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.

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Xchomp

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

Updated7 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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minerbold

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

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

Updated6 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Breakout-VR

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

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

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

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

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 3d

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

Clone of Millipede

A 2007 Python and Pygame remake of Atari's arcade Millipede.

Platforms:None

Stars4

Updated3 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Pacman Canvas Next

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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Pendomotion

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: —

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SDL2-Breakout

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

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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SuperFoulEgg

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

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: —

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Vectrex-Minestorm

Clone of Mine Storm

A remake of the game Mine Storm for the Vectrex console.

Platforms:Vectrex

Stars4

Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: Sci-Fi

Archived

allegro blasteroids

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

Updated6 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2018

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

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mb-decomp

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: —

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Arkaway

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: —

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BakudanKun

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: —

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Duck Hunt Disassembly

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: —

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Games-Asteroids

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

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Gorillas-rs

Clone of Gorillas

Platforms:Web

Stars3

Updated7 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Active

Jail Break

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

Updated2 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Shippy 1984

Clone of Space Invaders

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars3

Updated1 month ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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SliSnake

Clone of Snake

Platforms:Windows

Stars3

Updated6 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

SunHP games

Clone of Pong

A collection of Saturn-assembly HP48/49/50 calculator games from 1995-1998, including tributes to Mario, Zelda, Arkanoid, and F-Zero.

Platforms:HP calculator

Stars3

Updated10 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

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Train

Clone of Vlak

A Java remake of the old DOS game Vlak, built with Slick2D and Maven; still in development and currently unplayable.

Platforms:None

Stars3

Updated5 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Voxeliens

Clone of Space Invaders

A voxel-graphics arcade shooter that reimagines Space Invaders in 3D, released open source after starting as a commercial game.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars3

Updated5 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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WallBall

Clone of JezzBall

A JezzBall-style area-capture game, playable in-browser or disguised as a fake ad via a bookmarklet.

Platforms:Web

Stars3

Updated5 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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YACPong

Clone of Pong

A minimal Haskell implementation of Pong, built and installed with Cabal.

Platforms:None

Stars3

Updated16 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2010

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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div-pacman2600

Clone of Pac-Man

An open-source Atari 2600 Pac-Man clone built with DIV Games Studio, playable in-browser or on Windows, Linux, Android and Raspberry Pi.

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars3

Updated10 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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div-spaceinvaders2600

Clone of Space Invaders

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars3

Updated10 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2016

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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hyperoids

Clone of Asteroids

A work-in-progress Asteroids clone built with the Hyperapp JavaScript framework and HTML5 canvas rendering.

Platforms:Web

Stars3

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Sporadic

ncInvaders

Clone of Space Invaders

A simplified Space Invaders made with the nCine engine for PC, Android and the web.

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars3

Updated4 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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temptations

Clone of Temptations

A remake of the MSX game Temptations for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars3

Updated3 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Action

Theme: Fantasy

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Amidar500

Clone of Amidar

An attempted 1:1 port of Konami's arcade game Amidar to the Amiga 500, reproducing visuals, sound, and all levels at 50fps PAL.

Platforms:Amiga

Stars2

Updated5 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Arkanoid

Clone of Arkanoid

A browser-based clone of the arcade game Arkanoid, built in client-side JavaScript and HTML5; playable, but development has halted.

Platforms:Web

Stars2

Updated10 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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