Video game | Name of game engine recreation | Status | License | Refs |
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Development | Playable |
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7th Guest | v64tng | Active |  | MIT License | [1] |
Abuse | Abuse | Completed |  | GPLv2, WTFPLv2 | |
Age of Empires | Chariot | Inactive |  | MIT License | [2] |
Age of Empires Free Software Remake | Active |  | Apache-2.0 | [3] [4] |
Age of Empires II | openage | Active |  | GPLv3+ | [5] |
freeaoe | ? |  | GPLv3+ | [6] |
Aliens versus Predator (1999) | avp | ? | ? | ? | |
avp_GLES | ? | ? | ? | |
Alone in the Dark | Free in the Dark | Active | ? | GPLv2 | [7] [8] |
Alone in the Dark 2 |
Alone in the Dark 3 |
Jack in the Dark |
Ambermoon | Ambermoon.net | Active |  | GPL | [9] |
Another World | New RAW | Inactive | ? | GPLv2+ | |
raw (Rewritten engine for Another World) | Inactive | ? | GPLv2+ | [10] |
rawgl | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura | OpenArcanum | ? | ? | ? | |
Arx Fatalis | Arx Libertatis | Active |  | GPLv3+ | [11] [12] [13] |
Bermuda Syndrome | Bermuda Syndrome engine reimplementation | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Betrayal at Krondor | xBaK | Inactive |  | ? | |
Blade Runner | ScummVM | Active |  | GPLv3+ | [14] [15] |
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain | Blood Omnicide | ? | ? | ? | |
BVE Trainsim | openBVE | Completed |  | Public-domain | |
Caesar III | CaesarIA | Inactive | ? | GPLv3+ | [16] |
Julius | Completed |  | AGPLv3 | [17] |
Cannon Fodder | Open Fodder | Completed |  | GPLv3+ | |
Cannon Fodder 2 | |
Carmageddon | dethrace | Active |  | GPLv3+ | [18] |
The Castles of Dr. Creep | Castles of Dr. Creep | Completed |  | GPLv3+ | |
Catacomb 3-D | CatacombGL | Active |  | GPL | [19] |
Catacomb Abyss |
Catacomb Armageddon |
Catacomb Apocalypse |
Cave Story | NXEngine | Inactive |  | GPL | |
doukutsu-rs | Active |  | MIT | |
Chaos;Head | FGRE | Inactive | ? | GPLv3+ | |
Steins;Gate | |
Chasm: The Rift | PanzerChasm | Inactive |  | GPLv3 | [20] |
Clannad | xclannad | ? | ? | ? | |
Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn | FreeCNC | Inactive |  | GPLv2 | [21] |
OpenRA | Active |  | GPLv3 | [22] [23] |
Vanilla Conquer | Active |  | GPLv3 [24] | [25] |
Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour | Thyme | Active |  | GPL | [26] |
OpenSAGE | Active |  | LGPL | [27] |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert | FreeRA | Inactive |  | GPLv2 | [28] |
OpenRedAlert based on FreeCNC and FreeRA | Inactive |  | GPLv2 | [29] |
Red Alert++ / Chronoshift | Inactive |  | GPLv2 | [30] [31] [32] [33] |
OpenRA | Active |  | GPLv3 | [22] |
Vanilla Conquer | Active |  | GPLv3 [24] | [25] |
Commander Keen series | Keen Dreams | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy | Omnispeak | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Commander Keen in Keen Dreams | Commander Genius | Active | ? | GPL | |
Reflection Keen | Active | ? | GPL | |
Creatures | openc2e | Active | ? | LGPL | [34] |
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion | OpenLoco | Active |  | MIT License | [35] |
Curse of the Azure Bonds | coab (Curse of the Azure Bonds) | Inactive |  | New BSD | |
Doom engine games | List of Doom ports | Completed |  | GPLv2+, Doom Source License | |
The Daedalus Encounter | OpenDaed | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Death Rally | DreeRally | Active | ? | Public-domain | |
dRally | Active | ? | ? | |
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf | OpenStrike | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Jungle Strike: The Sequel to Desert Strike |
Diablo | Freeablo | Inactive |  | GPL | [36] [37] |
Devilution | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | [38] |
DevilutionX | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | [39] |
djavul | Inactive | ? | Unlicense | |
