Free & Open Source Platformer Games
565 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 Prince of Persia 2
A C#/MonoGame reimplementation of Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, for Windows and Linux.
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Original game imageClone of Mega Man 3
A finished disassembly of the NES game Mega Man 3 (NTSC-U) that assembles to a clean ROM.
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Original game imageClone of Mega Man 3
A complete disassembly of the NTSC-U Mega Man 3 NES ROM, covering all code and data, reassembling byte-for-byte via the xkas-plus build.
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Clone of Wario Land 3
A Python/Pygame remake of the Game Boy Color platformer Wario Land 3, currently covering only its first level.
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Clone of Head over Heels
A free, open-source isometric remake of Head over Heels built on the Isomot engine, still described as 'raw' by its maintainer.
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Clone of Kirby's Epic Yarn
A work-in-progress decompilation of Kirby's Epic Yarn, supporting the Rev 0 (USA) version.
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Updated1 month ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2024
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Chameleon Twist
A native port of Chameleon Twist for N64 via static recompilation, rendered through RT64 with widescreen and Linux/Steam Deck support.
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Clone of Sonic Adventure
A work-in-progress decompilation of the GameCube version of Sonic Adventure, covering multiple regions.
Platforms:GameCube
Stars49
Updated2 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Gods
Gods Deluxe is a beta-stage Java remake of Gods aiming for extreme fidelity to the original, with true-color graphics and a level editor.
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Original game imageClone of Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Hacking Kit is an in-progress commented disassembly of the arcade game's Z80/i8035 code, still incomplete and unusable.
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Clone of Manic Miner
Arduino UNO Game Engine is a custom 2D engine for the Arduino UNO, playable with ports of Manic Miner, Scramble, and Space Invaders.
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Clone of Mega Man X5
A static recompilation of Mega Man X5 (PS1) into a native Windows program, playable in alpha with widescreen and renderer options.
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Clone of Super Mario 64
It includes no copyrighted assets and requires you to provide a supported US or JP ROM in .z64 format.
Stars45
Updated3 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Shrek 2
A fan-made Unreal Engine 5 remake of Shrek 2, using textures exported from the original game, with several levels already playable.
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Clone of Super Mario 64
A work-in-progress mod that swaps the Super Mario 64 PC port's models for higher-detail Nintendo DS remake models.
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Clone of Super Monkey Ball
A Godot Engine 'roll the ball' game inspired by Super Monkey Ball, collecting coins to reach the goal.
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Original game imageClone of Batman Returns
This is the released source code for the Sega CD Batman Returns, a 3D driving game, labeled assumed-complete rather than build-tested.
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Clone of Commander Keen Series
Commander Genius is a GPL engine that runs Commander Keen and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure natively without DOS emulation, on five platforms.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars43
Updated2 months ago
Licenseagpl-1.0
Release2018
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
A very early matching decompilation of the NTSC release of Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil; needs your own game copy.
Stars43
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of New Super Mario Bros. U
A decompilation of New Super Mario Bros. U v1.3.0 US, started with the graphics system and widened over time.
Stars43
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Balloon Fight
This is a full disassembly of the USA NES release of Balloon Fight, reassembled with bass into working iNES and PRG ROM images.
Platforms:NES
Stars42
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge
A decompilation of the US version of Banjo Kazooie Grunty's Revenge that builds a bkgr.gba ROM.
Stars42
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Sonic Rush Adventure
An early-stage matching decompilation of the DS game Sonic Rush Adventure, built from a player-supplied ROM and not yet playable.
Platforms:DS
Stars42
Updated5 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Kid Chameleon
A disassembly of Kid Chameleon that splits a game ROM into data files and rebuilds it with the AS assembler.
Stars41
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day statically recompiled with N64Recomp to run natively on Windows and Linux, from your own ROM.
Stars40
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Alex Kidd in Miracle World
JLud2D, a 2D engine once a Java desktop app, is being ported to TypeScript and Phaser 3 for browser demos like a Phantasy Star RPG remake.
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Original game imageClone of Knuckles' Chaotix
An incomplete Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) disassembly: the 68000/Z80 side builds bit-perfectly, but most of the SH-2 side is undisassembled.
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Original game imageClone of Mega Man X2
A static recompilation of Mega Man X2 (USA) that currently boots to its intro cutscenes; you supply your own ROM.
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Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Action
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Clone of Nemesis the Warlock
The original 1986 Commodore 64 source code of Nemesis the Warlock, released by its author Michael J Archer.
Platforms:C64
Stars40
Updated7 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Action
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Clone of Jazz Jackrabbit 2
A from-scratch Jazz Jackrabbit 2 engine clone requiring extracted original assets, built with Qt, SFML, and BASS.
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Clone of Super Mario
A public-domain platformer clone in Python inspired by Super Mario Bros., run from source or a frozen executable.
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Clone of Super Mario Bros. 3
A full-scale Super Mario Bros. 3 ROM hack that borrows gameplay ideas from later games, built with the NESASM assembler.
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario Bros.
Platforms:NES
Stars39
Updated4 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: Action
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Clone of Xargon
An SDL port of the DOS platformer Xargon that plays with the original freeware data files.
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Original game imageClone of Dangerous Dave
Deadly Dave is an open-source implementation of Dangerous Dave replicating its original look and feel, with sporadic development.