Free & Open Source Strategy Games
380 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 Gwent
An unofficial open-source recreation of a late Gwent beta build, with 3 of 5 factions implemented so far.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars5
Updated5 years ago
Licenseapache-2.0
Release2021
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
Active
Clone of Bomberman Party Edition
Bomberman Party Edition Recompilation is a game project for PSXRecomp covering the USA release (SLUS-01189).
Stars4
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Strategy
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Artillery Duel
An online Artillery Duel clone for the Commodore 64, written in compiled BASIC and played over the internet via a WiC64.
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Clone of Nuclear War
A Windows remake of New World Computing's satirical strategy game Nuclear War, with its source mirrored on GitHub.
Platforms:Windows
Stars4
Updated9 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Nether Earth
A PC remake of the 1987 strategy game Nether Earth, packaged here for Linux.
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Clone of Stronghold
A work-in-progress decompilation of the 1993 AD&D Stronghold for DOS, aiming for code that compiles with Borland C++ 3.0.
Stars4
Updated2 years ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2024
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of X-COM: UFO Defense
A turn-based strategy game for Win32 and Android inspired by the classic X-COM series.
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Original game imageClone of Civilization
A clone of Civilization for DOS, with no further descriptive detail available beyond that, though it is listed as playable.
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Original game imageClone of Shining Force
An IDA Pro toolkit for reverse-engineering Shining Force, feeding its work into the companion SF1DISASM project.
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Clone of Civil War Strategy
A turn-based Civil War strategy wargame by W.R. Hutsell, with its original source preserved and a QB64-ported branch.
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Clone of Kartia: The Word of Fate
A static recompilation of Kartia: The Word of Fate built on psxrecomp; you supply your own USA disc image and BIOS.
Stars2
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: RPG
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of MechCommander 2
An unofficial 'HD' project for MechCommander 2, whose README is mostly Microsoft's Shared Source license text rather than a list of changes.
Platforms:Windows
Stars2
Updated11 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Real-Time Tactics
Theme: Sci-Fi
Active
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Original game imageClone of X-COM: UFO Defense
An open-source MonoGame remake of X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown), originally built in XNA around 2007.
Archived
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Clone of Tunneler
An SDL port of the 1991 DOS split-screen tank game Tunneler, built for Linux and Windows.
Platforms:Windows
Stars1
Updated14 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2012
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Original game imageClone of Shining Force CD
A collaborative reverse-engineering project for the Sega CD tactical RPG Shining Force CD.
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Clone of Savage: The Battle for Newerth
The official archived source code release of Savage: The Battle for Newerth, preserved via the Internet Archive.
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Clone of Team Buddies
A static recompilation kit for Team Buddies (Europe): you supply the disc image and BIOS, and setup builds it locally.
Stars1
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Tunneler
TunnelTanks is a modernized SDL-powered port of the 1991 DOS game Tunneler, with an experimental Android build.
Platforms:Linux
Stars1
Updated12 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Action
Theme: —
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Clone of Earth 2140
An early, not-yet-playable C++ reimplementation of the 1997 RTS Earth 2140 that uses the original game files.
Platforms:LinuxOSX
Stars1
Updated3 years ago
Licensegpl-3.0+
Release2020
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Sci-Fi
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Clone of Liberation Day
An early-stage Unity remake of Liberation Day, still far from playable, with progress limited to tools extracting the original's data.
Platforms:None
Stars0
Updated9 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: Modern Military
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Clone of Natural Selection
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Clone of Wars of Napoleon
The preserved original DOS source code for W.R. Hutsell's Napoleonic Wars wargame, kept unedited for history.
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Clone of World War II In Western Europe
The preserved original DOS source code for W.R. Hutsell's Second World War strategy wargame, kept unedited for history.
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Clone of Chain Reaction
A 1998 DOS puzzle game where two players trigger chain reactions to turn a grid of foxes their color.
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Original game imageClone of Ataxx
A primitive, unpolished Windows clone of the arcade game Ataxx, not intended as a finished release.
Platforms:Windows
Stars0
Updated11 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Army Men II
A fan-made, unofficial 3D third-person-shooter sequel to Army Men II, released with source code and playable on Windows in its beta state.