Die by the Sword | Die by the Sword – Xtended | ? | ? | ? | |
Dink Smallwood | GNU FreeDink | Completed |  | GPL | |
Dragon Age II | xoreos (Bioware's Aurora engine and its derivatives) | Active | ? | GPL | [40] [41] |
Dragon Age: Origins | ? |
Jade Empire | ? |
Neverwinter Nights | ? |
Neverwinter Nights 2 | ? |
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood | ? |
The Witcher | ? |
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | reone | Active | ? | GPL | [42] |
xoreos | Active | ? | GPL | [40] [41] |
KotOR.js | Active |  | GPLv3+ | |
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords | reone | Active | ? | GPL | [42] |
xoreos | Active | ? | GPL | [40] [41] |
KotOR.js | Active |  | GPLv3+ | |
Dragon Wars | OpenDW | Active | ? | ISC license | [43] |
Driver 2 | REDRIVER2 | Completed |  | MIT License | [44] [45] |
Duke Nukem | FreeNukum | Active | ? | AGPLv3+ | [46] [47] |
ReDuke | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Duke Nukem II | Rigel Engine | Active | ? | GPL | |
Duke Nukem 3D | EDuke32 | Active |  | GPL | [48] [49] |
Dune II | DuneLegacy | Active | ? | GPL | [50] |
OpenDUNE | Active | ? | GPL | |
Dune Dynasty | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Dungeon Keeper | KeeperFX | Active |  | GPLv2+ | |
Dungeon Keeper 2 | OpenKeeper | Active | ? | GPLv3+ | |
GLKeeper | Inactive |  | MIT License | |
The Elder Scrolls I: Arena | OpenTESArena | Active |  | MIT License | [51] |
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall | XL Engine (DaggerXL) | Inactive | ? | MIT License | [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] |
Daggerfall Unity | Active |  | MIT License | [57] [58] [59] |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind | Project Aedra | Inactive | ? | as-is | [60] |
OpenMW | Active |  | GPLv3+ | |
The Crystal Scrolls | Inactive | ? | LGPL | |
ELF Corporation | ANISE | ? | ? | ? | [61] |
Elite | Elite – The New Kind | ? | ? | ? | |
Elite : Harmless | Active | ? | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |
Escape from Colditz | Colditz Escape | Completed |  | ? | |
EverQuest | LanternEQ | Active |  | ? | |
Eye of the Beholder | ScummVM Kyra engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Eye of the Beholder II | ScummVM Kyra engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
ArcEngine | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Spectalum | Inactive |  | GPL-2.0 | [62] |
F-1 Spirit | F1-Spirit Remake | ? | ? | ? | [63] |
Fade to Black | f2bgl | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Fallout | Fallout Community Edition | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | |
Fallout Reference Edition | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | [65] |
Fallout 2 | Falltergeist | Inactive | ? | GPLv3+ | [66] |
DarkFO | Inactive |  | Apache 2.0 | [67] |
jsFO | Inactive |  | Apache 2.0 | [68] |
Fallout 2 Reference Edition | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | [69] |
Fallout 2 Community Edition | Active |  | Sustainable Use License | |
Vault13 | Inactive |  | GPLv3+ | [71] |
Final Fantasy VII | Q-Gears | Inactive | ? | GPLv2 | |
Final Fantasy VIII | OpenVIII | Active | ? | MIT License | |
Fish Fillets | Fish Fillets NG | Completed |  | GPL | |
Flashback: The Quest for Identity | REminiscence | Inactive | ? | GPL-3.0+ | [72] |
Freelancer | Librelancer | Active | ? | MIT License | |
Frontier: Elite II | Frontier 1337 | ? | ? | ? | |
GLFrontier | ? | ? | ? | |
Frontier: First Encounters | jjFFE | ? | ? | ? | |
GameMaker "Classic" (≤8.1) games | OpenGMK | 2024-05-09 | ? | GPL-2.0 | [73] |
Game Creator | 2024-02-26 | ? | GPL-3.0 | [74] |
GameMaker Studio 1 games | OpenGML | 2023-04-24 | ? | MIT | [75] |
DejaVu-llvm | 2015-09-06 | ? | NCSA | [76] |
DejaVu | 2023-07-30 | ? | MIT, Apache-2.0 | [77] |
Acolyte | 2014-02-07, officially dead | ? | BSD-3-Clause | [78] |
