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- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27its true, linux isn't completely devoid of games, also check out other tools which allow you to play games:
pcsx2
scummvm (games like beneath a steel sky for scumm are free and are even in the ubuntu repository)
wine/cedega/crossover
there are also great open source games which aren't in that list:
tremulous
alien arena 2k7
nexuiz
warsow
and there are some great commercial games just around the corner:
UT 2k7
enemy territory: quake wars
etc...
(add your other favourite linux gaming stuff below i suppose, i know i missed some :) - nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29Switch over today! No point waiting for games to support Linux, that will never happen unless people are using Linux.
Make the change and the games will come!!! - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Tux Racer PWNS
- Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Uh ok i'm TIRED of this "Direct X 10" *****. I've spend hundreds of man hours coding in c++ with Direct 3d 9 Direct Input 8 (it never progressed past 8) direct sound. And you know what? I HATE them. That's my personal preference as a programmer. OpenGL is THE way to go for graphics, and that is reflected in things like CAD programs and modeling sofware. The real reason why games tend to use Direct X NOW is because Direct X isnt even comparable to OpenGL.
OPENGL IS FOR GRAPHICS.
Direct3D IS FOR GRAPHICS.
DirectX provides sound, network, music, input, and graphics all in one place. So the mentality on windows platforms is "we have to use Direct Input no matter what, let's just make it easy and use Direct3D as well" Because frankly, aside from SDL and a few other select APIs, there are no viable alternatives to Direct Input on windows.
But as far as this Direct 3D 10 ***** goes, a graphics API is an interface to hardware, Direct 3D didn't MAKE any of these effects, it just lets a program talk to the graphics card. Which, guess what? OpenGL does too, and on top of that, OpenGL has broken backwards compatibility ONCE in its 13 year history, wheras DirectX breaks backwards compatibility with every release. glDrawElements will ALWAYS point to the fastest glDrawElements path, wheras if you write a Direct3D 7 program, you will ALWAYS get the direct3d 7 path, which will MOST LIKELY be far slower than the DirectX 9 path. Thereby FORCING graphics programmers to update code that would not need updating in OpenGL, in order to get better performance. - thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Planeshift: A free open source MMORPG
http://www.planeshift.it - wikwam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20nice! i had no idea about any of these. though that might be because i just recently switched to linux. but this looks awesome! am definitely gonna try some of these out. Thanks! :D
- CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Nethack!
http://www.nethack.org/ - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Google cache
http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftechgage.com%2Fprint%2Ftop_10_free_linux_games&btnG=Search - mitrovarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This is a list of good free linux games. As long as we're here, we should mention the good commercial linux games. Here's the list of ones I know:
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
Neverwinter Nights
Quake 3
Quake 4
Doom 3
Add others to the list if you know them. Only games that run directly in linux go here; no cedega games. - slashdotislame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11http://legendsthegame.net for a free Tribes clone for Linux.
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14"Just game on Windows and you are done, why waste your time?"
Some people don't bother with that kind of bloated junk. - xpaladin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10DirectX is king because of the whole Windows "monopoly" system though. Games that are developed in OpenGL can run on Windows and Linux, so developing a port is a trivial task. Thing is, DirectX is sold to more corporations for cheap, there's more training, and generally since Microsoft is the 800 lb gorilla, they can easily invest more in spreading the gospel -- whereas OpenGL is not as "available on demand."
It's part of the problem with selling Linux as a whole -- the fact that Microsoft can appear to reply to "right now" demands versus any degree of doubt on a Linux communities' behalf, even if the doubt is unfounded. Microsoft has enterprisey appeal whereas Linux has sentimental appeal.
DirectX may be "king" but it's only because the market share for PC gamers is just so limited that nobody really wants to utilize viable alternatives. - ironchief, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I know I'm going to get flamed/ dugg down by all the linux fanatics but...
Linux currently doesn't support enough games to satisfy the typical game consumer, or the hardcore gamer. It can only satisfy those who already use linux. Examples of this are: F.E.A.R., Halo 2, Battlefield 2, Far Cry, Crappy Barbie games, a range of educational bob the builder games, Oblivion and every other game under the sun that only run on windows. The only way to have actually good gaming on linux is to have almost all new games support ed so people have a choice. 10 games does not cut it.
