Free & Open Source Turn-Based Strategy Games
146 free, open-source turn-based 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 Chaos: The Battle of Wizards
A browser-based isometric remake of Chaos: The Battle of Wizards built with Phaser 4 and Vue 3, supporting up to 8 local players.
Platforms:Web
Stars9
Updated6 months ago
LicenseMPL-2.0
Release2021
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Original game imageClone of Space Rangers
A Space Rangers remake built with Microsoft's XNA 4.0 framework for Windows; currently marked unplayable.
Platforms:Windows
Stars9
Updated13 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: —
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Clone of Chaos: The Battle of Wizards
Richard Phipps' Windows remake of the classic ZX Spectrum game Chaos: Battle of the Wizards.
Platforms:Windows
Stars8
Updated15 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Drugwars
An archival copy of Matt Lee's original DopeWars source code for Palm OS mobile devices.
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Clone of Ascendancy
A Linux engine that emulates and aims to extend the 1995 DOS strategy game Ascendancy, still needing the original CD.
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Clone of Weather War
A terminal-based weather-combat game for Linux with single-player, multiplayer, and network play.
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Original game imageClone of X-COM: UFO Defense
A native port of OpenXcom Extended 8.6.1 to the New Nintendo 3DS, supporting UFO Defense and Terror From the Deep.
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Clone of X-COM: UFO Defense
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Clone of History Line: 1914-1918
Platforms:Windows
Stars6
Updated13 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Strategy
Theme: World War I
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Original game imageClone of M.U.L.E.
An unfinished open-source remake of M.U.L.E., the classic multiplayer economic strategy game.
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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
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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 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 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 X-COM: UFO Defense
An open-source MonoGame remake of X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown), originally built in XNA around 2007.
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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 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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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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Original game imageClone of Drugwars