Free & Open Source Medieval Games
79 free, open-source medieval games — real clones and remakes you can download, inspect the source of, and modify.
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Clone of Age of Empires II
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
Updated12 days ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Diablo II
An archived Go-based cross-platform engine for playing Diablo 2 with your own copy of the game data.
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Clone of Diablo
DevilutionX is a modernized port of Diablo and Hellfire built on the Devilution source reconstruction, adding engine fixes and QoL features.
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Clone of Diablo
Devilution reconstructs Diablo's original 1996 source code from reverse-engineered debug symbols, preserving its original bugs intact.
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Clone of Old School RuneScape
A free, open-source client for Old School RuneScape that adds a plugin system for extending client functionality.
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Clone of The Settlers II
Widelands is a free, open-source RTS inspired by The Settlers II, with singleplayer campaigns, multiplayer, and Lua-scripted scenarios.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars3,061
Updated11 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of 1½ Ritter: Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
An open-source engine reimplementation that lets classic point-and-click adventures and RPGs run on modern platforms.
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Clone of The Legend of Sword and Fairy
A cross-platform SDL reimplementation of the engine behind the 1995 Chinese RPG Legend of Sword and Fairy.
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Clone of Rogue Legacy
The official Rogue Legacy source code release (FNA build), requiring your own copy's assets.
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Clone of Baldur's Gate
GemRB is a portable, open-source reimplementation of the Infinity Engine, requiring the player's own copy of the original game data.
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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 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 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 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 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
Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2021
Genre: FPS
Theme: Ancient History
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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
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Clone of Stronghold
An open-source engine reimplementation of Stronghold; development is frozen pending Firefly's Definitive Edition release.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars281
Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Age of Empires II
freeaoe is a from-scratch, single-developer reimplementation of the Age of Empires II engine, still in early development.
Platforms:Windows
Stars237
Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Knights and Merchants
A modernized remake of Knights and Merchants adding 12-player multiplayer, reworked AI, and scripting support for custom maps.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars176
Updated11 days ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2016
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Gauntlet
An HTML5 canvas remake of Gauntlet released under the MIT license, supporting modern browsers; development has halted.
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Clone of The Settlers
A C# port of Freeserf, an authentic remake of The Settlers I, requiring the original game's data files and adding new AI.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars169
Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2018
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Stronghold
An actively developed, open-source isometric remake of Firefly Studios' Stronghold, built in the LÖVE engine.
Platforms:None
Stars166
Updated1 month ago
Licenseapache-2.0
Release2017
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Medieval
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Clone of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
An in-progress C remake of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans using the original game's assets, with core RTS features implemented.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxRaspberry Pi
Stars153
Updated1 month ago
LicenseZlib
Release2018
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of Mount & Blade
An open-source C# role-playing engine for the Mount & Blade series, built on Ogre3D with mod and Mod.io support.
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Clone of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
A Stratagus-engine reimplementation of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans with modern RTS conveniences, using the original's assets.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars132
Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy
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Clone of RuneScape Classic
A cross-platform, feature-enhanced C99 port of the original RuneScape Classic client.
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Clone of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
A from-scratch, multiplatform port of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans using only the original art and level data; now archived.
Platforms:Windows
Stars80
Updated1 year ago
LicenseMIT
Release2015
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Theme: Fantasy