Vintage story. Much grittier minecraft with a larger emphasis on survival
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Beyond All Reason (BAR) A spiritual successor to supreme commander made by a team of fans. It's free and had LAN and online multiplayer. Really fun if you enjoyed the source material.
Unciv (https://github.com/yairm210/unciv) is a great low graphics but with nothing to be jealous of Civilization 5 free and open source alternative. It also has a great mod scene with mods that add undead and fantasy armies and so much more.
Hytale, Tibia, Escape from Tarkov, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue
I’m surprised no one mentioned it yet, but Kitten Space Agency
It’s a free spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program that tries to be everything that KSP2 wasn’t. It’s still in early development by its progressing fast and it already looks great and allows you to do a lot of cool things, and it’s also built using their own engine instead of Unity and has modding support.
And it’s not on steam.
Probably because it's not really a game yet. You can play it, but there's really nothing to do at the moment. It'll be on a list like this when there's actual gameplay.
However, the studio also make Stationeers, which more people should play. It is on Steam though, so it's not for this list. I'm a pretty big fan of their studio. They seem to be doing everything right.
Seems to have the things KSP had when I first played it in 2013, before career was added
Not really. I played in the first version that had the Mun, which was just a stationary object straight above the launch site, and it's missing stuff from that even. It does have more than that too though.
You can build rockets now, as of a very recent update, so it is actually something you can play with. Before then, the only thing you could really do was fly around a premade craft with unlimited fuel, so it's progress. KSP, before career, had more parts and more mechanics for the parts though. It also had reasons to explore, with secret locations all around the system. KSA is just the Solar system, which is cool but also you know what there is to see.
I'm not saying people shouldn't play it if they're interested. It's free, and it's a cool look at the tech they're building. It just isn't much of a game yet, especially if you already have KSP1. I fully believe it will get there though.
Is stationeers actually done yet? Last time I played the best station was a single cube with as few features as possible.
Done? No. They keep adding content. It may never be "done". It is feature-rich though.
A cube probably still is the best shape, as it is in real life often. It maximizes the volume-to-suface ratio. However, there's tons of reasons to build other shapes. Usually you're expanding organically, so you end up things tacked on all over as you add more features.
You can get to a livable base pretty quickly (especially on the normal start on a planet like Mars), and then just stop playing. The game is mostly about what you do beyond that though. Automating your furnace, backup power, mining, farming, etc. is the real goal. Stopping at just the basics is like stopping Minecraft after you build a farm.
Dwarf fortress is on steam, humble bundle, itch io and free on their website.
Dwarf fortress is an essential gaming experience.
Should be played until your most common cause of fortress failure is FPS death
And then you should start to experiment with science!
Super tux kart
Vintage Story, a Minecraft-like game that focuses on a tough, realistic survival experience. There are climate zones and seasons. Things like smelting ores or growing food are much more involved than they are in Minecraft, which makes for a strong sense of progression when you've finally managed to make iron or build a windmill.
I will add that it's Minecraft-like only graphically. Anyone going into Vintage Story expecting their Minecraft knowledge to carry over is going to have a very bad time because the actual overlap is minimal.
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Freelancer. Basically abandonware at this point, but tons of community support, with some great mods and servers.
I really wanted Freelancer 2. Star Citizen was meant to be it before Chris Roberts did... well I have no idea what he did, what he is doing or the state of Star Citizen any more, its got so out of hand.
Elite Dangerous just wasnt it for me. The ship and space stuff is amazing but the world just isn't as fun as Freelancer. I know its come a long way after I played it just after release but it doesn't seem to quite fill the same niche.
Same. And star citizen isn't necessarily bad. But the scope creep has gotten out of hand. I started playing back in the mid 3.0 releases, back when delamar was still part of Stanton, and I thought the future state of the game was clear and obvious. But man CIG, or Chris, just keeps going bigger and bigger and bigger. A lot of people talk about SC without playing it, and that's a shame because it has so much going for it. They truly are developing amazing things... But I have to agree. The vision is super muddy. Freelancer 2 it is not. I don't even think they know what the ultimate goal is. I keep saying its an indefinite test bed for things they want to develop. No end goal in sight. Just play and QC our development sandbox please.
Love this game.
StarSector
Bought it myself. On my 5th playthrough and its such a blast still. Mods keep the game fresh. All ya gotta do is.download a folder from the game's forums and put it in the right place. If thats to much work, there is always TriOS mod manager
Starsectors website: https://fractalsoftworks.com/
Voices of the Void
Absolute peak game that doesn't really have any contemporaries.
A game with base management, fully open map, random events ranging from spooky to hilarious, minigames to fix equipment, little robot helpers, big robot helpers that require some assembly, but don't need charging thanks to running on nuclear power, and a quadbike you can backflip.
And the Christmas gun.
Starsector, perhaps the greatest 2D space game of all time.
This isn't an underrated game, because everyone I've ever seen talk about it only praise it. It is an underrecognized game though. It's sad how few people know about it despite how well it's received.
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If you are brave enough there is big list of open source clone games.
Most of them are not on any play store.
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I've probably played a few hundred hours of SuperTuxKart. It's a mario kart clone except i like it way better than the mario karts I've played.
Mindustry is fun, it's like a space factory builder thing.
I was going to say the powder toy but it turns out its on steam now
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Battle for Wesnoth, very good high fantasy strategy game. Lots of player created campaigns, and tons of mods
Edit: looking at their website, it is available through steam, but it is also available in a variety of other places.
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I focus on non commercial free games that are also (for the most part) Open Source too.
- Luanti: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Very close Minecraft like clone (note its old name was Minetest for the longest time). Each downloadable subgame requires extremely low space, in the MBytes range! No account or any online servers are needed (edit: off course its needed to download, but not otherwise). Open Source.
- osu!: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Rhythm style game where you use the mouse. I think the code is Open Source, but not the assets? I'm not sure.
- Taisei Project: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Fan project in the Touhou Project series. Old school bullet hell shmup from top down perspective. Open Source.
Note Flathub is a repository for Linux. If you are on Windows, go to their website and look for downloads.
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Armadiilo Run https://www.armadillorun.com/
Oh man I sunk countless hours into this like.. 20 years ago. Amazing game.
Edit: I just found my old registration code from Oct. 2006 and it still worked to download the game. The game still runs great!
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OSU. There's a open source client don't know anymore which ones good.
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An MMO with no micro transactions: Clan Lord
It’s been around since the 90s, the original developer is now a farmer and gave control of the world to the players rather than selling to a larger company.
We could use an influx of newbies, just don’t be a turd.
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