A fan game is basically a modification—or mod—of a
game often using available game assets. The complexity of a fan game can be increased by the community creating assets such as character models and maps.
Often times, it results in a game that is both familiar and new. While you can find fan games via 3D franchises, the majority of these games come from the 2D era of gaming.
Let’s look at five franchises that are fertile for fan games. The majority of these can be played via an emulator but one of the entries—the fourth one—can be played via Steam.