Open Source C Simulation Games for Linux

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

2025 UPDATE: we have finally moved to Git! https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/speed-dreams-code/ This SourceForge project will be kept as a read-only archive and will be eventually removed! Speed Dreams is a Motorsport Simulator featuring high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine, all targeting maximum realism. Initially forked from TORCS, it has now reached a clearly higher realism level in visual and physics simulation, thanks to its active development team and growing community. It mainly aims to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, while constantly pushing forward visual and physics realism. It is also intended for any research, study or teaching activity, around physics and AI, thanks to its GPL V2+ license, and the clear and modular architecture of its C/C++ code base.

Ur-Quan Masters HD Mod. An HD remake of Star Control 2. It's the full Ur-Quan Masters game but also featuring a high resolution mode, new features, & new artwork.

TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and Windows.

CRRCSim is a model-airplane flight simulation program for Linux with ports to other platforms. Using CRRCSim you can learn how to fly model aircraft, test new aircraft designs, and improve your skills by practicing in the relative safety of your pc.

An OpenGL Billard Game based on foobillard 3.0a with patches, new features (hud, jumpshots, correct detection of lost balls, more sound and graphics etc). Optimized for touch. New designed mouse / touch-control. On Facebook: www.facebook.com/Foobillardplus Some Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/foobillardplus/videos

Vega Strike is a 3d OpenGL Action Space Sim for Win/Lin/Mac allowing players to trade, bounty hunt, or explore in a vast universe. Active development is now on https://github.com/vegastrike and on http://www.vega-strike.org Vega Strike is mod ready and network playable.

dopewars is a drug dealing game based on "Drug Wars" by John E. Dell. Originally set in New York, your aim is to deal in drugs and make your fortune... See the website at https://dopewars.sourceforge.io for more information.

OpenCity is another 3D city simulator. You can build residential, commercial and industrial zones then supply them with necessary goods and watch them grow up. Version 0.0.6stable is now available for download. Any feature request/bug report is welcome

Finally, a working xsnow for Gnome, KDE, etc. Based on the original xsnow-1.42 created by Rick Jansen, after the xsnow-2019 conference in Antas (Spain) we now have available a xsnow that works on many desktop environments, even Raspian. By request of many beta-testers, a graphical front end has been created as well. For non-Unix users, there is https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsnow .

A UNIX/Windows/Linux remake of the DOS-game "stunts", providing modern features like openGL graphics, 3D sound and internet multiplaying. Design your own tracks, choose your opponents and try the most spectacular stunts you've ever seen.

This was the official home of Race Into Space, the computer version of the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner. It was developed by Strategic Visions and published by Interplay as a disk-based game in 1993 and a CD-ROM in 1994. This location houses the prior release of the game, v. 1.1 released in 2013. There is now a v.2.0.0, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/raceintospace/raceintospace/releases/tag/v2.0.0. News and updates are available on our Mastodon account at https://mstdn.games/@raceintospace

BillardGL is a GPL 3D OpenGL Billard Simulator for both Windows and Linux, available as RPM, Windows Setup File and pure code.

Lincity is a city simulation game. Build your city up from a primitive village to an advanced civilization. Build a sustainable economy, or build rockets to escape from a pollution ridden and resource starved planet.

A free, industrial quality library for simulating articulated rigid body dynamics - for example ground vehicles, legged creatures, and moving objects in VR environments. It's fast, flexible & robust. Built-in collision detection.

XPilot is a multi-player 2D space game for both local and Internet gaming. Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteroids and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust and Gravity Force, but XPilot has many new aspects too.

A clone of Sim City ported to a variety of handhelds.

Corewar is a game played vicariously through the action of assembly language programs written in a language called Redcode. Corewar is discussed in the Usenet group REC.GAMES.COREWAR; the reference implementation of this game, pMARS, is maintained here.

This project is a fork of my previous project, Speed ​​Dreams. It relies on unlockable challenges or a career mode, where you start with credits that allow you to purchase a car. Then, each race (qualifying and race) in which you place in the top ten will earn you additional credits, which will allow you to purchase other cars. In this mode, contracts may be offered to you, and special races are available.

The Clue! (known as Der Clou! in Austria) is a 1994 remake of the 1986 game They Stole a Million. It would form a two game series, with a sequel following in 2001, under the guise of The Sting! or Der Clou 2!. The Clue! is a mixture of many video game genres. It can be described as role-playing adventure game with tactical/strategy elements and puzzles in the form of burglaries. The gameplay is composed of two different modes - most of the time, the player is travelling around the city of London and talking with people using point-and-click interface like in classical adventure games, while more strategy-like top-down perspective is used for the actual planning of the heists. [...] (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

OpenArena is a 3d game creation engine. It is a rendering system that can be used for more than just games but it is targeted at games. The basic use being create some game media textures models maps and config files for physics and rules.

Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game, in a similar vein to Escape Velocity.

No Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more !

XHSI (eXternal High-resolution Simulator Instruments) is an add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays the PFD, ND, EICAS, Flaps and Gear indicator, Clock/Chronometer, etc... in separate windows. In general, the instruments can be displayed in B737-NG or A320 style.

QRPSim is a contest and general QRP CW QSOs simulator. Currently supports RU-QRP "Russian Hunt" QRP game. QRPSim is used by novice to increase CW practice in contest-like environment. It useful for training and entertainment, popularizing RU-QRP activities amongst hamradio worldwide. Contest managers are able to "debug" contest rules by simulating various scenarios with QRPSim.