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Tremulous is a free and open source asymmetric team-based first-person shooter with real-time strategy elements. Being a cross-platform development project the game is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

tactical shooter and battlefield simulator video game from 2001

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2013 video game developed by Klei Entertainment

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2005 first-person shooter video game developed by Nerve Software

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BeamNG.drive is a 2015 sandbox vehicle simulation video game developed and published by Bremen-based video game developer BeamNG GmbH for Windows and Linux. The game features soft-body physics to simulate realistic handling and damage to vehicles. Initially released as a tech demo on August 3rd, 2013 along with paid access to an alpha, it was later made available on Steam Early Access for Windows on May 29th, 2015. BeamNG also develops a fork of the game designed for education as well as industrial and academic research entitled BeamNG.tech.

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chess-playing program for playing chess against the computer on a terminal or, more commonly, as a chess engine for graphical chess front-ends

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2014 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Australia

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Helltaker is a 2020 freeware indie puzzle-adventure game with dating-sim elements designed by Polish developer Łukasz Piskorz, also known as vanripper. It was released in May 2020 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is described as "a short game about sharply dressed demon girls."

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Yooka-Laylee is a 2017 platform game developed by Playtonic Games and published by Team17. Developed by a group of former key personnel from Rare, Yooka-Laylee is a spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series. The game follows chameleon Yooka and bat Laylee on their quest to retrieve a magical book from an evil corporation.

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Dofus is a tactical turn-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Ankama Games, a French video game manufacturer. Originally released only in French, it has since been translated into many other languages. The game includes both pay-to-play accounts offering the full experience and free-to-play accounts offering a more limited amount of content. Its success has led to the marketing of spin-off products, such as books, art, comics and a movie released in 2016. It has also led to the development of two continuations: Dofus Arena, released at the be

thumb|Some penguins marching in the snow Pingus is a free software game programmed by German developer Ingo Ruhnke. It is a clone of Lemmings in which the characters are penguins instead of lemmings.

2013 expansion to the video game Civilization V

1983 video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems

open-source first-person shooter game

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OpenArena is a free and open-source video game. It is a first-person shooter, and a fork of ioquake which in itself was a fork of Quake III Arena.

2009 video game by Double Fine Productions

2013 real-time strategy video game

turn-based tactical video game developed by Firaxis Games

2011 transport planning video game

2017 life simulation video game developed by Monomi Park

Valheim is an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. It was released in early access for Linux and Microsoft Windows via Steam on 2 February 2021, and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 14 March 2023. A port to the Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled to release in 2026.

1996 video game

Unturned is a free-to-play open world zombie survival sandbox game by Smartly Dressed Games, a studio consisting of Canadian game designer Nelson Sexton and a community administrator who goes by "MoltonMontro". It was released for Windows, macOS, and Linux in early access on July 7, 2014. The full game released three years later, on July 17, 2017. Unturned allows players to create custom maps using an in-game editor. Cosmetics and mods can also be created using the game's Unity engine, which allows them to publish creations on the Steam Workshop. A retail version of the game was released for t

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2013 first-person interactive story video game

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Foldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. It is part of an experimental research project developed by the University of Washington, Center for Game Science, in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry. The objective of Foldit is to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as possible, using tools provided in the game. The highest scoring solutions are analyzed by researchers, who determine whether or not there is a native structural configuration (native state) that can be applied to relevant proteins in the real world. Scientists can then use these

1997 MMORPG video game created by CipSoft

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is an open source first-person shooter video game, based on Cube and using the Cube Engine. Although the main focus of AssaultCube is multiplayer online gaming, a single-player mode consists of computer-controlled bots.

thumb|Teeworlds screenshot of a Jungle map. Teeworlds (formerly TeeWars) is a free, open-source sidescrolling multiplayer shooting game originally created by the Swedish developer Magnus Auvinen and now maintained by the community. It features simple cartoon-themed graphics and physics and relies heavily on classic shooter weaponry and gameplay. Currently there are official versions for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS as well as being available via the digital distributor Steam since 2015. The source code is publicly available.

2015 racing video game

thumb|Screenshot of X-Moto 0.6.1 thumb|Screenshot (in-detail zoom) X-Moto is a free and open source 2D motocross platform game developed for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, where physics play an all-important role in the gameplay. The basic gameplay clones that of Elasto Mania, but the simulated physics are subtly different.

Simutrans is a cross-platform simulation game in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by constructing and managing transportation systems for passengers, mail and goods by land (rail, road, tram, monorail, maglev), air (airplanes) and water (ship) between places. Like OpenTTD, Simutrans is an open-source transportation game based on the Transport Tycoon idea.

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