Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (geow2)

Game: Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 → (Xbox 360, 2008)

geow2: a native port of the Xbox Live Arcade game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam Deck, rebuilt by reverse engineering the original executable. It’s an independent reimplementation: it contains none of the game’s code, graphics, sound, or text, and a bundled tool turns your own XBLA package into the data folder the game reads, checking every file. All six modes (Deadline, King, Evolved, Pacifism, Waves, and Sequence) play with all their enemies, the grid, particles, and multiplier, the menus, unlocks, local scores and achievements, and local multiplayer for up to four players, versus and co-op, at any resolution. An optional score server for a group of friends syncs high scores and achievements across devices. It uses Vulkan on Windows and Linux and Metal on macOS, and needs FFmpeg for the sound (the Flatpak brings its own). 99 of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Xbox Live Arcade package of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (title ID 584108FF, version 0x102), or its extracted files. Plus FFmpeg, and Windows or x86-64 Linux with Vulkan, or macOS 11 or later.

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Console

Xbox 360

Original studio

Bizarre Creations

Year

2008

Author

techknight

Stars

4

Last activity

2026-10-29 · 2 days ago

Latest version

v1.2.6 · 2026-10-29

License

MIT

Language

C++

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