Open Source Turn Based Strategy Games

VASSAL is a game engine for creating electronic versions of traditional board and card games. It provides support for game piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a live connection.

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

Tyrant is a graphical roguelike fantasy adventure game. It features intricate randomly generated landscapes, towns and dungeons. It is written in Java with a highly extensible game engine.

Pizza Business is a game written in object-oriented C++, utilizing WxWindows, in which you start and control a pizza business / pizza restaurants, limited to a budget. The game is being targeted for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux.

A Java port of the Palm game Space Trader. This port is based upon the C# port at Space Trader for Windows. Recent improvements are being made to enhance it into a full-window application, under a new branch of development. Consult the wiki for info.

Avant-Garde est une application java, permettant de jouer ŕ des jeux comme ConfrontationŠ ou WarhammerŠ en réseau.<br><br> Avant-Garde is a java application, it makes possible to play game like ConfrontationŠ or WarhammerŠ via network.

A shareware game called begin was released in 1984: a tactical starship game with a good AI and fair rules (the computer had no advantage) I've hacked assembly code to make it a multiplayer game, so that folk can challenge each other rather than the AI.

[Project Dormant until 2008]Shadows Rising is a browser based RPG written in PHP, Javascript, and XHTML. MySQL/PostgreSQL supported. The core engine will allow users create unique RPGs by adding new items, classes, terrain maps to Game Modules.

Bahamut-Sango is a historical-simulation game made by the fans. Now it is in processing.

Countermoves joins non computer and computer game developers and players together to share and interact. Print and online GFDL publications are created. Print versions are offered at no cost via a “Guerilla Distribution Method”

Forgotten Destruction is a free real-time strategy game developed using the Simple DirectMedia Layer. It focuses on the conflict between an evil shadowy empire and human race with their nearby allies.

The Quantum Game Library (QGL) for PHP aims to centralise common game elements in a component library. Includes Map Computations for Grid/Hex maps, pluggable map generator, Artificial Intelligence algorithms, plugin system and more. Or it will :).

Browser-based, interactive, multiplayer RPG for Star Wars fans.

RTS game engine contributions to Stratagus. RPG mode, first-person mode, underground areas and more are planned. A distribution of Stratagus with the contributions compiled in will also be released here.

Project Angela is a family of ruleset modeling language (RML) interpreter components written in python. It is intended to easily enable RML support for a variety of different simulation engines, game engines and MMO frameworks.

Avernia Soccer pretends to be a multiplayer Soccer Management game based on the web. It allows you to run a soccer league with your friends using a web interface. At the moment only Spanish is supported but english is planned.

Server-side framework to create cardgames of various types. Defines communication models, protocols, interfaces, accounting, data models and distribution mechanisms. Not covering concrete implementations nor clients to access concrete implementations.

A computer version of the World War 2 tactical boardgame "Squad Leader" originally published by The Avalon Hill Games Company. Play any scenario against anyone around the world!

An Open Source portable pure Java game library with example games, Swing-based sprite animation engine, deployment framework, and firewall tunneling networking. The code is documented in the book Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.

CrystalNight is a web-based CGI game engine for a genre of game best described as "breeding" game. Meaning you, breed/train monsters/animals/etc. This is a game engine so the specifics for any game using it would need to be defined in the database.

CyberDweller : a multiplayer SimCity clone with web based interface. Game in progress 50x50 map, 20% water, 20% hills, 100 user limit (95 open as at Nov 16 2001 - sign up now, game has started!!)

Distributed Fair Dice Roller is a Java component that provides online games with a set of fair dice. Clients each contribute to the dice results, and can verify that all rolls were random, fair, and no other player could cheat.

EcoSim is a webbased multiplayer economy simulation game where you can found a company and trade different goods or mine raw materials. The project is in designing phase where the database is designed. Contributers are welcome!

EtherStrategy is a space-based strategy and simulation game that implements: a fully 3D universe; realistic physics; complex social, civic, and technological aspects of governance; advanced, learning artificial intelligences; and hopefully great funitude