Support Linux developers!! - Schik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Or if you use enough wine, you forget all about games!
- badken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You can play it now. (Just not natively on Linux, sorry...)
http://www.everybody-dies.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Try Nexuiz i love that game!
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Have a look at Globulation 2. Great top-down RTS Where you help a society of glob people colonize and rebel against their evil overlords. http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also look at Liquid War, Where you control an army of liquid to devour other liquid armies http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5
And countless other 2D and 3D games at http://happypenguin.org - tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10There's a reason the list stops at 10. No, really, there's lots of games for it. You count the console emulators also and there's no excuse to not have games to play. If only I knew how to code, Linux games would probably be my number one devotion.
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9There was a story earlier today about how Linux sucks for gaming, so, obviously, someone had to jump to its defence. Lol...
- richhand, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David Lightman: Oh!
Jennifer: I think it missed him.
David Lightman: Yeah. Weird isn't it? Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
David Lightman: Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
Now there's a Linux game! - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Freespace 2. Anyone who has played that game knows it rules, and with the Source released, these graphics and more have been added. Its mostly a community-run game now, with new retail-quality campaigns every year or so, new mods, better upgraded graphics. Whats better is that if your computer absolutely sucks, you can still play it (Game was originally made in 1997) without some addons. The EULA says that you can distribute freely among peers and can make copies. This was even *during* sale of this game. So its legal to download. Plus, the devs released the source. So it has ported to Linux and MaxOSX.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Freespace2Open_Screen01.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Fs2_scp_deimos.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Htlboxart.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Htlasteroids.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Htlsobekflak.jpg
This is from Freespace 2. There is a mod for Freespace 1 ported to the FS2 engine with upgraded graphics.
The current center of activity is here.
http://www.hard-light.net/
Its an amazing game. Try it. Has one of the *best* plots in all of sci-fi. - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9For what it's worth, our free MMORPG runs just fine on Linux, OSX, Windows and even FreeBSD.
We take into account all the platforms, and I think that all the indie developers should do the same. - Spacemanspif, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9#10 KMahjongg !?
C'mon, if you have Mahjongg in your TOP 10 best games, then your games are teh suck. Even if the other 9 are great, you've gotta know that you're stretching it.
Gaming is the biggest reason I havn't switched to linux myself. - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+548 days ago... 840 diggs... one word difference in the headline...
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Top_10_Free_Linux_Games
I know the search functionality of Digg isn't pretty, but people need to use it more. Or perhaps digg should actively block duplicate URLs, rather than relying on the consideration of each submitter. - archer75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Those legend screenshots are painful to look at.
- kooft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Tribes 2
Legends (non-commercial Tribes 2 clone) - SineNomen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Legends is none too pretty, but it's really does capture the spirit of the Tribes series.
- monst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5AlienArena is probably my favorite currently
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Haha NETHACK heheh hoo hoo NETHACK lalala hehe hoho NETHACK
- bongo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Kolf is the best linux game ever.
- KhaaL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What a shame, this list dosen't have Dominions 3... one of the greatest stradegy games on linux!
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That list contains several games which are very surprising, and omits some pretty obvious ones.
Not allowed commercial linux games?! So this is a "top ten of linux games" where only about 30% of the real top ten are allowed?
They qualify themselves down to the point where it's silly - they've got America's Army (no longer supported) and k bloody mahjongg on there?
AA but no True Combat: Elite? Even though TC:E is supported, and currently played, and arguably better?
Ridiculous!
Nexuiz but no Trem? Oh, come on.
No Quake 3 Arena or Quake 4 or ut series or doom series or darwinia, or uplink, or commercial rpgs and mmorpgs because we can't have commercial games?
Thank heavens they had the sense to include wesnoth and neverball, but frankly this seems a bit slanted - I know I don't go to linux lan parties and drop hundreds of clams on hardware for my linux gaming to play kmahjongg, even if it is a fine game.
Inexplicably qualify your way out of commercial games, and mods for games, and so on, then write the top ten games? But if you did that with *any* platform you'd exclude many of the best games, if certainly not all.
