Disclaimer: I changed a little the layout and thanks for the contributions!

The Idea:

On my old Mastodon Profile i’ve made a list of Rebuilds/Fan Remakes/SourcePorts (when possible opensource, no commercial remakes) for old PC Games, and i want to share it here on Lemmy too, so people can easily find it.

Why?

I’ve played lot of these games, and i’m glad there a Fans who still working on these games, to make it accessible on modern systems and giving them some QoL improvments. In my opinion, that’s a great way to preserve old games from being forgotten and keep playable for new players. Also these people need some recognition (at least) for their hard work.

I’m glad If you help to complete this list and contribute some games you know.

In the moment there are alphabetical sorted:

• 54 PC Games in total
• 41 Remakes, SourcePorts etc.

New additions will be marked with *

The List:

• Ambermoon - Ambermoon.net

• Arx Fatalis - Arx Libertatis

• Baldurs Gate (I, II, also Icewind Dale I) - GemRB

• Caesar III - Augustus (a fork of Julius)

• Caesar III - Julius

• Civilization V - Unciv *

• Command and Conquer (+ Red Alert + Dune 2000) - openRA

• Descent (I, II) - Descent Rebirth

• Diablo - DevilutionX

• Doom (I, II) - ZDoom

• Dune II - Dune Legacy

• Dungeon Keeper - KeeperFX

• Elite - Elite: The New Kind

• Fallout - Fallout Community Edition *

• Fallout 2 - Fallout 2 Community Edition *

• Gothic (should work) and Gothic II - OpenGothic *

• Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2

• Heroes of Might and Magic III - VCMI *

• LEGO Rock Raiders - Manic Miners *

• Marathon (1,2 and Infinity) - Aleph One

• Master of Orion - 1oom *

• Might and Magic VI (also VII and VIII is in work) - OpenEnroth

• Quake - Ironwail

• Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR *

• The Settlers II - Return to the roots (RTTR)

• Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters

• Star Wars : Dark Forces - The Force Engine *

• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - OpenJKDF2 *

• Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy - OpenJK

• TES II : Daggerfall - Daggerfall Unity

• TES III: Morrowind - OpenMW

• Theme Hospital - CorsixTH

• Tomb Raider I and II - TRX *

• Transport Tycoon Deluxe - OpenTTD

• Ultima IV - xu4

• Ultima VII - Exult

• Ultima Underworld I (and II) - Underworld Exporter

• Rollercoaster Tycoon (I and II) - openRCT2

• WipeOut - WipeOut Phantom Edition

• X-COM: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep - OpenXcom *

• X-COM Apocalypse - OpenApoc

There is also the List here https://osgameclones.com/, who did unknown to me the same.

Addendum SCUMMVM:

SCUMMVM is the first place for adventure games from Lucas Arts (Monkey Island etc.) or Sierra (Kings Quest etc) anf for the RPGs from Origin (Ultima VI), Westwood (Eye of the Beholder) and New World Compting (Might and Magic I, III and IV), but also many more. Here you can check the list of games out.

Addendum “Inspired Games”

I think that games divergence too much from the original games, but also should be mentioned.

• Civilization II and III - FreeCiv

• Colonization - FreeCol

• Escape Velocity - Endless Sky

• The Settlers II - Widelands

• Total Annihilation - Beyond all Reason

• Warlords II - LordsAWar!

Addendum Console Games:

If you are looking for Ports for Console Games to PC here is this list on GitHub

Also i would recommend the Open Source Port of the First two Jake and Daxter games