Arcade games

Arcade games are gaming machines found at public locations and nowadays computer games that imitate them.

List of Arcade games

This is a list of free/libre arcade games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Emilia Pinball		2023-02-19	Arcade	Emilia Pinball Emilia Pinball Genre Arcade Latest release 0.3.20230219  (Announcement) Release date February 19th, 2023 Developer Henrik Enqvist Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C++ Contribute Emilia Pinball is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Emilia Pinball is a pinball simulator created by Henrik Enqvist. It is licensed under the GPL. An editor for making new tables, Pinedit, is also available. It is written in the C++ programming language.
Battle Tanks		2009-12-30	Arcade	Battle Tanks Genre Arcade Latest release version 0.9.8083  (Announcement) Release date December 30th, 2009 Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 Contribute Battle Tanks is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: btanks  Debian: btanks   Ubuntu: btanks  Flatpak: net.sourceforge.btanks Battle Tanks is an arcade battle game. The game's source code and media are licensed under the GNU General Public License. The latest version of the game is version 0.8.7686 announced on September 3rd, 2008.
Powermanga		2015-06-25	Top-down shooter arcade game	Powermanga Genre Top-down shooter arcade game Latest release 0.93.1  (Announcement) Release date June 25th, 2015 Developers Bruno Ethvignot, Emmanuel Founaud, Etienne Sobole, Jean-Michel Martin de Santero, Sam Hocevar Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C99 Libraries SDL, SDL Mixer Contribute Powermanga is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Powermanga is a 2D shooting arcade game. It is licensed under GPLv3. The latest version of the game is 0.93 released on September 20th, 2014. While beginning as a C++ game, Powermanga now uses C99. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
BomberClone		2010-11-12	Arcade games	BomberClone Genre Arcade games Latest release 0.11.9 Release date November 12th, 2010 Developer Steffen Pohle Code license GPL Media license GPL Contribute BomberClone is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code BomberClone is an AtomicBomberMan clone started by Steffen Pohle. Both data and the source are licensed under the GPL.
GPL Arcade Volleyball		2006-05-25	Arcade, Sport	GPL Arcade Volleyball GAV 0.9.0, “classic” theme Genres Arcade, Sport Latest release 0.9.0  (Announcement) Release date May 25th, 2006 Developer ^Z bg crew / GAV Team Code license GPL P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute GPL Arcade Volleyball is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code GAV: GPL Arcade Volleyball is an SDL remake of the DOS game Arcade Volleyball. The latest version of the game is 0.9.0 on May 25th, 2006. It is written in the C++ programming language. It is licensed under the GPL. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
Jump n Bump		2019-09-02	Arcade, Platformer, Deathmatch	Jump 'n Bump Jump 'n Bump Genres Arcade, Platformer, Deathmatch Latest release 1.61  (Announcement) Release date September 2, 2019 Developer Brainchild Design Code license "Do whatever you like with it.", GPLv2 P. language C Contribute Jump 'n Bump is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: jumpnbump  Fedora: jumpnbump   OpenSUSE: jumpnbump Jump n Bump is a multiplayer platform deathmatch game in which the players control cute bunnies and try to jump on each other's heads. Maintenance and modernization of the game has been taken over by LibreGames at GitLab.
Sarah-Maries Eierjagd			Arcade game	Arcade games Genre Arcade game Developer Patrick Gerdsmeier Code license GPL v2 Library SDL Contribute Arcade games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Sarah-Maries Eierjagd is an arcade game. The player controls a girl, trying to catch good and golden eggs and avoiding bad eggs. The game is based on pocket LCD games from the 1980’s, like “Egg” from the Nintendo’s “Game & Watch” series, and was created as a gift for the author’s niece Sarah-Marie.
Transcend		2006-08-30	Arcade/shooter, music	Featured Article This article has reached Featured Article status, which means that it has been recognized as one of the best articles on Libregamewiki. Transcend Level 1, in windowed mode. (more screenshots) Genres Arcade/shooter, music Latest release 0.3  (Announcement) Release date August 30th, 2006 Developer Jason Rohrer Code licenses GPL, public domain Media license GPL P. languages C++, Dia Libraries GLUT PortAudio, X Contribute Transcend is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Transcend is an abstract 2D shooter game created by Jason Rohrer. The game's source is licensed mostly under the GPL, but with some public domain code as well. The latest version is 0.3 released on August 30, 2005. Rohrer was motivated to create the game out of frustration with the game industry's lack of creativity. Its dynamic graphical engine can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another.
PrimeShooter		2010-03-22	Arcade, educational	PrimeShooter Genres Arcade, educational Release date March 22nd, 2010 Developer Philip Dorrell Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language ECMAScript Contribute PrimeShooter is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage PrimeShooter is an abstract browser based shooter game licensed under the GPLv2. The player must shoot falling numbers with their divisors and scores points for clearing prime numbers.
SolarWolf		2004-02-16	Arcade	SolarWolf SolarWolf version 1.4 Genre Arcade Latest release 1.5 Release date February 16th, 2004 Developer Pete Shinners Code license LGPL 2.1. P. language Python Library Pygame Contribute SolarWolf is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage SolarWolf is an arcade game written by Pete Shinners. It was programmed in Python, using Pygame. It is released under the LGPL 2.1. The latest version of the game is 1.5, released on February 16th, 2004. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
XBlast		2006-06-16	Multiplayer,Side-scroller,Arcade	XBlast Genres Multiplayer,Side-scroller,Arcade Latest release 2.10.4 Release date June 16th, 2006 Developers XBlast development team Code license GPL P. language C Libraries X11 Contribute XBlast is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage XBlast is a multiplayer only side-scroller, arcade bomberman like game. The latest version of the game is 2.10.4 on June 16th, 2006. It is written in the C programming language. It is licensed under GPLv2.
FLTK Recycling Game!			Arcade	FLTK Recycling Game! Genre Arcade Latest release 1.0 Release date 2003—2008 Developer wave++ AKA Yuri D'Elia Code license GNU LGPL Media license GNU LGPL P. language C++ Libraries FLTK, libpng Contribute FLTK Recycling Game! is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code FLTK Recycling Game! is a simple arcade game where you control a guy who is trying to sort the garbage falling from above into three recycling containers. It is written by Yuri D'Elia in the C++ programming language using the FLTK and the libpng library.
