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This page is to list games that run natively on GNU/Linux, that means they don't require a emulator to run. See Gaming section for more info on gaming in Linux.
The page will be formated as follows: Game Name - type - description, where type will one of "OSS" if its open source software, or "Binary" if it's a binary version only. If type is preceded by a "$" sign, then the game is not free. OSS/$ or Binary/$ games means it requires some non-free things first, these are usually the games data files.
Click on the links for a better description of the game, and a link to its homepage. Some games are ports to GNU/Linux. There may also be games derived directly from other games, such games may or may not be listed on this page, but in their parent's page, Doom for example has tons of ports, and derived games, many are not listed on this page, but the parent Doom is.
N.B: a virtual machine is not considered as an emulator. This implies that this game list includes games that may require a virtual machine to run under Linux.
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Action/Arcade
Pretty much any game that wont fit anywhere else.
- 0verkill - OSS
- Adventure - OSS
- Armagetron - OSS
- Everyone drives around and leaves a wall behind him. The others are not allowed to touch this wall.
- Atanks - OSS
- Buy weapons for your tank, then use it to play against the computer or other players.
- BZFlag - OSS
- A 3D multiplayer tank shooting game
- Candy Defense - $Binary
- Cosmic Trip - $Binary
- Chromium - OSS
- Critter - OSS
- Dave Gnukem - OSS
- Defendguin - OSS
- Shoot the monsters and protect the penguins.
- Feuerkraft - OSS
- Freedroid - OSS
- Shoot the droids to rid their spaceship.
- Defend your nation against missiles.
- LiquidWar - OSS
- A multiplayer war game.
- Mad Bomber - OSS
- Catch the bombs before they hit the ground.
- Maelstrom - OSS
- Penguin Command - OSS
- SuperTux - OSS
- A classic 2D jump&run game. Your quest is to rescue Penny, a female penguin.
FPS
This is for First Person Shoot 'em ups (see FPS).
- America's Army - Binary
- Ancient Arenas - $Binary
- Cube - OSS
- Doom - OSS
- Doom 3 - $Binary
- Futuristic Arenas - $Binary
- Jake 2 - OSS
- Nexuiz - OSS
- Parsec - OSS
- Postal 2 - $Binary
- Quake - OSS/$
- Quake 2 - OSS/$
- Quake 3 Arena - $Binary
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein - $Binary
- Rise of the Traid - OSS
- Rune - $Binary
- Scared - $Binary
- Serious Sam - Binary
- Soldier of Fortune - $Binary
- Tesseract - Binary
- Tribes 2 - $Binary
- True Combat: True Combat Elite - Binary
- TUER - OSS
- Unreal Tournament - $Binary
- Wolfenstein for Linux - OSS.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Binary
Strategy
Strategy based games
- Alpha Centauri - $Binary
- ASC - OSS
- BoS - OSS
- A real-time strategy game
- Crimson Fields - OSS
- A turn-based war game played in 2D.
- FreeCNC - OSS/$
- FreeCiv - OSS
- FreeCol - OSS
- FreeLords - OSS
- Glest - OSS
- Globulation 2 - OSS
- Pingus - OSS
- Thousand Parsec - OSS
- Tower Defence Game - $Binary
- Tribal Trouble - $Binary
- UFO Alien Invasion - OSS
- Warzone2100 - OSS
- Wesnoth - OSS
- Widelands - OSS
RPG
This section is for any type of Role Playing Game
- Play a fantasy hero who completes quests.
- Eternal Lands - OSS
- FreedroidRPG - OSS
- Lincity - OSS
- Nethack - OSS
- Neverwinter Nights - $Binary
- OpenTTD - OSS/$
- PlaneShift - OSS
- Runescape - $Binary
- Savage - $Binary
- Simcity - $Binary
- City building simulation
- Simutrans - Binary
- Vega Stike - OSS
- Wurm Online - $Binary
Puzzle/Educational/Board
This section encompasses games to make people think, or solve problems.
- ccGo - OSS: Implementation of the board game Go
- Einstein - OSS
- FooBillard - OSS - OpenGL billards
- Frozen bubble - OSS
- Gem Drop X - OSS
- glChess - OSS
- Lbreakout 2 - OSS
- Move a paddle at the bottom of your screen to bounce a ball to the top and destroy bricks.
- Fight against bombs in the space - but the bombs are math problems and you fight them by solving.
- World of Goo - $Binary
- Xboard - OSS
Tetris like
- Ltris - OSS
- Crack Attack - OSS
- XPuyopuyo - OSS
- 3D Breakout - $Binary
- Incredibuilder! - $Binary
Simulation
Simulations are meant for teaching people about certain things, for example on how to operate machines, or demonstrate what-ifs.
- Core Wars - OSS
- FlightGear - OSS
- YS Flight Simulation - OSS
Other
- BSD games - OSS
- Anders Widell's Sokoban - contained on knoppix
External Links
- List of Linux Games (wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Linux Game software (www.linuxsoft.cz)
- The Linux Game Tome (www.happypenguin.org)
- The Java Game Tome (www.javagametome.com)
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