Games

I keep a list of games I want to play & games I am playing now or plan to play next on Grouvee.

I also keep a list of all games I have played with a list of my favorite games I've played. I also share thoughts on some games I played.

Recently I mostly play chess on the phone, Wild Rift on iPad or various games on PS5. If I ever make a small game, itch.io seems like a nice marketplace.

Awesome Online games

• WikiBattle - 1v1 race who first reaches a randomly selected article.
• Wiki Game - Explore & race through wikipedia.
• A Dark Room (Code)
• PROXX - Game of proximity. (Code)
• Hordes - Free to play 3D Multiplayer Browsergame in Open Beta.
• Skynet Simulator (HN)
• Codenames - Play codenames using a TV or computer for the board. (Code)
• friendsand.games - Handselected free online games to play during calls with your friends and family. (Code)
• Mosaic - Online multiplayer boardgame to play with all (2-4) of your friends. (Code)
• Ring of Worlds - Multiplayer card game written in Haskell and Elm. (Code)
• Mareo - HTML 5 canvas implementation of Mario in Reason + Bucklescript. (Code)
• Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser (HN)
• Fire Runner
• Dig Escape - Game written in Rust, compilable to webbassembly. (Code)
• PiAwk
• NAiAD
• Pure Skill Minesweeper (HN)
• Minesweeper
• Hanabi - Cooperative card game. (Code)
• skribbl - Free Multiplayer Drawing & Guessing Game.
• PSX Party - Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC. (HN)
• generals.io - Protect your general. Capture enemy generals.
• Play Cards With Me - Play card games online together with your rules. (Code)
• Draw Battle - Competitive team drawing game.
• BUGOUT - Play Go against your friends or AI, over the web. (Code)
• Sokyokuban - Puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world. (HN)
• Tiny Land Online - Tiny Minimalistic Online RPG Game. (Code)
• vnav.io - Fun shooting game. (HN)
• Lizard - Online card game for up to 6 players.
• Candy Box 2 (Code)
• Smash Karts - Multiplayer Kart Battle Arena game.
• Hatetris - Tetris which always gives you the worst piece. (Code) (HN)
• Lovetris - Tetris which always gives you the best piece. (Code) (HN)
• PlayingCards.io - Virtual deck of cards using just a browser.
• yare.io - Game where you control units with JavaScript. (HN) (Reddit)
• Evolve - Incremental game about evolving a civilization. (Code)
• Wayfinder - Relaxing 'art game' in the browser. (HN)
• Freeciv-Web - Open source turn-based strategy game. (HN)
• Freeciv - Open-source Civilization clone. (Code) (HN)
• Puzzle Panda - Play Jigsaw Puzzles Online. (HN)
• Pokémon Showdown - Pokémon battle simulator. (Code)
• Prince of Persia in JavaScript (HN) (Code)
• Wordle - Daily word game. (HN) (Wordle Archive) (Wordle Is a Love Story)
• hello wordl - Wordle but you can play forever. (Code)
• Word Master - Heavily inspired by Wordle. Word guessing game similar to Mastermind. (Code)
• Worldledge - Implementation of Wordle to help you learn Next.js and Vercel.
• Looptap - Minimal game to waste your time. (HN)
• Squabble - Multiplayer Wordle Royale. (HN)
• Quordle - Four Wordles in One. (HN)
• Krunker - Fast 3D Shooter in Browser.
• Eight Colors - Puzzle Game in HTML5. (HN)
• 18xx.Games - Platform for playing 18xx games online. (Code)
• Battle of Flags - Browser-based RTS game. (HN)
• Figure - Daily logic puzzle game. (HN)
• HaxBall - Physics-based multiplayer soccer game where teamwork is key.

