Red Eclipse 2
Arena first-person shooter similar to Unreal Tournament.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 623 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.0.0 (Dec 2019).
At a glance
Red Eclipse 2 quick facts
- Health score
- 56/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 542
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.0.0, Dec 2019
- Licence
- Zlib, MIT, CC-BY-SA-4.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Red Eclipse is an old-school arena shooter for the modern age. Building on decades of hardcore action, from Doom, to Quake, to Halo, to Team Fortress, to Mirror's Edge. Run, gun, and parkour your way to your next frag!"
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Red Eclipse 2 scores 56/100, #15 of 20 in Games: 623 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.0.0, 6.9 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 542 stars add 10.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
623 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
v2.0.0 released 6.9 years ago
- Stars 10.9 / 20
542 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 623
- Last 90 days
- 674
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Zero-K (#14) and piqueserver (#16) .
Details
| Licence | Zlib, MIT, CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Platforms | C, C++, deb |
| Latest release | v2.0.0 · 6.9 years ago |
| Stars | 542 |
| Open issues | 211 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | redeclipse/base ↗ |
Red Eclipse 2 vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Red Eclipse 2 (Games), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTTD | 94 | 8.4k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Razzia | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Mindustry | 88 | 30k | GPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| Hypersomnia | 68 | 1.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Red Eclipse 2 (this tool) | 56 | 542 | Zlib | today |
| piqueserver | 47 | 237 | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
Red Eclipse 2: common questions
Is Red Eclipse 2 still maintained?
Red Eclipse 2 had 623 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.0.0, is from 6.9 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.