Trip on the Funny Boat		March 27, 2007	side-scrolling arcade shooter	Trip on the Funny Boat Genres side-scrolling arcade shooter Latest release 1.5 Release date March 27, 2007 Developers Puskutraktori (code, graphics and sound effects by Pekka "pekuja" Kujansuu, graphics and code by Olli "Hectigo" Etuaho, music by Joona "JDruid" Karjalainen); Konstantin Yegupov; uses fonts by Bitstream Inc. Code licenses GPLv2+; the PixelPerfect library is public domain Media license Expat license P. language Python. Library PixelPerfect Contribute Trip on the Funny Boat is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Trip on the Funny Boat is a side-scrolling arcade shooter game made by the team Puskutraktori. It is written in Python. It was made for PyWeek 2 competition.
Osgg		2016-08-17	Arcade	Osgg Genres Arcade Latest release 1.0 Release date August 17th, 2016 Developer Jimmy Christensen Code license GPL v3 Media licenses GPL v3, Font: Artistic License v1 or later P. language C++ Libraries SDL, OpenGL Contribute Osgg is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: osgg osgg is a Side-scroller/arcade lunar-lander-like game. It is written by Jimmy Christensen and licensed under the GPLv3. It is written in the C++ programming language using the SDL library.
Mmpong		January 1st, 2009	Arcade,Online	mmpong-gl Genre Arcade,Online Latest release 0.9 Release date January 1st, 2009 Developers Kai Hertel, Jan Friederich, others. Contribute mmpong-gl is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. mmpong is a multiplayer Pong game written by Kai Hertel, Jan Friederich, and others. It uses a server-client construct and has an ASCII art client and a GL client.
Bloodmasters		2007-05-02	Top-down shooter, Arcade	Bloodmasters Genre Top-down shooter, Arcade Latest release 1.2 Release date May 2nd, 2007 Developer Pascal vd Heiden Code license GPL Libraries Microsoft .NET, DirectX Contribute Bloodmasters is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Bloodmaster Homepage Source Code Bloodmasters is a top-down Arcade shooter written by Pascal vd Heiden. The latest version of the game is 1.2 released on May 2nd, 2007. In February 26th, 2008, the game was released under GPL.
Overgod		2005-10-01	Arcade	Overgod Screenshot of Overgod Genre Arcade Latest release 1.0 Release date October 1st, 2005 Developer Linley Henzell Code license GPL Media license GPL Contribute Overgod is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Overgod is an arcade space game, where the player controls a spaceship and fights against the gods that rule the universe.
OpenMortal		June 15th, 2006	Arcade fighting game	OpenMortal Genre Arcade fighting game Latest release 0.7.1 Release date June 15th, 2006 Code license GPL Media license GPL P. languages C++,Perl Contribute OpenMortal is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Gentoo: games-arcade/openmortal  Mageia: openmortal  FreeBSD: openmortal OpenMortal (also called Mortal Szombat) is a fighting game and is a parody of the proprietary game Mortal Kombat. It is licensed under the GPL. The latest version of the game is 0.7.1 released on June 15th, 2006, while the earliest listed is 0.2 from February 21, 2003. It is written in the Perl and C++ programming languages. Instructions are provided on how to create new, realistic characters, so players and their friends could serve as actors for the game. As of 2008-05-30, there were 24 characters at http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/characters.cgi. Although the assets are released under the GPL, the re-use of the character graphics are complicated by personality rights issues. This has not stopped versions of the characters being released for the proprietary M.U.G.E.N engine (possibly compatible with Ikmen). The game is not available in Debian, because its would-be maintainer found that it seemed dead since 2006, and thus he would have to deal with all the potential bug reports. It was removed for Fedora Extras from similar reasons. The game was included on the LinuxCenter Game Collection from 2004.
TecnoballZ		2014-09-30	Arcade game	Tecnoballz Genre Arcade game Latest release 0.93.1 Release date September 30th, 2014 Developers Bruno Ethvignot, Jérôme Bolot, Jean-Michel Martin de Santero, Laurent Guyon, Régis Parret, David Igreja Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language C++ Libraries SDL, SDL Mixer Contribute Tecnoballz is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage TecnoballZ is an exciting Brick Breaker. It is licensed under the GPLv3. The latest version of the game is 0.93.1 released on September 30th, 2014.
Help Hannah's Horse		2021-07-25	Arcade, action, child-oriented	Help Hannah's Horse Help Hannah's Horse Genre Arcade, action, child-oriented Latest release 2.0.1 Release date July 25th, 2021 Developer Stephen Branley Code license GPL v3 Media license GPL v3 P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Help Hannah's Horse is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Debian: hannah   OpenSUSE: hannah Help Hannah's Horse is a child-oriented arcade game, described as „a cross between Pacman and the Dizzy game "Fastfood"“.
I Have No Tomatoes		2004-09-26	Arcade game	I Have No Tomatoes I Have No Tomatoes 1.55 Genre Arcade game Latest release 1.55 Release date September 26th, 2004 Developers Mika Halttunen, Teemu Ruokolainen Code license zlib license P. language C++ Library SDL Mixer Contribute I Have No Tomatoes is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Available as a package in:   Debian: tomatoes   Ubuntu: tomatoes  OpenSUSE: tomatoes  FreeBSD: tomatoes I Have No Tomatoes is a Bomber Man-like arcade game in which the player controls a yellow tomato and has to defeat enemy tomatoes by laying bombs. The latest version of the game is 1.55 released on September 26th, 2004. It is written by Mika Halttunen and Teemu Ruokolainen. The game is licensed under the Zlib/libpng License. It is written in the C++ programming language. The game requires 3D hardware acceleration.
SDL-Ball		2020-10-04	arcade	SDL-Ball Genres arcade Latest release 1.04 Release date October 4th, 2020 Developer Jimmy Christensen Code license GPL Media licenses GPL, Font: Artistic License v1 or later P. language C++ Libraries SDL, OpenGL Contribute SDL-Ball is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: sdl-ball SDL-Ball is an arcade breakout-like game. It is written by Jimmy Christensen and licensed under the GPLv3. It is written in the C++ programming language using the SDL library.
SSTPong		September 5, 2007	Arcade Games	SSTPong Genre Arcade Games Latest release 0.1 Release date September 5, 2007 Developer Tom Cort Code licenses MPL Media licenses MPL P. language Java Library Swing Contribute SSTPong is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. SSTPong is a breakout style platformer game used to test both a player's skill and web services. Currently there are two flavors of SSTPong, sstpong-classic and sstpong-plus. The classic edition is just a normal java breakout game. The plus edition provides the same great gameplay that exists in the classic edition, but with a twist. When the bricks are hit, computer generated test data is sent to a web service. The latest version of the Classic version is 0.1 released on September 5th, 2007. It is written in the Java programming language using Java Swing. It is licensed under the MPL. The initial release of the Plus version happened on September 7th, 2007.
