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Highlight overview: - Animated Thruster Flames - Physically accurate Star Colors ( Planck ) - Improved User Interface (common layout, bookmark system/route, hyperjump from map, and more) - Police is now tamer, they will fine instead of attacking immediately - Pirates are sneakier by hiding around planets in the target system - New mission type: Finding people - Major economy rewrite - And much more

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I’m happy to say that a new open-source game automation utility that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years is now coming to Steam!

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COCOS is a cross-platform game development platform popular in Asian markets, known for lightweight mobile and in-app games. Earlier in November 2025, it was acquired by Chinese gamification giant SUD for $72 million.

Modding + Added Custom vehicle HUDs. + Added Gadget​: Standalone tools created using scripting. + Added Addonpart and Tuning​, A complete game changer for vehicle customization. + External resource bundles are now available for modders.

New Year, New You, New OpenTTD!

While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it’s far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine.

Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now. It’s fun seeing projects like this continue on for so long, especially as I grew up playing the likes of The Settlers on the Amiga and later Settlers 2 on PC. Good times, absolute classics.

Since the release of version 1.2, we implemented several hundreds of new features and bugfixes; for example, to name just a few of the highlights:

This year, Flightgear had 3 releases, see the highlights below

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the “Fedora Labs” initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming.

Quake II RTX released back in 2019, with NVIDIA using it to show off more ray tracing effects for their RTX GPUs but now they’re done with it. It’s still free on Steam and the project behind it is open source, but NVIDIA aren’t doing any more with it now.

Best puzzle game collection out there imo! Perfect time “waster”.

Open source rocks so it’s pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They’ve now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client. If you missed the open source news be sure to check the previous GamingOnLinux article.

With lots of enhancements for the classics Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2, the TRX project version 1.0 is out now with an LUA scripting engine for modders.

Microsoft announced today that they’re preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source. The source has been around for a while but now it’s all proper.

Giving evolution a little bit more visual flair, Thrive is a scientific open source sim about surviving and growing as a tiny creature. A new release has arrived bringing with it some pretty big changes to how it looks, along with even more customization of your run.

Boxcars is a free and open source application for playing backgammon online and offline.

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