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Category: Games

Chess

BBP Pairings – Swiss-system chess tournament engine

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

BBP Pairings is an engine for pairing players in a Swiss-system chess tournament.

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Game Engines

Jump ‘n Bump – family fun

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Jump ‘n Bump is a game for the whole family. You play cute fluffy little bunnies and hop on each other’s heads.

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Game Tools

Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Open Gamepad UI is a game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 designed with a gamepad native experience in mind.

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Shooter Games

Dealve – find game deals

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Dealve simplifies finding the best game deals across Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Epic Games, and more.

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Video-Emulators

StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

StarPSX is a PlayStation 1 emulator written in Rust. It features a native cross-platform GUI (eframe/egui) with a built-in debugger.

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Game Engines

TuxTuner – Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

TuxTuner is a Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops on Linux.

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Graphics card

Gale – lightweight Thunderstore client

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Gale is a modern and lightweight mod manager for Thunderstore, built with Svelte and Tauri.

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Chess

Fastchess – manage chess games with engines

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.

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Game Tools

Robocode – educational programming game

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Robocode is an engaging and educational programming game that allows you to code, test, and improve robot battle tanks.

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Shooter Games

Rare – graphical interface for Legendary

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, written in PySide6.

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Gaming Chat

Chatty – Twitch chat client

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Chatty is a Twitch Chat Client for Desktop written in Java featuring many Twitch specific features.

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Card Games

Qt Hearts – classic Hearts card game

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Qt Hearts is a classic card game. Try to avoid taking hearts and especially the Queen of Spades.

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Video Games

liskvork – modern multi-platform gomoku game server

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

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Video-Emulators

BizHawk – multi-system emulator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. It also has recording/playback and debugging tools.

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Sports Games

Golazo – follow football games

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

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Sports Games

mlbt – TUI for the MLB Statcast API

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

mlbt is a terminal user interface for the MLB Statcast API, with the intention of providing a light weight way to consume baseball data.

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Roguelike Games

Shadow of the Wyrm – single player, traditional roguelike

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Shadow of the Wyrm is a single player, traditional roguelike. You play a shipwrecked adventurer, washed up on the shore of an island far from home.

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Platform Games

AAAAXY – nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. Although your general goal is reaching the surprising end of the game, you are encouraged to set your own goals while playing. Exploration will be rewarded, and secrets

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Video-Emulators

Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gearcoleco is a very accurate cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Linux, BSD, RetroArch, macOS, and Windows.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ballerburg SDL is a classical castle combat game for Linux and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

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