List of game engine recreations
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Game engine recreation is a denomination for game engines, that are clones of the original game engine binary, that came with the video games. The main motivation behind such a project is the wish to play the game on other operating systems, than those supported by the original game engine.
In most cases a clone is made by reverse engineering the original executable, but occasionally, as was the case with some of the engines in ScummVM, the original developers have helped the projects by supplying the original source code—those are so called source ports.
Video game | Name of game engine recreation or port | Status | License |
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The Settlers II | Return to the Roots (RttR) | January 12, 2014 | GPL |
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans | Alpha-WC1 | ? | ? |
Marathon Trilogy | Aleph One | Finished (source port) | GPL |
Neverwinter Nights | xoreos (Bioware's Aurora engine and its derivatives) |
Active | GPLv3+ |
Neverwinter Nights 2 | |||
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | |||
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords | |||
Jade Empire | |||
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood | |||
The Witcher | |||
Dragon Age: Origins | |||
Dragon Age II | |||
ELF Corporation | ANISE | ? | ? |
Eye of the Beholder II | ArcEngine | ? | ? |
Bermuda Syndrome | Bermuda Syndrome engine reimplementation | ? | ? |
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain | Blood Omnicide | ? | ? |
Carmageddon | OpenC1 | ? | ? |
Commander Keen | Commander Genius | ? | ? |
Escape from Colditz | Colditz Escape! | ? | ? |
The Castles of Dr. Creep | Castles of Dr. Creep | ? | ? |
Theme Hospital | CorsixTH | Playable, Active | MIT License |
Curse of the Azure Bonds | Curse of the Azure Bonds | ? | New BSD |
Jedi engine (Blood, Outlaws) | DarkXL | ? | ? |
Doom | DelphiDoom, Doomsday, Doom Legacy, ZDoom, ZDaemon, GZDoom, Zandronum, Chocolate Doom, Eternity, and many more. | some active, many playable, several finished | ? |
Dune II | DuneLegacy, OpenDUNE | ? | ? |
Die by the Sword | Die by the Sword - Xtended | ? | ? |
RPG Maker | EasyRPG | ? | ? |
Elite | Elite - The New Kind | ? | ? |
Frontier: Elite II | Frontier 1337 | ? | ? |
GLFrontier | ? | ? | |
Frontier: First Encounters | jjFFE | ? | ? |
RollerCoaster Tycoon RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | FreeRCT | ? | ? |
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | OpenRCT2 | Playable, active | GPLv3 |
Heroes of Might and Magic II | Free Heroes II Engine | ? | ? |
Alone in the Dark | Free in the Dark | ? | ? |
Duke Nukem | Freenukum | ? | ? |
Duke Nukem 3D | EDuke32 | ? | ? |
Prince of Persia | FreePrince | ? | ? |
Syndicate | FreeSynd | ? | ? |
Z-machine | Frotz, ZIP, JZIP, Zip 2000, Zip Infinity and Nitfol | ? | ? |
Dink Smallwood | Gnu FreeDink | Finished (source port) | GPL / Zlib |
Grand Theft Auto 2 | GTA2NET | ? | ? |
Heretic (video game) | ZDoom, Doomsday | Finished | ? |
Hexen | ZDoom, Doomsday | Finished | ? |
Mega Lo Mania | Gigalomania | active | GPL |
Heart of Darkness | HODe | ? | ? |
Heroes of Might and Magic III | VCMI project | playable, active | GPL |
Dungeon Keeper | KeeperFX | ? | ? |
The Lord of the Rings by Interplay | Lord of the Rings game engine | ? | LGPLv2 |
Lemmings (Windows version) | Lemmini | ? | ? |
Magnetic Scrolls adventure games (e.g. 'The Pawn, Guild of Thieves) | Magnetic | ? | ? |
Need For Speed | Need For Speed:XNA | ? | ? |
bishōjo games created by D.O., ZyX, CD Bros., Purple, Will, and ilex such as Crescendo | Nekoze | ? | ? |
Nuclear War | Netnuclear | Playable | ? |
Another World | New RAW (Rewritten engine for Another World) | ? | ? |
Nicky Boum | Nicky | ? | ? |
Cave Story | NXEngine | ? | ? |
The Settlers | Freeserf | active | GPLv3 |
The Sims Online | NIOTSO | ? | ? |
Age of Empires II | openage | active development | GPLv3 |
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura | OpenArcanum | ? | ? |
Imperium Galactica | OpenIG | ? | ? |
Creatures | openc2e | ? | ? |
Grand Theft Auto | OpenGTA | ? | ? |
