# opengaming/osgameclones

Open Source Clones of Popular Games

Repository: https://github.com/opengaming/osgameclones
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/osgameclones
Homepage: https://osgameclones.com/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: open-source, games, hacktoberfest, game
Last push: 2026-08-26T10:20:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4846, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3092, forks 442 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:42.378993+00:00)

## What it is
A curated, community-maintained database of open-source clones, remakes, and reimplementations of popular games, published as the website osgameclones.com. Game data lives in schema-validated YAML files and is rendered by a Python-based site generator that can also be run as a Dockerized web server.

## Use cases
- find open-source clones of popular games
- discover remakes of classic games
- browse open-source games by genre or language
- contribute a new game clone to a curated list
- find reimplementations of old game engines
- search for open-source alternatives to commercial games

## When to choose
- you want a searchable, categorized index of open-source game clones and remakes
- you want to contribute or discover game reimplementations with references to originals

## When to avoid
- you need a game engine or library rather than a catalog of games
- you want to play games directly rather than discover them

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, search-engine, data-science
- domain: gaming-tools, awesome-lists, self-hosted
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: game-clones, open-source-games, curated-list, yaml-database, static-site, remakes, game-development, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- opengaming/osgameclones (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.378993+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:27:20.458584+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/opengaming/osgameclones (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.378993+00:00, sha 01043dbc41f2)
  - homepage: https://osgameclones.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:42:36.560218+00:00, sha dae01d687c7d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.