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- arsgeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Aarrrrrrrr. Neverball. Deeply, deeply addicting!
- linnerd40, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Ironic isn't it that one of the games is Enemy Territory but its site requires Flash 8, which isn't out for linux... hmmm...
- rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21They left off Super Tux? There goes that lists credibility in my eyes.
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"Native Linux games?"
Here's a list of native Linux games I play: Sauerbraten, Legends, Nexuiz, Neverball, Doom 3, Globulation 2, Postal 2, Apocalypse Weekend (Postal 2 expansion pack), Quake 1,2,3,4, Liquid War, Tribes 1, UT2004, America's Army, BZFlag, Enemy Territory, Tremulous, Mania Drive, and (sometimes) Frozen Bubble.
Games I play under cedega: Red Faction and Red Faction 2, GTA 3, Vice city, and San Andreas, Mafia, Tribes 2, Tribes Vengeance, Need for Speed Underground and Most Wanted.
In my eyes there's no shortage of quality games that run under Linux. There is, however, A shortage of public knowledge of these games. So just because you don't see TV ads or huge billboards for Linux games, Don't assume they don't exist. Articles like these help bring to light at least a few of the gems of Linux gaming. Sites for linux gaming: http://happypenguin.org/ http://www.linuxgames.com http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php http://www.tuxgames.com/ http://games.linux.sk/ http://www.linux-gamers.net/ http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/ - justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Don't forget the bundled Neverputt. The two games combined makes time go by really fast.
- LocDawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12and Nethack...
- Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Top_10_Free_Linux_Games
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Legends looks pretty cool. I'm downloading it as we speak. Thanks coredump0x01.
(I never thought I would be thanking a core dump :D) - laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1110. KMahjongg
9. America's Army
8. Armagetron Advanced
7. Cube
6. Pingus
5. Neverball
4. Nexuiz
3. Enemy Territory
2. Frozen Bubble
1. Battle for Wesnoth
- Tsiolkovsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It would be great if there were some new adventure games for Linux. Something like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango or Sam & max.
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Neverball's great, But i'm saddened to see that Legends did not make the list, We could use some more players : /
If you've never heard of Legends, It's a free FPS similar to Tribes. Movement is very different from normal games, You can 'ski' across the outer terrain and use jetpacks to propel yourself around. Very different, Highly skillful, and incredibly fun and challenging gameplay. It runs on windows too. Check it out via http://legendsthegame.net or http://digg.com/gaming_news/Legends_the_game_--_Amazing,_free_multiplayer_Tribes-like_FPS - runep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Do they even make games like that for Windows anymore? Anyway, you should check out ScummVM - http://scummvm.org/ - it plays loads of the old point'n'click adventures, including Monkey Island and Sam & Max.
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I just downloaded Pingus. Great game!
- theWrkncacnter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wesnoth! That game completely ruined my GPA.
- lftl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow.. tremulous (http://tremulous.net/) is a pretty glaring ommission. It's significantly better than #4 Nexuiz, and very comprable in quality to #3 Enemy Territory.
- vinbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I think I should remind you that this is a list of the top 10 *FREE* linux games.
- kafitz22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great...another duggmirror of a multipage site.
- grapeape25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5America's Army was discontinued for Linux and Mac 2 versions ago...
- enveloop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.glest.org (3D opensource RTS)
- dougmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4`What non-free linux games are there?'
There's a few. Quake 3, Simcity 3000, Civilization CTP, Kohan, NWN, UT, Railroad Tycoon, etc. Unfortunately, it turned out that there's not a lot of money to be made in commercial Linux games (I won't get into why here), or at least nobody has figured out how to make this money and actually done it, so the list is relatively small and the games generally aren't the latest and greatest.
But commercial Linux games DO exist. - SocialPoison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No real reason they shouldn't. Pingus and Frozen Bubble both have windows ports, if you go to their site.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -4/+8the duggmirror points to the first page, which is devoid of any in depth info. no digg.
- rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Arrrrr!
- gildude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@alej744
As far as I know, AFAIK means as far as I know. - motang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mahjongg...is the bomb.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey, Falcon's Eye! Super Maryo! Tuxracer! And some of the stuff at PyGame! Aw, heck -
Here, two Linux live CDs devoted to gaming:
Wolvix gaming edition - not many of these even require a graphics card, but hopefully your hardware is easy to detect:
http://wolvix.org/node/24
Linux Live Gaming Project (LLGP):
http://tuxgamers.altervista.org/llgp.php?tg_lang=en
LLGP is much more graphics-card reliant, but any OpenGL-capable system should have no problem. - raseel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Man !!