Word War vi		2021-02-01	Side-scrolling, Arcade	Word War vi Genres Side-scrolling, Arcade Latest release 1.0.4  (Announcement) Release date February 1st, 2021 Developer Stephen M Cameron Code license GPL Media license Creative Commons Attribution P. language C Library GTK Contribute Word War vi is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Word War vi is a 2D side-scrolling arcade game in which the player pilots a vi spacecraft to get rid of the memory hogging emacs. It was written by Stephen M Cameron in the C programming language.The sound media are all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. The rest of the game is licensed under the GPLv2. The latest version of the game is 0.26 released on August 9th, 2009. The game represents a video game interpretation of the lighthearted editor war, an important element of hacker culture.
Donut Quest		2006-10-30	Arcade, Top-down shooter	Donut Quest Donut Quest Genre Arcade, Top-down shooter Latest release 1.0.0 Release date October 30, 2006 Developer Piga Software Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2, GFDL Engine Modified "1945" Example P. language Game Maker 6.1 Library Direct X Contribute Donut Quest is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Donut Quest is free software game for Microsoft Windows made by Piga Software for the Brogo web comic strip released on October 30th 2006. It features the Brogo character Ed Donut (Michelle the mechanic's lazy, dim-witted, and donut obsessed assistant who is also known to have confrontations with spiders), as he fights his way against spiders in a donut factory.
CAVEZ of PHEAR		2021-12-15	Arcade, Action	CAVEZ of PHEAR Genres Arcade, Action Latest release 0.6.1  (Announcement) Release date December 15th, 2021 Developers Tom Rune Flo, Dmitry Marakasov Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language C Contribute CAVEZ of PHEAR is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project CAVEZ of PHEAR is an arcade action game based on ASCII graphics, released under the GPLv3. It is inspired by games like Boulder Dash and Digger.
Luola		2006-02-05	Arcade game	Luola Genres Arcade game Latest release 1.3.2 Release date February 05th, 2006 Developer Calle Laakkonen Code license GPL Media license GPL Contribute Luola is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Luola is an Arcade game of genre "Luolalentely" (Cave-flying) released under the GPL. It is inspired by V-Wing. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
Bweakfwu		2013-10-22		bweakfwu bweakfwu Latest release alpha1 Release date October 22nd, 2013 Developer plaimi Code license GNU GPL v3 Media license GNU GPL v3 P. language Haskell Library Gloss Contribute bweakfwu is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker bweakfwu is an arcade game by plaimi that mixes Breakout with PONG. It features local multi-player. The current version is alpha-1. The source code is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Pacman		2016-03-22	Arcade	Pacman Genre Arcade Latest release 0.9 Release date March 22rd, 2016 Code license GPL P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Pacman is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Pacman is a pacman clone and very close to the original from Namco. One of the main goals of this clone is a SDL Application with very little use of CPU power. It is licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2 (or any later version).
Apricots		2023-05-12	Arcade, Side-scroller	Apricots Genres Arcade, Side-scroller Latest release 0.2.8  (Announcement) Release date May 12th, 2023 Developers Mark Snellgrove, Mark Harman, moggers87 Code license GPLv2 Media license GPL P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Apricots is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Apricots is a 2D arcade side-scroller game in which you fly an airplane, fire missiles, drop bombs, destroy enemy buildings and planes, trying to stay alive. The latest version of the game from the old team was 0.2.6 released on August 13th, 2003. In 2019 moggers87 took over this project and released 0.2.7 on February 13th, 2021.
XInvaders3D		2023-02-23		XInvaders3D Latest release 1.5.0 Release date 2023-02-23 Developer Don Llopis Code license GNU General Public License Media license no media? Contribute XInvaders3D is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker XInvaders 3D is a 3D invaders game using wireframe vector graphics, written by Don Llopis and released under the GNU General Public License.
3D Pong		2004-04-28	Arcade, Online	3D Pong Genres Arcade, Online Latest release 0.5 Release date April 4th, 2004 Platforms Linux, Mac Developer New Breed Software Code license GPLv2 Media license no media Contribute 3D Pong is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage 3D Pong is a 3D Arcade game written by New Breed Software. It has a network mode for two players allowing online gaming. The latest version of the game is 0.5. A previous version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection.
Ri-li		2007-11-01	Arcade	Ri-li Ri-Li 2.0.1 in English Genre Arcade Latest release 2.0.1  (Announcement) Release date November 1st, 2007 Developer Dominique Roux-Serret Code license GNU GPL (v2.0.1-2 in Debian is under GPLv3) Media license GNU GPL (v2.0.1-2 in Debian is under GPLv3) P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Ri-li is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Ri-li is an arcade game in which you drive a toy wood train engine across many levels. It is written by Dominique Roux-Serret. The latest version of the game is 2.0.1 on November 1st, 2007. It is written in the C++ programming language, using the SDL library. Its UI has 19 languages to choose from: Arabic, Breton, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
Falling Time		2018-11-01	Arcade	Falling Time Falling Time 1.0 Genre Arcade Latest release 1.0.2  (Announcement) Release date November 1st, 2018 Developer Nebuleon, cxong Code license GPL Media license CC-BY-SA P. language C Library SDL, Chipmunk 2D Contribute Falling Time is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Falling Time is an arcade game where you are a ball who must fall down. If you do not fall down fast enough, you are crushed by the top of the screen. On the way down, you score points by reaching lower levels and collecting eggplants. Falling Time supports local multiplayer up to 4 players with 2 players sharing a keyboard and the other 2 with joysticks or gamepads.
HeXon		2024-01-05	Action, Arcade	heXon Astral Arcade Genre Action, Arcade Latest release 20240105  (Announcement) Release date January 5th, 2024 Developer LucKey Productions Code license GPL Media license CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, CC0 Engine Dry P. language C++ Contribute heXon is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Chat Forum heXon is an arcade twin-stick-shooter created by LucKey Productions using Dry and other open source software. The game is available through GitLab, itch.io and the AUR.
Windys		2011-08-12	Arcade, Action Platformer	Windys Genres Arcade, Action Platformer Latest release 1.5.0  (Announcement) Release date August 12th, 2011 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GFDL and GPLv3 Engine Gambas Platform Engine P. language Gambas 1.x, 2.x Libraries Qt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute Windys is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Windys is a free software action arcade game by Piga Software, originally released on August 12, 2009. It utilizes the Gambas Platform Engine and is designed in a deliberately retro style, featuring ASCII graphics and simulated PC speaker beeps. It is the second Piga game to be released for GNU/Linux, the first being Alexei: Part IX. A bug release version was sent out on September 1, 2011, and a major update was released on August 12, 2011 featuring bug fixes, updates proofreading and proper installers on a new Gambas 2 basis. A complete rewrite using ncurses, making it a true terminal application, was started in February 2020.
