Free & Open Source Platformer Games
418 free, open-source platformer 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 Crystal Caves
An unofficial, actively developed open-source engine reimplementation of the Crystal Caves platformer trilogy.
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Clone of Flappy Bird
Ebitengine is an open-source, cross-platform 2D game engine for Go, with simple APIs for graphics, input, and audio across many platforms.
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Clone of Tomb Raider
An open-source engine for the classic Tomb Raider games, with a browser demo and standalone builds.
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Clone of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
A native PC port of the Jak and Daxter trilogy, decompiled from the original GOAL code; requires your own PS2 discs.
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Clone of Rogue Legacy
The official Rogue Legacy source code release (FNA build), requiring your own copy's assets.
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Clone of Flappy Bird
A Flappy Bird clone built with the MelonJS engine, playable in the browser, with a customization guide included for reskinning it.
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Clone of Tomb Raider
An inactive from-scratch Tomb Raider 1–5 engine remake with Lua scripting and support for custom TRLE levels.
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Clone of Cave Story
A from-scratch reimplementation of the Cave Story engine with quality-of-life improvements, requiring the original game's data files.
Sporadic
Clone of Prince of Persia
An open-source, feature-expanded port of DOS Prince of Persia, built from a full disassembly of the original executable.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,283
Updated9 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2015
Genre: Platform
Theme: —
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Clone of Duke Nukem II
A reverse-engineered, feature-complete reimplementation of Duke Nukem II in modern C++, with widescreen and controller support.
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Clone of Prince of Persia
A browser-based HTML5/JavaScript remake of the MS-DOS Prince of Persia, playable free at princejs.com.
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Clone of Tomb Raider II
An open-source, single-engine reimplementation of Tomb Raider I-III with restored content, photo mode, and more.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars987
Updated11 days ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2021
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of Another World
A readability-focused reimplementation of the Another World engine; needs the original PC DOS game data.
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Clone of Super Mario
A C++/SDL2 clone of Super Mario Bros., built by developer Łukasz Jakowski as his first C++ project.
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Clone of Super Mario
A C++ decompilation of the original Super Mario Bros. NES disassembly, requiring the original ROM's graphics data to run.
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Clone of Mario World
Mari0 is a remake built on the LÖVE 11.4 framework, released under the MIT license.
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Clone of Jazz Jackrabbit 2
A from-scratch C++ reimplementation of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, requiring the original game data and running on many platforms.
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Clone of Sonic Advance
A work-in-progress matching decompilation of Sonic Advance and Sonic Advance 2, with SDL, PS2, and PSP ports.
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Clone of Sonic 3
A non-profit fan remaster of Sonic 3 & Knuckles built on a custom engine, with a remastered soundtrack.
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Clone of Sonic the Hedgehog
A 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame running on a modified Doom Legacy engine, made independently and unaffiliated with Sega.
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Clone of Cave Story
An upgraded NXEngine fork for Cave Story with SDL2, widescreen up to Full HD, localization and initial mod support.
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Clone of Celeste Classic
A PICO-8 platformer about hiking around a mountain, playable on Linux, macOS, Windows, and in the browser.
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Clone of Super Mario
An open-source SDL multiplayer deathmatch game using Mario-style characters, with online play, a level editor, and 1,000+ maps.
