I like re3, reVC and reLCS. These are reverse engineered versions of GTA 3, Vice City and Liberty City Stories with improvements. Take Two has thrown a strike on the main repository, but you can still find mirrors or builds in the internet.

I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn’t look like it’s very active any more.

Veloren is based on Cube World and it’s an RPG with server builds and everything

I liked oolite and doomrl .

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or if you like something a little less complex, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, are fantastic roguelike games. Proper traditional, turn based, tileset ones.

Imagine a mix of Fallout and The Walking Dead, that’s what it’s like. It’s superb. The possibilities are endless

Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.

• Libregamewiki: it is really comprehensive (sometimes too much, including even not-so-good-games). They care about licencing and is is very easy to browse, top-notch for me.
• Open source games: a more relaxed repository, with lots of material.
• bobeff open source list: this is curated, which means that there are not so many games but each and every one is stable, good, maintained.
• Arcane Cache: a fantastic blog with reviews of libre games — or more precisely, underground games, there is a lot of discussion on how gamedevving philosophy too. The reviews are always in-depth and allow you to experience the games on another level, and each game is a small jewel in its category. Strongly recommended!

Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)

A lot of good tips here, but you should have a look at Endless Sky! Really cool space game
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon Roguelike, very addctive :)

• Xonotic is a great old school, Quake style FPS with an active community
• 0 A.D. is a pretty polished historical RTS
• The Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn based strategy
• OpenRA is an open implementation of the Red Alert engine that’s got an active community
• Openhv is an OpenRA based sci-fi RTS

NetHack - Roguelike

Space Cadet Pinball - Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

The Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme

Mindustry - Sandbox tower-defense game

Minetest - Voxel game engine