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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Original game imageClone of Conker's Bad Fur Day
A work-in-progress reverse-engineering toolkit and 3D engine for Conker's Bad Fur Day; it does not play the game yet.
Stars23
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of The Great Giana Sisters
A C/C++ SDL2 remake of The Great Giana Sisters with a level editor and reworked physics, needing no original game files.
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Original game imageClone of Ratchet & Clank
A work-in-progress byte-matching decompilation of Ratchet & Clank (2002) for PlayStation 2, aiming for a native Rust port.
Stars23
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Sonic Heroes
A work-in-progress decompilation of Sonic Heroes for the Nintendo GameCube (NTSC-U); not a playable port.
Stars23
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
A work-in-progress decompilation of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie game; it needs your own copy of the game (NTSC, GGVE78).
Stars23
Updated4 months ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2025
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario Bros.
A text-based reimagining of Super Mario Bros., rendered in Unicode Braille to fit inside a browser's address bar.
Platforms:Web
Stars23
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnlicense
Release2025
Genre: Action
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Clone of Conker's Bad Fur Day
A fork of Conker's Bad Fur Day: Recompiled adding a native Android port with touch controls and mod support.
Stars22
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Knight Lore
SkoolKit-based disassemblies of several 1980s Ultimate Play the Game ZX Spectrum titles, including Atic Atac and Jetpac.
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Original game imageClone of Mario vs. Donkey Kong
A disassembly of the US Game Boy Advance release of Mario vs. Donkey Kong that rebuilds to a byte-identical, MD5-verified ROM.
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Original game imageClone of Wario Land 3
A disassembly of Wario Land 3. It requires the Wario Land 3 US ROM named baserom.gbc and builds with RGBDS v0.4.1.
Stars21
Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2020
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Banjo-Kazooie
A research project decompiling the XBLA version of Banjo-Kazooie with help from the N64 decompilation.
Stars20
Updated8 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2023
Genre: Adventure
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Original game imageClone of Conker's Bad Fur Day
A work-in-progress matching decompilation of Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64, targeting the US release.
Stars20
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Mega Man 6
A complete disassembly of the NTSC-U Mega Man 6 NES ROM that reassembles byte-for-byte, though not all code is documented yet.
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Original game imageClone of Metroid II: Return of Samus
A work-in-progress disassembly of Metroid II: Return of Samus that builds a ROM using mgbdis output.
Stars20
Updated5 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2021
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Super Lemonade Factory
Official open-source release of the iOS version of Super Lemonade Factory, built on the Flixel-iOS engine.
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Original game imageClone of Donkey Kong Country 2
A disassembly of Donkey Kong Country 2 for the SNES targeting the MD5-verified USA V1.0 ROM, built on the author's SNES ROM Framework.
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Original game imageClone of Prince of Persia
A command-line tool for extracting and editing the DAT resource files used by Prince of Persia and its sequel.
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Clone of Skool Daze
Pyskool is a Python/Pygame remake of the ZX Spectrum games Skool Daze and Back to Skool, built to be customizable.
Platforms:Linux
Stars19
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Sonic '06
An unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), made through static recompilation.
Stars19
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Aladdin
A Windows remake project based on Aladdin, with no documentation beyond its name; listed as unplayable with development halted.
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Original game imageClone of Donkey Kong Country 3
A disassembly of Donkey Kong Country 3 for the SNES targeting the MD5-verified USA ROM, built on the author's own SNES ROM Framework.
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Original game imageClone of Jet Set Willy
A full disassembly of the ZX Spectrum version of Jet Set Willy, generated with SkoolKit into an annotated, browsable, buildable form.
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Clone of Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
A work-in-progress Wii decompilation of Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars; an existing copy of the game is required.
Stars18
Updated11 months ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2025
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Sonic Lost World
A work-in-progress recreation of Sonic Lost World built from decompilations of the Wii U and PC versions.
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Original game imageClone of Sonic CD
An incomplete disassembly of Sega CD's Sonic CD that needs the original game files supplied to build a working ISO.
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Original game imageClone of B.O.B.
A probably-complete source code release for B.O.B. on the SNES, sourced from romhacking.net.
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario 64
A compiled PS4 build of OsirizX's sm64-port made with the OpenOrbis toolchain, in US and EU packages.
Stars18
Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2022
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Donkey Kong 64
A native Android port of Donkey Kong 64: Recompiled using Vulkan, with a touch gamepad and your own ROM.
Stars17
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Jet Set Willy
A reworked disassembly of the 1984 BBC Micro port of Jet Set Willy, fixing bugs and adding features the original never had.
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Original game imageClone of Manic Miner
A disassembly and byte-for-byte reassembly of the BBC Micro port of Manic Miner, rebuilt using the ACME assembler.
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Clone of Flappy Bird
A weekend-project Flappy Bird clone in Rust with Bevy, playable in the browser, using open third-party art assets.
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Original game imageClone of Super Mario Sunshine
A decompilation of the Hagi emulator executable from Super Mario Sunshine in Super Mario 3D All-Stars v1.0.0.
Stars16
Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Platform
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Original game imageClone of Super Methane Brothers
A homebrew multi-console port (GameCube, Wii, Switch, 3DS) of the 1993 Amiga gas-trapping action game Super Methane Bros.
Platforms:GameCubeWiiSwitch
Stars16
Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
Genre: Platform
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Clone of Donald Land
A complete disassembly of the NES game Donald Land, produced after researching its RAM and level-data format, with a BizHawk Lua script.
Platforms:NES
Stars15
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Action
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Original game imageClone of Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
A work-in-progress matching decompilation of Klonoa: Empire of Dreams (GBA, 2001).
Stars15
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Platform
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