OpenReliant
Faithful engine reimplementation of the space combat game StarLancer, written in Zig on SDL3; needs the original game files.
Rewrite AI-assisted releasedFacts
- Original
- StarLancer (2000)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- AI-assisted · CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md present in repo root, indicating AI agent workflow (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
- Team
- OpenReliant
- Started
- 2026-09
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of StarLancer you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by OpenReliant. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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