Software · Education & science

Colobot

Colonize with bots.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: GPL-3.0 — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms), Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Winget
Publisher: TerranovaTeam
Latest version: 0.2.2-alpha (23 December 2024)
Latest activity: 9 November 2026

At a glance

All of Colobot is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

About

Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational game aiming to teach programming through entertainment. You are playing as an astronaut on a journey with robot helpers to find a planet for colonization. It features 3D real-time graphics and a C++ and Java-like, object-oriented language, CBOT, which can be used to program the robots available in the game.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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