Jazz Jackrabbit | OpenJazz | ? | ? |
Medal of Honor Allied Assault | OpenMoHAA | ? | ? |
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares | 2ooM | December 15, 2005 | GPL |
OpenMOO2 | ? | ? | |
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall | DaggerXL | ? | ? |
Daggerfall Unity | ? | ? | |
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind | Project Aedra | ? | ? |
OpenMW | Playable, active | GPLv3 | |
The Crystal Scrolls | ? | LPGLv3 | |
Outcast (video game) | OpenOutcast | ? | ? |
SimTower | OpenSkyscraper | ? | ? |
Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn Red Alert 1 Dune 2000 |
FreeCNC | ? | ? |
FreeRA | ? | ? | |
OpenRA | Playable, active, multiplayer | ? | |
OpenRedAlert, based on FreeCNC and FreeRA | ? | ? | |
Silencer (video game) | zSilencer | Finished | ? |
Tomb Raider classic series | openRaider | ? | ? |
openTomb | Active | LGPLv3 | |
Theme Hospital | OpenTH | ? | ? |
Titus the Fox | OpenTitus | Playable | GPLv3 |
Transport Tycoon Deluxe | OpenTTD | Playable, active development, numerous plugins | GPLv2 |
Tyrian | OpenTyrian | ? | ? |
freescape engine used for games like Driller and Castle Master | Phantasma | ? | ? |
Wizardry | p-interp | ? | ? |
The Sims Online | Project Dollhouse | ? | ? |
Touhou 6 ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil | PyTouhou | Playable, active | GPLv3 |
Final Fantasy VII | Q-Gears | ? | ? |
Another World | RAW (Rewritten engine for Another World) | ? | ? |
Flashback: The Quest for Identity | REminiscence | ? | ? |
Dungeon Master, Chaos Strikes Back, and Dungeon Master II | Chaos Strikes Back for Windows (and Linux, MacOS X, Pocket PC) | Finished | ? |
RTC | Playable | ? | |
StarCraft | SCSharp | ? | ? |
GoldSrc-compatible (Half-Life 1) game engine | Xash, Sing | Playable | ? |
Eye of the Beholder II | Spectalum | ? | ? |
StarCraft | StarGus with Stratagus | ? | GPLv2 |
Total Annihilation | Spring Engine | Playable | GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, other |
Total Annihilation 3D | Incomplete | ? | |
Little Big Adventure | TwinEngine | ? | ? |
Key ren'ai games | Waffle | ? | ? |
adventure games created with World Builder | wage | ? | ? |
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | Wargus with Stratagus | ? | ? |
Betrayal at Krondor | xBaK | ? | ? |
Clannad | xclannad | ? | ? |
Key ren'ai games using the AVG32 engine, especially Kanon, CLANNAD and Air | xkanon | stalled | GPL |
RLVM | Playable, active | GPL | |
Rick Dangerous | xrick | ? | ? |
UFO: Enemy Unknown | Openxcom | playable, active, finished | GPL |
Ultima IV | xu4 | ? | ? |
Ultima VI | Nuvie | ? | ? |
Ultima VII: The Black Gate | Exult | Playable, active | GPL-2.0 |
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle | |||
Ultima VIII | Pentagram | ? | ? |
Ultima online on Freeshards | Iris2 | ? | ? |
Zork Nemesis & Zork Grand Inquisitor | Zengine | ? | ? |
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | The Mindbender adventure engine from the former Zak McKracken and the Alien Rockstars project | ? | ? |
Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine by Sierra adventure games | NAGI | ? | ? |
Grand Theft Auto 3 | OpenRW | active | GPL-3.0 |
SCI engine | FreeSCI | ? | ? |
Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine, Cinématique, Gob, Groovie, Kyra | ScummVM ScummVM supported games |
Playable[1] | GPL-2.0 |
Multimedia Applications Development Environment (MADE engine) | |||
SCUMM | |||
Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) | |||
M4, Parallaction, and others | |||
Grim Fandango (GrimE-based) | ResidualVM | Playable[2] | GPL-2.0 |
Escape from Monkey Island | |||
Myst III: Exile | |||
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Infinity Engine-based) | GemRB | Playable | GPL-2.0 |
Icewind Dale | |||
Icewind Dale II | |||
Planescape: Torment | |||
Thief: The Dark Project (Dark Engine-based) | OpenDarkEngine (i.e. not the The Dark Mod), NewDark | Active | GPL-2.0 |
Thief II: The Metal Age | |||
System Shock 2 | |||
Video game | Name of game engine recreation or port | Status | License |
See also
External links
- Open Source Game Clones, specialized in open source variants of commercial games