Gothic | REGoth | Inactive | ? | GPL-3.0 | |
REGoth-bs | Active | ? | MIT License | |
Gothic II | REGoth | Inactive | ? | GPL-3.0 | |
REGoth-bs | Active | ? | MIT License | |
OpenGothic | Active |  | MIT License | [79] |
Grand Theft Auto | OpenGTA | Inactive |  | non-commercial restrictions | [80] |
Grand Theft Auto 2 | GTA2NET | Inactive |  | MIT | [81] |
Grand Theft Auto 3 | re3 | Active |  | ? | [82] |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Active |  | ? | [82] |
The Great Escape | The Great Escape | Active |  | ? | |
The Great Giana Sisters | OpenGGS | Active | ? | GPL | [83] |
Heart of Darkness | HODe | Completed |  | ? | [84] [85] |
Heart of the Alien | Heart of The Alien Redux | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Heroes of Might and Magic II | fheroes2 | Active |  | GPLv2 | [86] |
Heroes of Might and Magic III | VCMI project | Active |  | GPLv2 | [87] |
Igor: Objective Uikokahonia | Igor | ? | ? | ? | |
Imperium Galactica | OpenIG | Active |  | LGPL-3.0 | [88] |
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy | OpenGOAL | Active |  | ISC license | [89] |
Jak 2 | Active |  | ISC license | |
Jak 3 | Active |  | ISC license | |
Jazz Jackrabbit | OpenJazz | Active |  | GPLv2 | [90] |
Star Wars: Dark Forces | The Force Engine | Active |  | GPLv2 | [91] |
Outlaws | Active |  | GPLv2 |
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II | OpenJKDF2 | Active |  | Custom | [92] |
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast | OpenJK | Active |  | GPLv2 | [93] |
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy | Active |  | GPLv2 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I | Lord of the Rings Engine | Active |  | LGPL | [94] |
KKnD: Krush, Kill 'n Destroy | OpenRA | Inactive |  | GPLv3 | [95] |
OpenKKND | Inactive | ? | ? | [96] |
Knytt Stories | knyttds | ? | ? | ? | [97] |
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Zelda3 | Active |  | MIT License | [98] |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Ship of Harkinian | Active |  | ? | [99] |
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | 2 Ship 2 Harkinian | Active |  | ? | [100] |
Lemmings (Windows version) | Lemmini | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Little Big Adventure | TwinEngine | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPLv3+ | |
Little Big Adventure 2 | LBA 2 Engine | Inactive | ? | ? | |
LBA2 Remake | Active | ? | MIT License | |
Little Fighter 2 | Project-F | Inactive |  | GPL | [101] |
Magic Carpet 2 | remc2 | Active | ? | GPL | |
Marathon Trilogy | Aleph One | Completed |  | GPL | |
Marble Blast Ultra | OpenMBU | Beta |  | MIT License |
Master of Orion | 1oom | Inactive |  | GPL | [102] |
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares | 2ooM | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
OpenMOO2 | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | OpenMoHAA | Active |  | GPLv2 | [103] |
Mercenary (including Damocles and The Dion Crisis) | MDDClone | Completed |  | ? | |
Metroid Prime | Metaforce | Inactive |  | MIT License | [104] |
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes |  |
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption |  |
Midnight Club II | OpenMC2 | Active | ? | GPL | |
The Legend of Sword and Fairy (also known as PAL) | SDLPAL | Active | ? | ? | |
Magnetic Scrolls adventure games (e.g. The Pawn, Guild of Thieves) | Magnetic | ? | ? | ? | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen | ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
OpenXeen | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen | ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
OpenXeen | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven | OpenEnroth | Active | ? | GPL | |
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor | Active |  | GPL |
Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer | Active | ? | GPL | |
