cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6819337
Mon 04 December 2023 by R.L. Dane
There’s a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that’s exciting, because it’s drawing attention to Linux’s capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it’s good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only pragmatic reasons.
But beyond the attention-grabbing AAA titles, there are many FOSS games worth checking out.
Admittedly, I am not much of a gamer, and never have been. I’m hoping to draw attention to the possibilities of FOSS gaming, but what will follow is hardly exhaustive. But I have tried to gather the names a few FOSS games on Android I’ve enjoyed burning time with, and a few desktop games I’ve heard of or played with occasionally that are worthy of more attention from the gaming community:
https://rldane.space/foss-games-are-actually-pretty-good.html
Good on android are also unciv, feudal tactics, beat feat and flowit!
Not Foss, but free without ads or trackers FOSS and my all-time favorite is “Simon Tatham’s Puzzles”. This is so addicting I go through a cycle of playing it obsessively until I have to delete it and wait a few months until installing it again xD
ETA: thanks for providing the sources. Couldn’t find it on fdroid because of the different name :)
Missed out OpenTTD, that’s my go-to game these days.
missed a lot of good games, like:
Freeciv
Battle for Wesnoth
all id Doom and Quake games up to Doom 3
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great game. I lost hundreds of hours trying to beat it, and the achievements are a great way to track progress
Endless Sky is amazing and under continuous, active development.
You can build your fleet as large as you want too, which can get insane. There’s no cap hard coded in the source - one player I talked to built his fleet with thousands of freighters until his computer started lagging.
Veloren is amazing too. I love collecting lanterns, and taming animals and mounts is great gameplay.
