Hey there,

I enjoy Linux gaming via WINE/Proton, but I often wonder about Linux-native FOSS games. You often see brilliant titles like 0AD and Mindustry mentioned, but there are also some unspoken gems in the “genre” like Minetest and it makes me wonder what other FOSS games are out there, that people just don’t talk about much? I’m looking to discover and play more of these titles.

  • Count Regal Inkwell
    210·
    4 months ago4 months ago

    Unciv - this one’s especially good on mobile

    FreeDoom

    Sonic Robo Blast 2 if fangames are acceptable

    Edit: Since I mentioned FreeDoom – Gzdoom acts as a sort of platform for Libre FPSes. Ashes 2063 and Wolfenstein Blade of Agony for instance.

  • Monstanner 🐧
    190·
    4 months ago

    To name a few: AssaultCube, Battle for Wesnoth, Cube2: Sauerbraten, FligthGear, Freeciv, Freeciv21, Nexuiz Classic, OpenArena, OpenHV, OpenRA, OpenTTD, Remnants of the Precursors, SpeeDreams, Stone Kingdom, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, Unciv, Urban Terror, Veloren, Warozone 2100, Widelands, Xonotic

    P.S. It may be that not all of them are FOSS, but they run natively on linux.

    • jerkfaceEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      I have thousands of hours in Urban Terror. I wish the jump mechanics could be enabled in other games. I have so many neurons dedicated to it.

  • I Cast Fist
    170·
    4 months ago

    BAR - Beyond All Reason, for Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander style RTS, learned about this one in another thread here on lemmy

    Zero-K - similar premise, plays different from BAR, also the graphics seem less demanding

    OpenSoldat - 2D arena shooter. For anyone that never played or saw something similar, think of multiplayer maps of halo, quake or unreal, but if it was a 2D platformer

    Not quite open source, but Daggerfall Unity is a FOSS update to the engine for Daggerfall, a game which Bethesda has made free for years now. You can get the game off GOG, too.

    • MonkeMischief
      20·
      4 months ago

      Many thanks! No idea how I wasn’t already subscribed to that!

    • HipsterTenZero
      40·
      4 months ago4 months ago

      Hell yeah CDDA.

      I’m currently installing solar panels and wind turbines on the roof of a firestation to act as my garage and home base while I’m fixing up a luxury RV that I drove out of a mall. Surprisingly, it was in great condition except for all of the glass, boards, and quarterpanels; the chassis itself and all of the internals are practically untouched.

  • vintageballs
    130·
    4 months ago4 months ago

    Ones I’ve played (mostly when I was younger) and enjoyed a lot:

    Teeworlds

    Warmux

    SuperTux

    Cube 2: Sauerbraten

    • nasi_goreng
      10·
      4 months ago

      Unfortunately Warmux is now a dead project, with official site taken over by unrelated company and only unofficial Flathub distribution exist.

      Even Windows built and other OS is gone.

  • soulsource
    100·
    4 months ago

    There is a Wikipedia article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games

    It is, however, vastly incomplete, as entries without “reliable sources” get deleted. Mind that linking the source code repository, the steam page, the license file and news about a game going open source are not enough to count as “reliable source”.

  • Klaymore
    90·
    4 months ago

    Wikipedia has a list, it may not have every single one but it should have most of them.

  • FuturamaEnglish
    80·
    4 months ago4 months ago

    Endless Sky is an amazing one. I’ve put tons of hours into it. It’s a top down 2d space trading/fighting game, very similar to Escape Velocity if you’ve ever played that game.

  • sem
    80·
    4 months ago

    I’m a fan of Freedroid Classic, a FOSS remake of a commodore 64 game called “Paradroid”. You’re a robot on a deserted space ship full of other malfunctioning robots, and you have to hack / shoot all of them. You start out as the worst robot, but if you encounter a better one, you can hack it to take over its body – if it doesn’t kill you first.

    Takes a few runs to get the hang of it, but it’s a lot of fun.

  • abbiistabbii
    70·
    4 months ago

    Open transport Tycoon deluxe. Been going for years and it’s still great.

      • abbiistabbii
        10·
        4 months ago4 months ago

        Simultrans is good but it’s a bit barebones for my liking.

        • jerkfaceEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago3 months ago

          Really! I got started on Simutrans and had a lot of difficulty moving to oTTD. The straw that broke the camels back was having to lay down rail tile by tile instead of routing between two point.