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
These are all great games. I’m surprised not to see some of the heaviest hitters, like 0 A.D., Beyond All Reason, Xonotic, or Veloren.
agree. every time Linux games are mentioned in a thread, i always bring up 0AD. great design and soundtrack.
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 :)
I got so stuck on Fruity Game for over an hour, before I could even get up off toilet. :'-)
I’ve just installed this from your recommendation and it’s brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.
Yep just can’t stop once you start, but find it dad you get an end game while the fruits are still moving. I think I did ok as a first time.
Yeah, it has its flaws, yet it is still under development. I’m not sure what to think of the idea of renaming the game though, Fruity Game is such a wonderful name!
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.