Need For Speed | OpenNFS1 | Inactive | ? | ? | [105] |
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit | OpenNFS | Active | ? | MIT License | [106] |
Need For Speed II | Need For Speed II SE | Active | ? | MIT License | [107] |
Nicky Boom | Nicky | Inactive |  | ? | |
Nuclear War | Netnuclear | ? |  | ? | |
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus | R.E.L.I.V.E. | Active |  | GPLv2+ | |
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee |
Outcast | OpenOutcast | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Outpost | OutpostHD | Active | ? | Permissive license [108] / proprietary [109] | |
Out Run | cannonball | Active |  | GPL-like license with non-commercial clause [110] | [111] |
Panzer General II | Open General | Active |  | BSD | |
Perfect Dark | perfect_dark | Active |  | MIT | [112] |
Pharaoh | Akhenaten | Active |  | AGPLv3 | [113] |
Ozymandias | Inactive |  | AGPLv3 | [114] |
Prince of Persia | FreePrince | Inactive | ? | GPLv2+ | |
SDLPoP | Active | ? | GPL | |
MININIM | Inactive | ? | GPL | [115] |
Redneck Rampage | Rednukem | Active |  | GPLv2, BUILD engine license | |
Redneck Rampage Rides Again |  |
Rick Dangerous | xrick | Inactive |  | ? | [116] |
RollerCoaster Tycoon | FreeRCT | Active | ? | GPLv2 | |
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | OpenRCT2 | Active |  | GPLv3 | |
RuneScape | OpenRSC | Active |  | AGPLv3 | [117] |
Lost City/2004Scape | Active |  | MIT License | [118] |
Sonic CD (2011) | Sonic-CD-11-Decompilation | Active |  | | |
Sonic the Hedgehog (2013) | Sonic-1-2-2013-Decompilation | Active |  | | |
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2013) | Active |  | | |
Sonic Mania | Sonic-Mania-Decompilation | Active |  | | |
RPG Maker 2000 | EasyRPG | Active |  | GPL | |
RPG Maker 2003 |  |
RPG Maker XP aka Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS) | mkxp , mkxp-z | Active |  | GPL | [119] [120] |
RPG Maker VX (RGSS2) |  |
RPG Maker VX Ace (RGSS3) |  |
The Settlers | Freeserf | Active | ? | GPL | |
The Settlers II | Return to the Roots (RttR) | Active |  | GPL | |
Silencer | zSilencer | Completed |  | ? | |
The Sims | Simitone | Active | ? | Mozilla Public License | [121] |
The Sims Online | FreeSO | Active |  | Mozilla Public License | |
Project Dollhouse | Inactive | ? | ? | |
SimCity 2000 | OpenSC2K | Inactive |  | GPL | [122] [123] |
SimTower | OpenSkyscraper | Inactive | ? | GPL | [124] |
StarCraft | SCSharp | Inactive | ? | ? | [125] |
StarGus with Stratagus | Active |  | GPL-2.0 | |
Strike Commander | libRealSpace | Inactive | ? | ? | |
Stronghold | Sourcehold | Active | ? | MIT License | [126] |
Castlekeep | ? | ? | GPL | |
Dune 2000 Tiberian Sun Red Alert 2 | OpenRA | Active |  | GPLv3 | [22] [127] [128] |
SubSpace | Continuum | Completed |  | ? | [129] |
Super Mario 64 | Super Mario 64 Port | Active |  | GPL | |
Super Mario World | smw | Active |  | MIT License [130] | |
Super Metroid | sm | Active |  | MIT License [131] | |
Syndicate | FreeSynd | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
System Shock | Shockolate | Active |  | GPL | [132] |
TSSHP (The System Shock Hack Project) | Inactive | ? | BSD | |
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl | OpenXRay (in fact not a reimpl, but just a release) | Active |  | non-commercial [133] |
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky | Active |  | |
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat | Active |  | |
The Temple of Elemental Evil | Temple+ | Active |  | ? | [134] |
Theme Hospital | CorsixTH | Active |  | MIT License | [135] [136] |
Titus the Fox | OpenTitus | Inactive |  | GPL | [137] |
Tomb Raider classic series | TRX – Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition | Active |  | GPLv3 | [138] |
CroftEngine | Active |  | LGPL | [139] |
OpenRaider | Inactive | ? | GPL-2.0 | |
