Free & Open Source Strategy Games
341 free, open-source strategy 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 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
An OpenRA-engine mod recreating Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,132
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2015
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Natural Selection
An open-source arena shooter blending FPS combat with RTS base-building, inspired by mods like Natural Selection.
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Clone of Hard Vacuum
An open-content OpenRA real-time strategy game based on Daniel Cook's Hard Vacuum design, with online multiplayer and a map editor.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,071
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Sci-Fi
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Clone of Dungeon Keeper
KeeperFX is an open-source expansion and remake of Dungeon Keeper for modern Windows, requiring the player's own original game files.
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Clone of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
RA2Web React is a from-scratch TypeScript/React/Three.js rebuild of Red Alert 2's engine, playable in a web browser.
Platforms:Web
Stars965
Updated23 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2025
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Anno series
An early, not-yet-playable Godot 4 rewrite of the Anno-style city-building RTS Unknown Horizons.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars902
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Total Annihilation
An open-source RTS with physical projectiles and smart units, built on the Spring Engine, similar to Total Annihilation.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars827
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Sci-Fi
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Clone of Sid Meier's Colonization
An open-source, GPL-licensed turn-based strategy game cloning Colonization closely, adding an isometric map and multiplayer support.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars711
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2017
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Civilization III
A fan-made, mod-friendly Civilization III remake built with Godot and C#, currently in pre-alpha.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars656
Updated12 days ago
LicenseMIT
Release2021
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
An unofficial open-source reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire, requiring a legally owned original copy.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars631
Updated14 days ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Dwarf Fortress
An open-source, procedurally generated fantasy RTS/tycoon game where you manage a dwarf colony mining resources and fighting for profit.
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Clone of X-COM: Apocalypse
An alpha reimplementation of X-COM: Apocalypse with modding, a skirmish mode and modern resolutions; it needs the original files.
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Clone of SimTower
An unfinished, unplayable open-source C++ remake of SimTower that needs the original game's SIMTOWER.EXE to run.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars591
Updated7 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2010
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
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Clone of The Settlers II
A community-maintained reimplementation of The Settlers II adding internet multiplayer, reusing the original's graphics and sound.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars588
Updated16 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Worms Series
A turn-based strategy game where teams of up to eight hedgehogs battle with over 40 weapons on terrain that deforms as it's damaged.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars560
Updated29 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2013
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Victoria II
A rewrite of the open-source Victoria II engine clone Open V2, requiring the original game's files to run.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars547
Updated13 days ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Real-Time Tactics
Theme: Alternate Historical
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Clone of Jagged Alliance 2
A community-maintained continuation of JA2-Stracciatella, running Jagged Alliance 2 on modern systems using data from an original copy.
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Clone of Dungeon Keeper
An open-source dungeon-building RTS inspired by Dungeon Keeper, now mostly archived in favour of the OpenDungeonsPlus fork.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars503
Updated11 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Horror
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Clone of Warcraft III
HiveWE is a fast third-party World Editor replacement for Warcraft III, adding quicker load times and advanced map-editing tools.
Platforms:Windows
Stars473
Updated13 days ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2017
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Victoria II
An in-development Godot 4 open-source project based on Paradox's Victoria II, not yet playable.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars471
Updated14 days ago
LicenseMIT
Release2023
Genre: Real-Time Tactics
Theme: Alternate Historical
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Clone of Warcraft II
Wargus lets you play Warcraft II with the open-source Stratagus engine, matching the original's look, sound, and gameplay.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars435
Updated21 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Age of Empires
Chariot is an early-stage Rust and SDL2 reimplementation of the 1997 Age of Empires engine, with no playable game yet as of 2016.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars432
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Advance Wars
An open-source turn-based strategy game in voxel art, the sequel to Tanks of Freedom, with a built-in map editor.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars426
Updated11 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Glest
MegaGlest is a free, actively developed 3D real-time strategy game with seven factions across 17 settings, for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars420
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Cortex Command
CCOSS is the open-source release of Cortex Command's engine under AGPLv3, without game data, requiring the original game and Steam DLLs.
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Clone of The Settlers
Freeserf is a remake that requires the original DOS or Amiga data files to run, playable on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars338
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2011
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval