Free & Open Source Management Games
50 free, open-source management games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify.
Sporadic
Clone of SimCity
3d.city renders a live city simulation in full 3D via WebGL2 or WebGPU in the browser, using Three.js and the micropolisJS engine.
Active
Clone of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
An open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with modern platform support, higher limits and co-op multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars16,227
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of Transport Tycoon
A free, actively developed remake and expansion of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with multiplayer and in-game mod downloads.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars8,264
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
Halted
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Original game imageClone of SimCity
Citybound is an independently developed, Patreon-funded open-source city-builder emphasizing realism and fine-grained simulation detail.
Platforms:Web
Stars8,163
Updated3 years ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2016
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of Theme Hospital
CorsixTH is a reimplementation of Theme Hospital for modern systems, adding 4K support, a map editor, and 20+ language translations.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars4,558
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
Active
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
ActiveOriginal game image
Original game imageClone of SimCity
A free, open-source retro pixel-art city-builder with a custom SDL2 isometric engine in C++; core building mechanics are still planned.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,160
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2018
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
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
Active
Clone of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
A complete C++ re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, aiming to improve it the way OpenTTD improved Transport Tycoon.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,904
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMIT
Release2018
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageClone of SimCity
The GPL source release of Micropolis, the open-source SimCity, kept for historical versions of the code.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,103
Updated9 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of The Sims Online
FreeSO is a MonoGame reimplementation of The Sims Online, now serving mainly as an engine base for other TSO servers.
Platforms:Windows
Stars976
Updated1 month ago
LicenseMPL-2.0
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
Active
Clone of SimCity
A modernized continuation of classic LinCity, a city-building sim where you build a sustainable city or evacuate everyone by spaceship.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars632
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
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
Sporadic
Clone of The Sims
A C# Windows frontend for The Sims, built on FreeSO, adding 3D visuals and a modern UI to the original 2D game.
Platforms:Windows
Stars492
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of The Sims
An open-source engine recreation of The Sims 1 with expanded gameplay, requiring the original game's files to run.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars319
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
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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
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageClone of SimCity
An ongoing, browser-playable SimCity clone built with Three.js under the MIT License, with no mobile support yet.
Active
Clone of RollerCoaster Tycoon
A C++17 recreation aiming to capture the look, feel, and gameplay of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, semi-playable in-browser via WebAssembly.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars255
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Race Into Space is the actively maintained free-software continuation of Buzz Aldrin's 1993 Race Into Space.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars228
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2011
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
Sporadic
Clone of SimCity
A SimCity-inspired city simulation for the Raspberry Pi RP2040, inspired by the Arduboy game MicroCity.
Halted
Clone of Elifoot 98
EliFUT is an open-source Android football-manager game inspired by Elifoot 98, using FIFA 15 data and free on Google Play.
Platforms:Android
Stars189
Updated6 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2015
Genre: Sports
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of Theme Park World
An early, not-yet-playable re-implementation of Theme Park World that uses the original game's assets.
Active
Clone of Mad TV
TVTower is a free, open-source tribute to the 1991 TV-station management game Mad TV.
Platforms:Windows
Stars136
Updated1 month ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageClone of SimCity
ElCity is a minimal city-building simulation that runs inside Emacs, implementing classic city-sim systems like pollution and crime.
Platforms:Emacs
Stars131
Updated8 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
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Original game imageClone of The Sims Online
A from-scratch C# reconstruction of The Sims Online, run via a self-hosted Docker server on port 3077.
Platforms:Windows
Stars123
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
Clone of Theme Hospital
CorsixTH for Android, a port of CorsixTH that needs the original Theme Hospital files or the demo.
Stars115
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2012
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
Active
Clone of Transport Tycoon
A free, open-source transport simulator inspired by Transport Tycoon, with swappable community graphics packs and online multiplayer.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars100
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2022
Genre: Strategy
Theme: Management
Halted
Clone of Railroad Tycoon
FreeRails is a real-time, multiplayer railway strategy game based on Railroad Tycoon, written in Java, still unfinished.
Halted
Clone of SimCity
Divercity is a Java extension of MicropolisJ (the Micropolis/SimCity port) built by nine students during a 2014 course in Berlin.
Active
Clone of Elifoot 98
Elifoot 98 Online runs the original DOS game in-browser via js-dos virtualization as a non-profit fan preservation project.
Halted
Clone of MechWarrior
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars38
Updated3 years ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Release2012
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Sci-Fi
HaltedOriginal game image
Original game imageClone of SimCity
A Java version of Micropolis, the open-source release of SimCity, runnable with Java 7 or newer.
Active
Clone of Zoo Tycoon
A Rust enhancement DLL for Zoo Tycoon (2001) that adds Lua scripting, mod support and bug fixes.
Platforms:Windows
Stars34
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2022
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
Original game image
Original game imageClone of Beasts and Bumpkins
A fan-made patch for Beasts and Bumpkins (1997) that removes the CD requirement, fixes lag on modern hardware, and adds higher resolution.
Platforms:Windows
Stars29
Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2023
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Comedy
Active
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Original game imageClone of Blood & Magic
This repository preserves the official 1996 interactive preview demo of Blood & Magic, including a tutorial and two scenarios.
Platforms:WindowsDOS
Stars25
Updated2 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
Sporadic
Clone of Beasts and Bumpkins
A small collection of utilities for Beasts and Bumpkins, including a MAPViewer and SpriteViewer plus documentation of its file format.
Platforms:Windows
Stars21
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2017
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Comedy
Halted
Clone of Football Manager
The original 1982 BASIC source code for the ZX81 version of Kevin Toms's Football Manager, the series' first, text-based game.
Platforms:TRS-80
Stars19
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2021
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management
Halted
Original game image
Original game imageClone of The Sims Online
Open source encoder/decoder tools for EA's MicroTalk speech codec, used in games like SimCity 4 and The Sims Online.
Platforms:None
Stars15
Updated8 years ago
LicenseUnlicense
Release2015
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Management