Free & Open Source RPG Games
489 free, open-source rpg 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 Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
A WebAssembly recompilation of the pokeemerald decompilation, letting Pokémon Emerald run in any browser.
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Original game imageClone of Diablo II
A clean-room reimplementation in C of the Diablo II engine, currently unplayable with development halted.
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Original game imageClone of Minecraft
A self-described "very scuffed" Minecraft clone, built as a learning project and companion to a YouTube series.
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Clone of Space Station 13
An open-source, pre-alpha 3D revival of Space Station 13, built in Unity and expanding *beep's original SS3D demo.
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Original game imageClone of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team
A decompilation that rebuilds Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team's Game Boy Advance ROM from source.
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Original game imageClone of Strife
An advanced Doom-engine source port descended from SMMU, built with SDL2 and actively maintained across major platforms.
Platforms:WindowsOSX
Stars268
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
Genre: Action
Theme: Post-Apocalyptic
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Original game imageClone of Quest 64
A statically-recompiled native Quest 64 port using RT64 rendering, with uncapped framerates, widescreen, and mod support.
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Original game imageClone of Glitch
The server-side JavaScript that powered Glitch's gameplay on the Rhino engine, released as CC0 public domain by Tiny Speck.
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Clone of Pokémon
A from-scratch, terminal-based Pokémon battle game in Java with 241 species, real battle mechanics, and an in-house AI.
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Original game imageClone of Myst Online: Uru Live
A cross-platform, bug-fix-focused fork of the open-source CyanWorlds Engine behind Myst Online: Uru Live.
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Original game imageClone of Pokémon Uranium
A work-in-progress Godot Engine reimplementation of the fan game Pokémon Uranium, requiring original game assets.
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Clone of The Binding of Isaac
A free roguelite dungeon-crawl shooter heavily inspired by The Binding of Isaac, casting you as a spell-slinging magician.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars228
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
A disassembly of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (U) that builds a ROM matching a stated SHA-1, from your own base ROM.
Stars220
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: RPG
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Prime World
Nival's own 2024 open-source release of the Battle-part source code for their 2014 MOBA Prime World.
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Clone of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
A cross-platform reimplementation of the engines behind Daggerfall, Dark Forces, Blood, Outlaws, and Shadow Warrior.
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Original game imageClone of Pokémon Crystal
An in-development PC port of Pokemon Crystal in C99 and SDL2 that restores the Japanese version's mobile networking features.
Stars183
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: RPG
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Glitch
This is the CC0-licensed Flash source code for Glitch, Tiny Speck's browser MMO, provided for reference since no live servers remain.
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Original game imageClone of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
An overhaul of the Pokémon Red/Blue disassembly adding full Game Boy Color support.
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Original game imageClone of EarthBound
ebsrc is a disassembly of EarthBound aiming to become a full decompilation, building US retail, US prototype, and Japanese ROMs.
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Clone of Ultima Online
A cross-platform, actively developed client for Ultima Online, running on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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Clone of Panzer Dragoon Saga
An early Windows reverse-engineering project for Panzer Dragoon Saga; the opening is semi-playable up to the Arachnoth battle.
Stars171
Updated2 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2024
Genre: RPG
Theme: —
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Clone of System Shock
An in-progress fan remake of System Shock replacing its 2D sprites with 3D models, in final testing for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Original game imageClone of Final Fantasy VII
A decompilation project for the PlayStation version of Final Fantasy VII.
Stars163
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: RPG
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Ultima Online
A C99 reverse-engineered rebuild of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server, aiming to recreate the game as it ran in June 1998.
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Clone of Minecraft
A simple browser-based Minecraft clone built with Three.js, made to teach developers alongside a video tutorial series.
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Clone of Meridian 59
A community fork of the released Meridian 59 source code, with client, server and tools for running the classic online RPG.
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Original game imageClone of Vagrant Story
Rood Reverse is a Vagrant Story decompilation for the PlayStation 1, aiming at modern-hardware interoperability and bug fixes.
Stars149
Updated1 month ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2025
Genre: RPG
Theme: —