Open-source gaming-tools software
1554 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged gaming-tools, ranked by how closely gaming-tools is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1554 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| shadow3aaa/fas-rs fas-rs is a userspace implementation of Frame Aware Scheduling (FAS) for Android, written in Rust. It monitors frame rendering to dynamical… | 71 | 1111 | active |
| SteamTracking/SteamTracking A project that tracks and reverse-engineers Steam and Valve data, including protobuf definitions and changes across Steam services. It moni… | 77 | 1110 | active |
| TheOfficialFloW/h-encore h-encore is a fully chained kernel exploit (jailbreak) for the PlayStation Vita on firmwares 3.65-3.68. It enables kernel and user modifica… | 23 | 1110 | stable |
| ACE3 ACE3 is an open-source realism and authenticity mod for Arma 3, built as a collaborative merger of the ACE2, AGM, and CSE teams. It is modu… | 92 | 1103 | active |
| gameyfin/gameyfin Gameyfin is a self-hosted web application that organizes video game collections into a browsable library, similar to Jellyfin for media. It… | 88 | 1103 | active |
| increpare/PuzzleScript PuzzleScript is an open-source HTML5 game engine for creating grid-based puzzle games using a simple scripting language. It runs entirely i… | 68 | 1103 | active |
| collinsmith/riiablo Riiablo is an open-source remake of Diablo II built from scratch in Java using LibGDX, OpenGL, Flatbuffers, and Netty. It requires users to… | 23 | 1103 | active |
| gamehublite/gamehub-oss A privacy-focused modification of the GameHub Android game launcher that strips tracking, authentication, and bloat from the official APK. … | 10 | 1103 | active |
| LibreVR/Revive Revive is a compatibility layer that translates between the Oculus SDK and OpenVR/OpenXR, letting users play Oculus Rift-exclusive VR games… | 23 | 3795 | maintenance |
| danoon2/Boxedwine Boxedwine is a C++ emulator that runs 16/32-bit Windows applications and games by emulating a CPU and Linux kernel on top of 32-bit Wine. I… | 79 | 1102 | active |
| nathanhoad/godot_input_helper A Godot 4 addon that simplifies input handling, detecting which input device (keyboard, joypad) the player is using, managing input action … | 37 | 1102 | active |
| Externalizable/bongo.cat A web application that lets users play bongo drum sounds like the Bongo Cat meme by pressing keyboard keys. It is the code behind the popul… | 32 | 3793 | maintenance |
| NEZNAMY/TAB TAB is an all-in-one Minecraft server plugin for customizing the player tab list, nametags, scoreboards, and related header/footer displays… | 96 | 1101 | active |
| 13xforever/ps3-disc-dumper A cross-platform desktop utility that creates decrypted dumps of PS3 game discs using a compatible Blu-ray drive and a matching disc key. B… | 83 | 1101 | active |
| lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot A Python bridge that connects chess engines (UCI, XBoard, or homemade) to the Lichess Bot API, letting you run a bot account that plays gam… | 77 | 1101 | active |
| MCDReforged MCDReforged is a Python-based Minecraft server control framework that runs the server as a subprocess and manages it via stdin/stdout witho… | 100 | 1100 | active |
| BetterCrewLink BetterCrewLink is a free, open-source proximity voice chat application for Among Us, forked from CrewLink with extra features and better pl… | 95 | 1099 | active |
| Multiverse/Multiverse-Core Multiverse-Core is the original Bukkit multi-world management plugin for Minecraft servers. It lets server admins create, import, delete, a… | 95 | 1099 | active |
| ipodtouch0218/NSMB-MarioVsLuigi A standalone Unity remake of the Mario vs. Luigi multiplayer gamemode from New Super Mario Bros DS, supporting 2-10 players online. It incl… | 96 | 1098 | active |
| xjw580/Hearthstone-Script A Windows desktop automation script/bot for the card game Hearthstone, written in Java/Kotlin, that plays matches automatically using selec… | 89 | 1098 | active |
| passivestar/godot-minimal-theme A minimal custom theme for the Godot game engine editor, distributed as a .tres theme file. It has been ported natively into Godot and is t… | 54 | 3774 | maintenance |
| marblexu/PythonPlantsVsZombies A Python/Pygame clone of the Plants vs. Zombies tower defense game, implementing many plants and zombies across multiple level types. It is… | 32 | 3770 | maintenance |
| Godiesc/firefox-gx A Firefox userChrome CSS theme that replicates the Opera GX browser skin. It is installed by copying a chrome folder and user.js into the F… | 99 | 1096 | active |
| arx/ArxLibertatis Arx Libertatis is an open-source, cross-platform reimplementation of the engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person RPG/dungeon crawler/im… | 23 | 1096 | active |
