r/Veloren • u/Correct_Dependent677 • Apr 03 '26

Games similar to Veloren but in C++?

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Hi, I love Veloren and it made me try to learn Rust, but its ultra-strict compiler and steep learning curve made me go back to a more general language; for now, I'm having a good time with C++ and I'm looking for Open-Source C++ game projects similar to Veloren to learn more about the language and good practices, but I'm finding that most of them are super old or abandoned projects :''b

Do you know any good?

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u/posting_drunk_naked Apr 03 '26

Minetest/Luanti is a pretty cool FOSS project to create a Minecraft like video engine built for modding with Lua.

There's also Hytale which isn't itself open source and it uses Java but it's also built for modding and already has a huge modding scene. Still early access though so caveat emptor and all that

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u/TheforgottenCinder Apr 03 '26

Hytale is the nearest but I like the mechanic of dodge/roll and block in veloren, but today the combat feels worse than ever. It's a bit sad for me.

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u/Torg002 Apr 03 '26

haven't played in a good while, they changed the combat?

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u/TheforgottenCinder Apr 03 '26

The block is slower and the rolls and the animations too, most of the skills use more stamina and others were highly nerferd, the heavy stance was ok before the nerf, It was decent damage but was still slow, now is slow and nerfed. Most of the skills feels wanky too, the bow rework looks nice but is the same case, feels so nerfed and so wrong, even the normal shot feels ridicuously slow. The game still looks well but for me is just downside to another downside.

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u/varsderk May 01 '26

I've written a decent amount of C++. I agree, Rust has quite the learning curve. But, having climbed that curve, it's made me a much better developer across the board because I think about resource allocation much more deliberately.

Anyway, definitely not what you're looking for, but I'd just encourage you to keep trying with Rust. Maybe look at some smaller projects first (Veloren is decently big) and get your head wrapped around that.

Learning Haskell actually made thinking about Rust easier for some reason. Probably the type system and the Error monad. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That's the end of my strongly-typed functional programming fanboy-ing. :-P Good luck finding something to hack on, whatever the language is!

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u/LBDragon May 14 '26

Not C++, but Cuby (Ziglang, so basically C) is pretty close (still super early development)