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Looking for free games for Linux

#1 Post by linuxcbon »

PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THE LIST BY PROPOSING FREE GAMES

List of free games for linux (tested on xenialpup 64) :

ACTION AND ADVENTURE




BOARDS AND CARDS

GNOME Chess
install from PPM
# gnome-chess



FPS

Alien Arena
install from PPM
# alien-arena

AssaultCube
install from PPM
# assaultcube

Nexuiz
install from PPM
# nexuiz

OpenArena
install from PPM
# openarena

Sauerbraten
install from PPM
(BE CAREFUL : NEEDS A LOT LOT OF RAM)



MMO



RACING



RPG



SIMULATION



STRATEGY




PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THE LIST BY PROPOSING FREE GAMES.
THE LIST WILL BE FREQUENTLY UPDATED
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#2 Post by souleau »

I like Shattered Pixel Dungeon. You do need Java Runtime Edition (JRE) to run it.

https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pi ... /releases/

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#3 Post by linuxcbon »

souleau wrote:I like Shattered Pixel Dungeon. You do need Java Runtime Edition (JRE) to run it.

https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pi ... /releases/
thanks for answering. Please a game without java or browser or plugins. Not everybody wants to install java or plugins.

For each game proposed, I will try to run it in xenial and update the first message to have a list of games.
I have a small list already to test : 0ad, gnome chess, torcs, tux kart, xonotic...

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#4 Post by souleau »

Radialapps ported the RPG Exit Fate to linux. That transition has not been flawless, so there's a snag here and there, but it is playable. I enjoyed it anyway. It's pretty much a self contained package.

https://radialapps.com/linux/exitfate.html

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#5 Post by slavvo67 »

FPS Assault Cube and Open Arena

Free Orion which is like Masters of Orion - strategy game.

Minetest which is like Minecraft.

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#6 Post by Keef »

Arx Libertatis is a cross-platform, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler developed by Arkane Studios.
http://arx-libertatis.org/

Get the linux portable download:
http://arx-libertatis.org/files/arx-lib ... nux.tar.xz

You will also need the demo for the data files:
https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-33 ... d/download

This is 32bit though.

The is also The Dark Mod http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ which is a Thief inspired game on a newer engine. 32 and64bit, Linux and Windows.
Won't run as root, but 'su spot' does it for me.
On my 2ghz Core Duo laptop, it struggled until I got the Nvidia drivers installed (on upupBB).

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#7 Post by sc0ttman »

0 A.D - 3d real-time epic historical strategy game thing (a bit like Age of Empires, but newer?)

Cave Story - one of the best platformers .. probably still the best one for Linux

Nexuiz - fast, good 3d first-person shooter game

FreeCiv - strategy game (civilization 2 clone)

FreeCol - a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. (Java)

Assault Cube Reloaded - another version of assault cube with added gameplay things like headshots, one shot kills, etc

FreeDoom - open source doom 2

FreeDM - open source doom for multiplayer

Brutal Doom - version of doom with more gore, gameplay improvements

Numpty Physics - fun physics based puzzle game

Cartoon Fighter - awesome 2d street fighter clone (https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/p ... 1-sfs4.sfs)

pipepanic - good little SDL based puzzle games

xsokoban - lightweight sokoban game

YsFlight - lightweight 3d flight sim (https://ysflight.org/download/)

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And here are some search results using Pkg (on Dpup Stretch 7.5).

Most of these games should be available for Ubuntu pups, and in the "Slack only" repos for Slackware based pups too...

Results for "first-person shooter":

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bzflag               3D first person tank battle game
bzflag-client        3D first person tank battle game -- client
bzflag-data          3D first person tank battle game -- data
bzflag-server        3D first person tank battle game -- server
cube2                3D first-person shooter game engine
darkplaces           Game engine for Quake and similar 3D first person shooter..
enemylines3          semi-abstract first person 3d-shooter game
enemylines7          first person 3d-shooter game
games-fps            Debians first-person shooter games
ioquake3             Game engine for 3D first person shooter games
ioquake3-server      Engine for 3D first person shooter games - server and com..
nexuiz               Fast-paced 3D first-person shooter
openarena            fast-paced 3D first-person shooter
prboom-plus          enhanced clone of the classic first-person shooter Doom
prboom-plus-game-server enhanced clone of the classic first-person shooter Doom s..
alien-arena          Standalone 3D first person online deathmatch shooter
assaultcube          realistic first-person-shooter
cytadela             old-school first person shooter game
etqw                 science-fiction-themed multiplayer first person shooter
quake                classic gothic/horror-themed first person shooter
quake-server         classic first person shooter - server and init script
quake2               classic science-fiction-themed first person shooter
quake4               science-fiction-themed first person shooter
sauerbraten          3D first-person shooter game

Results for "racing game"

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antigravitaattori    Multiplayer flying saucer racing game
bloboats             Boat racing game
extremetuxracer      3D racing game featuring Tux the Linux penguin
games-racing         Debians racing games
pink-pony            3D racing game with ponies
pink-pony-data       3D racing game with ponies - game data
pyracerz             multiplayer top view 2D racing game
supertuxkart         3D kart racing game
supertuxkart-data    3D kart racing game data
torcs                3D racing cars simulator game using OpenGL
trigger-rally        free 3D rally racing car game
trigger-rally-data   free 3D rally racing car game - data files
trophy               2D car racing action game
xracer               Futuristic racing game

