Board games
Games traditionally played on a board.
List of Board games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre board games:
| Game | Screenshot | Last Release | Genres | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Clippers | 
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2016-08-23 | Board |
Clippers is a board game written by Steven De Toni.[1] It is written in the Java programming language.[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pioneers | 
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2020-08-02 | Board, Online |
Pioneers is a computer version of the popular board game The Settlers of Catan. The game features multi-player (both online over the internet and hot seat) and single player against AI opponents. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comisat Games Collection | 
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2006-10-10 | Snake, Hangman, Memory, Tetris, Board game |
comisat Games Collection is a collection of free software games written in Gambas. It is one of the first notable Gambas games, with exceptions being code examples such as recreations of Snake, Robotfindskitten, and other small efforts. The collection is available in English and Italian. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GNU Go | 
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2009-02-19 | Board games, Online |
GNU Go is a Go‐playing program. It has a built‐in text based interface (shown in this article image), but it can also be used with graphical frontends like like GoGui, qGo and CGoban 1. As of May 2015 the latest stable version of GNU Go is 3.8 released on 19 February 2009. [4] It has been licensed under the GPLv3 since 24 October 2007 in CVS.[5] GNU Go also provided support for online gaming with the GGZ Gaming Zone service.[6] Along with support for GGZ, it played on Go servers like NNGS Go, Legend of Go server hosted in Taiwan, and the WING server hosted in Japan. A version was included with The UNIX Book of Games by Janice Winsor in 1996. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pasang Emas | 
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2020-08-15 | Board game |
Pasang is a traditional two-player board game. The players take turn capturing each others tokens. In the end, the player with the most tokens wins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British Bingo | 
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2021-09-29 | Board game |
British Bingo is a 90-ball bingo game with 3 by 9 boards. The computer simulates your opponents who act like elderly people, e. g. by making mistakes and chatting. The number of players and the speed of the game is configurable.[8] British Bingo is written in JavaScript and runs in a web browser. It does not require a webserver but can be started from a downloaded .html file. There is no source code repository, but the source code is available for download. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GlParchis | 
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2018-11-25 | Board game |
glParchis is an implementation the popular Parchis game, which is played with a dice and 4 pawns per player. Players have to move their pawns out of their nest, around the whole board, into the destination of the player's color.
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| Scrabble3D | 
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2015-03-01 | Board, Education |
Scrabble3D is computer version of the popular word puzzle board game. In addition to a 3D board, it supports the classic Scrabble and Superscrabble rules. Scrabble games can be played online against other players or locally against the computer. A physical version of the game on disc has been released by ADVPlans. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Crosswords | 
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2022-08-11 | Board |
Crosswords is an Android game that is based on the rules of Scrabble. Older versions are available for PalmOS and PocketPC. There is a single player mode where the player is against one or more computer opponents. Multiple player mode is available through Bluetooth or over the internet through a central server. In addition to the default word list, additional word lists can be downloaded from online within the application. The default lists are BasEnglish2to8, CollegeEng_2to8 (the default for human players), and Top5000 (the default for computer players). A more comprehensive word list is OWL2_2to15. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deer Portal | 
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2019-10-20 | Board games, Card game |
Deer Portal is a hybrid board/card game for four players driven by the four classical elements. The game takes place in an ancient world where the Almighty Deer God is protecting all the compassionate creatures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TripleA | 
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2020-11-01 | Board games |
TripleA is an online board game which is similar to Risk, as well as a game engine for turn based strategy games. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quatter | 
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2023-12-30 | Board game |
Quatter was created by LucKey Productions initially in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Blaise Müller's Quarto using the Dry game engine and other open source software. Binaries and source code are available through GitLab. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tenes Empanadas Graciela | 
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2020-11-22 | Board games, Online |
Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) is a turn-based strategy game similar to Risk written by Ricardo Quesada and licensed under the GPLv2[15]. Teg supports the GGZ multiplayer server framework. The latest version of the game is 0.12.0 released on November 22nd, 2020. It was written in the C++ programming language. Although it was written first by Ricardo Quesada, now there are several members on the TEG project developing the game.[16] See also: Domination | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Couple-quest | 
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2017-09-06 | Card game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3Dc | 
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1996-04-11 | Chess, Board games |
3D chess is kind of a chess game on 3 boards. The pieces are mostly from chess. There are 26 directions to move. 3D chess comes with a computer opponent. A version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pentobi | 
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2024-01-22 | Board game |
Pentobi is a Blokus‐playing program. Blokus is an abstract tile-placement board game with tiles shaped like polyominoes and simple rules. In addition to the classic version of Blokus, Pentobi also supports a number of game variants and similar games: Blokus Duo, Blokus Trigon, Blokus Junior, Nexos, GembloQ and Callisto. Pentobi officially supports Linux and Android. The Android version does not support the highest playing levels. Older versions of Pentobi also supported Windows, but Windows support has been dropped after version 12.0.[18] According to one of the top Blokus players, Pentobi is the strongest Blokus-playing program.[19] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pachi | 
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2023-09-10 | Board games |
Pachi is a Go-playing program. It has no built‐in human interface, so a Go client like GoGui, qGo or CGoban 1 is required. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domination | 
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2023-06-23 | Board games |
Domination is a game based on the boardgame risk. It is written in the Java programming language by Yura Mamyrin and licensed under the GPL.[20] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hnefatafl | 
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2014-08-16 | Board |
Hnefatafl is an implementation of a Norse board game. It supports Hnefatafl 11x11, 13x13, and Tablut completely. Other regional variants are partly supported by the provided using rulesets. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holtz | 
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2013-10-10 | Board, Online |
Holtz is a collection of board games that can be played against the computer or online against other players. Holtz supports the games Zèrtz, Dvonn, Relax and Bloks.
