List of games

This page strives to list all games which have a package available in the official repositories or the AUR. There are many more Linux games available, which are not packaged. See Gaming#Getting games for ways to obtain them.

For more about running games, related system configuration tips, see Gaming. For an up to date selection of games available in the AUR, try checking the AUR 'game' keyword.

Action and adventure

Abuse — Side-scroller action game that pits you against ruthless alien killers.

http://abuse.zoy.org/ || abuse^AUR

Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.

https://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria || aquaria-ose^AUR, aquaria-hib^AUR

Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openastromenace/ || astromenace.

Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/Barrage/ || barrage

Beneath a Steel Sky — point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future

https://revolution.co.uk/games_catalog/beneath-a-steel-sky/ || bass

Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars/ || blobwars

Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars — fanmade sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword

http://www.brokensword25.com/ || sword25^AUR

Dream Web — top-down adventure game set in a gritty futuristic dystopian city

https://www.scummvm.org/games/ || dreamweb^AUR

Freedink — Free version of the game "Dink Smallwood", extendable with mods

https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/ || freedink^AUR

The open-source Unix port of the Haaf's Game Engine is available at icculus.org.

A rewrite of the game program, now adopted as a GNU project: liquidwar6^AUR, homepage: | Liquid War 6

Minecraft — Java based sandbox game.

https://minecraft.net/ || minecraft-launcher^AUR

XBill — Kill all instances of a virus before it infects all computers with a malware resembling Microsoft Windows.

http://www.xbill.org/ || xbill^AUR

Arcade

Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer. If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

https://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

https://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

kbreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of kde-games.

https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kbreakout/ || kbreakout

Not Tetris 2 — A Tetris-like game with realistic physics

https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/ || nottetris2^AUR

Pinball — Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.

http://pinball.sourceforge.net/ || pinball^AUR

Casual games

Aisleriot — A collection of solitaire card games.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Aisleriot || aisleriot

bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

QCheckers — Qt-based checkers boardgame.

https://github.com/portnov/qcheckers || qcheckers^AUR

Chess simulators

chessx — Chess Database and PGN viewer

http://chessx.sourceforge.net || chessx^AUR

Scidb — Chess database browser: includes engines for chess, chess960, etc; import from PGN, Scid, Chessbase, etc; CQL++ searching

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidb/ || scidb-svn^AUR

Education

KLettres — Application specially designed to help the user to learn alphabet in a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables. Part of kde-education.

https://www.kde.org/applications/education/klettres/ || klettres

Tux Math — Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.

https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath || tuxmath^AUR

Interactive fiction

Massively multiplayer online games (MMO)

Planeshift — Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account

https://www.planeshift.it || planeshift^AUR

Savage: The Battle for Newerth — Online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS hybrid. Open-sourced in September 2006. Savage XR, the most improved continuation (including SFE patches), is completely free (no purchasing/ads whatsoever) however closed-source to reduce cheating.

https://www.newerth.com/ || savage^AUR

Platformer

SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.

https://supertux.lethargik.org/ || supertux

Puzzle

Bovo — Gomoku-like game. Part of kde-games.

https://www.kde.org/applications/games/bovo/ || bovo

Gnu Go — A terminal-based implementation of Go from GNU.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ || gnugo

iQPuzzle — A diverting and challenging pentomino puzzle.

https://elth0r0.github.io/iqpuzzle/ || iqpuzzle^AUR

Kigo — Go for KDE. Part of kde-games.

https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kigo/ || kigo

KLines — Moving balls around the board to form a line of 5 of the same color. Part of kde-games.

https://www.kde.org/applications/games/klines/ || klines

Kubrick — A Rubik’s cube solving game. Part of kde-games.

https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kubrick/ || kubrick

Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.

https://www.2dboy.com || worldofgoo^AUR

Racing

Rigs of Rods — Sandbox-style vehicle simulator, the open-source predecessor to Beam.NG drive. Features a realistic soft-body physics model, and an active modding community as of 2020.

https://www.rigsofrods.org/ || rigsofrods^AUR

Torcs — 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.

http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ || torcs^AUR

Rhythm

Clone Hero — A Guitar Hero/Rock Band clone that is accurate to how the series played. Supports the original controllers and community made song imports.

https://clonehero.net/ || clonehero^AUR

Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.

https://www.stepmania.com/ || stepmania^AUR

Rogue-like

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Post-apocalyptic roguelike focusing on realism.

https://cataclysmdda.org/ || cataclysm-dda, cataclysm-dda-tiles

Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.

https://www.nethack.org || nethack

Role-playing games (RPG)

Arx Libertatis — This project is a fully working, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. It features some improvements over the original engine like bug fixes and wide screen support.

https://arx-libertatis.org/ || arx-libertatis^AUR

GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.

https://www.gemrb.org/ || gemrb^AUR

Shooters (FPS, third person)

AssaultCube — Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.

https://assault.cubers.net/ || assaultcube-client^AUR

Doom: the famous shooter from ID Software has several ports for Linux. None of the id-engine games have copyleft game resources, only the game engine code was open sourced. See for details.

Doom 1 Demo data –

Note: Instructions at Brutal Doom#Installation show how to modify gzdoom-git^AUR directly without brutal-doom^AUR. openal is required for in-game audio.

PrBoom Plus — Enhanced version of the PrBoom Doom engine port.

http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/ || prboom-plus^AUR

Doom 3

ezQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. The popular, modern and maintained Quake/QuakeWorld client. Can play on-line for free

http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/ || ezquake^AUR

Duke Nukem 3D

Heretic Demo game data –

HHexen — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.

http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html || hhexen^AUR

Hexen 1 Demo game data –

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the only supported game as of August 2020. Support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is coming soon.

Quake

Advanced Quake 1 game engine –
High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project – quake-qrp-textures^AUR

Quake II

A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures –
Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits. yamagi-quake2^AUR

Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena binaries –

Quake 4

Demo version –
Quake 4 engine –

Spear of Destiny

Super 3D Noah's Ark

Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.

https://tremulous.net/ || tremulous^AUR

War Trigger 3 — Previously known as Red Crucible®: Firestorm, a free to play online FPS

https://www.rocketeergames.com/main/wartrigger3.html || rcf^AUR

Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS –
Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server –

XPilot — XPilot is a multi-player 2D space game. Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteroids and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust (Commodore 64) and Gravity Force (Commodore Amiga), but XPilot has many new aspects too.

http://www.xpilot.org/ || xpilot^AUR

Simulation

Koi Farm — Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.

https://jobtalle.itch.io/koifarm || koifarm-git^AUR

Oolite — 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite.

http://oolite.org/ || oolite^AUR

Rigs of Rods — Sandbox-style vehicle simulator, the open-source predecessor to Beam.NG drive. Features a realistic soft-body physics model, and an active modding community as of 2020.

https://www.rigsofrods.org/ || rigsofrods^AUR

Strategy

Real-time

0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage. Based on the Age of Empires series.

https://play0ad.com/ || 0ad

Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.

http://dark-oberon.sourceforge.net/ || dark-oberon^AUR

Netpanzer — Real-time strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric real-time strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

Turn-based

FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.

https://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE) – , openxcom-extended-git^AUR
Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE , , , , openxcom-mod-xpiratez^AUR

Tycoon/management games

OpenRCT2 — Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.

https://openrct2.org/ || openrct2

Visual novels

Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

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