Nova Pinball		2017-12-22	Arcade	Nova Pinball Nova Pinball Genre Arcade Latest release 0.2.3  (Announcement) Release date December 22nd, 2017 Developer Wesley Werner Code license GPL v3+ Media license GPL v3+ Engine LÖVE P. language Lua Contribute Nova Pinball is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Nova Pinball is a pinball game made with the LÖVE engine. You must perform tasks to get points. The game is space-themed.
Chromium B.S.U.		2016-09-06	Arcade	Chromium B.S.U. Screenshot of Chromium B.S.U. Genre Arcade Latest release 0.9.16.1  (Announcement) Release date September 6th, 2016 Platforms Windows, Linux Code license Clarified Artistic License Media license Graphics: Clarified Artistic License, Sound: Expat License P. language C++ Library SDL, OpenAL Contribute Chromium B.S.U. is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: chromium-bsu Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced arcade space shooter. It is written using the SDL and OpenAL libraries. According to the license file in the Debian package, the game is published under the "Clarified Artistic License". The official homepage contains a license which is somewhere between the too-unclear-to-consider-free-for-FSF Artistic License 1.0 and the Clarified Artistic License.
FLTrator		2016-06-25	Arcade, Side-scroller	FLTrator Screenshot of first level Genres Arcade, Side-scroller Latest release 2.3  (Announcement) Release date June 25th, 2016 Code license GPL Media license PD / CC BY 3.0 P. language C++ Library FLTK Contribute FLTrator is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code FLTrator is a simple retro style arcade side-scroller game in which you steer a spaceship through a landscape with hostile rockets and other obstacles. It has ten different levels and a level editor to create new levels or modify the existing. It is written in C++, uses the FLTK library and has no other dependencies.
Airstrike		2003-01-20	Arcade	Airstrike Genre Arcade Latest release pre6  (Announcement) Release date January 20th, 2003 Platforms Windows, Linux Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C Contribute Airstrike is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: airstrike Airstrike is a game that involves dogfights in 2D. Including the source code and the media, it is licensed under the GPLv2.
GRUB Invaders		2001-01-01	Arcade	Invaders Genre Arcade Latest release 1.0.0 Release date 2001 Developer Erik Thiele Code license GPLv2+ Media license no media P. language C Contribute Invaders is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Invaders is a very simple Invaders game which is booted using GRUB on i386. It was written in C by Erik Thiele; version 1.0.0 was released in 2001.
Moagg2		December 6th, 2008	Arcade	Moagg2 Genre Arcade Latest release 1.95b Release date December 6th, 2008 Developer Bernhard Trummer Code license GPL Media license GPL Engine Golden-T Game Engine P. language Java Library Mozilla Rhino Contribute Moagg2 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Moagg2 (mother of all gravity games) is a Java port of Moagg by the same author, Bernhard Trummer. The latest version of the game is 1.95b on December 6th, 2008. It is licensed under the GPL. It used the library Mozilla Rhino.
One is enough		2007	arcade	One is enough Genre arcade Latest release Alpha 0.40 Release date 2007 Developer Olli Etuaho Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language Python Library Pygame Contribute One is enough is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage One is enough is an arcade game written by Olli Etuaho in Python using the Pygame library as a warmup for pyweek 4. It is licensed under GPLv2. The latest version of the game is Alpha 0.40 released in 2007.
Kuklomenos	no image	2012-04-07	Arcade	Kuklomenos Genre Arcade Latest release 0.4.5  (Announcement) Release date April 7th, 2012 Developer mbays Code license GPL v3 Media license GPL v3 Library SDL Contribute Kuklomenos is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Kuklomenos is an abstract shoot-em-up game, with minimalistic graphics and short game-length. Note that the COPYING file indicates that the game uses a non-free sound from freesound.org, but this is out of date - the relevant sound file is now released under CC-BY.
Xye		2013-08-13	Sokoban-style, Arcade	Xye A Xye level Genre Sokoban-style, Arcade Latest release 0.12.2  (Announcement) Release date August 13th, 2013 Developer Victor Hugo Soliz Kuncar Code license zlib/libpng license Media license Custom free license P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute Xye is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Xye is a puzzle game similar to Sokoban but it includes Arcade elements. The main objective is to get all the gems in each level. The player gets bonus points for collecting all stars before getting the last gem. There are different obstacles, such as blocks in different shapes and size: Some blocks move on their own Some blocks can be pushed Magnets that can be used to pull blocks. Moving blocks to certain locations will open doors Monsters chase the player
SDL Sopwith		2022-11-05	Arcade, Side-scroller	SDL Sopwith Single-player mode Genres Arcade, Side-scroller Latest release 2.1.1  (Announcement) Release date November 5th, 2022 Developers Simon Howard; original: David Clark Code license GPL Library SDL Contribute SDL Sopwith is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch: sopwith  Debian: sopwith  Fedora: sopwith   OpenSUSE: sopwith SDL Sopwith is a port of the old 2D airplane dogfighting game by David Clark, “Sopwith”, to use the SDL. It is being developed by Simon Howard, and is released under GPLv2, like the original. The latest version of the game is 2.1.1 on Nov 5th, 2022.
Windstille		2007-06-13	arcade	Windstille Genre arcade Latest release 0.3.0  (Announcement) Release date June 13th, 2007 Developer Ingo Ruhnke Code license GPLv3 Media licenses CC BY-SA Contribute Windstille is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Windstille is a jump and shooting arcade game written by Ingo Ruhnke. The latest version of the game is 0.3.0 released on June 13th, 2007. The source code is licensed under the GPLv3 while the media is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
XBill			Arcade	XBill Genre Arcade Latest release 2.1 Developers Psychosoft Code license GPLv2 P. language first C++, then C Contribute XBill is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage XBill is a pretty simple arcade mostly written in C++ during the summer of 1994 by Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte of Psychosoft. With version 2, the game has been rewritten in C. The latest version of the game is 2.1. A version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection.
