cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12713458
Disclaimer: I changed a little the layout and thanks for the contributions!
The Idea:
On my old Mastodon Profile i’ve made a list of Rebuilds/Fan Remakes/SourcePorts (when possible opensource, no commercial remakes) for old PC Games, and i want to share it here on Lemmy too, so people can easily find it.
Why?
I’ve played lot of these games, and i’m glad there a Fans who still working on these games, to make it accessible on modern systems and giving them some QoL improvments. In my opinion, that’s a great way to preserve old games from being forgotten and keep playable for new players. Also these people need some recognition (at least) for their hard work.
I’m glad If you help to complete this list and contribute some games you know.
In the moment there are alphabetical sorted:
- 68 PC Games in total
- 53 Remakes, SourcePorts etc.
New additions will be marked with *
The List:
Ambermoon - Ambermoon.net
Arx Fatalis - Arx Libertatis
Baldurs Gate (I, II, also Icewind Dale I and II) - GemRB
Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)
Caesar III - Julius
Call to Power II - Apolyton Call to Power II Source Code Project *
Civilization V - Unciv *
Clonk - OpenClonk *
Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA
Descent (1, 2) - Descent Rebirth
Descent 3 - Descent 3 *
Diablo - DevilutionX
Doom (I, II) - ZDoom
Dune II - Dune Legacy
Dungeon Keeper - KeeperFX
Elite - Elite: The New Kind
Fallout - Fallout Community Edition *
Fallout 2 - Fallout 2 Community Edition *
Final Fantasy IX - Memoria *
Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *
Half Life - xash3d *
Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2
Heroes of Might and Magic III - VCMI *
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Jazz² *
LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *
Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion - OpenLoco *
Marathon (1,2 and Infinity) - Aleph One
Master of Orion - 1oom *
Might and Magic VI (also VII and VIII is in work) - OpenEnroth
Quake - Ironwail
Quake III: Arena - ioquake3 *
Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *
The Settlers - FreeSerf *
The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)
Stalker (Call of Pripyat and Call of Chernobyl) - OpenXRay*
Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters
Star Wars : Dark Forces - The Force Engine *
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - OpenJKDF2 *
Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy - OpenJK
TES II : Daggerfall - Daggerfall Unity
TES III: Morrowind - OpenMW
Theme Hospital - CorsixTH
Tomb Raider I and II - TRX *
Transport Tycoon Deluxe - OpenTTD
Ultima IV - xu4
Ultima VII - Exult
Ultima Underworld I (and II) - Underworld Exporter
Rollercoaster Tycoon (I and II) - openRCT2
Warzone 2100 - Warzone 2100 *
WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - ET: Legacy *
X-COM: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep - OpenXcom *
X-COM Apocalypse - OpenApoc
There is also the List here https://osgameclones.com/, who did unknown to me the same.
Addendum SCUMMVM:
SCUMMVM is the first place for adventure games from Lucas Arts (Monkey Island etc.) or Sierra (Kings Quest etc) anf for the RPGs from Origin (Ultima VI), Westwood (Eye of the Beholder) and New World Compting (Might and Magic I, III and IV), but also many more. Here you can check the list of games out.
Addendum “Inspired Games”
I think that games divergence too much from the original games, but also should be mentioned.
Age of Empires - 0.A.D.
Cataclysm - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Civilization II and III - FreeCiv
Colonization - FreeCol
Escape Velocity - Endless Sky
Elite II - Pioneer
Lemmings - Pingus
The Settlers II - Widelands
Total Annihilation - Beyond all Reason
Warlords II - LordsAWar!
Addendum Console Games:
If you are looking for Ports for Console Games to PC here is this list on GitHub
Also i would recommend the Open Source Port of the First two Jake and Daxter games
Addendum Source Ports for Android
moonpiedumplings made a list of Source Ports for Android on reddit
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You title them ports or remakes - do these all require the original game asset files?
When I read remake, I thought they’d be independent games, inspired by or replicating the originals.
Is it mixed? That info would be helpful for a list and an overview. For most, I wouldn’t have any assets.
Huge +1 recommendation for Manic Miners. Functionally a 1:1 remake with everything you could ask for and more- lots of settings, remastered levels and a level builder, and lots of settings. The (solo) dev got hired by Lego’s video game division afterwards
Mechanized Assault and eXploration (M.A.X.) - Mechanized Assault and eXploration Reloaded
Disclosure: That’s my baby. We’re not very active any more and while we were self hosted for a decade the development shifted to GitHub recently: https://github.com/maxr-dot-org/maxr/releases (I know but I don’t have the spoons for this any more so the active devs got to decide)
that’s awesome! I only played m.a.x. 2 in my childhood but i’ll take a look on that. Can i add it to the list?
It’s FOSS, of course you can 🤓 Fun fact: Most MAX players hate MAX2 to this day. The disappointment is similar to studios getting bought up by EA.
This is great, thank you so much. Saved so I can add something if I come across anything you hadn’t covered yet.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some gaming to do!
Have fun :) and Tell me, If you run into troubles or else, so if it’s not working i’ll add this to the list. What game you are starting?
I’ll sure try Diablo, I totally forgot about that. Having played Diablo 2 Resurrected recently, that fits. Also want to try that Lego game, never heard about it, but it looks fun. And maybe some Icewind Dale, but not sure how that holds up :)
appears to be a fannish remake of the PC-98-only versus STG Touhou Yumeijikū ~ Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, for modern computer systems, released around 2017, though it’s a bit jank on the gameplay side of things. Caught wind of it from a couple Jaimers vids on this a while back.
I just started playing Dark Forces again, had no idea there is a way to modernize it, thanks for sharing!
Glad that it can help you :) Have fun with Dark Forces!
There’s even an official remaster on GOG and Steam. I heard that its assets even work with the open source engine.
Dude, I just installed The Force Engine on my Steamdeck, found a good write-up how to do that via the flatpak the project now offers. It’s fantastic, looks so much better and plays very smooth! And since you point it to the current game directory I could even continue my progress from the original game!
I know, just didn’t feel like buying it. Even with a discount it felt expensive when I already own the original.
Me too. I’m waiting for it to go below 10 or maybe even 5 €.
It is on my wishlist for that reason :D
But maybe if this fan project works well enough I’ll take it off.
Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR
This was such a great RTS/FPS hybrid at the time. I looked for RTS/FPS games a couple of years ago when I remembered it, and the genre is all but dead. I did spend a lot of time playing Silica though, which is still in early access. I haven’t checked in on that in a while now though.
There’s also Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and the community developed version
You are right, i forgot this one too! Thanks for pointing that out :)
Ohh, saved for later, saw a few i was too young to play effectively on my 3/486 at that age. Thank you