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| GNOME Games | Please add the Gameinfo template to the article | This article needs update. This article should be split into one article per game
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| KDE Games | Please add the Gameinfo template to the article | KDE Games is a division of the KDE project, creating a collection of quality games for KDE desktop.[24] It is similar to GNOME Games and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Most games are distributed under GPLv2.[25] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chess3D | 
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Chess, Board games |
Chess3D is a HTML/WebGL 3D chess game with AI. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foursies | 
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2016-12-15 | Board game |
Foursies is a board game where each player, black and white by default, has four pieces on opposite ends of a chequered board. Pieces can move in any direction, including diagonally, by one square per turn. The objective is to either get a piece onto the opponent's end of the board, or capture all their pieces by hopping over them. If a piece is primed to capture an opponent's piece, it is compulsory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GNU Shogi | 
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2014-02-17 | Chess |
GNU Shogi is a chess engine for the traditional Japanese chess variant, called shōgi. The game can be played in the terminal, or it can be played with the graphical interface of XBoard. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPSFish | no image | Chess |
GPSFish is a port of the powerful Stockfish chess engine to the Japanese chess variant, shōgi.
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| Stockfish | no image | 2023-06-30 | Chess |
A notable feature of Stockfish versus other computer chess engines, which has made it so exceedingly powerful, is the Fishtest worker program.[29]. Users run this program and donate their computer time to have development versions of Stockfish play very large numbers of test games against one another. This is used to measure the effectiveness of proposed changes, allowing the program to grow rapidly in playing strength and letting regressions be weeded out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenKropki | 
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2020-11-19 | Turn-based strategy |
OpenKropki is an open-source and multiplatform implementation of the 'kropki' game. It runs on most POSIX systems (Linux, BSD...) and on Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxcars | 
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2024-02-20 | Board games, Online |
Boxcars is an online backgammon client. It connects to the backgammon server at https://bgammon.org by default. It is licensed under AGPLv3.[32] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ↑ Membership list for the Clippers project
- ↑ Clippers project page
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Project Page
- ↑ Download page for GNU Go
- ↑ Licensing info in COPYING file in GNU Go's CVS hosted by savannah
- ↑ Fact Sheet for GNU Go at ggzgamingzone.org
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://pasang-emas.sourceforge.net/
- ↑ http://sourceforge.net/projects/britbingo/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://turulomio.users.sourceforge.net/en/glparchis.html
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 project page
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 project page
- ↑ https://github.com/deerportal/deerportal/blob/master/LICENSE
- ↑ https://github.com/deerportal/deerportal/blob/master/CREDITS.md
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 gpl.txt on Github
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 TEG License
- ↑ People involved in TEG project
- ↑ license
- ↑ https://sourceforge.net/p/pentobi/mailman/message/35516653/
- ↑ http://blokusstrategy.com/pentobi/
- ↑ Sourceforge.net page for the Domination project
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 [1]
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 https://sourceforge.net/projects/holtz/
- ↑ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:GNOME_Games
- ↑ The KDE Games Center (accessed on 2019-01-03)
- ↑ https://www.kde.org/applications/games/
- ↑ https://github.com/FrenchYann/Chess3D/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- ↑ Media license confirmed by email.
- ↑ CCRL ratings for computer blitz chess ranked it highest when retrieved on 2022/01/08.
- ↑ On the get involved page
- ↑ https://sourceforge.net/p/openkropki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/openkropki.txt
- ↑ https://sourceforge.net/p/openkropki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/media/media.txt
- ↑ Licensing info in LICENSE file in Boxcar's source repository