Defendguin		2009-11-05	Arcade	Defendguin Defendguin Genre Arcade Latest release 0.0.12  (Announcement) Release date November 05th, 2009 Platforms Windows, Linux, Mac Developer Bill Kendrick Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C Library SDL Contribute Defendguin is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: defendguin Defendguin is a 2D arcade game written by Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software. It is a game based on the classic Defender only featuring the Linux kernel mascot Tux, a common open source video game trope. The game features gameplay almost identical to Defender except for an optional big boss and ending sequence. The game features Tux defending his people from aliens (similar to the character from XBill) bent on turning them into evil penguinoids. The game has become quite popular, being reviewed by Linux Journal twice, as well as GamesForLinux.de and GP32 Homebrew Reviews. The populairty of the game has lead New Breed to merchandise it in the form of a mug and mouse pad for sale. The game has been released for Linux (RPM, binary), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Zaurus, Zeta, BeOS, Haiku, Amiga OS 4, MorphOS, QNX and RiscOS. It was also made as GP32, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast and Sony PSP homebrew. It uses the SDL library. Both its media and source are licensed under the GPL. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
Moagg		December 6th, 2008	Arcade	Arcade games Genre Arcade Latest release 1.95b  (Announcement) Release date December 6th, 2008 Developers Andreas Granig, Bernhard Trummer, Kevin Krammer Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C++ Library Simple DirectMedia Layer Contribute Arcade games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Moagg stands for “mother of all gravity games”. It is a game that involves gravity. The latest version of the game is 1.8 released in 2005 and licensed under the GPL. It is developed using the C++ programming language and SDL. Moagg is not being developed anymore; a Java port is being developed under the name of Moagg2.
Super Transball 2		2005-04-16	Arcade	Super Transball 2 Screenshot of Super Transball 2 Genres Arcade Latest release 1.5 Release date April 16, 2005 Developer Santiago Ontañón Code license GPL Media license GPL P. languages C++ Library SDL Contribute Super Transball 2 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Super Transball 2 is an side scrolling arcade game. It is the sequel of the games Transball and Transball 2, all of them based in the 'Thrust' type of games.
Freedroid		2003-11-13	Arcade	Freedroid Genre Arcade Latest release 1.0.2 Release date November 13th, 2003 Developers Johannes Prix, Reinhard Prix Code licenses GPL, public domain Media license GPL P. language C Library SDL Contribute Freedroid is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch: freedroid Freedroid (also known as “FreedroidClassic”) is an arcade/shooter game that was designed as a clone of the classic game Paradroid on Commodore 64. It spawned (and shares some source code with) FreedroidRPG. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2.
Barrage		2022-10-30	Arcade	This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page Barrage Screenshot of Barrage Genres Arcade Latest release 1.0.6  (Announcement) Release date October 30th, 2022 Developer Michael Speck Code license GPL Contribute Barrage is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Barrage is an arcade shooter game, similar to a shooting gallery. It is part of the LGames games collection. This game does not require 3D hardware acceleration.
A7Xpg		2003-09-21	Arcade games	A7Xpg Genre Arcade games Latest release 0.11 Release date September 21st, 2003 Developer Kenta Cho Code license 2-clause BSD Libraries SDL, vorbis Contribute A7Xpg is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage A7Xpg is an arcade space flier. Collect gold and avoid enemies. A7Xpg is written in the D language. It was created by Kenta Cho and and ported to Linux by Evil Mr Henry.
Bombman		2018-12-22	Arcade games	Bombman Bombman Genre Arcade games Latest release 0.95 Release date Dec, 22, 2018 Developer Drummyfish Code license CC0 Media license CC0 P. language Python Library Pygame Contribute Bombman is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Bombman is all public domain Atomic Bomberman clone made by Drummyfish. It features pixel art graphics, AI, different maps, possible mouse control and local multiplayer.
SuperTuxParty		2021-04-19	arcade party games	This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it. SuperTuxParty Genre arcade party games Latest release Alpha v0.9  (Announcement) Release date April 19th 2021 Code license GPLv3 Media license CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, MIT Contribute SuperTuxParty is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Bug/Feature Tracker SuperTuxParty is an alpha-stage free game inspired by party games such as Mario Party. It is being developed in the Godot engine.
Librerama		2023-05-06	Arcade	Librerama Genre Arcade Latest release 0.6.1  (Announcement) Release date May 6th, 2023 Platforms Android, Linux, Mac, Windows Developer Yeldham Code license GPLv3 Media license CC-BY-SA Engine Godot P. language GDScript Contribute Librerama is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Libre (from French, meaning free); rama (part of fliperama, from Portuguese, meaning arcade). Librerama is an arcade compilation of very small, fast-paced mini-games (nicknamed "nanogames"), with the main objective being to rack up the highest score possible by winning the most nanogames you can before getting a game over, while they progressively increase in both speed and difficulty.
MoveNoid	no image	2017-12	Arcade Games (block breaking)	MoveNoid Genre Arcade Games (block breaking) Release date December 2017 Developer Xintrea Code license GPLv3, Modified BSD license P. language C++ Library Box2D Contribute MoveNoid is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum MoveNoid is an Arkanoid-like block-breaking game controlled using a web camera and an object with two rectangles, like a small piece of cardboard or a big box. Unlike Arkanoid, where the angle the ball is reflected depends on where it hits the paddle, MoveNoid lets you incline the paddle for more realistic control.
LBreakout2		2015-10-17	Arcade	LBreakout2 Genre Arcade Latest release 2.6.5  (Announcement) Release date October 17th, 2015 Developer Michael Speck Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute LBreakout2 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: lbreakout2 LBreakout2 is a breakout clone written by Michael Speck and is the successor to LBreakout. It uses the SDL library. The latest version of the game is 2.6.5 on October 17th, 2015. It won the No Starch Press SDL Game Contest. It is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2. There's a remake of the game with improved graphics, LBreakoutHD.
LBreakoutHD		2023-12-02	Arcade	LBreakoutHD Genre Arcade Latest release 1.1.5  (Announcement) Release date December 2nd 2023 Developer Michael Speck Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute LBreakoutHD is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   OpenSUSE: lbreakouthd  Flatpak: net.sourceforge.lgames.LBreakoutHD LBreakoutHD is a breakout clone written by Michael Speck and is a remake of LBreakout2 with improved graphics. The gameplay of LBreakout2 is (mostly) preserved and it includes all levels from LBreakout2. It uses the SDL library. It is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3.
Cross The Road			Arcade	Cross The Road Genre Arcade Release date 2018 Developer Andy Balaam Code license GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 Media license GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 P. language Elm Contribute Cross The Road is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Cross the Road is an arcade game similar to Frogger. The player controls a creature trying to cross a busy roadway, adjacent train track and river. Unlike the vintage arcade game, the player can only move forwards, and the objective is to cross from one end of the screen to the other and back to achieve a high score.
