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Tesseract

First-person shooter with cooperative in-game map editing.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Tesseract is a first-person shooter, available on Windows and Linux.

Gameplay elements described in its Flathub listing, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: co-op play.

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
  • “First-person shooter with cooperative in-game map editing” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “First-person shooter with cooperative in-game map editing” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “First-person shooter with cooperative in-game map editing” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (Zlib) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Tesseract is a first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing. Tesseract is based on Cube2/Sauerbraten. New rendering features include fully dynamic omnidirectional shadows, global illumination, HDR lighting, deferred shading and morphological/temporal/multisample anti-aliasing.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (publisher, licence, platforms, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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