splendid-r-games

This is a list of games you can play in the R language, which is (supposed to be) a 'free software environment for statistical computing and graphics'.

Please submit an issue or pull request to adjust the list. Add the game alphabetically to the relevant section like * Game ([source](<link>)) by [Name](<link>). Add other links if relevant, like a blog post or live app, and put the game name in {curly braces} ({}) if it's an R package.

🤼 Action

• Cactus Purge (source) by Wes Hinsley - Surreal multi-chapter action adventure, including...
  • Cactz (blitz but with cacti)
  • Cactuski (ski-ing but with lasers and bosses and a cactus)
• {sammleR} (source) by Sebastien Meyer
• Whack-A-Mole (source) by Tomás Capretto

🕹 Arcade

• Pacman (source, blog) by Mike Cheng
• Pong (source, blog) by Peter Prevos
• Snake (source) by Jeroen Janssens

♟️ Board games

• Chess (blog) by Mike Cheng

🃏 Card games

• Blackjack (source, blog) by Max Weylandt

🥚 Cyberpets

• {tamRgo} (source, docs, blog) by Matt Dray

🗺 Geography

• cityguess (source, app) by Timothée Giraud
• Where is the street? (source, app) by Albert Rapp

💾 HTML5

• {Rcade} for accessing HTML5 games, including 2048, Mariohtml5, CustomTetris and more (source) by Romain Lesur

🧠 Logic and memory

• Hex Memory Game (source, app, contest submission) by Victor Perrier
• Mastermind (source, blog) by Tomaž Kaštrun

🆚 Multiplayer

• Rock paper scissors (source) by Ashley Baldry

✏️ Paper and pencil

• Hangman (source, blog) by Tomaž Kaštrun
• Tic Tac Toe (source, blog) by Peter Prevos

⛴ Ports

• Another World (source, blog, conference video) by Mike Cheng

🧩 Puzzle

• 1000 levels of Sokoban (source, app) by Jackson Kwok
• 2048 (source, blog) by Mike Cheng
• {lightsout} (source, app, blog) by Dean Attali
• Nonograms (source, blog) by Mike Cheng
• Pokémon 20 Questions (source, app, contest submission) by Ashley Baldry
• {sokoban} (CRAN) by Zhaoliang He, Linsui Deng and Kaiwen Tan
• {twenty48} (CRAN, source) by Alex Rossell Hayes

🧫 Simulation

• Beat the Trend (source, app, contest submission) by Marcus Young
• {livelycells} (source, app) by Vincent Ott
• Shiny Decisions (source, app, blog) by Pedro Coutinho Silva

📖 Text-based

• CastleOfR (source, blog) by Giora Simonchi
• {OregonTrail} (source, blog) by Thomas Lumley
• {safar6} (source, blog) by Matt Dray
• The Secret of Landusia (source, blog) by Peter Prevos
• Tenliner Cave Adventure (source, blog) by Peter Prevos
• Zork (blog) by Mike Cheng

🔄 Tile-/turn-based

• {ActionSquirrel} (source, blog) by Matt Dray
• Gravedigger (source, blog) by Peter Prevos
• {oranguru} (source, docs) by Ashley Baldry
• {r.oguelike} (source, docs, blog) by Matt Dray
• Shark Attack: Clean the Oceans by Marcin Dubel (source, app, contest submission)
• Shiny Monster Maze (source, app, blog) by Enrique Hermo
• ShinyMons 'PokeFight' (source, app) by David Granjon

🔠 Words

• Wordle (source, app, video playlist) by Winston Chang
• {wordle} (source, blog) by Mike Cheng