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Gaming
Gaming collects places to play, look up, and tinker with games. Browser and online games covers titles you can play without installing anything. Game-specific tools and game tools and utilities bring wikis, trackers, mod managers, and companion apps for particular titles. Mods and add-ons and mods and fan projects hold community patches, level packs, and fan-made content. Emulation and ROMs covers emulators and the software around them, and tabletop games, game servers and multiplayer, retro and classic titles, and Linux and macOS gaming are separate topics too. The legal status of game files differs by country and by title, so check what you are allowed to do where you live before you download anything. Game databases and review aggregators sit alongside the playable entries, which makes the category useful for researching a title as well as playing one.
Blockbench is a low-poly 3D model editor with texturing tools, an animation editor with rigging and keyframes, a built-in plugin store, and automatic UV map and template creation. It is free to use for any project and open source under the GPL license.
BoardGamePlay is an online board games web portal where a catalog of board games, including The Great Race and The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, is available for online play. The site offers game rules, expansions and modules, accounts, and a Discord server for finding players.
DFWorkshop is a gaming resource for guides, communities, tools, game discovery, or reference links.
FreeGuessr is a geography or map-based game resource for exploring places, clues, or location challenges.
GameFront is a gaming tool for game fixes, launchers, mods, status checks, cloud gaming, or utilities.
IGDB is a gaming tool for game fixes, launchers, mods, status checks, cloud gaming, or utilities.
JointOps2024 is a gaming tool for game fixes, launchers, mods, status checks, cloud gaming, or utilities.
MSX Resource Center is a gaming resource for guides, communities, tools, game discovery, or reference links.
Qp Megathread is a GitHub repository or organization with source code, releases, documentation, or project resources.
A page listing free games released by Japanese-to-English translator vgperson. The games are grouped into categories including horror-style exploration and adventure/story-oriented titles, and include RPG Maker games such as Ib and The Witch's House.
XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features, built for a stable, smooth and solid system experience. An official APT repository serves recent 64-bit Debian-based distributions, and builds run with LLVM optimizations and schedulers tuned for heavy workloads. A real-time PREEMPT_RT build is also available.
8bbit is a storage, design, or frontend resource for mockups, assets, UI tools, or web search.
Blockmatic is a gaming tool for game fixes, launchers, mods, status checks, cloud gaming, or utilities.
Cardlike is a gaming resource for guides, communities, tools, game discovery, or reference links.
EDuke32 is a free homebrew game engine and source port of Duke Nukem 3D to Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and several handhelds. It adds features and upgrades for players and editing and scripting extensions for mod and homebrew developers. It is open source software and free to use for all non-commercial purposes.
Games by Will is a collection of browser games by Will Juseck, including Terminal, Capital Punishment, Math Blitz, Never Enough, 25th Amendment, Redundancy, Renter's Revenge, and The Lich's Dungeon. The games span genres such as strategy, horror text adventure, geography quiz, arcade speed math, satirical strategy, political strategy, narrative strategy, and fantasy roguelike.
GameServe.rs is a server browser for modded Call of Duty clients, including Plutonium, IW4x, AlterWare, Aurora, HorizonMW, CoD4x and S2x, covering titles from Call of Duty (2003) to Call of Duty: WWII. It also offers a free public JSON API for server lists and player counts.
Incendar is a video game site offering codes, guides, tools, tables, sheets, lists, release dates and times, and cheat sheets. It also lists major gaming releases for 2026, including titles with countdown timers to their release.
An unofficial launcher and documentation site for Knockout City, a multiplayer fighting game. Public servers hosted by the community can be accessed through the launcher. The site also documents an API with auth, stats and web sections, and describes Docker as a way to host a private server.
r/MacGaming points to a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
SpectrumComputing is a gaming resource for guides, communities, tools, game discovery, or reference links.
AmigaVision is an open source, community-driven collection of game and demo configurations for the Amiga platform, wrapped in a launcher. It is documented for setup on real Amiga hardware, MiSTer and Pocket FPGAs, Raspberry Pi and emulators.
Archiverse is a gaming tool for game fixes, launchers, mods, status checks, cloud gaming, or utilities.