Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons
Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons (DOS, 1990) has an open-source reimplementation, gerstrong/Commander-Genius, and 7 other public projects, including a matching decompilation and a decompilation.
Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry
Projects
Modern Interpreter for the Commander Keen (Vorticon Dreams and Galaxy) and also Cosmos Cosmic Adventure games. This is a mirror repo: The main gitlab repository is at: https://gitlab.com/Dringgstein/…
Shipped as a built-in 'port' in Batocera Linux (master, 2026-10)
Chocolate Keen is a reverse engineering of Commander Keen in C/C++ and SDL. The goal is to be super accurate versus the original
Reverse-engineering of Keen 1-3 aiming at exact behaviour.
A very nearly complete clone of classic DOS game Commander Keen, written in C/C++
Near-complete clone (mirror).
Released Dec 2025 (Keen 35th anniversary) on PCKF under GPL; byte-identical rebuilds; author not on GitHub.
Reconstructed source published on PCKF forum
OSGC status: playable; development: halted; game already in catalog; this project is a different project type for it
What you need
You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.
More on DOS
Found via batocera-linux/batocera.linux/tree/master/packag, SubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games/blob/main/data/d, radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes, osgameclones.com/, pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248
GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.