Science fiction games
Games with science-fiction themes
List of Science fiction games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre science fiction games:
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| Nexuiz | 
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2009-10-01 | First person shooter |
NOTE: This article refers to the original libre game “Nexuiz” created by AlienTrap from 2005. There's also a proprietary game called “Nexuiz” by IllFonic. This article is concerned with the libre game. Nexuiz (also called “Nexuiz Classic” for disambiguation) by AlienTrap is a multiplayer 3d first person arena shooter, based on Forest Hale's DarkPlaces engine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conquest | 
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2019-06-19 | RTS |
Conquest is a real-time strategy space war game, with networked multi-player support. The game is team oriented and the player controls a single spacecraft, with an array of science fiction weapons, such as 'photon torpedoes'. The objective of the game is to conquer the planets of the opposing team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Azimuth | 
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2018-06-25 | Top-down shooter, Adventure |
Azimuth is an action-adventure game, combining 2D top-down shooter action with exploration of a large map. The gameplay involves piloting a freely rotating forwards-thrusting ship through a variety of environments, shooting and dodging the attacks of various enemies, solving environmental puzzles, and the gradual revelation of a science-fiction plot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenHV | 
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2023-09-17 | RTS |
OpenHV is a mod of OpenRA that takes the Hard Vacuum sprite artwork and loosely recreates the never released original.[3] It is a real-time strategy game which uses supply lines for resources.[4] The first stable version was released in April 2021. It supports single-player, LAN, online multiplayer as well as map editing.[5] Another major release was published 2 years later with almost monthly pre-release versions available for testing.[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Red Eclipse | 
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2019-12-19 | First‐person shooter |
In the past there was a possibility of the game going commercial, so some files were labelled Omitted to default to the included license. It was decided that the default license will be CC BY-SA, so from then on Red Eclipse is completely libre [9] and is now included in Debian main. Red Eclipse has been converted to the much more advanced Tesseract engine. Tesseract adds features such as dynamic lighting, improved map model support, improved specular and normal map rendering, support for day/night versions, and more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Breach | 
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2020-12-06 | Arcade |
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gatemender | 
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2020-12-15 | Arcade |
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FreedroidRPG | 
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2023-01-22 | RPG, Post-apocalyptic |
FreedroidRPG is an isometric RPG, it's code and content are licensed under the GPL.[10][11] The game uses OpenGL hardware acceleration by default but can also use SDL graphics.[11] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mindustry | 
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2022-11-13 | Tower defense, real-time strategy |
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| UFO: Alien Invasion | 
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2014-06-28 | Turn-based, Real-time hybrid strategy |
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| Unvanquished | 
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2023-12-10 | FPS, RTS |
Unvanquished uses the Dæmon engine which is based upon id Tech 3.[16] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tremulous | 
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2006-03-31 | FPS |
Tremulous is a multiplayer first-person shooter licensed under the GPL. It's media is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5.[18] The game is inspired by the Quake II mod Gloom.[19] Tremulous uses the ioquake3 engine which is based upon id Tech 3. The latest version of Tremulous is 1.1 and was released on March 31th, 2006.[20] Although version 1.2 was highly anticipated and a gameplay preview was released, development has been stale since.[19] The fork Unvanquished is the most current. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oolite | 
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2020-08-30 | Space simulation |
Oolite is a space simulation game and clone of Elite.[22] Both the source code and media are licensed under the GPL (version 2 or later).[21] Oolite is programmed in the Objective-C programming language and uses OpenGL. It is available for the Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems. This game requires 3D hardware acceleration. Although the base game closely resembles the (some say antiquated) gameplay of the original Elite,[23] the game is highly moddable with a built-in mod manager known as the Expansion Pack Manager.[24] Enemies also have some enhancements which make the base game more difficult than Elite.[25] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warzone 2100 | 
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2023-11-29 | RTS, post-apocalyptic |
Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy game originally written in C as a closed source project by Pumpkin Studios. It was released (excluding the videos) under the GNU General Public License in late 2004 by Eidos Interactive.[27] Now development is in the hands of the Warzone 2100 Project (originally: "Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project"). A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bos Wars | 
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2013-06-16 | Real-time strategy |
Bos Wars (formerly known as Battle of Survival) is a futuristic real-time strategy game. The player has to develop a war economy in order to combat his enemies. To be successful, the economic needs need to be balanced against building an army. Controlling strategic passages plays an important role. It used the SDL library. This game does not require 3D hardware acceleration. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xenowar | no image | 2012-08-29 | Turn-based strategy |