| AkiChase/scrcpy-mask Scrcpy Mask is a cross-platform desktop client built with Rust, Bevy, and React for controlling Android devices from a computer. It provide… | 86 | 1094 | active |
| tianxingleo/ACGTI ACGTI is an MBTI-inspired web quiz that maps users' personality dimensions to anime character archetypes. It is a Vue 3 + TypeScript full-s… | 69 | 1093 | active |
| Winds-Studio/Leaf Leaf is a high-performance fork of the Paper Minecraft server software, balancing performance optimizations, vanilla mechanics, and stabili… | 98 | 1091 | active |
| CMaNGOS CMaNGOS Classic is an open-source C++ game server that emulates the World of Warcraft 1.12 (Classic) server experience for local, education… | 78 | 1091 | active |
| cxong/cdogs-sdl C-Dogs SDL is an open-source port of the classic 1990s overhead run-and-gun DOS game C-Dogs, built in C with SDL2. It supports up to 4 play… | 77 | 1091 | active |
| Questie/Questie Questie is a quest helper addon for World of Warcraft Classic written in Lua. It provides in-game quest tracking, map markers, and quest da… | 93 | 1089 | active |
| hyperion-mc/hyperion Hyperion is a Rust-based Minecraft game engine built on the flecs ECS, designed to support 10,000+ players in a single world. It targets ma… | 70 | 1089 | active |
| latorc/MahjongCopilot A desktop AI assistant application for the Majsoul online mahjong game, built on the Mortal model via the MJAI protocol. It provides real-t… | 18 | 1089 | active |
| Pikachu Volleyball A browser-based reimplementation of the 1997 Windows game Pikachu Volleyball, created by reverse engineering the original machine code (phy… | 76 | 1088 | active |
| karai17/Simple-Tiled-Implementation Simple Tiled Implementation (STI) is a Tiled map loader and renderer for the LÖVE game framework, written in Lua. It supports plugins such … | 75 | 1087 | stable |
| Tiiffi/mcrcon mcrcon is a console-based RCON client for remotely administering Minecraft servers, written in C. It supports sending commands from the com… | 44 | 1086 | stable |
| arianrhodsandlot/retroassembly RetroAssembly is a self-hostable, browser-based retro game emulator frontend that lets users organize and play their ROM collections from c… | 87 | 1082 | active |
| minekube/gate Gate is a high-performance, extensible Minecraft proxy server written in Go that supports Java Edition (1.8 to latest) and Bedrock Edition … | 96 | 1080 | active |
| UAsset UAssetGUI is a desktop tool for low-level inspection and hand-editing of Unreal Engine game asset files (.uasset). It also supports command… | 79 | 1080 | active |
| Oversteer Oversteer is a GUI application for managing racing steering wheels on GNU/Linux, configuring settings like force feedback, rotation range, … | 50 | 1080 | active |
| openkruise/kruise-game OpenKruiseGame (OKG) is a CNCF OpenKruise sub-project providing a custom Kubernetes workload (CRDs and controllers) specialized for game se… | 77 | 1079 | active |
| WorldEngine WorldEngine is a Python-based procedural world generator that simulates plate tectonics, erosion, rain shadows, and Holdridge life zones to… | 71 | 1078 | active |
| Miao-Yunzai Miao-Plugin is an enhancement plugin for Yunzai-Bot, a QQ chatbot framework, focused on Genshin Impact character features. It provides char… | 73 | 1074 | active |
| FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent The open-sourced C++ source code of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Frictional Games' first-person survival horror game, built on their HPL engi… | 32 | 3679 | maintenance |
| OpenHV/OpenHV OpenHV is an open source pixelart science-fiction real-time strategy game built as a standalone mod on the OpenRA engine, based on Daniel C… | 77 | 1073 | active |
| markus-wa/demoinfocs-golang A fast, feature-complete Go library for parsing and analyzing Counter-Strike 2 and CS:GO demo (replay) files, based on Valve's demoinfogo t… | 91 | 1071 | active |
| Walter-Sparrow/lunar-tear Lunar Tear is a private server implementation for a discontinued mobile game, written in Go. It bundles gRPC, CDN, and auth services with a… | 65 | 1070 | active |
| 100thCoin/AccuracyCoin AccuracyCoin is a NES test ROM that packs 141 hardware accuracy tests onto a single NROM cartridge, targeting an NTSC console with an RP2A0… | 64 | 1070 | active |
| GSManagerXZ/GameServerManager GameServerManager (GSM3) is a self-hosted web panel for one-click deployment, management, and monitoring of game servers, with special focu… | 86 | 1068 | active |
| TheCod3rYouTube/PS5NorModifier A Windows GUI application for reading, writing, and modifying PlayStation 5 NOR flash dumps, including serial number changes and disc-to-di… | 22 | 1068 | active |
