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
- Flight of the Amazon Queen — graphical point-and-click adventure game
- 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: , homepage: | Liquid War 6
- OpenLieroX — An extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community.
- The Ur-Quan Masters — a port of Star Control 2.
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.
- irrlamb — 3D ball controlling game that involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
- kbreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of kde-games.
- Open Hexagon — Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
- PowerManga — Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.
Casual games
- Aisleriot — A collection of solitaire card games.
- KPatience — A set of solitarire card games. Part of kde-games.
- xroach — cockroaches hide under your windows
Chess simulators
- PyChess — An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
- 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 2: A Tortured Soul — Fantasy themed online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS/RPG hybrid. Free-to-play as of December 2008. Pay for premium accounts providing crucial game elements such as extra inventory slots, access to clans and removal of the Hellbourne unit restrictions (per-account), as well as access to replays and stats.
- https://savage2.net/[dead link 2022-09-21 ⓘ] || savage2AUR
Puzzle
- Crack Attack! — Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
- Gnu Go — A terminal-based implementation of Go from GNU.
- KBlocks — Tetris clone. Part of kde-games.
- KJumpingCube — Take-all-tiles game in which one gains fields by increasing value of one’s own nearby fields. Part of kde-games.
- KShisen — Shisen-Sho. Part of kde-games.
- Marvellous Inc. — MarvInc is a zachlike puzzle game with a story told through emails.
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI
Racing
- Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.
- 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.
- Ultimate Stunts — Remake of the famous DOS-game 'stunts'.
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.
- Open Hexagon — Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
Rogue-like
See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.
- ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery.
- https://adom.de || adomAUR
- Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Role-playing games (RPG)
- fheores2 — Attempt to reimplement the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine using SDL.
- OpenMW — Attempt to reimplement the popular role-playing game Morrowind. OpenMW aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game's engine.
Shooters (FPS, third person)
- AssaultCube Reloaded — AssaultCube improved.
- 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 –
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- Freedoom — Project aimed at creation of free Doom data files.
- https://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/ || freedoomAUR
- Doom 3 — Stock Doom 3 binaries
- https://www.idsoftware.com/ || doom3-binAUR
- eduke32 — Advanced source port.
- https://eduke32.com/ || eduke32AUR
- Heretic Demo game data –
- Hexen 1 Demo game data –
- OpenXRay — Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Game assets must be bought separately.
- https://github.com/OpenXRay || openxrayAUR
- 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 2 — Built by Icculus
- https://www.icculus.org/quake2/ || quake2AUR
- A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures –
- Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits.
- Quake III Arena binaries –
- Demo version –
- Quake 4 engine – quake4AUR
- Unreal Tournament (upcoming) — Free and open-source remake of the original using Unreal Engine 4
- Warsow — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.
- Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS –
- Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server –
Simulation
- Beyond the Red Line — Completely free stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2 based on the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Presumed abandoned, see Diaspora: Shattered Armistice for an alternative.
- Koi Farm — Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
- Principia — Physics-based sandbox building game.
- 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.
- FTL: Faster Than Light — Popular rogue-like space-sim released to positive reception in 2012.
- Mindustry — Open-source sandbox tower defense and factory-building game.
- Warzone 2100 — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics. The AUR package installs its videos (FS#55310).
Turn-based
- FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
- An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE) – openxcom-extendedAUR,
- Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE , , , ,
- Pioneers — A clone of the famous Settlers of Catan game with on-line functionality
Visual novels
- School Days — The story, a dramatic slice-of-life, follows Makoto Ito, a high school student who becomes the ambivalent love interest of several girls during his second term, and the effects this has on himself and his relationships with other characters.
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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