Xenowar is a turn-based tactical game for Android and Windows, in what may be generally referred to as the genre of X-COM- inspired games. At present it consists only of tactical scenarios ("battlescape" as it is often called in the genre) without an overarching strategic "geoscape"[29] for the player to direct teams to battle on a world map. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warfork | no image | 2021-07-26 | First-person shooter games |
Warfork is a fork of Warsow with (optionally) free assets and code. The team used the opportunity to publish to Steam. They also host an FVI Launcher tool only available on Microsoft Windows that grants access to the Warfork Map editor (customized Netradiant) bundled with the Warfork Game Pack, Warfork, and Warfork Testing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alter | 
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2023-01-09 | Puzzle games, Escape room games |
Alter is a first-person puzzle game for Minetest. It may be considered a spiritual successor to Portal with its style of plain puzzle rooms, strange sci-fi mechanics used to solve the puzzles, parkour elements, and hostile nonhuman narrator controlling the puzzles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SF Mech Simulator | 
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2023-02-06 | FPS | This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page
SF Mech Simulator is a pseudo-3D first-person mech combat game.[36] Fight other mechs, repair and upgrade between battles.[35] This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
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| Hades Revisited | 
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2024-01-26 | Sandbox games |
Hades Revisited is a survival sandbox game for Minetest. It takes place on a hellish landscape resulting from a failed terraforming experiment, which the player can try to rectify by seeking out water and growing plants.[37] The game is a fork of Minetest Hades[38] This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
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| Naikari | 
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2024-02-12 | Space, Shooter |
Naikari: Eye of Chaos is a 2-D freeform space mystery game featuring exploration, trading, and combat mechanics similar to games like Endless Sky and Starsector, and a branching mystery storyline written in a manner inspired by works like Star Control 2 (The Ur-Quan Masters) and The Expanse. You assume control of a space ship and are free to advance through the game however you want. Naikari started as a fork of the Naev project by a former contributor to the Naev project due to creative differences.[40] Other than this history, the two projects have no affiliation with each other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gate Secure Force | 
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2022-02-14 | Arcade |
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kernel Panic | 
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2021-06-25 | RTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evolution RTS | 
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2022-02-07 | RTS |
Evolution RTS is a free and Open Source RTS game designed using the Spring engine. The economy part and tech tree are simplified to focus on combat. It features physics simulation, AI targeting decisions, orders via the mini-map and a customizable GUI. It aims at players from several skill levels. After being greenlit it was published on Steam.[41] After harsh user reviews it was unpublished on Steam, but continues to be distributed on itch and via standalone download.[42] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tesseract | 
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2014-05-12 | First‐person shooter |
Tesseract is a fork of the Sauerbraten engine. It adds dynamic rendering techniques based on deferred shading and shadowmapping.[44] It provides a bunch of new rendering features such as:
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| Astroseries | 
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2022-01-09 | RTS | This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page
Astroseries is a real-time strategy game using the Stratagus engine set in the space age. The two playable sides are humans (Imperial Union) vs. aliens (Nagoran Empire) having large tech techs and many unique heroe and neutral units.[45] A fixed up version with proprietary remains completely removed exists.[46] A version was included on OpenSource Game Power volume 2. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenArena | 
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2012-02-20 | FPS |
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| Space Nerds In Space | no image | 2022-12-09 | Space Simulation |
Space Nerds In Space is a space simulation inspired by Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator.[55] The game is multiplayer, with players managing different parts of a space ship and is intended[56] to be played in the same room, although one player can also control the different areas. SNIS ships look and function broadly similar to those of Star Trek. Warp gates allow travel between planetary systems.[56]
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| FreeOrion | 
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2023-04-02 | TBS |
FreeOrion is a turn-based strategy game of galactic conquest inspired by the Master of Orion games. As is typical for 4X games, players have to explore their surroundings, colonize new planets, manage their economies, research spectacular technologies, build up military might and conquer their neighbors, and ultimately, the entire galaxy. Features specific to FreeOrion are the diverse fantastical species and peculiar history of the game galaxy, the design of new ships with a multitude of hulls and ship parts available after research, and the possibility of technological victory after researching transcendence. There is an impressive in-game encyclopaedia and most things can be looked up by clicking hyperlinks in messages or through right-click menus. The encyclopaedia includes both generic FreeOrion help and backstory as well as current game info such as for example what the target population of a particular planet would be if you were to colonize it with each of the species in your empire. The game's source code is licensed under the GPL v2 and its media under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.[58][59]
