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.
https://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria || aquaria-oseAUR, aquaria-hibAUR
  • Astromenace Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openastromenace/ || astromenace.
  • Barrage Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects
http://lgames.sourceforge.net/Barrage/ || barrage
  • Beneath a Steel Sky point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future
https://revolution.co.uk/games_catalog/beneath-a-steel-sky/ || bass
  • Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars/ || blobwars
  • Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars fanmade sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword
http://www.brokensword25.com/ || sword25AUR
https://www.scummvm.org/games/ || fotaqAUR
  • Freedink Free version of the game "Dink Smallwood", extendable with mods
https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/ || freedinkAUR
  • 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
https://kde.org/applications/games/kspaceduel/ || kspaceduel
    • 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.
    http://www.rune-world.com || runeAUR
    • 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.
    https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kbreakout/ || kbreakout
    • Mari0 The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.
    https://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0
    • PowerManga Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.
    http://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/ || powermangaAUR

    Casual games

    • Atanks A multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games
    http://atanks.sourceforge.net/ || atanksAUR
    https://www.kde.org/applications/games/ksquares/ || ksquares

    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
    https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess
    • PyChess An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
    https://pychess.github.io/ || pychess

    Education

    https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kanagram/ || kanagram
    • Nootka Application to learn classical score notation.
    https://nootka.sourceforge.io/ || nootkaAUR

    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)

    Platformer

    • SuperTux Mario-style game featuring Tux.
    https://supertux.lethargik.org/ || supertux

      Puzzle

      • Cgoban3 Kiseido Go and SGF client.
      http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/ || cgobanAUR
      • Gopanda Client for the Pandanet-IGS go Server.
      https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/gopanda2 || GopandaAUR
      • KAtomic Slide elements so they resemble a chemical molecule. Part of kde-games.
      https://www.kde.org/applications/games/katomic/ || katomic
      • Killbots A turn-based game with an objective of avoiding robots that are trying to kill the player. Part of kde-games.
      https://www.kde.org/applications/games/killbots/ || killbots
      https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kshisen/ || kshisen
      • Palapeli Jigsaw puzzle game. Part of kde-games.
      https://www.kde.org/applications/games/palapeli/ || palapeli
      • Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI
      https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles
      • Fish Fillets Port of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets
      http://fillets.sf.net/ || fillets-ng

      Racing

      • Stunt Rally Racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel.
      https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/ || stuntrally-binAUR
      • XMoto Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.
      https://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmotoAUR

      Rhythm

      • Ultrastar Deluxe A SingStar karaoke clone.
      https://usdx.eu/ || ultrastardx-gitAUR

      Rogue-like

      See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.

      https://cataclysmdda.org/ || cataclysm-dda
      • Rogue Original dungeon crawl game.
      http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue
      • Shattered Pixel Dungeon Shattered fork of the popular roguelike Pixel Dungeon.
      https://www.shatteredpixel.com/ || shattered-pixel-dungeonAUR

      Role-playing games (RPG)

      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.
      http://red.planetarena.org/ || alienarena-svnAUR
      • 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
      • 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
        https://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/etqw/ETQWFrontPage/index.html || etqwAUR
          • Heretic Demo game data
            • Hexen 1 Demo game data
            • OpenArena Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.
            http://openarena.ws || openarenaAUR
              • 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
              https://www.rocketeergames.com/main/wartrigger2.html || rcrAUR
              • 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.
              https://worldofpadman.net/website || worldofpadmanAUR

              Simulation

              • Koi Farm Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
              https://jobtalle.itch.io/koifarm || koifarm-gitAUR
              • 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.
              https://www.vega-strike.org || vegastrike-gitAUR

                Strategy

                Real-time

                • Factorio demo A proprietary game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies. (Demo)
                https://www.factorio.com/ || factorio-demoAUR
                • Mindustry Open-source sandbox tower defense and factory-building game.
                https://mindustrygame.github.io/ || mindustry-binAUR, mindustryAUR
                • Wrymsun Fantasy game initially based on Stratagus engine
                https://andrettin.github.io/ || WyrmsunAUR

                Turn-based

                • KReversi A reversi implementation. Part of kde-games.
                https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kreversi/ || kreversi
                • 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.
                https://www.kde.org/applications/games/konquest/ || konquest
                • OpenRCT2 Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.
                https://openrct2.org/ || openrct2

                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

                Free, libre, open source games

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