List of Linux games

Now that my games are working again I've decided to put together a little list of some games that run natively on Linux.


(If you are running Gentoo make SURE that you are in the games group before playing them!)


Free / Open Source

America's Army - official game of the United States Army
Armagetron - Tron style game
Bastet - tetris clone that uses an algorithm to choose the worst brick possible
BillardGL - Billards in OpenGL
Boson - Realtime military strategy game
BZFlag - 3D multiplayer tank battle
Cannon Smash - 3D Table Tennis
Chickens for Linux - Silly game where you blow the crap out of chickens with shotguns and rocket launchers
Cube / Sauerbraten - A fast-paced FPS that will run nicely on older systems, Sauerbraten is the next-generation version of Cube
Chromium B. S. U. - Scrolling Space Shooter
Conquest-GL - Multi-player space warfare game
Enemy-Territory - Commercial-but-free, fun online FPS
FlightGear - popular flight simulator
Glest - 3D realtime strategy game
Gnome-Sudoku - generates and solves sudoku puzzles
GNUbik - Rubik's cube
FrozenBubble - Puzzle game, shoot the bubbles to match the colors
KDE Games Collection - a good sized collection of games from the KDE guys
LBreakout2 - Breakout for Linux with powerups and things
Lux - version of the game Risk
lxDoom - port of Doom clone Boom to Linux (couldn't find a homepage but linked to homepage of Boom)
iMaze - 3D multi-player labyrinth run and shoot game
NetHack - D&D style game, loads of fun
NetMaze - 3D multiplayer combat game
NeverBall - Super Monkey Ball type game, probably my personal favorite game to play (besides NetHack)
Pingus - Lemmings clone for Linux
prBoom - another B/Doom based game
PySol - Collection of more than 200 solitaire card games
SDLPong - version of pong quite similar to the original game
Slune - 3D racing game
SuperTux - Sidescrolling game featuring Tux
Trackballs - steer a marble through a labyrinth
TuxKart - Kart racing game featuring Tux
TuxRacer - Race Tux down mountains
VegaStrike - space combat
Battle for Wesnoth - Fantasy turn-based strategy game
XBlockOut - 3D tetris game
xinv3d - 3D vector-based space-invaders clone
XLander - lunar landing simulation
XRacer - Wipeout clone
XWellTris - another tetris-like game


Commercial

The Doom Series - The famous FPS series by ID games
NeverWinter Nights - RPG by BioWare
The Quake Series - The other famous FPS series by ID games
Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Yet another FPS by ID games
Unreal Tournament - And yet another FPS, this one based around online gameplay

Just post any additions you would like, and I guess I could add games that work through Cedega or something if you guys really want me to. These are just the games that I have currently installed or have played before.

Thanks to su root, Gnufsh, zoobler, PirateXP, tspier2, and Titeuf for pointing out a few games I forgot about.

good info!

Most (All?) ID Software games will run natively on Linux, which includes the above quoted Quake and Doom series, as well as Return to Wolfenstien.

Unreal Tournament series has the Linux install right on the DVD/CDs.

I've also found that most games run faster natively under linux.

Not to mention that if your games aren't natively supported, there are emulators, I use Cedega, which runs the remaining few games that I play.

Don't forget pysol!

Sad that there isn't more but Linux isn't for kids, it's for hackers, crackers, coders, hippies (according to Bill and Steve) geeks etc.....

I personally love SuperTux, TuxRacer, and Battle for Wesnoth. I like Battle for Wesnoth the most, because I talk to a few of the translators/coders in German on IRC.

FudgeNuggets said:

Sad that there isn't more but Linux isn't for kids, it's for hackers, crackers, coders, hippies (according to Bill and Steve) geeks etc.....

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What about Barbie Linux?

Linux isn't for kids just as much as Lego isn't for adults. I know a few young kids that use Linux. The young ones love Tuxracer. They don't know anything about programming, but they can use it just as functionally as any other OS (if not more)

put americas army under free/open source

Ooh, you also forgot Pingus (how could you?!?). It's lemmings for Linux. Great game, needs more levels.

There's also Tuxkart...

Added all the requested games so far.

subscribed, and an 'excellent' vote unfortunately i don't have any additions to the list.

both opensource: foobilliard for pool, mahjongg3d for a mahjongg type game.

http://sillysoft.net/lux/ <= You should add Lux. It is a game like Risk, but you can play in different time periods, and more. The only downside is...it has a game tries time-limit. It is Open-Source though. (Maybe create another category?)

Just crack open your closest application repository, there's still piles and piles that aren't listed... here's a few of the ones I found in the 3d category in Kubuntu Apt: (sorry, no links)

3dchess - chess
armagetron - tron style game
billard-gl - billiards
conquest-gl - startrek style game?
criticalmass - FPS
csmash - cannonsmash table tennis game
gnubik - rubiks cube
imaze - labyrinth fps
lxdoom - ID Software's Doom
netmaze - combat game of some kind
pong2 - guess
prboom - Another port of Doom
sabre - fightplane sim
slune - racing
trackballs - marbel in labyrinth style game
tuxcart - racing
vegastrike - space combat
xbl - tetris
xinv3d - invaders
xlander - lunar landing sim
xracer - wipeout clone
xsaber - another fighterplane sim
xwelltris - tetris clone

su root said:

Just crack open your closest application repository, there's still piles and piles that aren't listed... here's a few of the ones I found in the 3d category in Kubuntu Apt: (sorry, no links)

3dchess - chess
armagetron - tron style game
billard-gl - billiards
conquest-gl - startrek style game?
criticalmass - FPS
csmash - cannonsmash table tennis game
gnubik - rubiks cube
imaze - labyrinth fps
lxdoom - ID Software's Doom
netmaze - combat game of some kind
pong2 - guess
prboom - Another port of Doom
sabre - fightplane sim
slune - racing
trackballs - marbel in labyrinth style game
tuxcart - racing
vegastrike - space combat
xbl - tetris
xinv3d - invaders
xlander - lunar landing sim
xracer - wipeout clone
xsaber - another fighterplane sim
xwelltris - tetris clone

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Here, I found all but one of the links that su root didn't post. For all future references, please post the links to the games, because it really does no good when you have twenty games and no links. The links help adding games to the original list easier, faster, and more efficient. (P.S. STICKY!) (I couldn't find homepages to some of the games, so I linked to the Debian Repository, which still works...it just isn't as *professional*.)

http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/3dchess
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
http://www.billardgl.de/
http://conquest-gl.klik.atekon.de/
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html
http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net/
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/csmash
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik/
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/student/iMaze/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/lxdoom
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/netmaze
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/pong2
http://prboom.sourceforge.net/
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/sabre-common
http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/slune/index.html
http://trackballs.sourceforge.net/
http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
http://bat710.univ-lyon1.fr/ftp/xbl/xbl.html
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/xinv3d
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/xlander
http://www.annexia.org/freeware/xracer
I CAN'T FIND THE LINK FOR XSABER
http://xnc.dubna.su/xwelltris/

Now you're talking, good work guys.

I'll update the list later this afternoon.

If you like sudoku there's gnome-sudoku
Also I'm trying to play bastet now, that's a really evil tetris game
This is all I can think for now, if I know more I'll post them

flightgear (flight simulator):
http://www.flightgear.org/

I didn't go in order so I'm sure I missed one or two, but its starting to look nice.