Free & Open Source Ancient History Games
26 free, open-source ancient history games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify.
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Clone of Age of Empires
A free engine clone of Age of Empires' Genie Engine; it needs the original game assets, and gameplay is being rebuilt.
Platforms:Linux
Stars14,432
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Caesar III
Julius is an open-source reimplementation of Caesar III reproducing the original's logic and save compatibility, with widescreen support.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars3,375
Updated1 month ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2017
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
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Clone of Caesar III
A fork of the Julius Caesar III re-implementation adding new customizable gameplay, actively developed for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.
Platforms:Web
Stars2,082
Updated1 month ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2020
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
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Original game imageClone of Powerslave
Raze is a GZDoom-powered source port that runs Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, and other Build-engine games.
Platforms:WindowsOSX
Stars885
Updated11 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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Original game imageClone of Powerslave
Reverse-engineered EDuke32-based ports of Blood, PowerSlave/Exhumed, Duke Nukem 3D and other Build engine games.
Platforms:Windows
Stars803
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Pharaoh
A reimplementation of the Pharaoh game engine for modern systems, forked from the Julius/Augustus project and retargeted at Pharaoh.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars509
Updated1 month ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Ancient History
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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 Hexen II
FTEQW is an advanced, portable open-source engine for idTech games like Quake, Quake II, and III, with servers holding hundreds of players.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars341
Updated5 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2021
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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Original game imageClone of Caesar III
An open-source remake of Caesar III on its own SDL2-based engine, playable but still in an early, experimental stage.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars296
Updated9 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
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Original game imageClone of Powerslave
An unofficial fan remake of Powerslave built on an early version of the author's custom Kex game engine.
Platforms:WindowsSwitchXbox Series S/X
Stars182
Updated7 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2017
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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Original game imageClone of Zeus: Master of Olympus
An open-source reimplementation of Zeus: Master of Olympus and its Poseidon expansion, requiring the original game's data files.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars159
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2021
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Original game imageClone of The Settlers III
A Java remake of The Settlers III for Windows, Linux, and Android, left in alpha status with development now archived.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxAndroid
Stars142
Updated11 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2018
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Age of Empires
A from-scratch, cross-platform reimplementation of Age of Empires and Rise of Rome, requiring the player's own game copy.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars129
Updated1 month ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2016
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
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Original game imageClone of Pharaoh
A fork of Julius/Augustus adapted to run Pharaoh; unfinished, but it plays the first few campaign missions.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars126
Updated9 months ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2020
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of The Settlers III
X-Settlers is an early, currently unplayable C++17 rewrite of The Settlers III/IV aiming for cross-platform support.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars11
Updated6 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2020
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Ancient History
Archived
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Original game imageClone of Pharaoh
An early Godot 3.6 project to recreate the engine of Impressions Games' city builders like Pharaoh and Zeus.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars6
Updated8 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Hexen II
A port of the Hexen II engine to the Sega Dreamcast; only the OpenGL renderer works, since the x86-only software renderer isn't supported.
Platforms:Dreamcast
Stars1
Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2022
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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Clone of Desert Falcon
This is the original Atari 2600 source code for Desert Falcon, shared as a source release rather than a reimplementation.
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Original game imageClone of Hexen II
A fork of Hammer of Thyrion focused exclusively on a singleplayer macOS port of Hexen II, built via an included Xcode project.
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