| winesapOS/winesapOS winesapOS is a portable Arch Linux-based operating system image for gaming that runs from an internal or external drive without installatio… | 84 | 1066 | active |
| shinkuan/Akagi Akagi is a real-time mahjong AI assistant desktop app (Rust + Tauri) that observes game connections from Mahjong Soul, Tenhou, Riichi City,… | 90 | 1064 | active |
| dyc3/steamguard-cli A Rust command-line utility for setting up and using Steam Mobile Authenticator (2FA). It generates Steam Guard codes and handles trade, ma… | 89 | 1063 | active |
| Vuemony/vue-after-free A PlayStation 4 userland code execution exploit delivered through the PlayStation Vue app, chained with kernel exploits (Lapse, Poopsploit/… | 62 | 1062 | active |
| SHWotever/SimHub SimHub is a Windows application that extends racing and flight simulators with custom dashboards, overlays, haptic feedback (bass shakers, … | 92 | 1061 | active |
| boona13/mykonos-island-voxels A browser-based isometric island builder with a sun-bleached Mykonos aesthetic, built in vanilla JavaScript ES modules with no bundler or d… | 48 | 1059 | active |
| Crafty Crafty is an open-source JavaScript/HTML5 game engine built around an entity-component-system architecture. It provides components for 2D g… | 23 | 3613 | maintenance |
| Blessing Skin Blessing Skin is a self-hosted PHP web application for uploading, managing, and sharing custom Minecraft skins and capes, restoring them fo… | 66 | 1057 | active |
| MattMoony/figaro Figaro is an open-source real-time voice changer and soundboard written in Python, usable with virtual audio devices for voice chat apps li… | 23 | 1056 | active |
| Xenia Manager Xenia Manager is a Windows desktop application that simplifies using the Xenia Xbox 360 emulator with a friendly GUI. It handles emulator s… | 89 | 1055 | active |
| an-anime-team/the-honkers-railway-launcher A graphical game launcher for Linux that manages Honkai: Star Rail installation, automatic patching, and telemetry disabling. It is part of… | 95 | 1053 | active |
| 0x7c13/Pal3.Unity Pal3.Unity is an open-source C#/Unity re-implementation of the classic Chinese RPGs The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3 and its Gaiden: Wenqing… | 65 | 1053 | active |
| freeorion/freeorion FreeOrion is a free, open-source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest game inspired by the Master of Orion tradition. It implemen… | 76 | 1051 | active |
| mezz/JustEnoughItems JustEnoughItems (JEI) is a Minecraft mod that displays items and crafting recipes in-game with search, recipe lookup, and usage viewing. It… | 77 | 1048 | stable |
| skyfloogle/red-viper Red Viper is a Nintendo Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS, continuing the work on r3Ddragon. It uses a dynamic recompiler and hardw… | 93 | 1047 | active |
| BlueArchiveArisHelper/BAAH BAAH (BlueArchive Aris Helper) is an open-source Python automation script with a GUI that automatically completes daily tasks in the mobile… | 85 | 1047 | active |
| FreeJoy FreeJoy is open-source firmware for the STM32F103C8 microcontroller that turns the board into a highly configurable USB HID game controller… | 63 | 1045 | active |
| Olsro/ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject A preservation project distributing authenticated iPod Clickwheel games for iPod Nano 3G-5G and iPod Classic 5G-7G via a preconfigured Wind… | 41 | 1045 | active |
| QianMo/X-PostProcessing-Library X-PostProcessing Library (XPL) is a high-quality open-source post-processing effect library for the Unity engine, built on C# and ShaderLab… | 32 | 3559 | maintenance |
| Diving-Fish/maimaidx-prober A score tracker (prober) for the arcade rhythm game maimai DX that imports play records via a proxy tool and displays DX Rating and song sc… | 87 | 1042 | active |
| vpinball/vpinball Visual Pinball is an open-source pinball table editor and physics simulator written in C++. It lets users build, edit, and play virtual pin… | 79 | 1041 | active |
| SlimeVR SlimeVR is an open-source full-body tracking system for VR consisting of ESP32/ESP8266 tracker firmware supporting various IMU sensors and … | 97 | 1040 | active |
| nuno-faria/tetris-sql A complete implementation of Tetris running inside a single PostgreSQL SQL query, exploiting the Turing completeness of recursive CTEs. A s… | 41 | 1040 | active |
| smparsons/retroboy Retro Boy is a cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator written in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly for browser-based play. It features accurate C… | 55 | 1039 | active |
| CryoUtilities CryoUtilities is a Go-based utility with a GUI that tunes performance and manages storage on the Steam Deck, including swap resizing, kerne… | 23 | 3532 | maintenance |
