One of my favorite PC games of all time. There's an enduring player base and online community for it, as well as a really solid open source reimplementation: https://openrct2.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

RCT2 is the reason I made a Steam account haha, def check out https://openrct2.org/. Source: 7 months ago

Hey, you might want to take a look at this: https://openrct2.org/. Source: 7 months ago

If you buy the RCT2 pack (https://store.steampowered.com/app/285330/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_2_Triple_Thrill_Pack/) then you can run OpenRCT Project (https://openrct2.org/) on top of it Highly recommend. Source: 12 months ago

Nowadays just buy both on Steam or GOG and use OpenRCT2 to combine both with modern features. Source: about 1 year ago

Well how about I introduce you to... FreeCiv! https://freeciv.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

There are many other commercial projects similar to this (colonist.io landover.io etc). None of them are open source though. This has been done in the past extensively (see freeciv.org, or Terasology, or 0 AD etc). Source: 8 months ago

While many CivFanatics have probably heard of FreeCiv and Civ2Clone, there is also another freely available opensource indie game inspired by Civilization 2 called C-evo! C-evo aims to recreate the classic mid 90s TBS Civ2 like experience, but with more emphasis on a custom military unit designer, extremely powerful/deadly AI, and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge. The game uses similar... Source: 8 months ago

FreeCiv uses its own FOSS engine[0], can keep you occupied for days. [0] http://freeciv.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

The client and server are separate binaries; they are released together on freeciv.org, but Linux distributions put them into different packages. Source: 12 months ago