OpenTomb | Inactive |  | LGPL | [140] |
OpenLara | Active |  | BSD | [141] |
Tomb Raider 5 Decompilation Project | Active | ? | ? | [142] |
TombEngine | Active |  | MIT License | [143] |
Total Annihilation | Spring Engine (with eXtended Total Annihilation, Balanced Annihilation or Beyond All Reason) | Active |  | GPL | [144] [145] [146] |
Total Annihilation 3D | Completed | ? | ? | |
Touhou 6 ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil | PyTouhou | ? |  | GPL |
Transport Tycoon Deluxe | OpenTTD (reverse engineered) | Active |  | GPL | |
Tyrian | OpenTyrian | Active |  | GPL-2.0 | [147] |
freescape engine used for games like Driller and Castle Master | Phantasma | ? | ? | ? | |
Dungeon Master , Chaos Strikes Back , and Dungeon Master II | Chaos Strikes Backfor Windows (and Linux, MacOS X, Pocket PC) (reverse engineered) | Completed |  | ? | |
RTC | ? |  | ? | |
GoldSrc (Half-Life 1) games | Xash3D FWGS | Active |  | GPLv3 | |
Key dating sim games | Waffle | ? | ? | ? | |
adventure games created with World Builder | ScummVM (WAGE) | ? | ? | GPL | [148] [149] |
Key ren'ai games using the AVG32 engine, especially Kanon, Air and Clannad | xkanon | Inactive | ? | GPL | |
RLVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine by Sierra adventure games | NAGI | ? | ? | ? | |
Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine, Cinématique, Gob, Groovie, Kyra | ScummVM ScummVM-supported games | ? |  | GPL | [150] |
Multimedia Applications Development Environment (MADE engine) | ? |  | GPL | [150] |
SCUMM | ? |  | GPL | [150] |
Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) | ? |  | GPL | [150] |
M4, Parallaction, and others | ? |  | GPL | [150] |
Grim Fandango (GrimE-based) | ResidualVM ScummVM | ? |  | GPL | [151] |
Escape from Monkey Island | ? |  | GPL | [151] |
Myst III: Exile | ? |  | GPL | [151] |
The Longest Journey | Active |  | GPL | [152] |
Baldur's Gate (Infinity Engine-based) | GemRB | Active |  | GPL | [153] |
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn |  |
Icewind Dale |  |
Icewind Dale II |  |
Planescape: Torment |  |
Plants vs. Zombies | PlantsVsZombies.NET | Active |  | MIT License | [154] |
System Shock 2 | OpenDarkEngine (i.e., not The Dark Mod ), NewDark | Inactive |  | GPL | [155] [156] |
Thief: The Dark Project (Dark Engine-based) | Inactive |  | GPL | |
Thief II: The Metal Age | Inactive |  | GPL | |
UFO: Enemy Unknown | OpenXcom | Completed |  | GPL | [157] |
X-COM: Terror from the Deep |
X-COM: Apocalypse | OpenApoc | Active |  | MIT License | [158] [159] |
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar | xu4 | Inactive |  | GPL | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Ultima VI: The False Prophet | Nuvie | Inactive |  | GPL | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Ultima VII: The Black Gate | Exult | Active |  | GPL | [160] |
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle |
Ultima VIII: Pagan | Pentagram | Inactive |  | GPL | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Ultima Online | CrossUO | Active | ? | GPL | |
Ultima Online on Freeshards | Iris2 | ? | ? | ? | |
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss | Underworld Adventures | Active | ? | GPL | |
Unreal | Surreal Engine | Active |  | zlib License | [161] |
Unreal Tournament |
Urban Assault | UA_source | Active |  | GPL | [162] |
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans | Alpha-WC1 | ? | ? | ? | |
War1gus with Stratagus | Active |  | GPL-2.0-only | |
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | Wargus with Stratagus | Active |  | GPL-2.0-only | |
Wizardry | p-interp | ? | ? | ? | |
Z-machine | Frotz, ZIP, JZIP, Zip 2000, Zip Infinity and Nitfol | ? | ? | ? | |
ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Zork Nemesis | ScummVM | Active |  | GPL | |
Zork: Grand Inquisitor |
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