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Category: Games

Lucas Chess

ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Reviews

ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.

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Game Tools

T-Crisis 4 – Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

T-Crisis 4 is a Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game with 4-player local multiplayer.

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Game Tools

Pentobi – computer opponent for the board game Blokus

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Pentobi is a computer opponent for the board game Blokus. It has a strong Blokus engine with different playing levels.

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Game Tools

Glerm – puzzle game

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Glerm is a puzzle game. You’re under attack by encroaching shapes. Zap shapes of the same color to make them vanish

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Game Tools

Kubrick – 3D Game based on Rubik’s Cube

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Kubrick is a game based on the Rubik’s Cube puzzle. The cube sizes range from 2x2x2 up to 6x6x6, or you can play with irregular “bricks”.

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Game Tools

OpenOMF – remake of One Must Fall 2097

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games

OpenOMF is an open-source remake of the 1994 DOS fighting classic One Must Fall 2097.

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Turn Based Strategy Games

Feudal Tactics – medieval strategy game

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Feudal Tactics is a medieval strategy game with countless unique and challenging levels. You play on an randomly generated island made of hexagons.

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micro-racing

Pixel Wheels – retro top-down race game

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Pixel Wheels is a retro top-down race game for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Hunt – word search game

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Hunt is an easy word search game. You can play with or without a timer, or a blitz mode,

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Gamer Utilities

Candy Wrapper – screen-wrapping arcade action

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Candy Wrapper is a looping platformer arcade game. It’s built with Godot Engine 4.4.1.

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Chess Engines

25 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Software

Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Atom Chess – chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Engine Analysis is performed with Stockfish 17 with the ability to change depth.

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Tetris

Quadrapassel – falling-block game

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.

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Video Games

DuckRun – chrome dino game clone

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

DuckRun is a little game about a duck who loves to hop and wants to collect some coins. It’s made with the Godot game engine.

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Game Tools

Serial Loops – editing suite for Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu

August 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Serial Loops is a full-fledged editor for the Nintendo DS game Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (The Series of Haruhi Suzumiya).

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Gamer Utilities

Spelloff – multiplayer first-person shooter

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Spelloff is a (kinda bare-bones) multiplayer first-person shooter in the tradition of arena-shooters such as Quake.

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Video-Emulators

Eden – Nintendo Switch emulator

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Eden is an experimental emulator for the Nintendo Switch, built with performance and stability in mind.

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Sports Games

99Managers Futsal Edition – futsal team-management game

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

99Managers Futsal Edition is an open-source sports management game, where you control every aspect of a Futsal team

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Role-Play Games

Threadbare – story-drive collaborative game

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Threadbare is a story-driven, collaborative game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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