Game List

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.

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.

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.

• Galaxium - OSS
• GLTron - OSS
• ICBM3D - OSS

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.

• Tux Kart - OSS, a racing game geared towards kids
• Warzone 3 - $Binary
• XMoto - OSS, a 2D motocross game where you traverse obstacles an solve puzzles.

FPS

This is for First Person Shoot 'em ups (see FPS).

• Ancient Arenas - $Binary
• Cube - OSS
• Cold War - $Binary, google "cold war linux" for sources to purchase
• Doom - OSS
• Doom 3 - $Binary
• Futuristic Arenas - $Binary
• Jake 2 - OSS
• Nexuiz - OSS
• Parsec - OSS

Network-enabled space-based first-person-shooter.

• Postal 2 - $Binary
• Prey - $Binary
• Quake - OSS/$
• Quake 3 Arena - $Binary
• Quake 4 - $Binary
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein - $Binary
• Rise of the Traid - OSS

An oldish, but fun and hard FPS.

• Rune - $Binary

A third-person-perspective intense action game featuring nordic fantasy

• Scared - $Binary
• Serious Sam - Binary
• Soldier of Fortune - $Binary

FPS for Linux

• 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

Colonists settle on Alpha Centauri. The Linux version of this game is from Loki Games that is no more.

• ASC - OSS
• BoS - OSS

A real-time strategy game

• Crimson Fields - OSS

A turn-based war game played in 2D.

• FreeCiv - OSS

Network-enabled turn-based game to build up your civilization, you will have to do research and lead wars.

• FreeCol - OSS

Colonization clone.

• FreeLords - OSS
• Glest - OSS

Fantasy/medieval theme

• Globulation 2 - OSS
• Pingus - OSS
• Thousand Parsec - OSS
• Tower Defence Game - $Binary
• Tribal Trouble - $Binary
• Warzone2100 - OSS
• Wesnoth - OSS

Turn-based single&multiplayer game set in a fantasy environment.

• Widelands - OSS

RPG

This section is for any type of Role Playing Game

• Angband - OSS
• Crossfire - OSS
• Daimonin - OSS

Play a fantasy hero who completes quests.

• Eternal Lands - OSS
• FreedroidRPG - OSS
• Illarion - A free MMORPG that focusses on true roleplaying.
• Lincity - OSS
• Nethack - OSS
• Neverwinter Nights for Linux - $Binary
• OpenTTD - OSS/$

Manage transports as in TransPort Tycoon.

• PlaneShift - OSS

There are a lot of skills and no matter what role you choose, you can level up in them.

• Runescape - $Binary
• Savage - $Binary
• Simcity - $Binary

City building simulation

• Simutrans - Binary
• Vega Stike - OSS

Earn enough money to upgrade your ship, ... No network support.

• 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.

• Kiki - OSS

3D problem solving game

• Monsterz - OSS

Make rows and lines of similar looking monsters. Good for a quick game.

• PDA Maze - OSS

Get past a 3D maze in a first person perspective.

• PyChess - OSS
• Tropic Euro - Binary

An online adaptation of the board game Puerto Rico for 2-5 players.

• TuxMath - OSS

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, fly an airplane, or demonstrate what-ifs.

• Core Wars - OSS
• Linux Air Combat - OSS
• FlightGear - OSS
• YS Flight Simulation - OSS

Multiplayer flight simulator

Other

• BSD games - OSS
• Anders Widell's Sokoban - contained on knoppix

See also

• gaMe
• List of Linux Games (wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org)
• Linux Game software (www.linuxsoft.cz)
• The Linux Game Tome (www.happypenguin.org)
• Unixgames Q&A (unixgames.org)
• The Java Game Tome (www.javagametome.com)