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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Breakthrough

Clone of Breakout

An early 2025 prototype by Maurits Lam combining Pong and Breakout mechanics, released under the GPLv3 license.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated11 months ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

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ByteBird

Clone of Flappy Bird

A small Flappy Bird-style game for the ZeroSeg 7-segment LED display on Raspberry Pi, distributed as a pip package; now archived.

Platforms:Raspberry Pi

Stars2

Updated6 years ago

LicenseISC

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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FlappyBird Decomp

Clone of Flappy Bird

A decompilation of the Flappy Bird app for Windows Phone, currently marked unplayable.

Platforms:Windows Phone

Stars2

Updated11 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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Flappybird

Clone of Flappy Bird

An iOS clone of Flappy Bird described by its author as a 'very close clone,' supporting iOS 10-13.x on A6-A13 chip devices.

Platforms:iOS

Stars2

Updated6 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Lucy the Diamond Girl

Clone of Boulder Dash

A standalone, time-limited puzzle game collecting diamonds across 173 levels in four caves, with three game modes and 18 upgradeable traits.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars2

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

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Mief

Clone of Pong

A two-player Pong clone written in Rust, with an endless mode and speeds that keep rising as the rally goes on.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated5 years ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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Mojotron: Robot Wars

Clone of Robotron: 2084

An SDL2 Robotron-style shooter with time-limited levels, fruit combos and power-ups like a flamethrower and shrinker.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars2

Updated4 years ago

Licensegpl-2.0+

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Poink

Clone of Poing

A demake of the Amiga game Poing, built entirely on iPad using the Lowres NX fantasy console.

Platforms:WebAndroid

Stars2

Updated1 year ago

LicenseZlib

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Pooyan

Clone of Pooyan

A reverse-engineered Amiga port of Konami's arcade game Pooyan, running natively at 50/60 FPS.

Platforms:Amiga

Stars2

Updated1 month ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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PyPacMan

Clone of Pac-Man

PyPacMan is a small Python implementation of Pac-Man split into separate AI, input, and game modules.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated10 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2013

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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SliTris

Clone of Tetris

A configurable Tetris clone with adjustable starting height, density, and speed, plus a local top-10 high score list.

Platforms:Windows

Stars2

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2020

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

Halted

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SpaceTwitch

Clone of Tempest

A browser-based remake of Atari's Tempest, adding power-ups like cloned ships and faster shots.

Platforms:Web

Stars2

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

The Castles of Doctor Creep

Clone of The Castles of Dr. Creep

Source to build an EasyFlash cartridge version of The Castles of Doctor Creep for the C64, adding save-game support; not thoroughly tested.

Platforms:C64

Stars2

Updated3 years ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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Vectoroids

Clone of Asteroids

An SDL vector-graphics take on Asteroids, adapted from the author's earlier PDA game Agendaroids.

Platforms:WebWindowsLinux

Stars2

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Willy the Worm

Clone of Willy the Worm

An open-source remake of the 1985 Pascal platformer Willy the Worm, with Python and C++ versions.

Platforms:Windows

Stars2

Updated11 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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XBoing

Clone of Breakout

A faithful SDL2 modernization of Justin Kibell's 1996 XBoing, preserving all 80 original levels and physics.

Platforms:LinuxOSX

Stars2

Updated19 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2026

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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circuslinux

Clone of Circus Atari

A browser-playable Emscripten port of Circus Linux!, an open-source clone of Circus Atari; possibly buggy but playable.

Platforms:Web

Stars2

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

kektris

Clone of Tetris

A Tetris variant built with the Pyxel engine, described by its author as '4-quarter tetris', shipped as a pip-installable Python package.

Platforms:Web

Stars2

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2023

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

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libmx2

Clone of Asteroids

A cross-platform C++20 multimedia library bundling example 2D clones of Breakout, Asteroids, Pong, Tetris, and Frogger.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars2

Updated24 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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pacman (Rust)

Clone of Pac-Man

A Pac-Man clone written in Rust and built with Cargo.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated2 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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space-invaders-pygame

Clone of Space Invaders

A pygame Space Invaders-style shooter with four-directional movement, power-ups like rapid fire and shields, and animated explosions.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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tetris-60

Clone of Tetris

An Emacs package recreating 1984 Tetris's ASCII look on the Soviet Electronika 60 terminal.

Platforms:None

Stars2

Updated6 months ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

Halted

Arcade3D

Clone of Pac-Man

A Pac-Man-inspired game built for the Minetest (Luanti) voxel engine, in its very first version, for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars1

Updated4 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Asteroids (TypeScript)

Clone of Asteroids

A simple Asteroids clone built with Phaser and TypeScript as a learning exercise, running in-browser and hosted on GitHub Pages.

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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Ballz

Clone of Ballz

A Java implementation of the mobile game Ballz as a cross-platform desktop program with customizable visual settings.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Blocks

Clone of Tetris

A terminal-based Tetris clone written in Python with the 'blessed' library, tested on Windows and Linux and under active development.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated3 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2025

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

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Copperhead

Clone of Snake

An arcade-style Snake clone written in Rust with the piston_window library, released under GPLv3.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated11 months ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2025

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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ETSourceCode

Clone of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

A preserved copy of the 1982 Atari 2600 game E.T.'s source code, recovered from a Pastebin post rather than an official archive.

Platforms:Atari

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

ElBanquos 1D Pong

Clone of Pong

A one-dimensional Pong implementation for Arduino, displayed on a Neopixel LED strip or ring, combining ideas from other 1D Pong projects.

Platforms:Arduino

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

FireMadness

Clone of Crossfire

A top-down bullet-hell shooter built with Castle Game Engine, Free Pascal and Lazarus, free and open-source for Windows and Linux.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

Licensegpl-3.0+

Release2018

Genre: Action

Theme: Sci-Fi

Halted

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FlappyLED

Clone of Flappy Bird

A Flappy-Bird-style game for the Arduino UNO R4's LED matrix, playable via a rotary knob or a distance sensor from the Plug&Make kit.

Platforms:Arduino

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

HTML5-Breakout

Clone of Breakout

A browser-based HTML5 implementation of Breakout with a welcome menu scene, supporting one-player or two-player turn-based games.

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Archived

HTML5-Pong

Clone of Pong

A browser-based HTML5 implementation of Pong for two human players, split across welcome, gameplay court, and end-game results scenes.

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Master Ball

Clone of Breakout

A browser-based Breakout-style game built with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript, bouncing a ball to clear randomly generated blocks.

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnlicense

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Pacman Arena

Clone of Pac-Man

A mostly playable Pac-Man spin-off with missiles and bombs, maintained for Linux and the GCW Zero/RG-350 handhelds.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated3 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

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PaddleTennis

Clone of Pong

A tennis-like Pong clone for Android with a touch-controlled paddle.

Platforms:Android

Stars1

Updated3 years ago

Licensegpl-3.0

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

Paratrooper

Clone of Paratrooper

A Rust remake of the 1982 PC shooter Paratrooper.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

Halted

PiTris

Clone of Tetris

A Tetris clone in C for the Raspberry Pi, using a B&W SPI LCD and a Wii Classic Controller for input.

Platforms:Raspberry Pi

Stars1

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

Halted

Pong Game

Clone of Pong

A PyGame remake of Pong with sound effects, single- and two-player local modes, pause, and a replay screen.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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