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| Xonotic | 
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2023-06-20 | First‐person shooter Online Multiplayer |
There are 16 different game modes (including the classics: deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag, but including uncommon ones such as a type of football[61]), 16 weapons with secondary fires, 18 official maps (and a lot of unofficial maps), and a complex HUD editor that lets you tailor the HUD to your exact preference. There are also so called mutators, that allow to slightly modify rules of each game mode. Xonotic features integrated player statistics. The XonStat system tracks a bunch of stats, including win/loss ratio, frag ratio and average accuracy[62]. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adventures on Planet Zephulor | 
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2006-01-17 | Side-scrolling platform shooter |
Adventures on Planet Zephulor is a side-scrolling platform shooter with a science fiction setting. Taking on the role of a stranded astronaut on a distant planet, the player has to fight through the alien environs to make it to a ship to get off world. There are no lives and upon death the player simply restarts the level, although quicksaves are provided. The game features fifteen levels in two distinct regions and five different enemy types. The artwork was initially under the non-free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, but was later all released under the GNU GPL 2-or-later. The game was included on the LinuxCenter Game Collection from 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rock Dodger | 
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2020-07-24 | Arcade |
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 | 
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2020-04-17 | Arcade |
Variations on Rock Dodger is an arcade game remixed from the earlier Rock Dodger. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Realm of Stars | 
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2023-12-08 | 2D Java 4X sci-fi space strategy game |
Open Realm of Stars is a 2D Java 4X ("4X" means "Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate") sci-fi space strategy game. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ↑ LICENSE
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Copyright file accessed on Nov 27th, 2018
- ↑ OpenHV - Free RTS Based on C&C Red Alert Gets New Version
- ↑ A cancelled old RTS named 'Hard Vacuum' gets revived with OpenRA
- ↑ OpenHV, a free and open source RTS based on the unreleased Hard Vacuum has a stable build
- ↑ FOSS strategy game OpenHV gets a release two years in the making
- ↑ copyright for redeclipse on Debian
- ↑ copyright for redeclipse-data on Debian
- ↑ License details from the Red Eclipse wiki
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Freeroid RPG's copyright file at Debian Packages
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 The README at the project's Codeberg page
- ↑ http://mindustry.wikia.com/wiki/Mindustry_Wiki:About
- ↑ https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 license
- ↑ Linux Journal article
- ↑ https://unvanquished.net/10-years-and-unvanquished/
- ↑ https://github.com/darklegion/tremulous/blob/master/COPYING
- ↑ Tremulous' COPYING file - from its svn tree
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 https://unvanquished.net/10-years-and-unvanquished/
- ↑ Tremulous download page at SourceForge.net
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Oolite's copyright file at Debian Packages
- ↑ http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21096
- ↑ Arquebus X's unmodded Let's Play series debrief episode
- ↑ http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP
- ↑ https://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=254596#p254596
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Mostly GPL, some BSD, CC BY-SA, CC0 [1], [2]
- ↑ Warzone 2100 History page
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Free Software according to the readme and the included GPL license file. No separate license was found for any of the media.
- ↑ https://github.com/leethomason/unflobtactical/wiki/HowToPlay
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 https://github.com/TeamForbiddenLLC/warfork-qfusion/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- ↑ While the Steam version uses non-Free assets, it is possible to use the Free sound repository instead.
- ↑ https://github.com/TeamForbiddenLLC/warfork-free-textures
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 https://content.minetest.net/packages/yaman/alter/
- ↑ LICENSE file in repository.
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 https://droog71.itch.io/sf-mech-simulator
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS5_7OrFtg
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/hades_revisited/
- ↑ See README.md.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 https://github.com/naikari/naikari/blob/main/LICENSE
- ↑ https://github.com/naikari/naikari/wiki/FAQ
- ↑ Evolution RTS Game Will Be Released For Free On Steam For Linux
- ↑ Evolution RTS is leaving Steam
- ↑ http://sauerbraten.org/lee/
- ↑ http://tesseract.gg/README
- ↑ https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1044598
- ↑ https://github.com/SenhorFlibble/Astroseries
- ↑ https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/o/openarena-085-data/openarena-085-data_0.8.5split-9_copyright
- ↑ Openarea's copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ Openarena-data's copyright file at Debian packages
- ↑ https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- ↑ https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/COPYING
- ↑ https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/AUTHORS
- ↑ https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/#misctopics
- ↑ https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/CC-BY-SA.txt
- ↑ https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/README.md
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexArz3oNTk
- ↑ License page in FreeOrion's wiki
- ↑ Debian's FreeOrion copyright file
- ↑ https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/blob/master/COPYING#L10
- ↑ http://xonotic.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Types
- ↑ Xonotic features.
- ↑ LICENSE acc. 2023-08-03
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 ORoS Wiki acc. 2023-08-03