List of games
This page strives to list all games which have a package available in the official repositories or the AUR. There are many more Linux games available, which are not packaged. See Gaming#Getting games for ways to obtain them.
For more about running games, related system configuration tips, see Gaming. For an up to date selection of games available in the AUR, try checking the AUR 'game' keyword.
Action and adventure
- Abuse — Side-scroller action game that pits you against ruthless alien killers.
- http://abuse.zoy.org/ || abuseAUR
- Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.
- Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.
- Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects
- Beneath a Steel Sky — point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future
- Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars — fanmade sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword
- Flight of the Amazon Queen — graphical point-and-click adventure game
- Freedink — Free version of the game "Dink Smallwood", extendable with mods
- The open-source Unix port of the Haaf's Game Engine is available at icculus.org.
- KSpaceDuel — Player attempts to destroy opponent’s satellite and controll their own one to keep it orbiting. Part of kde-games
- A rewrite of the game program, now adopted as a GNU project: , homepage: | Liquid War 6
- Rune — 3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay using Unreal Engine. Runs great from box installation.
- XBill — Kill all instances of a virus before it infects all computers with a malware resembling Microsoft Windows.
- http://www.xbill.org/ || xbillAUR
Arcade
- DDNet — DDraceNetwork, a mod of Teeworlds
- https://ddnet.tw/ || ddnetAUR
- kbreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of kde-games.
- Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.
- PowerManga — Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.
Casual games
- Atanks — A multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games
- KSquares — A dots-and-boxes game for two players. Part of kde-games.
Chess simulators
- GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess
- PyChess — An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
Education
- Kanagram — Letter order game. Part of kde-education.
- Nootka — Application to learn classical score notation.
Interactive fiction
See also Wikipedia:Interactive fiction#Development systems.
- Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language
- http://inform7.com/ || inform7AUR
Massively multiplayer online games (MMO)
See also Wikipedia:List of massively multiplayer online games and Wikipedia:Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
- RuneScape — Massive online adventure game by Jagex
- https://www.runescape.com || unix-runescape-clientAUR (old Java client), runescape-launcherAUR (new NXT client)
Puzzle
- Cgoban3 — Kiseido Go and SGF client.
- Gopanda — Client for the Pandanet-IGS go Server.
- KAtomic — Slide elements so they resemble a chemical molecule. Part of kde-games.
- Killbots — A turn-based game with an objective of avoiding robots that are trying to kill the player. Part of kde-games.
- KShisen — Shisen-Sho. Part of kde-games.
- Palapeli — Jigsaw puzzle game. Part of kde-games.
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI
- Fish Fillets — Port of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets
Racing
- Stunt Rally — Racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel.
- XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.
Rogue-like
See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Post-apocalyptic roguelike focusing on realism.
- Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon — Shattered fork of the popular roguelike Pixel Dungeon.
Role-playing games (RPG)
- GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.
- https://www.gemrb.org/ || gemrbAUR
Shooters (FPS, third person)
- Alien Arena — Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots.
- Doom: the famous shooter from ID Software has several ports for Linux. None of the id-engine games have copyleft game resources, only the game engine code was open sourced. See for details.
- Doom 1 Demo data –
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- Doomsday — Advanced port of the Doom game engine, capable also of running Heretic, and Hexen games.
- http://www.dengine.net/ || doomsdayAUR
- Doom 3 Engine — Source-based Doom 3 engine
- https://www.idsoftware.com/ || doom3AUR
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.
- Heretic Demo game data –
- Hexen 1 Demo game data –
- OpenArena — Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.
- http://openarena.ws || openarenaAUR
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the only supported game as of August 2020. Support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is coming soon.
- Advanced Quake 1 game engine –
- High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project –
- A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures – quake2-retextureAUR
- Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits.
- Quake III Arena binaries –
- Demo version –
- Quake 4 engine –
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/ || ecwolfAUR, ecwolf-gitAUR
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/ || ecwolfAUR, ecwolf-gitAUR
- War Trigger 2 — Previously known as Red Crucible®: Reloaded, a free to play online FPS
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/ || ecwolfAUR, ecwolf-gitAUR
- Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS –
- Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server –
- World of Padman — Stand slone somplex – cartoon-style multiplayer first-person shooter.
Simulation
- Koi Farm — Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
- Oolite — 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite.
- http://oolite.org/ || ooliteAUR
- Vega Strike — Realistic space flight simulator with trading and fighting.
Strategy
Real-time
- Factorio demo — A proprietary game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies. (Demo)
- Mindustry — Open-source sandbox tower defense and factory-building game.
- Wrymsun — Fantasy game initially based on Stratagus engine
Turn-based
- KReversi — A reversi implementation. Part of kde-games.
- An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE) – ,
- Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE openxcom-mod-40kAUR, , , ,
Tycoon/management games
- Konquest — A turn-based game in which the player wage wars by managing a fleet of spaceships and conquering other planets. Part of kde-games.