Just going through this comments, I have discovered SO MANY Linux Games, I did not even knoe existed. - bjohnsonwsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Things I'd like to have seen on the list:
Glest ( http://www.glest.org )
Savage 1 (yes, it's 100% free now - http://www.s2games.com/savage/downloads.php )
Warzone 2100 ( http://www.wz2100.net )
And if you want easy installers, each of these is available with a Loki installer: www.liflg.org - coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ZaNkY
Let me know what name you use, I'll show you around the game like tactics and routes, etc. Too many newcomers end up getting frustrated and leaving the game due to it's deviance from traditional FPS games, And because they have never been properly introduced to tactics necessary for winning. - tropican8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One word...BZFlag
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is a port of the Scumm engine AFAIK.
- pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While I don't play Wow, Counterstrike, etc.....(I love Frozen Bubble though) I definitely believe one of the major limiting factors to the sucess of Linux as a readily used alternative to windows is it's lack of COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE and GAMES. There are numerous languages (like python) that can be used for programming the software/games so that they are platform independent and will work on Linux, OSX and Windows without having to have major re-writes.....WTF aren't commercial title developers using one of these languages.....
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also Quake 4 & Doom 3; NWN 2 will be supported and many games run in Cadega faster than they do on Windows.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah, I forgot about nethack... screw this list... portage, here I come.
- vinbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Almost all iD games are also linux native
Cold War is a new one that looks pretty decent...
Also looking forward to UT2007 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3aaaaw, what's wrong wit widdle i440? Are we a widdle bit afwaid it might get out about how commercial support such as offered by Cedega or free projects like Wine prove that there is no generic reason why *ANY* Windows PC program shouldn't run on Linux, even compiled binary executables?
I *did* tell you how it took me all of five minutes to HACK a modem gateway to run on all three of my Linux machines despite how the ISP asserted that they supported nothing but Windows? All I had to do was ignore the "install" CDs that came with it (and signed you up for an unneeded MSN account in the process). Fun story!
Hey, by the way, you *did* know that much of MS's code base is in C-based languages, and I don't have to tell you what platform originally ran C, right? - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too bad nobody has ported the SCI engine. I have a full deck of Space Quest games going unplayed.
Edit: I take that back.. http://freesci.linuxgames.com - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone else think that they really need bzflag on here? How does kmahjongg get on there and bzflag not?!
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Or was it because the game liked to crash at random times?"
Yes it's a little unstable in this state of development. However it does not crash if you disable music, And the soon-to-be-released version (0.4.2.0) fixes the crashy music bug - i440, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@beckerist
Native Linux games? - atezun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What? No Stepmania!?!? Bollocks!
- zeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What, no xjump?
- inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How can everybody forget about Eternal Lands. http://eternal-lands.com/
This is the BEST MMORPG free and open source.
there is also plainshift but plane shift feels alot incomplete. - vinbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...also to back up Mejogid's comment, Cedega also enables you to play tons of Windows games on Linux which is my experience often benefit from a smoother 'feel' and improved hard disk performance (compared to FAT32 & NTFS file systems) resulting in quicker loading times.
You can find the Cedega game compatabilty database over at http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/ - Hootyea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd say sex. But yes, I've jerked off over Mahjjong too.
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll probably just use zanky. I can't play now, but contact me through my gmail (in Digg profile) when you get the chance. By the way I friended you.
If it's anything like Tribes, I'm game. I LOVED tribes, and still play it on occasion :)
How does the strategy and tactics stack up against Tribes? - OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wesnoth is very fun, but I'm pretty bad at it. Wish I didn't suck so hard. I find like the 5th mission on the first campaign (I think) to be damn near impossible.
- benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed -- tremulous really belongs on that list.
Not only does it have great gameplay (and infinite replay), but it runs quite well on older computers, as the 'low graphics' mode is quite a bit lower than most games. - gommle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Printable:
http://techgage.com/print/top_10_free_linux_games - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Unfortunately, it turned out that there's not a lot of money to be made in commercial Linux games "
As opposed to the XBox, which is legendary for the bountiful profits it reaped for it's company. -
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