splendid r games

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