Great suggestions in this discussion! Rather than adding my favourites, I will add some resources that list more games.

• Libregamewiki: it is really comprehensive (sometimes too much, including even not-so-good-games). They care about licencing and is is very easy to browse, top-notch for me.
• Open source games: a more relaxed repository, with lots of material.
• bobeff open source list: this is curated, which means that there are not so many games but each and every one is stable, good, maintained.
• Arcane Cache: a fantastic blog with reviews of libre games — or more precisely, underground games, there is a lot of discussion on how gamedevving philosophy too. The reviews are always in-depth and allow you to experience the games on another level, and each game is a small jewel in its category. Strongly recommended!

Battle for Wesnoth is the one that comes to mind first. Turn based strategy game.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup classical roguelike, as in actually like Rogue/nethack. Can be played with ASCII or graphical tiles, and you can play in a browser window with scoreboards and a spectator mode.

Mindustry is a favorite of mine

Some of the most polished open source games are: 0 A. D., Xonotic, Beyond All Reason, Battle for Wesnoth, Mindustry, Minetest, Thrive. These are all great games open source or not. I'm sure I'm missing a few, but these stand out to me for their completeness and polish.

• Xonotic is a great old school, Quake style FPS with an active community
• 0 A.D. is a pretty polished historical RTS
• The Battle for Wesnoth is a classic turn based strategy
• OpenRA is an open implementation of the Red Alert engine that's got an active community

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone

Veloren is based on Cube World and it's an RPG with server builds and everything

• osu! (The new lazer client, the old one isn't open source)
• Veloren

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, has a really strong community behind it. Be warned, it is an intensely deep simulation (as in dwarf fortress), that is often criticized for it's tediousness. But that gameplay element critique aside, it's a fantastic example of a community developped game.

OpenTTD is more a strategic game,but it's great. OpenRCT sadly requires the graphics of the original RCT2, so it's not really open source. But also a favorite.

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

0AD is great. And whilst not a game really, FlightGear is the best you'll get for a FOSS flightsim. And really, for the prices that some X-Plane/MSFS planes and other addons go for, it's actually proper good.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs got open sourced if that counts.

Ive been playing a lot of MineClone2 which is a modpack for Minetest!

I'm surprised that no one mentioned super tux kart yet

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or if you like something a little less complex, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, are fantastic roguelike games. Proper traditional, turn based, tileset ones.

Imagine a mix of Fallout and The Walking Dead, that's what it's like. It's superb. The possibilities are endless

A lot of good tips here, but you should have a look at Endless Sky! Really cool space game
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

OpenTTD is a pretty cool transportation and train building game

Shattered Pixel Dungeon Roguelike, very addctive :)

Warzone 2100 is an excellent RTS that is open source. I've never played a game with a bigger and more complex skill tree. Has an interesting development history in that it was originally a Playstation game, but was completely open sourced once the company went under. It has been kept alive by fans ever since.

0 AD is a solid AOE2 clone

Forge, a Magic: The Gathering rules engine available both for Windows and Android. Various formats, good AI, offline and online play, and now even has a Shandalar-like mode.
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #Forge #Shandalar

I used to play Sauerbraten, a Quake-like FPS, way back in the day. Doesn't look like it's very active any more.

Havent seen endless sky mentioned here, it is an old school space trader sim (think scape velocity or a 2d freelancer)

I liked oolite and doomrl .

Neverball is my favorite. It's a Monkey ball clone.

Colobot was made open source a while ago and is still great! The game assets (and original binaries) can also be downloaded for free from the dev's site.

Tux Racer is the OG.

For mobile games there is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, great time sink

Quake and Doom.

If you enjoyed Zero-K, there is also Beyond All Reason in development and in playable alpha state

I like re3, reVC and reLCS. These are reverse engineered versions of GTA 3, Vice City and Liberty City Stories with improvements. Take Two has thrown a strike on the main repository, but you can still find mirrors or builds in the internet.

Battle for westnoth !

And I can't remember right now the stealth game I used to play, it was the dark something, gonna search it later.

If you like Zero-K you're going to love Beyond All Reason