Sorry, digg me down if you will, but that seems a bit of a slanted way to carry on. - volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I know this sounds retarded but I've been anxious to get a new motherboard in my linux box so I can start some open-source gaming up.
- Narwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's Tux Racer. TUUUUUX RAAAACER!
- coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Those legend screenshots are painful to look at."
Maybe so, But it's a great and massively challenging game. Also the next version will utilize TSE (Torque Shader Engine) Which will bring much nicer graphics to the game. Don't let graphics quality overshadow great gameplay. - archer75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4America's Army doesn't count as they stopped supporting it. No new linux versions.
- motorhead9999, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Is it me, or do I distinctly remember this same list, being on digg about a month back or so? Different website I think, but same exact list.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"sweet. now i can't wait till my friggin exams are over so i can start on some of those games..."
I hear ya. I have a statics midterm that I should *definitely* be studying for right now... oh well! ;)
Neverball is incredibly fun, but nothing beats Nethack. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He probably just didn't want to be seen as a SPAMmer. Which is pleasant I might add. I think I'll go have a look at this MMORPG now.
Hey btw, what all is involved in making a game support multiple platforms like this? Is it just a matter of relying on open standards from the get-go, or are complete re-writes needed...? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3some other games that Debian (Ubuntu people too) might want to check out that are already in the standard repositories (just an apt-get away...):
xscorch -scorched earth clone.... ahh the memories
scorched3d -scorched earth IN 3D!!!! pretty nifty, superfun
nethack -classic classic classic....
crack-attack -tetris-attack clone
stellarium -not really a game, but a really really slick night-sky/star simulator
liquidwar -one of those undescribably simple and addictive games.... - paradoxic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 www.snapdrive.net/linuxgames/top_10_free_linux_games.html
Has the full story mirorred. - Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just me who thinks that games such as Kmajong and Frozen Bubble shouldn't be included on these sorts of games lists?
I mean, sure, Frozen Bubble is a fun game, but to me it's kinda a mini game, the sort of thing I consider fun to play about with when I'm really bored, but not something I think "I can't wait to finish this assignment so I can have a quick bash at Frozen Bubble!"
(For the record, I have completed FB, both on the desktop along with the series 60 version on my mobile phone)
To me, the sort of games that should appear on these lists are commercial games along with open source games that are on par with them.
I mean, these list has Majong on it but not Uplink, Darwinia or Defcon?
The UT series, Quake and Doom 3?
As much as I'm all for free software, we need to compromise a bit on the weaker areas of Linux, which, in this particular example, is gaming.
Be honest, how many gamers give a damn whether their games are open source or not, as long as they run? If more gamers were interested in gaming under linux, I'm sure this would pave the way for more open source games, however, until there is that kind of interest, very few people are willing to commit the time and resources to produce a commercial-standard game. - wikwam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sweet. now i can't wait till my friggin exams are over so i can start on some of those games...
- Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@radu79
Might be worth mentioning WHAT your mmorpg is...
if i'm not mistaken though its: http://www.eternal-lands.com/
Am I right? - Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Linux's top 10 games has Mahjong in it? Wow... I knew linux gaming was hurting, but I never thought it was this bad.
- kryptobs2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think he means he'd make games for linux?
- rtfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hankyone: that's what people said about amiga vs. pc once upon a time...
- sgamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3missing warsow, savage, and crack-attack!
if you haven't spent hours on one of those, you haven't lived. - diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dont forget LUGARU, the best action adventure/ fighter for linux (or PC for that matter).
http://wolfire.com/lugaru.html - thewhitefedora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This list probably isn't the best. Some good ones were Cube 2, Nexuiz, AA....but it also should have had Planeshift and the previously mentioned "Legends." There's also a Super Mario Bros. knock-off with Tux as the star that is much better than any of those puzzle games. And is "review" on Nexuiz was, shall I say, trash. Nexuiz does let you do some single player, but only to acquaint you with the game. Nexuiz is purely focused on and designed for online deathmatch and does it well enough to trap you for hours. Alientrap[The people who developed Nexuiz] didn't give a rat's *** about a story line when developing Nexuiz, they saved that for Zymotic. Tremulous is also a great game. It has some difficult controls, but could have definitely been a #10-8 on that list.
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