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Not clear how you submit new listings to this site. I'd like to get my little RTS https://github.com/simonw/battledrones on there - I released it yesterday (Apache 2.0 license) and it's already attracted a fork that translates it to French and redoes the graphics to be 1900s Belle Époque steampunk: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/panache/

looks like you make an account https://opensourcegames.dev/sign-in

Submitted game and it's also now possible to login with github and claim, let me know if more remakrs

A lot of these collections doesn't make a difference between a game engine and the actual playable game.

OpenTTD is an open source game, you can download it and play it as is right now, everything is included.

OpenMW is an open source engine but not an open source game per se, you need to purchase Morrowind on Steam or GOG to actually play the game itself.

A good source of open source (non-AI at least for now) games is wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...

1. Rather than showing fake screenshot (e.g. sdl-sopwith) because GitHub repo doesn't have it, you should show nothing.

2. Some game showed tailored screenshot that doesn't look like that game at all, exactly like Google play store. Showing representative screenshot is the most valuable thing you can do, you shouldn't even allow them to choose screenshot, it should be moderator choosing screenshot, not author of game, otherwise it will end up just like Google play store where images are basically useless.

3. Some projects are "engine only" and should be flagged as such.

It feels like an alternate reality where all games are Claude-generated.

I think it's because when the GitHub repo doesn't have screenshot, he shows randomly generated ai picture, nothing like the actual game.

Thanks everyone, I'm listening to all feedback and will take into account. Working on making it clear how to submit new games for now.

https://itch.io/games/code-gpl3

...and replace gpl3 with: gpl2, lgpl3, lgpl2, mit, bsd2, bsd3, apache2, artistic, epl, mpl, unlicense, zlib.

Also append /tag-no-ai as desired.

Steam has this handy curator: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-S...

Itch has this filter: https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source

As a bonus here are some random non abandoned lists I found with quick search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...

https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games

https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games

> Itch has this filter

I don't think it's a proper filter, looks like just a tag that needs to be manually applied to the game somewhere. I can tell it's not showing some FLOSS games with correctly filled out license metadata.

thanks going through them

Aren’t these just low-effort vibe coded slop games?

I don’t see the point of any of this.

That's not necessarily the whole story; it actually also collects pre-AI projects, for example:

> Jazz² Resurrection

> Play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 with a portable engine and modern control support.

I agree to an extent, though - having a filter by year would be useful (and quite ironic: "older than 2025" :))

As a kid, I would have been all over this. The signal to noise ratio is pretty bad, but that was also true for shareware collections (how about another implementation of Mahjongg) and it didn't stop me. Granted, kids these days probably have other ways to spend their time.

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