Tagged: open source

Screenshot from battalion

battalion Action categoryArcade category

Andy Johnson’s mini monster movie is adorable and awkward, a cutesy Godzilla game working in the constraints of a niche computer platform.

Screenshot from Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid

Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid Action categoryPlatform category

Though not the hard-hitting action title its gruff hero might imply, Metal Blob Solid offers well-designed levels and demonstrates the amateur ingenuity of the early open-source game movement.

Screenshot from Crystal Pixels

Crystal Pixels Other category

Go inside a void of glistening lights, created by its programmer as a personal place to be alone. You can explore it if you can control it. Maybe we’re not supposed to play this.

Screenshot from Enigma

Enigma Puzzle category

This nearly impossible puzzle game with over 2000 levels is so absurdly complicated that it’s a spectacle.

Title screen from The Frogs Of War

The Frogs Of War Action category

Developed sporadically for two decades and based on a bizarre dream about lizard men, The Frogs Of War is a perplexing game that follows no other.

Screenshot from Heroes

Heroes Arcade category

If you packed as many features as possible into a version of Snake, it might look like Heroes.

Screenshot from kiki the nano bot

kiki the nano bot Platform categoryPuzzle category

Gravity, space, and direction are torn to pieces by kiki the nano bot‘s mind-bending antics, possibly too much so.

From Kobo Deluxe

Kobo Deluxe Arcade category

The awesome action in Kobo Deluxe moves so smoothly that you can play it without thinking.

Screenshot from Liquid War 5

Liquid War 5 Strategy category

From the bones of the strategy genre comes this liquid-y war game where fighting is about filling up the right spaces.

Screenshot from Magus

Magus RPG category

In place of plot or a focus on RPG stats, Magus lets you wander.