| frzyc/genshin-optimizer A web-based artifact and character build optimizer for Genshin Impact and other gacha games like Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. I… | 94 | 1035 | active |
| mangoszero/server Mangos ZERO is an open-source C++ game server emulator for World of Warcraft Vanilla (client versions 1.12.1-1.12.3), providing an authenti… | 93 | 1035 | active |
| MCRcortex/nvidium Nvidium is an alternate rendering backend for the Sodium Minecraft mod that leverages NVIDIA-specific GPU features (Turing architecture and… | 74 | 1035 | active |
| Reloaded-Project/Reloaded-II Reloaded II is a universal, C#/.NET-based mod loader and mod management framework for native games on X86 and X64. It uses DLL injection to… | 93 | 1034 | active |
| plan-player-analytics/Plan Plan is a Minecraft server plugin that collects player activity data and serves an analytics dashboard via a built-in webserver. It runs on… | 96 | 1030 | active |
| Helios Launcher Helios Launcher is an open-source desktop application, built with Electron and Node.js, for launching modded Minecraft servers. It automati… | 55 | 1029 | active |
| samtay/tetris A terminal-based Tetris game written in Haskell using the brick TUI library. It runs directly in the command line with configurable levels,… | 23 | 1028 | active |
| Sunone Aimbot An AI-powered aimbot for first-person shooter games that uses YOLO object detection models (YOLOv8/v10/v12) with TensorRT/ONNX acceleration… | 62 | 1027 | active |
| OpenFFBoard Open FFBoard is open-source firmware for a universal force feedback interface and motor driver, designed for DIY simulation devices like di… | 89 | 1026 | active |
| HLA-NoVR A community mod that makes Half-Life: Alyx fully playable without a VR headset on a flat screen, preserving many VR interactions in adapted… | 74 | 1026 | active |
| ReplayMod A Minecraft mod that records game sessions and lets players replay them from any perspective, with keyframe-based camera paths and built-in… | 70 | 1020 | active |
| RiotGames/leaguedirector League Director is a desktop application for staging and recording cinematic videos from League of Legends replays. It provides camera cont… | 53 | 1020 | active |
| HerculesWS/Hercules Hercules is a robust, community-developed MMORPG server package written in C, functioning primarily as a Ragnarok Online server emulator an… | 94 | 1018 | active |
| kondrak/vkQuake2 vkQuake2 is a port of id Software's Quake 2 v3.21 source code with a native Vulkan renderer, including the mission packs. It preserves the … | 82 | 1017 | active |
| Aizistral-Studios/No-Chat-Reports A Minecraft mod that strips cryptographic signatures from chat messages and disables the Player Chat Reporting system introduced in Minecra… | 66 | 1017 | active |
| ryanries/UniversalPauseButton A small Windows system-tray utility that pauses and unpauses the foreground application (or a named process) when you press the Pause/Break… | 24 | 1015 | active |
| jmcerrejon/PiKISS PiKISS is a collection of shell scripts with a menu-driven interface that automates installing and configuring software on Raspberry Pi and… | 76 | 1011 | active |
| jammsen/docker-palworld-dedicated-server A Docker image that packages and provisions a Palworld dedicated game server for easy deployment and management. It provides environment-va… | 66 | 1010 | active |
| googleforgames/open-match Open Match is an open-source game matchmaking framework from Google that simplifies building scalable and extensible matchmakers for multip… | 61 | 3422 | maintenance |
| miki151/keeperrl KeeperRL is an open-source roguelike dungeon simulation game inspired by Dungeon Keeper, where players control an evil keeper building dung… | 41 | 1008 | stable |
| Yamagi Quake II Yamagi Quake II is an enhanced, bug-fixed client for id Software's Quake II focused on offline and coop gameplay while preserving the origi… | 76 | 1007 | stable |
| X0nk/Bliss-Shader Bliss is a Minecraft shader pack written in GLSL, an extensively customized edit of Chocapic13's v9 shader. It emphasizes dynamic, varied l… | 76 | 1005 | active |
| Cardinal Cardinal is an open-source CTF Attack-with-Defense (AWD) offline competition platform written in Go, developed by Vidar-Team. It manages ch… | 10 | 997 | active |
| jmoon018/PacVim PacVim is a terminal-based PacMan-style game that teaches vim commands through gameplay. Players use real vim motions to highlight all word… | 23 | 3327 | maintenance |
| morkt/GARbro GARbro is a Windows GUI application for browsing, extracting, and converting resources (archives, images, audio) from visual novel games. I… | 23 | 3298 | maintenance |
| taylorconor/tinytetris A tiny Tetris game that runs in an 80x23 character terminal window, written in a single minified C++ file using ncurses. A commented versio… | 32 | 3289 | maintenance |