Sootl			Arcade	Sootl Genre Arcade Release date 2016 Developer Andy Balaam Code license GNU General Public License v2.0 Media license GNU General Public License v2.0 P. language Elm Contribute Sootl is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Sootl (aka Stay Out of the Light) is an arcade game wherein the player can hop between two dots. The objective is to remain unseen by a pair of wandering search lights, one large and one small. The score increments upwards for each second the player remains undetected.
Mop(e)snake		2006-12-20	Arcade game	Mop(e)snake Genre Arcade game Latest release 0.5 Release date December 20, 2006 Developer Andy Balaam Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 (main assets), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (music) P. language Python Library pygame, SDL Contribute Mop(e)snake is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Mop(e)snake is a purposively minimalist interpretation of Snake, foregoing any bonus items, power-ups or other "featuritis". It does contain its own innovation with its single-button mode, wherein the head of the snake cycles through directions which are then triggered by pressing any key. This mode requires a slower and more precise rhythm to achieve success. The game features a sampled version of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike track "The Final Rewind" by Tryad.
Tunnel			Arcade	Tunnel Genre Arcade Release date 2019 Developer Andy Balaam Code license GNU Affero General Public License v2.0 Media license GNU Affero General Public License v2.0 P. language Wasm, Rust, JavaScript Contribute Tunnel is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Tunnel is a web based arcade game wherein the player controls a ship through a tunnel. Gravity constantly pulls the ship downward, which needs to be compensated for with thrusters. Thereafter are bonus items to collect and the tunnel gradually contracts into itself while gravity intensifies.
Parallel Overhead		2023-07-08	Arcade game, endless runner	Parallel Overhead Genres Arcade game, endless runner Latest release 1.1.1 (native), 2.1.0 (web)  (Announcement) Release date July 8th, 2023 Developers Linus Vanas (aka Huitsi) Code license MIT License Media license MIT License P. language C (native), JavaScript (web) Libraries OpenGL ES 2.0, SDL 2 Contribute Parallel Overhead is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Parallel Overhead is an endless runner game developed by Linus Vanas (aka Huitsi) and first released in September 2020. Two opposite ships, named Truth and Beauty, traverse an infinite hyperspacial tunnel. They always move in tandem, and the player has to orient both to avoid voids in the tunnel. It can be played from a web browser, from a 64-bit Linux executable or built from source.
Pinball Disc Room		2020-10-25	Arcade game	Pinball Disc Room Genres Arcade game Release date October 25th, 2020 Developer Dennis Payne Code license MIT License Media license MIT License, CC0, CC-BY-SA, OFL Engine Godot P. language GDScript Contribute Pinball Disc Room is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Pinball Disc Room is a game by Dennis Payne (aka dulsi) created for the Disc Room Game Jam in the Godot engine. The player is trapped within a pinball table with generating rotating bladed discs, and must attempt to survive as long as possible while using the table's mechanics to their advantage.
Gatemender		2020-12-15	Arcade	Gatemender Genres Arcade Latest release 0.2  (Announcement) Release date December 15, 2020 Developers Erik Letson Code license Expat license / MIT license Media license CC BY-SA 4.0 International license (graphics), CC0 (music & sound), CC-BY 3.0 (font) P. language Python Libraries pygame, SDL Contribute Gatemender is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Gatemender (the "Warp-Gate Repair Arcade Game") is a game developed by Erik Letson for the inaugural December 2020 LibreJam. It is a top down arcade game where the player controls a ship trapped in the middle of an asteroid storm. The only path to freedom is a warp gate, which has already been damaged by the storm. Luckily the parts to fix it can be found by blasting the asteroids, allowing an eventual escape. The player has three lives to spend, and a new scene and gate is generated upon completing the last. Letson has since started work on the tactical role playing game Heart of Gold, though the project is now on hiatus.
Hull Breach		2020-12-06	Arcade	Hull Breach Genres Arcade Latest release 1.0  (Announcement) Release date December 6, 2020 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Engine Gambas Tile System P. language Gambas 3.x Libraries GTK, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute Hull Breach is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Hull Breach is a game made by Piga Software for the inaugural December 2020 LibreJam. It is a top down arcade game where an astronaut has to seal breaches in his ship using duct tape in zero gravity. First collecting the tape, the player than bounces from wall to wall to get to the leaks as they open up. Hull integrity decreases faster the more breaches are active at any given time. By convention, cracks are more likely to form on tiles with objects on them, though not exclusively so. It was written in Gambas 3.15.2 and the first release uses GTK 3 for interfaces and SDL 2 for audio. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 library from Openclipart with music from Wikimedia Commons ("The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II) and sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, GIMP and KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux.
FroggorF		2021-06-07	Arcade	FroggorF Genres Arcade Latest release 0a65ce9b  (Announcement) Release date June 7, 2021 Developers Elouin Code license GPLv3 Media license CC-BY-SA 4.0 (original assets), CC-BY 3.0 (rain sound), CC0 (car sound), OFL (Amaranth font) Engine Godot 3.3 P. language GDScript Contribute FroggorF is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker FroggorF is a game submitted to the June 2021 LibreJam whose theme was "time". It is a riff on the classic Frogger arcade game, but instead of controlling frogs directly, the player uses a slider to control the flow of time it takes cars to cross the road. The Godot project file was released, as well as a playable web version.
Tiny Missile	no image		Arcade	This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it. Tiny Missile Genre Arcade Release date 2020, day unknown Developer Daniel Champagne Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Contribute Tiny Missile is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Tiny Missile is a Missile Command clone for several different consoles, including Arduboy.
Bring Them On		2021-08-06	Top-down shooter, arcade	Bring Them On Genres Top-down shooter, arcade Latest release 1.0  (Announcement) Release date August 6, 2021 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Engine Gambas Arcade Engine 2.0 P. language Gambas 3.x Libraries Qt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute Bring Them On is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Bring Them On is a game made by Piga Software for the August 2021 LibreJam. It is a top-down shooter game with a science fiction theme. Upon developing a teleportation device, the player is pursued by monsters from another plane of reality. It was written in Gambas 3.15.2 and uses Qt 5 for windowing and SDL 2 for audio. Created in six days, it features a new revision of the Gambas Arcade Engine. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 libraries from Openclipart and OpenGameArt.org with sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, GIMP and KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux.