Results for puzzle game:

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2048-qt              mathematics based puzzle game
amoebax              Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game for up to two players
angrydd              Angry Drunken Dwarves - falling blocks puzzle game
atom4                Original two-player color puzzle game
atomix               puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms
atomix-data          puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms ..
ballz                B.A.L.L.Z. - platform/puzzle game where you control a rol..
blockattack          puzzle game inspired by Tetris
brainparty           36 puzzle games for all the family
brainparty-data      36 puzzle games for all the family -- game data
crack-attack         multiplayer OpenGL puzzle game like Tetris Attack
einstein             Puzzle game inspired on Einsteins puzzle
fillets-ng           puzzle game about witty fish saving the world sokoban-sty..
games-puzzle         Debians puzzle games
gemdropx             Gem Drop X is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X..
glpeces              Tangram puzzle game clone
gnome-2048           sliding tile puzzle game
gnome-klotski        Klotski puzzle game for GNOME
gnome-mines          popular minesweeper puzzle game for GNOME
gnome-sudoku         Sudoku puzzle game for GNOME
gplanarity           simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs
gtans                Tangram puzzle game using GTK+
gweled               Diamond Mine -style puzzle game
hex-a-hop            puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles
hitori               logic puzzle game similar to sudoku
jigzo                Photo puzzle game for children
jigzo-data           data of Photo puzzle game for children
junior-games-puzzle  Debian Jr. Puzzle games
katomic              atomix puzzle game
kblackbox            Black Box puzzle game
kiki-the-nano-bot    3D puzzle game mixing Sokoban and Kula-World
klickety             SameGame puzzle game
knetwalk             wire puzzle game
ksudoku              Sudoku puzzle game and solver
lightsoff            Light puzzle game
magicor              puzzle game in the spirit of solomons key
magicor-data         data files for the magicor puzzle game
monsterz             arcade puzzle game
numptyphysics        crayon based physics puzzle game
palapeli             jigsaw puzzle game
palapeli-data        data files for palapeli jigsaw puzzle game
pathogen             Puzzle game about matching 3D model structures
pathological         puzzle game involving paths and marbles
pipewalker           Puzzle game - connect all computers to the net
primrose             compelling tile-placement puzzle game
pysycache            Educational game to teach children to use the mouse
raincat              2D puzzle game featuring a fuzzy little cat
raincat-data         2D puzzle game featuring a fuzzy little cat - data files
sgt-puzzles          Simon Tathams Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzl..
stax                 collection of puzzle games similar to Tetris Attack
swell-foop           Colored ball puzzle game
tetzle               Jigsaw puzzle game
vodovod              puzzle game you must lead the water to the storage tank
xshisen              Shisen-sho puzzle game for X11
zaz                  arcade action puzzle game
zaz-data             arcade action puzzle game - game data
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#9 Post by linuxcbon »

Thanks guys :)
Can you please also add images showing the games when you play them, so we get a better idea ? And a small description of the game. I will also do.

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#10 Post by souleau »

UFO: Alien Invasion

https://ufoai.org/wiki/News

Image

Originally based on the XCom: Enemy Unknown classic. Same principle; you have a team going on missions, shooting aliens, turn-based action. Collect artifacts, research, manufacture.


Warzone2100

http://wz2100.net/

Image

Strategic warfare. Build bases, fortifications, war machines.

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#11 Post by linuxcbon »

Thanks but these are images from their websites, not from you playing in puppy. :) And do they work OK in puppies ?

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#12 Post by souleau »

I am currently working on a computer with a videocard with no 3D capability whatsoever, so playing these games is simply not possible for me right now.
However, I have played both Warzone2100 and UFO:AI on another computer with Precise PUppy 5.7.1. In fact, I still have an sfs here of Warzone2100 if anyone's interested.

So these games CAN be played on Puppy Linux.

But I am not going to go through the motions of creating a ready made playable PET package or SFS for Xenial just to prove a point.

You'll just have to accept that it takes a little bit of extra effort on your part to be able to play games on Puppy Linux.

Here are the resources ready for download for the UFO:AI game:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... chon=names

Here are the resources ready for download for Warzone2100:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=warzone2100

You may find there are certain dependencies required. That too, is something you need to accept.

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Re: Looking for free games for Linux

#13 Post by MrDuckGuy »

linuxcbon wrote: ... Please a game without java or browser or plugins ...
each game proposed, I will try to run it in xenial ...
Here is a game package that I rely on that includes around
20 games or so. It's a 32-bit package, and I've used it in
64-bit OSs after installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries.

These are very simple games, including: asteroids,
gem-matching game, a bubble shoot game, a tetris game,
yahtzee, hangman, and a good number of card games such
as hearts, freecell, spider solitare, and others.

This is questionable, because I've not been too successful in
Xenial64 after installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries, in
running this package. In any case, maybe you'll find out what
I'm not doing to make it useable in Xenial64. I've used it in
Tahrpup64. It loads seemlessly in any 32-bit distro.

There are pet versions of this package, but I'm going to
focus on the sfs for simplicity.

I'm linking to the file here:

tcl_tk_games.sfs (3.12 Mbytes)

Also, I believe the package was derived from this site which
includes many more games, here:

http://blog.tcl.tk/898

Hope this helps, Kelikaku B'H.

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