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OpenSpades

OpenSpades is a sandbox game, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • No account

Overview

OpenSpades is a sandbox game, available on Linux. Related genres: first-person shooter.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Open Source voxel shooter” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “OpenSpades is an online first-person shooter that combines fast-paced gunfights and the creative building of Minecraft.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “OpenSpades is an online first-person shooter that combines fast-paced gunfights and the creative building of Minecraft.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

OpenSpades is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Strengths

  • No account needed
  • No advertising

Weaknesses

  • Closed source

About

OpenSpades is a clone of Ace of Spades 0.75, which is a free online first-person shooter created by Ben Aksoy, featuring fully destructible terrain and plenty of game modes (including the well-known Capture the Flag) created by the community. Can connect to a vanilla/pyspades/pysnip server Uses OpenGL/AL for better experience Open source, and cross platform

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from LicitPro manual check (account, watermark, free status, ads, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Facts manually checked on 10 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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