xoreos

Games: Neverwinter Nights (Windows, 2002) · Neverwinter Nights 2 (Windows, 2006) · Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Windows, 2003) · Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (Windows, 2004) · Jade Empire (Windows, 2005) · Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (DS, 2008) · The Witcher (Windows, 2007) · Dragon Age: Origins → (Windows, 2009) · Dragon Age II (Windows, 2011)

xoreos: an open-source reimplementation of BioWare’s Aurora engine and its derivatives, aiming to get every game that uses them working on modern systems, from Neverwinter Nights to Dragon Age II. Its target games are Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, The Sith Lords, Jade Empire, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, The Witcher, Dragon Age: Origins, and Dragon Age II. So far the groundwork is done: it manages resources, reads many file formats, displays graphics, and plays sound. All of those games show part of their areas and objects, which you can fly around with a free camera, and some show part of their menus, but none of them can be played normally yet. The latest release, 0.0.6 (August 3, 2020), made the Knights of the Old Republic tutorial partly playable (collecting your gear, Trask opening the first door, and a practice fight), let you skip The Sith Lords’ prologue, and added music and an early character creation menu to Jade Empire. It has no GUI: you start it from the command line with the game’s path. Development continues in the repository; the latest commit is from September 4.

You needA full installation on your hard drive of your own copy of the game you want to open. Plus Windows or Linux (32- or 64-bit x86) or macOS 10.9 or later (64-bit Intel); it’s also in the AUR, for Arch Linux, and in a Gentoo overlay.

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Original studio

BioWare

Author

DrMcCoy

Stars

1.2k

Last activity

2026-09-04 · 1 month ago

Latest version

v0.0.6 · 2020-08-03

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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