Games
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Provides a list of popular GNU/Linux games, categorized by genre. |
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This page only lists popular games for GNU/Linux. For more about running games and related system configuration tips, see Gaming.
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Game Environments
Different environments exist to play games in Linux:
- Native - Games written for Linux (a good number are available in the official repositories or in the AUR). Loki also provides installers for several games.
- Wine - Allows running of some Windows games.
- Cedega - A game-oriented Wine derivative. Its packaged version is not free of charge unlike its CVS version.
- Java Webstart - to install cross-platform games very easily.
- Web game - Java applets, Flash games...
Action and adventure
- Bloodridge — Java based, 3d adventure fantasy game
- http://www.hayles.demon.co.uk/bloodridge/bloodridge.html || No package
- BZFlag — Multiperson, first-person tank shooter
- Blob Wars: Blob and Conquer — 3D Action-adventure game, sequel to 2D platform game, Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid
- Freedink — Free and enhanced version of the action-adventure "Dink Smallwood"
- Neverball — 3D game to guide a ball through a maze
- Astromenace — AstroMenace is a modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities
Arcade
- Tetrinet - Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people
- LTris - An arcade version of Tetris.
- Ri-li - Toy wood engine GPL game
- Circus Linux! - Clone of the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari", produced by Atari, Inc
- Barrage - Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects
- Frozen Bubble - Frozen Bubble arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy
- Chromium - Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter
- Noiz2sa - A vertical shooter arcade game with nice abstract graphics, music, and joystick support.
- Pinball - Open source pinball simulator for linux and other unix systems
- PowerManga - Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites
- Viruskiller - Your computer has been invaded! Using your trusty mouse you must shoot the buggers before they can destroy your files!
- Crack-attack - Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack
- lbreakout2 - Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid
- Ultrastar-ng - Clone of SingStar, a music video game
- Tuxanci - Multiplatform game, inspired by well-known czech game Bulanci
- Ceferino (spanish) - Action game similar to Super Pang
- Bomberclone - Free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players.
- Warzone 3 - 3D tank combat simulation game, set during some of the most critical European and Russian battles of the Second World War
- Cosmic Trip - Fast 3D shooter featuring smooth, psychedelic graphics, fast and addictive gameplay, online high-scores, and free
Course
- Super Tux Kart
- vdrift
- Torcs
- Tux Kart
- Moon-buggy
- Ultimates Stunts
- Trigger
- Armagetronad
- Extreme Tux Racer - A 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring. This game replaces "Tux Racer" and "Planet Penguin Racer", which are no longer under development.
- BigFun Motorcycle Trials
- Maniadrive
Education
- GCompris
- Gnumch
- Tux Paint
- Tux Typing
Platformer
- DÅkutsu Monogatari (aka Cave Story) - Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer
- knyttstories - Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels
- toppler - Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus"
RPG
- Egoboo - Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics
Shooter
- Quake 3 Arena - Demo version from id
- Quake Live
- World Of Padman : Stand Alone Complex
- Tremulous - FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens
- Warsow - Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps
- Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory - Freeware edition of Return to Castle Wolfenstein's multiplayer client
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Nexuiz
- Urban Terror
- Cube
- Cube 2 : Sauerbraten
- PrBoom+
- Doomsday
- TUER
- Jake 2
- Ancient Arenas
- Futuristic Arenas
- Scared
- Tesseract
- Steam under Linux
Simulation
- Danger from deep
- Flight Gear
- Beyond The Red Line
- Freespace 2
- Foobillard
- Pydance
MMOG - MMORPG
- Landes Eternelles
- Planeshift
- Dofus
- Savage - The Battle For Newerth
- Savage2 - A tortured soul
- Regnum Online
- The Mana World
- Runescape
- Second Life - Online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its residents
- Wurm Online
- Eve Online
- Heroes of Newerth - Online, multi-player strategy game that is based upon DoTA (Defense of the Ancients)
Strategy
- Battle for Wesnoth - Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat
- Boson
- Glest - Free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield
- Globulation 2 - Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement
- UFO Alien Invasion
- Freeciv
- Wormux
- Lgeneral
- Advanced Strategic Command
- Penguin Command
- Crimson Fields
- Singularity (Endgame) - Turn based Single player strategy/simulation about a KI hiding, growing and evolving
- Tower Defense Game
Tycoon/Management Games
- Lincity-ng - City simulation game in which you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
- OpenTTD - Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
- Bygfoot - Football (soccer) management game
Puzzle
- Cgoban3
- Netris
- Glchess
- Tuxtyping
- Gnudoku
- Gnuchess
- Xscorch
- Pingus
- Eboard
- xmoto
- Gnono
- Ksudoku
- 3D Breakout
- Incredibuilder!
- World of Goo - great 2D game with good physic, incredible music and nice graphics, you can find demo version in AUR, if you want full version, then you can purchase Linux version for 20$ from the game's homepage
Emulators
An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for. While emulators themselves are not games in a strict sense, they provide users with the ability to play games and therefore have been included in this article.
Warning: Emulators provide users with the ability to run programs called "ROMS", which are copies of games. While owning an emulator itself is not illegal, downloading or sharing (and in some cases, creating) copyrighted ROMs without the copyright holder's permission is ILLEGAL. Using an emulator to run ROMs that you do not own the legal rights to is ILLEGAL. Use at your own risk and be sure to read the Terms of Service for the emulator. Arch Linux etc. is not responsible if you get in trouble.
- Dolphin- Very nice Gamecube and Wii emulator
- DeSmuME - Linux Nintendo DS emulator
- DOSBox - Open source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games
- epsxe - Emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware
- fceux - Cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator
- PCSX2 - Playstation 2 emulator it is still being maintained and developed
- Mupen64Plus - Highly compatible n64 emulator with plugin system
- snes-9x - portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator
- Visual Boy Advance - Gameboy emulator with GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Color, and Super GameBoy support
- Wine - Wine is not actually an emulator, but it provides a way to play windows games on Linux.
- ZSNES - a Super Nintendo emulator
For a full selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulators' category
External links
- FGF players' portal - The portal for all Java open source really cross-platform games
- Free Gamer - Open source games blog
- FreeGameDev - Free/open source game development community
- Libregamewiki - Free software games wiki
- arch-games Games repo for Arch Linux
- SIG/Games - OS/Linux gaming news sites and lists at Fedora's wiki
- live.linux-gamers - Arch-based live gaming distro