- OpenRCT2 — Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.
Visual novels
Comparison table
| Name | Written in | Genre | License | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 A.D. - play0ad.com |
C/C++ | RTS | LGPL/GPLv2 | 0ad-gitAUR |
3D and historically-based real-time strategy game. |
| Abuse - abuse.zoy.org |
C++ | Action | PD/GPL/WTFPL | Side-scroller action game that pits you against ruthless alien killers. | |
| ADOM - adom.de |
C | Rogue-Like | Freemium | Ancient Domains Of Mystery. | |
| Alien Arena - red.planetarena.org |
C | FPS | GPLv2 | Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots. | |
| Angband - rephial.org |
C | Rogue-Like | GPLv2 | angband-gitAUR |
Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien. |
| AssaultCube - assault.cubers.net |
C/C++ | FPS | ZLIB | Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike. | |
| Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid - sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars |
C/C++ | Platform | GPLv2 | 2D platform shooting game. | |
| BZFlag - bzflag.org |
C/C++ | Tank FPS | LGPLv2.1/MPLv2 | 3D multiplayer tank first-person shooter game. | |
| Cube 2: Sauerbraten - sauerbraten.org |
C/C++ | FPS | ZLIB | Successor to the Cube first-person shooter game with both single- and multi- player modes. | |
| Endgame Singularity - emhsoft.com/singularity |
Python | TBS | GPLv2 | singularity-gitAUR |
Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving. |
| FlightGear - flightgear.org |
C/C++ | Simulation | GPLv2 | Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator. | |
| Foobillard++ - foobillardplus.sourceforge.net |
C | Simulation | GPLv2 | Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux. | |
| Freeciv - freeciv.wikia.com |
C/C++ | TBS | GPLv2 | Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization. Scripted using a Lua API. | |
| Freecol - freecol.org |
Java | TBS | GPLv2 | Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization. | |
| Megaglest - megaglest.org |
C/C++ | RTS | GPLv3 | megaglest | Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world. |
| OpenRA - openra.net |
C# | RTS | GPLv3 | An open-source implementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and OpenGL. It has a Lua API for generating custom maps. | |
| OpenTTD - openttd.org |
C/C++ | RTS | GPLv2 | An open-source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Scripted using the Squirrel programming language. | |
| PyChess - pychess.github.io |
Python | Chess | GPLv3 | An advanced chess client for Linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. | |
| RuneScape - runescape.com |
Java (legacy) | MMORPG | Freemium | Massive online medieval fantasy game by Jagex. | |
| C++ (NXT) | runescape-launcherAUR | ||||
| SuperTux - supertux.github.io |
C++ | Platform | GPLv3 | Classic 2D jump'n side-scroller game similar to the Super Mario Bros games, featuring Tux. Milestone 1 of the game was released in 2003 and is provided by supertux-old. Milestone 2, the current version of SuperTux in the Arch Linux community repository, was released in December 2015 and still receives updates. It is scripted using the Squirrel programming language. | |
| SuperTuxKart - supertuxkart.net |
C/C++ | 3D racing | GPLv3 | supertuxkart-gitAUR |
Free, 3D racing game where the characters racing are represented by open-source project mascots. |
| The Battle for Wesnoth - wesnoth.org |
C/C++/Java | TBS | GPLv2 | Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. | |
| The Mana World - themanaworld.org |
C++ | MMORPG | AGPLv3/GPLv3 | Serious effort to create an innovative free and open-source MMORPG. | |
| Unvanquished - unvanquished.net |
C/C++ | FPS | GPLv3 | First-person shooter/real-time strategy game in which aliens fight with humans. | |
| Urban Terror - urbanterror.info |
C | FPS | GPLv2 | Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine. | |
| Warzone2100 - wz2100.net |
C++ | RTS | GPLv2 | warzone2100 |
3D real-time strategy game on a future Earth. |
| Widelands - wl.widelands.org |
C++/Lua/Python | RTS | GPLv2 | 2D real-time strategy game similar to The Settlers. Scripted using a Lua API. | |
| Xonotic - xonotic.org |
C/C++/Java /Perl |
FPS | GPLv2/3 | xonotic-gitAUR |
First-person shooter game that was forked from Nexuiz but with modified gameplay. |
See also
- PCGamingWiki - "PCGamingWiki aims to list fixes and workarounds for every single PC game"
- ProtonDB - "The goal of ProtonDB is to gather reports from other gamers as they test games with Proton on Linux and provide aggregate scores of how well games perform. A growing pool of [...] tweaks".
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers
- The Linux Gamers' Game List
- Linux game database
- Penguspy
- Debian games portal, links, and suggested games
- ./play.it list of games
- Wikipedia:Category:Linux games
- Wikipedia:Humble Bundle
- Wikipedia:Game engine recreation
- itch.io Linux games
- Steam Linux store
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