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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Puck-Man

Clone of Pac-Man

An unofficial Pac-Man clone for Linux, released under GPLv3 with its own original assets.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated14 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Saving Sue

Clone of Frogger

A Frogger-style road-crossing game starring a character named Sue, made for the SDL Game Contest.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated15 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2011

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Space Invaders Part II

Clone of Space Invaders Part II

A from-scratch C++/SDL2/OpenGL clone of the 1979 arcade game Space Invaders Part II, using a custom single-file rendering engine.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated7 months ago

LicenseMIT

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: Sci-Fi

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TetrisPy

Clone of Tetris

An old-school-styled Python Tetris clone with optional downloadable sound effects, built in about five days.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars1

Updated3 years ago

LicenseAGPL-3.0

Release2022

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

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Willow-Game-Remake

Clone of Willow

A C++ remake of just the first level of Capcom's 1989 arcade game Willow, built as a learning project.

Platforms:Windows

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Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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XLode

Clone of Lode Runner

A small Lode Runner clone the author wrote in college in 2001, later updated from Allegro to SDL.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated13 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2013

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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bash-pac

Clone of Pac-Man

A Pac-Man/Snake-inspired terminal game written in Bash, rendered in ASCII, where you dodge a ghost while collecting food for points.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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digger-cs

Clone of Digger

A C#/.NET remaster of Digger, publishable as a self-contained Linux build via the .NET SDK.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated16 days ago

LicenseAGPL-3.0

Release2021

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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glpong

Clone of Pong

An open-source reimplementation of Pong for Linux using OpenGL and SDL, licensed under the GPL, single-player against the computer.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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irrlamb

Clone of Super Monkey Ball

An open-source 3D physics-based game for Windows and Linux by Alan Witkowski, with keyboard/gamepad controls and a replay system.

Platforms:WindowsLinux

Stars1

Updated6 months ago

Licensegpl-3.0

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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newtron

Clone of Tron

An unfinished web project described only as "a remake of an old game".

Platforms:Web

Stars1

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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sdl2-pong

Clone of Pong

A straightforward SDL2 remake of the classic two-player arcade game Pong.

Platforms:Windows

Stars1

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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space-invaders-niklas-mueller

Clone of Space Invaders

A pygame rebuild of Space Invaders that also exposes a custom Gymnasium reinforcement-learning environment for AI agents.

Platforms:None

Stars1

Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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xhyperoid

Clone of Asteroids

A Unix/X11 port of Hyperoid, a 1991 Windows Asteroids variant, with added sound support.

Platforms:Linux

Stars1

Updated7 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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2019-Bomber

Clone of Kaboom!

A Kaboom! clone written in Turbo BASIC XL for Atari 8-bit computers, made for the 2019 10-line BASIC programming contest's PUR-120 category.

Platforms:Atari

Stars0

Updated6 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Alleyway

Clone of Alleyway

A full disassembly of the Game Boy title Alleyway, able to rebuild a ROM matching the known release, verified against a stated MD5 checksum.

Platforms:Game Boy

Stars0

Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Arkanoid (Rust)

Clone of Arkanoid

An Arkanoid clone written in Rust, with pre-compiled Windows/Linux binaries or a Cargo build; semi-complete, development halted.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Arkanoid TUI

Clone of Arkanoid

A terminal-based Arkanoid implementation built with the Ratatui library in Rust, installable via Cargo; semi-complete, development halted.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Babaliba

Clone of Babaliba

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Bong

Clone of Pong

Bong is a freeware Pong clone for BeOS by Gertjan van Ratingen, started as a joystick sample app, with joystick and keyboard controls.

Platforms:BeOS

Stars0

Updated8 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Breakout Rust

Clone of Breakout

Breakout Rust is a Breakout clone with core logic in Rust compiled to WebAssembly, using a thin JS/HTML layer for rendering and input.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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C Pong SDL

Clone of Pong

C Pong SDL is a basic C/SDL2 Pong implementation with ball physics and scoring, called an unpolished first SDL project by its author.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnlicense

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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C# Asteroids

Clone of Asteroids

C# Asteroids is a vector-based Asteroids clone using GDI graphics and DirectX sound, based on a CodeProject article by Howard Uman.

Platforms:Windows

Stars0

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Detritus

Clone of Asteroids

Detritus is an Asteroids clone built with SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, and SQLite, run directly from the build directory via a 'make run' target.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated11 months ago

LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Release2017

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Digger Mobile Edition

Clone of Digger

Platforms:Mobile

Stars0

Updated11 years ago

LicenseGPL3*

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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DonkeyInTrouble

Clone of Kaboom!

DonkeyInTrouble is a Lua/LÖVE remake of Kaboom!, currently listed as semi-functional/partially complete.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Dynamic Pong

Clone of Pong

Dynamic Pong is a Python/Pygame implementation of Pong with adaptive difficulty, paddle collision detection, and score tracking.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated1 year ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Ellaz Falling Blocks

Clone of Tetris

This is the falling-blocks game within Ellaz, a free ad-free Hebrew/English browser portal for kids with offline support and no accounts.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated12 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2026

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: Abstract

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Ellaz Follow Me

Clone of Simon

Ellaz Follow Me is the Simon-style memory game within Ellaz, a free 23-game Hebrew/English portal for kids with no ads or accounts.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated12 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2026

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Ellaz Snake

Clone of Snake

Ellaz Snake is the Snake game within Ellaz, a free 23-game Hebrew/English portal for kids with no ads or accounts.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated12 days ago

LicenseMIT

Release2026

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Flappy BBerd

Clone of Flappy Bird

Flappy BBerd is a quick, minimal Python 3 clone of Flappy Bird, controlled entirely with the keyboard.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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GNUSki

Clone of SkiFree

An open-source clone of the classic Windows game SkiFree, currently rendered using NCurses for terminal-based graphics.

Platforms:LinuxOSXAndroid

Stars0

Updated11 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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LEDPong

Clone of Pong

A hardware clone of Pong for the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi, displaying ball and paddles on its LED Matrix with buzzer sound effects.

Platforms:Arduino

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Ladder

Clone of Ladder

A remake of the 1982 CP/M platformer Ladder, reimplemented in Java and JavaScript/HTML5 Canvas to run standalone or in a browser.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated4 months ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2026

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Mad Bomber

Clone of Kaboom!

A clone of Activision's Kaboom! with upgraded graphics, sound, and music, offering one- and two-player modes on Linux, Windows, and Zaurus.

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated6 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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MazeWalkGame

Clone of Pac-Man

A dot-eating maze game made for learning programming, playable in-browser via the Pyxel Web Launcher, with one stage and no extra lives.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated6 months ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Omega Race Remake

Clone of Omega Race

Platforms:Windows

Stars0

Updated12 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Pong Game in JavaScript

Clone of Pong

A browser-based Pong clone on an HTML5 canvas, playing solo against a simple computer-controlled paddle.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnlicense

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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SDL Pong

Clone of Pong

A Pong clone with single-player, local two-player, and online LAN multiplayer modes.

Platforms:Windows

Stars0

Updated8 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2018

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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