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/ || abuseAUR
- Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.
- Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.
- Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects
- Beneath a Steel Sky — point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future
- Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars — fanmade sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword
- Dream Web — top-down adventure game set in a gritty futuristic dystopian city
- Freedink — Free version of the game "Dink Smallwood", extendable with mods
- 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: liquidwar6AUR, homepage: | Liquid War 6
- Minecraft — Java based sandbox game.
- XBill — Kill all instances of a virus before it infects all computers with a malware resembling Microsoft Windows.
- http://www.xbill.org/ || xbillAUR
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.
- 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.
- kbreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of kde-games.
- Not Tetris 2 — A Tetris-like game with realistic physics
- Pinball — Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.
Casual games
- Aisleriot — A collection of solitaire card games.
- bs — Battleships based shooter for the console
- QCheckers — Qt-based checkers boardgame.
Chess simulators
- chessx — Chess Database and PGN viewer
- Scidb — Chess database browser: includes engines for chess, chess960, etc; import from PGN, Scid, Chessbase, etc; CQL++ searching
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.
- Tux Math — Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.
Massively multiplayer online games (MMO)
See also Wikipedia:List of massively multiplayer online games and Wikipedia:Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
- 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
- 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.
Puzzle
- Gnu Go — A terminal-based implementation of Go from GNU.
- iQPuzzle — A diverting and challenging pentomino puzzle.
- Kigo — Go for KDE. Part of kde-games.
- KLines — Moving balls around the board to form a line of 5 of the same color. Part of kde-games.
- Kubrick — A Rubik’s cube solving game. Part of kde-games.
- Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game
- World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.
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.
- Torcs — 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.
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.
- Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.
Rogue-like
See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Post-apocalyptic roguelike focusing on realism.
- Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.
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.
- GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.
- https://www.gemrb.org/ || gemrbAUR
Shooters (FPS, third person)
- AssaultCube — Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.
- 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-gitAUR directly without brutal-doomAUR. openal is required for in-game audio.
- PrBoom Plus — Enhanced version of the PrBoom Doom engine port.
- http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/ || prboom-plusAUR
- 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
- Heretic Demo game data –
- HHexen — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.
- http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html || hhexenAUR
- 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.
- Advanced Quake 1 game engine –
- High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project – quake-qrp-texturesAUR
- 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-quake2AUR
- Quake III Arena binaries –
- Demo version –
- Quake 4 engine –
- Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.
- War Trigger 3 — Previously known as Red Crucible®: Firestorm, a free to play online FPS
- 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/ || xpilotAUR
Simulation
- Koi Farm — Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
- Oolite — 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite.
- http://oolite.org/ || ooliteAUR
- 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.
Strategy
Real-time
- 0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage. Based on the Age of Empires series.
- Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.
- Netpanzer — Real-time strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.
- 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.
Turn-based
- FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
- An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE) – , openxcom-extended-gitAUR
- Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE , , , , openxcom-mod-xpiratezAUR
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.
Visual novels
- Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.
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See also
- PCGamingWiki - "PCGamingWiki aims to list fixes and workarounds for every single PC game"
- ProtonDB - "The goal of ProtonDB is to gather reports from other gamers as they test games with Proton on Linux and provide aggregate scores of how well games perform. A growing pool of [...] tweaks".
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers
- The Linux Gamers' Game List
- Linux game database
- Penguspy
- Debian games portal, links, and suggested games
- ./play.it list of games
- Wikipedia:Category:Linux games
- Wikipedia:Humble Bundle
- Wikipedia:Game engine recreation
- itch.io Linux games
- Steam Linux store
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