Mosquito		2022-01-31	Arcade	Mosquito Genres Arcade Latest release 1.5.0  (Announcement) Release date January 31, 2022 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Engine Gambas Arcade Engine 2.0 P. language Gambas 3.x Libraries Qt, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute Mosquito is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Mosquito is a game made by Piga Software for the December 2021 LibreJam. It is an arcade game based on quick reflexes. The player controls a prehistoric giant mosquito, preserved pregnant in amber and recently revived. It must feed on a human in order to resurrect its species, while avoiding having it all end in one quick smack. It was written in Gambas 3.16.2 and uses Qt 5 for windowing and SDL 2 for audio. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 library from Openclipart with sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux. An updated version was released on January 31, 2022 that featured a custom options menu among various tweaks such as animation.
Circus Linux!		2001-04-28	Arcade games	Circus Linux! Genre Arcade games Latest release 1.0.3  (Announcement) Release date April 28, 2001 Developer Bill Kendrick Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 Contribute Circus Linux! is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Circus Linux! is a clone of Circus Atari created by New Breed Software. The gameplay is vaguely similar to Breakout games such as LBreakoutHD, wherein the player bounces a clown in the air to pop balloons. The game was given a physical release by Alten8 in 2007 that contains the source code and a Microsoft Windows binary. It was also included on volume 1 of OpenSource Game Power in 2006. This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
Gate Secure Force		2022-02-14	Arcade	Gate Secure Force Genres Arcade Latest release 20e66974 Release date February 14, 2022 Developers CLion and ViLo Code license GPLv3 Media license CC-BY-SA 4.0 Engine Godot 3.3 P. language GDScript Contribute Gate Secure Force is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Gate Secure Force is a game submitted to the February 2022 LibreJam whose theme was "gates". The game is set in an alien starport, and the player has to spot and apprehend wanted criminals before they make it past the loading gate. The Godot project file was released, as well as a playable web version. CLion later developed Push to Kill for the August 2022 jam.
Hikou no mizu		2023-10-19	Arcade fighting game	Hikou no mizu Genre Arcade fighting game Latest release 1.0.1  (Announcement) Release date October 19, 2023 Developer Duncan Deveaux Code license GPL v3 Media licenses CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY 3.0, OFL 1.1 P. languages C++ Contribute Hikou no mizu is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Flatpak: org.hikounomizu.HikouNoMizu Hikou no mizu is a fighting game with an anime and manga theme. There are currently three player characters (Hikou, Takino, and Hana), controllable by keyboard or joystick, and a variety of interactive arenas of different sizes. Players can move left and right, jump and crouch, and can attack by either punching, kicking or chucking a throwing star. There can be as many as six players on one screen in local games, which can include computer controlled players. The winner of the match is the last one standing. Networked multiplayer is supported as of version 1.0. It lets players join a server and roam in the arena with other peers until enough players have connected, such that a game can be started. Games are organized as a set of rounds, and complete once a player has won the required amount of rounds. After that, the arena is changed and a new game is queued.
Not Yet		2022-04-03	Arcade	Not Yet Not Yet running in a browser Genre Arcade Latest release 0.0.1  (Announcement) Release date April 3rd, 2022 Platforms Windows, Browser Developer Pierre Vandermaesen Code license MIT Media license MIT Contribute Not Yet is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Not Yet is a game created for Ludum Dare 50, "Delay the Inevitable". The player character is an old man and fights off various representations of death with a walking stick. This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
111 one-button games in 2021		2021	Arcade	111 one-button games in 2021 Partial collage Genres Arcade Release date 2021 Developer Kenta Cho (aka ABA Games) Code license MIT license Media license MIT license P. language TypeScript Library crisp-game-lib Contribute 111 one-button games in 2021 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker 111 one-button games in 2021 is a project by Kenta Cho (aka ABA Games) that produced 111 mini-games controlled through the press of only one button and featuring an art style similar to early 1980s game consoles. Some of them are remakes of various existing arcade game types re-imagined as one button variants.
Push to Kill		2022-08-14	Top-down shooter, arcade	Push to Kill Genres Top-down shooter, arcade Latest release 8e660120e8  (Announcement) Release date August 14, 2022 Developers CLion, Elouin Code license AGPL 3 Media license CC-BY-SA 4.0 Engine Godot 3.5 P. language GDScript Contribute Push to Kill is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Push to Kill is a game made for the August 2022 LibreJam whose theme was "replication". It is a top-down shooter game with a science fiction theme. Stranded on a planet, an astronaut is suddenly beset by alien attackers. Each shot of his weapon causes the aliens to replicate, but also pushes them back a little. They can be killed only by pushing them into other objects, but colliding with those will also kill the astronaut. The objective of the game is to survive as long as possible and set a new high score. The player is moved using the WASD keys and their weapon is fired using the left mouse button. The graphics were drawn on paper using a coloured pencil and then digitzed by means of being photographed using a cellular phone. CLion previously worked on Gate Secure Force for the February 2022 jam.
Trackballs		2022-12-23	3D Arcade Platformer	Trackballs A “castle” level. Genres 3D Arcade Platformer Latest release 1.3.4  (Announcement) Release date December 23rd, 2022 Developers Mathias Broxvall; uses music by Marco Göbel, Paul Leach; music and levels by Attila Boros. Code license GPL Media license GPL, Ethymonics Free Music License P. languages Scheme, C++ Libraries SDL, Guile, OpenGL Contribute Trackballs is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Available as a package in:   Slackware: trackballs  Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: trackballs  Debian: trackballs  Fedora: trackballs   Ubuntu: trackballs  OpenSUSE: trackballs  Mageia: trackballs  Flatpak: io.github.trackballs.Trackballs  FreeBSD: trackballs Trackballs is a marble game in three-dimensional space, inspired by “Marble Madness”. It is released under the GPL, and was developed by Mathias Broxvall until a long hiatus from 2007 to 2017 after which a new maintainer picked up the project. The latest version before the hiatus is 1.1.4, released on 2007-05-25; now version 1.3.1 is available. It is written in the C++ and Scheme programming language using the SDL library. Support for OpenGL standard 3.3 is required. In the game, the player controls a marble (not the field itself) over a 3D labyrinth, avoiding moving spikes, deadly force fields, enemy balls, and marble-shattering falls, all while seeking the goal at the end of the level. A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 1.
BRIQUOLO		2008-03-24	Arcade	BRIQUOLO Genre Arcade Latest release 0.5.7  (Announcement) Release date March 24th, 2008 Code license GPL v2 Contribute BRIQUOLO is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code BRIQUOLO is a 3D clone of the game Breakout.