Awesome OSS games

• Portal 2D - 2D remake of the Portal games with the Godot-Engine.
• Overgrowth - Open Source codebase of the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games. (HN)
• ActionRoguelike - Third-person Action Roguelike made in Unreal Engine C++ (for Stanford CS193U 2020). (Article) (HN)
• Citybound - City building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details. (HN)
• Diablo build for modern operating systems
• OneLife - Multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building.
• OpenMW - Open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind. (HN)
• OpenDiablo2 - Open source re-implementation of Diablo 2.
• Pioneer - Game of lonely space adventure.
• openage - Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine.
• AIDungeon2 - Infinite adventures await.
• VVVVVV
• Julius - Open source re-implementation of Caesar III.
• Quake 2
• QuakeJS - Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten. (HN)
• vkQuake - Quake 1 port using Vulkan instead of OpenGL for rendering.
• Aim and Shoot - Neuroevolution game experiment. (Code)
• HyperRogue - SDL roguelike in a non-euclidean world. (Code) (Explanation)
• Vinifera - Open source re-implementation of Tiberian Sun : Firestorm written in C++.
• Chronoshift - Open Source Re-Implementation of Command and Conquer: Red Alert.
• FreeAge - Open-source reimplementation of the game engine of Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition.
• Good Web Game - Minimal 2d game framework for wasm.
• Veloren - Open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. (Code) (Launcher) (HN) (HN)
• Paddlers - Multi-player real-time strategy browser game.
• Orb.Farm - Sealed aquatic ecosystem. (Code) (Lobsters)
• Asteroids - Variation on the game Asteroids, written in Rust. (Code)
• Games by David Evans
• Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert - Released Under GPL3. (HN)
• LSD - Line-square-dot: an addicting game.
• Dino Jump
• shapez.io - Open source base building game inspired by factorio. (Web)
• MineJS - Minecraft-like voxel engine built in JavaScript.
• Hypermine - Minecraft-like game that is playable in a hyperbolic geometry. (Demo) (Wiki)
• OpenDUNE - Open source re-creation of the popular game "Dune II".
• MineSweeper - Implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript. (HN)
• Team Comtress 2 - Team Fortress 2, but with a lot of fixes, QoL improvements and performance optimizations.
• Amnesia (HN)
• Ninja vs EVILCORP - Platformer inspired by Super Meat Boy, Stealth Bastard Deluxe, and other great similar games.
• Sulis - Turn based tactical RPG with several campaigns, written in Rust. (Web)
• Various browser games
• Seeds Game - Collect seeds, save the world. (Code)
• Doom 3
• Dhewm3 - Doom 3 Source Port. (HN) (Code)
• Slasher Prototype - In Lua. 2.5D perspective view.
• Unix ASCII games (Code)
• Micro Racing - Multiplayer 3D isometric racing game written in WebGL.
• Ordinary Puzzles - Minimalistic puzzle game built using React Native. (Code)
• Word Guess - Hangman without the hanging man. (Code)
• osu! - Free-to-win rhythm game. (Web)
• MoonShot - Written in Go and using its own game engine. (Code)
• StripCode - Guess which GitHub repo a code snippet came from. (Code)
• Shotcaller - RTS / MOBA game with multiple front ends: ASCII-rendered or tiles-rendered.
• Station Iapetus - 3rd person shooter in the very early development phase. Written in Rust.
• Soldat - 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. (HN)
• re3 - GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered. (HN)
• Valheim - Survival and sandbox video game. (Valheim Server)
• Mindustry - Sandbox tower-defense game. (Code)
• OpenTTD - Open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe. (Code)
• Liblast - Libre multiplayer FPS game created in Godot.
• Nine Chronicles - Open source online RPG without servers.
• SNKRX - Arcade shooter roguelite where you control a snake of heroes that automatically attack nearby enemies. (HN)
• BYTEPATH - Replayable arcade shooter with a focus on build theorycrafting.
• Racing Game in ThreeJS
• Beyond All Reason - Open source RTS game built on top of the Spring RTS Engine. (Code)
• Oxid - Arcade-style game that runs natively or in the browser. (Web)
• Some Tank Game - Action game written in Rust using the Bevy engine.
• Rusted Ruins - Extensible open world rogue like game with pixel art. Players can explore the wilderness and ruins.
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. (Code)
• Widelands - Free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. (Web) (HN)
• Doomsday Engine - Doom / Heretic / Hexen port with enhanced graphics. (Code)
• Fish Fight - Tactical 2D shooter. Made with Rust-lang and Macroquad. (Code)
• shoot_game - Game using HTML5 Canvas and Vanilla JavaScript.
• Q1K3 - Tiny FPS for the 2021 js13k competition.
• Swarm - 2D programming and resource gathering game. (Article) (Reddit)
• pacman.zig - Simple Pacman clone written in Zig.
• Electronvolt - FPS with physics based puzzles.
• Quake 3 in Haskell & Vulkan
• Vange-rs - Game uses wgpu-rs for graphics and winit for windowing.
• Cosmic Verge - 2d, persistent multiplayer, single-universe game written in Rust.
• Space-shooter.c - Cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C. (HN)
• Cornell McRay t'Racing - Quick'n'dirty game sample using kajiya, physx-rs, and dolly.
• Wordle Clone - Clone of the popular game Wordle made using React, Typescript, and Tailwind.
• Rustenstein 3D - Wolfenstein 3D port written in rust. (Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992) (HN)
• Swords and Ravens - Reimplementation of the board game "A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition".
• pacman.c - Simple Pacman clone written in C99.
• minesweep-rs - Mine sweeping game written in Rust using tui-rs.
• Secret multiplayer browser game
• ByteLegend - Learn programming while playing a game. (Code) (HN)
• Open Golf - Cross-platform minigolf game written in C. (HN)
• OpenRCT2 - Open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. (Web)
• Crispy Doom - Limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based on Chocolate Doom. (HN)
• Unciv - Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V.
• Free Heroes of Might and Magic II - Recreation of HoMM2 game engine.
• Cytopia - Free, open source retro pixel-art city building game with a big focus on mods. (Web) (HN)
• Herfi - 3D multiplayer game prototype/technical demo written in Clojure and ClojureScript.
• Swune - Swift/UIKit reimplementation of the Dune II RTS game.
• feiok - Vibrant, isometric, multiplayer-centric farming game written in Go.
• Legend of Lua - Open-source Love2D Zelda-like game, currently in development.
• Solaris - HTML5 game of strategy, intrigue and galactic conquest.
• Attacke! - Simple two-player fighting game.
• OpenGOAL - Custom Lisp language developed by Naughty Dog. (Web)
• Rust Game Ports - Ports of open source games to Rust, using different pure-Rust game engines.
• ToCenter - Video game written in Rust using the ggez engine and the ECS library.
• Fish Fight: Punchy - 2.5D side-scroller beat-’em-up, made in Bevy.
• Pycraft - OpenGL, open world, video game made entirely with Python.

