpl-3.0
Release2021
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Space Invaders (original game, not this project)Original game image

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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Xchomp screenshot

Clone of Pac-Man

A keyboard-controlled Pac-Man clone for X11 with several original mazes not found in the arcade game.
Platforms:Linux
Stars5
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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minerbold screenshot

Clone of Boulder Dash

A remake of the BK-0010 game Bolder Dash, built with the INSTEAD engine and playable in the browser.
Platforms:Web
Stars5
Updated9 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2015
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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sensitive-js screenshot

Clone of Sensitive

A JavaScript remake of the 1991 Commodore 64 game Sensitive, built with Phaser and still a work in progress.
Platforms:Web
Stars5
Updated7 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: —
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Bomberman Party Edition Recompilation screenshot

Clone of Bomberman Party Edition

Bomberman Party Edition Recompilation is a game project for PSXRecomp covering the USA release (SLUS-01189).
Stars4
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Strategy
Theme: —
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Breakout (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Breakout

An apparent VR take on Atari's Breakout, based on its repository name alone, with no further description and currently unplayable.
Platforms:None
Stars4
Updated8 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Brick Bird screenshot

Clone of Flappy Bird

A Flappy-Bird-style game written in Rust with a custom physics engine, playable in-browser via WebAssembly or as a desktop build.
Platforms:Web
Stars4
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Eksplode.re screenshot

Clone of Bomberman

A Bomberman-style game built with Godot as the author's first spare-time project in the engine, targeting GNU/Linux and Android.
Platforms:LinuxAndroid
Stars4
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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FreeSiege screenshot

Clone of Siege

An open-source two-player puzzle/war game for Linux where players swap blocks to spawn units attacking the opponent's castle.
Platforms:Linux
Stars4
Updated7 years ago
Licensegpl-3.0
Release2017
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: —
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Kanixian screenshot

Clone of Galaxian

A small shooter built as a programming exercise, playable via the Pyxel web launcher, where you play as a crab instead of a spaceship.
Platforms:Web
Stars4
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Marble Madness (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Marble Madness

A remake of Marble Madness rendered in true 3D rather than the original's isometric view; movement controls are not yet implemented.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars4
Updated14 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Monsters and Mushrooms screenshot

Clone of Millipede

A 2007 Python and Pygame remake of Atari's arcade Millipede.
Platforms:None
Stars4
Updated5 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Pac-Man (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Pac-Man

A TypeScript/React rebuild of pacman-canvas, published as an npm package with a Next.js example app.
Platforms:Web
Stars4
Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2024
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Clone of Locomotion (Amiga 1992)

A Python 2.7/Pygame game inspired by the Amiga's Locomotion, not yet playable and no longer developed.
Platforms:None
Stars4
Updated3 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Archived
SDL2-Breakout screenshot

Clone of Breakout

An SDL2 remake of Breakout with one- and two-player modes and brick-color-based scoring.
Platforms:Windows
Stars4
Updated8 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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StarMines: The Next Generation screenshot

Clone of Omega Race

A browser-based space shooter inspired by Asteroids and Omega Race, rebooting the earlier Java game StarMines.
Platforms:Web
Stars4
Updated6 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Super Foul Egg (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Super Foul Egg

A macOS port of Super Foul Egg, a Puyo Puyo-style Amiga puzzle game, with practice, CPU, and two-player modes.
Platforms:OSX
Stars4
Updated12 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2014
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: —
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Torrega Race screenshot

Clone of Omega Race

A Lua/LÖVE space shoot-'em-up loosely inspired by the arcade game Omega Race, with deliberately different enemies.
Platforms:None
Stars4
Updated11 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2015
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Halted
Mine Storm (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Mine Storm

A remake of the game Mine Storm for the Vectrex console.
Platforms:Vectrex
Stars4
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Arcade
Theme: Sci-Fi
Archived
allegro blasteroids screenshot

Clone of Blasteroids

A simple Allegro5-based asteroids shooter with continuously spawning asteroids, built via CMake with only Allegro5 as a dependency.
Platforms:Linux
Stars4
Updated7 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Action
Theme: Sci-Fi
Halted
Super Monkey Ball (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Super Monkey Ball

A very early-stage decompilation of Monkey Ball for the Sega NAOMI arcade system, whose build instructions remain TODO and unplayable.
Platforms:Arcade
Stars4
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Halted
Arkaway screenshot

Clone of Arkanoid

A work-in-progress Arkanoid clone built with the Pyxel engine, playable in a semi-complete state on Web, Windows, and macOS.
Platforms:WebWindowsOSX
Stars3
Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Halted
BakudanKun screenshot

Clone of Bomberman

A Bomberman-style clone built with the Pyxel engine as a programming exercise, with six stages and four enemy types; development is halted.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars3
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Halted
Duck Hunt (original game, not this project)Original game image

Clone of Duck Hunt

A disassembly of the NES version of Duck Hunt, reassembled with ASM6N; original graphics must be extracted from a ROM separately.
Platforms:NES
Stars3
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Halted
Games-Asteroids screenshot

Clone of Asteroids

A Perl/SDL clone of Asteroids built in under 16 hours as an entry to an SDL Perl game contest.
Platforms:None
Stars3
Updated15 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Archived
Gorillas (original game, not this project)Original game image
Platforms:Web
Stars3
Updated7 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
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Jail Break screenshot

Clone of Jail Break

An Amiga remake of Jail Break in AGA and ECS versions, playable with a joystick or keyboard, currently a semi-complete beta.
Platforms:Amiga
Stars3
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —
Active
Space Invaders (original game, not this project)Original game image
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars3
Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2019
Genre: Arcade
Theme: —

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