Bomberned			Arcade	Bomberned Genre Arcade Platforms Web Developer devnewton Code license MIT P. languages JavaScript, TypeScript Contribute Bomberned is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bomberned is a bomberman-like game. Technically, it is a web application.
Pillows		2007-10-12	Arcade	Pillows Pillows Genre Arcade Latest release 0.2.1 Release date October 12th, 2007 Developer Chris Hopp Code license GPL Media license FAL P. language Python Library Pygame Contribute Pillows is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Pillows is a game created as a PyWeek warmup by Chris Hopp using the python programming language and the pygame library.
Trophy		2019-12-30	Top-down arcade racing game	Trophy Trophy Genres Top-down arcade racing game Latest release 2.0.4  (Announcement) Release date December 30, 2019 Platforms Linux, Windows Developers Andrew Mustun, Matthieu Lecesne Code license GPL 2-or-later Media license GPL 2-or-later P. language C++ Libraries ClanLib, Hermes, zlib Contribute Trophy is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: trophy  Debian: trophy  Fedora: trophy?   Gentoo: games-sports/trophy Trophy is a top-down arcade racing game where cars can shoot each other as well as get ahead. There are a variety of car models to purchase as well as upgrades for the engine, tires and armour, using cash from wining races or collecting bonuses. The car is controlled using the arrow keys, with turbo boosts accessed with the a key, while the mounted gun is fired by pressing the x key and bombs are dropped with the c key. Ammo and cash is collected on the tracks, along with other powerups. The earliest hosted release is version 1.0.1 from August 13, 2000, while the earliest mentioned release is 0.0.1 from June 2, 2000.
OilWar		2003-04-02	Arcade game	OilWar OilWar Genre Arcade game Latest release 1.2.1 Release date April 2, 2003 Developer Jarmo Hekkanen (game), Lauri Hakkarainen (graphics) Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C++ Library SDL Contribute OilWar is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage OilWar is a 2D arcade game. The player attempts to defend an oil field in the desert from enemy invaders by shooting them with the mouse, left firing bullets and right grenades. There are infantry troops and tanks, which take more shots to kill. The player loses when their perimeter is breached. Aircraft and other bonuses were planned. Debs, RPMs, source code and Windows binaries were provided. Author Jarmo Hekkanen also wrote a Tetris clone called Tutris.
The Sheep Killer		2005-05-23	Arcade	The Sheep Killer Genres Arcade Latest release 1.1  (Announcement) Release date May 23, 2005 Developers Nicola Lugato aka {MSX}, Kierren Small aka KAS Code license GPL P. language Free Pascal Contribute The Sheep Killer is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage The Sheep Killer is a 3D arcade game written in Free Pascal. The player controls a Viking trying to slaughter some sheep, and has to evade rams that try and attack them. The level is won when all the ewes are killed.
BurgerSpace		2022-11-21	Arcade game	BurgerSpace Genre Arcade game Latest release 1.9.5 Release date November 21th, 2022 Developers Pierre Sarrazin, Luce St-Aman Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C++ Contribute BurgerSpace is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage BurgerSpace is an clone of the arcade game BurgerTime started by Pierre Sarrazin with artwork and testing by Luce St-Aman. Both data and the source are licensed under the GPL.
Kraptor		2004-04-03	Top-down shooter	Kraptor Kraptor is a side-scrolling shoot em up Genre Top-down shooter Latest release final_apr_03_2004  (Announcement) Release date April 3rd, 2004 Developer Kronoman Code license MIT License Media license MIT License P. language C Contribute Kraptor is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Kraptor is a shoot them up game, similar to the proprietary game Raptor: Call of Shadows. The game was considered complete by its developer in 2004.
Geki2		2001-08-12	Top-down shooter arcade game	Geki2 Genre Top-down shooter arcade game Latest release 2.0.3  (Announcement) Release date August 12th, 2001 Developer Katsuyoshi Sato Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C Contribute Geki2 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Geki2 is a top-down shooter game created by Katsuyoshi Sato.
Geki3		2002-12-11	Top-down shooter arcade game	Geki3 Genre Top-down shooter arcade game Latest release 1.0.3  (Announcement) Release date December 11th, 2002 Developer Katsuyoshi Sato Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language C Contribute Geki3 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Geki3 is a top-down shooter game created by Katsuyoshi Sato.
Rock Dodger		2020-07-24	Arcade	Rock Dodger Genres Arcade Latest release 1.1.4 Release date July 24, 2020 Developers Paul Holt, Robert Krawczyk Code license GNU GPL v2 Media license GNU GPL v2 P. language C Libraries SDL Contribute Rock Dodger is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Rock Dodger (also known as Space Rocks) is an arcade game inspired by the classic Asteroids, but instead of shooting the rocks the player must instead doge them. It was later remixed as Variations on Rock Dodger.
Variations on Rock Dodger		2020-04-17	Arcade	Variations on Rock Dodger Genres Arcade Latest release 0.5.8 Release date April 17, 2020 Developers Jason Woofenden, Josh Grams Code license GNU GPL v2 Media license GNU GPL v2 P. language C Libraries SDL Contribute Variations on Rock Dodger is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Variations on Rock Dodger is an arcade game remixed from the earlier Rock Dodger.
Avoision		2012-3-10	Arcade	Avoision Avoision Genre Arcade Latest release v1.1 Release date March 10, 2012 Developer Jared "deraj" Krinke Code license GNU General Public License v2 Media license GNU General Public License v2 Engine Radius Engine P. language Lua Library OpenGL, SDL Contribute Avoision is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Avoision is an arcade game reminiscent of Snake where you play a green square dot collecting red dots and while avoiding moving white dots generated after each collection. The objective is to last long enough to acquire a high score. The first version, 0.1, was released on July 4, 2010 and the latest version, 1.1, was released on March 10, 2012. It received a positive review from Free Gamer, alongside its engine-mate Falling Block Game 2, commenting that "sometimes polish is worth more than complexity."
Inertia Blast		2021-09-14	Arcade	Inertia Blast Genre Arcade Latest release 0.93  (Announcement) Release date September 14th, 2021 Developer Peter Ekberg, Dennis Payne Code license GPL Contribute Inertia Blast is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Inertia Blast requires you to steal a really heavy energy pod. You need to manage your fuel and manoeuvre the energy pod out of an enemy base. The game is a remake of the Commodore 64 game called Thrust. Dennis Payne of Identical Software updated the game to SDL2, gave it its current name, and implemented new visuals in 2019. The earlier versions by Peter Ekberg had targeted SVGAlib, GGI and DirectX.

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