Awesome games (other)

• Factorio (HN) (Optimal belt balancing in Factorio)
• Tabletop Simulator (HN)
• Hades (Tweet)
• Disco Elysium (Tweet)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (HN)
• Little Kitty, Big City (Discord)

Other

• Lucid Heist (Tweet)
• Popup Dungeon (Tweet)
• Inexor - First person shooter game.
• NoPixel - Grand Theft Auto V role-play server.
• SkyWeaver - Trading Card Game from Another Dimension.
• Tetr.io (HN)
• Downpour - Game making tool for phones. (HN) (Article)
• Bear's Restaurant

Recommendations

• What game would you describe as a masterpiece?
• What are some games you replay every few years?
• Games where you write code: part I
  • Part II
• Game recs (2020)
• What were the five most important video games to you throughout your youth/teen years? (2020)
• PS story game recs
• Ask HN: What's that Game that predicts your choices? (2020)
• A comparison of city building games (2021) (HN)
• What older video games do you find yourself going back to? (2021)
• Ask HN: What are some good strategy games? (2021)
• Your favorite games that made you learn real life concepts? (2021)
• Game recs (2021)
• Great RTS games (2021)
• Long game suggestions (2021)
• What are some of your favorite short single player campaign games? (2022)
• What's your favorite video game of all time? (2022)
• Ask HN: What are you favorite games? (2022)
• List of underrated titles on PS4 (2022)
• What is your most favorite Playstation game of all time? (2022)
• What is in your opinion one MUST play game from the last 20 years? (2022)
• What are you currently playing on PS?
• What is your most anticipated game of 2022?
• Open-World RPG Recommendations (2022)
• What are your favorite games? Widest definition possible.
• What's The Best Playstation Game Of All Time? (2022)
• Games where the music just feels right (2022)
• What Are You Playing This Week? (2022)
• Best RTS games right now? (2022)
• Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day? (2022)
• Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories? (2022)
• Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a better programmer? (2022)
• Great video games made by Russians (2022)
• Favorite RTS title of all time, and why? (2022)

Links

• Awesome games
• Games on GitHub - List of popular/awesome videos games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine. (HN)
• Patient gamers subreddit
• Awesome educational games
• If you had to recommend someone play 5 games to really get a feel for you/your tastes, what five would you pick?
• Gameboy.Live - Basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support.
• Awesome PICO-8
• HSTracker - Deck tracker and deck manager for Hearthstone on macOS.
• The First Video Game (2019)
• No-Bullshit Games - Good, non-annoying, enjoyable games. (HN)
• Open Worlds - How we became nostalgic for Minecraft. (HN)
• What are some good travel-focused video games? (2020)
• Steam Database - Insight into the applications and packages that Steam has in its database.
• Running decade-old games in containers (2020)
• Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018) (HN)
• TShock - Provides Terraria servers with server-side characters, anti-cheat, and community management tools.
• Dockerfile for terraria
• GG| - Video Game Collection Tracker.
• Factory Planner - Mod for Factorio. It allows you to plan out your production in detail.
• Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games. (Code) (App) (GitHub) (Twitter)
• TrueSkill - Rating system among game players. (Code)
• How To Get Worse At StarCraft II (2020)
• Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game (2020) (HN)
• Read-Only Memory - Publisher of beautiful books on videogame history. (Twitter)
• Gamework (2020)
• Flash Game History (HN) (Lobsters)
• Analogue - Makes gaming devices.
• Factorio and Software Engineering (2020) (HN)
• Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs (2020) (HN)
• GameTrack - Making managing your games collection easy and enjoyable.
• Ajour - World of Warcraft addon manager written in Rust. (Code)
• Paradox Interactive - Global publisher of strategy games.
• Epic Games Store
• Steam Store
• Steam Portal - Projects to analyze Steam data.
• The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary) (2020)
• RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island (2018)
• Path of Exile trading app for price checking
• Games for a Plague Year (2020)
• The RuneScape Documentary - 15 Years of Adventure (2017)
• On Small Games (HN)
• Apple Silicon Games (HN)
• The Card Player's Guide To Lockdown (2020)
• SimulationCraft - Tool to explore combat mechanics in the popular MMO RPG World of Warcraft.
• Puzzles
• playit.gg - Making it easy to play games with friends. Self host game servers with a free static IP. (HN)
• Proton Custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components.
• FACEIT - Competitive gaming platform for online multiplayer games. (GitHub)
• Functorio - Having fun with functional programming (2021) (Talk) (HN)
• Playnite - Video game library manager. (Code)
• Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step (2021) (HN)
• Ask HN: Best free games to play on PC? (2021)
• Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming (2021)
• Serious Play (2021) - Video games are taking over the world and it's time for Design to take them seriously.
• Wavedash - Discover new games. Keep track of what you've played. Share your thoughts.
• What’s the last 10/10 video game you played? (2021)
• IGDB.com - Video game database.
• Awesome Programming Games
• Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life? (2021)
• The future of games is instant (2021)
• Valve Steam Deck - All-in-one portable PC gaming. (HN)
• Google for Games (GitHub)
• Senpai.gg - Personal gaming coach for PC gamers. (HN)
• 'Cookie Clicker' Wasn't Meant to Be Fun. Why Is It So Popular 8 Years Later? (2021) (Tweet)
• ProtonDB - Gaming reports for Linux using Proton and Steam Play.
• Framework for what makes play-to-earn work (2021)
• Are you playing to play, or playing to win? (HN)
• Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’ (2021) (HN)
• So you want to compete with Roblox (2021) (HN) (Tweet)
• Computer Game Play Reduces Intrusive Memories of Experimental Trauma via Reconsolidation-Update Mechanisms (2015) (HN)
• Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games (2021) (HN)
• All Atari Games (HN)
• The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (2014) (HN)
• Your 5 most important video games during your youth years (2021)
• 100 Thieves - Gaming, entertainment, and apparel. (Tweet)
• Games are well-positioned to become the true fans of web3, and why that matters (2021)
• Best single player games (2021)
• Casino Cheating Expert Reviews Card Counting and Casino Scams From Movies (2021)
• Video game landscapes will make you nostalgic for worlds you’ve never visited
• The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077 (2021) (HN)
• CloudRetro - Web-based Cloud Gaming service for Retro Game.
• Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. (2021) (HN)
• Heroes of Might and Magic (2021) (HN)
• Video Game Preservation
• What games do respect your time and why? (2022)
• Younger gamers, what's your "wow, games have come a long way" memory? (2022)
• There are too many video games (2022) (HN)
• DarkPattern.games - Find Healthy Mobile Games. (HN)
• Wordle Solver
• Another Wordle - Generate your custom wordle and share with friends. (Code)
• Thank You, Valve (2022) (HN)
• The Factorio Mindset (2022) (HN)
• Recommendations for building small gaming PC (2022)
• Piepacker - Free cloud gaming platform to hangout and play premium retro games with your friends online from any device.
• What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling? (2022) (HN)
• BoilR - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library.
• Mutagen - C# library for analyzing, modifying, and creating Bethesda mods.
• Ludusavi - Backup tool for PC game saves.
• Strangemood - Decentralized marketplace for software licenses: an app store. Mostly for games. (Code)
• Valve Software Archive (HN)
• Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris? (2022)
• What games do you feel are the most fun to be a evil character in?
• Morrowind 20-year anniversary book (HN)
• Ask HN: What game you wished existed? (2022)
• KaTrain - Improve your Baduk skills by training with KataGo.
• Ask HN: Favorite open source game? (2022)
• Bit Slicer - Universal game trainer for macOS, written using Cocoa and Mach kernel APIs.
• Nostalgia Time: MMO's You Whole Heartedly miss (2022)
• Skyscraper - Powerful and versatile yet easy to use game scraper written in C++.
• Tilted Online - Skyrim and Fallout 4 mod to play online.
• Are great games being ignored? An investigation (2022)
• Python Plays Grand Theft Auto 5