I personally love Naev and Mindustry
Nethack.
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)
Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD
Simutrans is also pretty cool.
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I’m missing stuff at times
Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly
Endless Sky is amazing. I’ve put so many hours into it. It’s available on Steam or as an AppImage from https://endless-sky.github.io
I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).
Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I’m not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.
They’ve been working on the Hai storyline a lot, and last time I played there was a lot more in Coalition space.
There are a lot of great responses on here! I’ve been playing (at least until my steam deck shit the bed two days ago) around with OpenRA and Minetest.
The responses have been amazing, will certainly be coming back to this thread whenever I want to find a new game
Angband
Nexuiz, or whatever they call it now after the original dev trademarked and sold the brand.
Edit: Xonotic is the name of the active fork.
Neverball is a fantastic ball-in-a-maze (Monkey Ball) OSS game
I like Ltris, Gweled, and Frozen-Bubble. I like simple games. I wish there was a good pacman for Linux too.
Have you considered emulating the original ones?
Yeah, I have had in the past, but it’s a pain to find roms with the right version of mame. At least that’s how it was back in the day.
It’s really easy now, if you have a bit of space. Just get a preconfigured pack that has thousands of games ready to go.
Or at least that was my experience last time I went down the MAME rabbit hole… Which was years ago, lol.
Space Station 14
Oh dang, someone remade SS13? There goes next weekend.
Right now I’m basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It’s a game in the Total Annihilation “tree” of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can’t believe it’s an open source game. It’s still in alpha, but it’s been way more stable than most AAA games I’ve been playing recently.
I’d never heard of BAR, just gave it a go. I can see myself wasting alot of time on this
Sounds amazing thanks!
You shold look into zero-k as well. I started out with BAR but found out zero-k more engaging
That’s a continuation of TA Spring? Neat, played that a looong time ago.
oh wow, didn’t know about that. I did play TA a lot (I mean, I still play it sometimes, big bertha feels sooo good!). But yes, the idea behind them is pretty much the same as TA
Could you elaborate on why zero-k is better than BAR in your opinion?
it’s about the single player storyline. It feels like BAR is more geared towards online/multiplayer, while zero-k has a proper full single player campaign. Don’t get me wrong, I played with BAR for quite some time and it’s still a great game, I just “clicked” better with zero-k.
Ah cool, didn’t know that Zero-K had a whole campaign going on. I think we’re kinda opposites though, because I really don’t enjoy the RTS campaign gameplay experience. I’d much rather play against bots (or maybe online).
Never heard of this and I’m a big fan of the TA/Sup Com series. I will try it when I get the chance. Thanks for sharing!
Xonotic is really fun if you enjoyed Quake 3 and Unreal. Has an active community as well. Beyond All Reason is a pretty polished RTS using Spring engine.
One of my favorites recently has been playing MineClone2 with some extra mods (can’t remember which) through Minetest.
I’ve been boycotting minecraft since the news of chat reporting potentially coming to Java and MineClone2 is such a good replacement. Biggest gripe I have is not being able to get any of the mods that add sprint to work. Pretty much the only feature not available in MineClone2 (as far as I’m aware) from minecraft that I actively miss.
Mineclone2 has sprint since the “sprint update” long ago. You get it by pressing “E” (or the “use” key if you remapped it)
I’ll definitely have to look into that! That is an absolute game changer that will definitely make the game a lot more bearable for me.
Thanks for the info! I would have never figured that out on my own.
Edit:
Found it in the package manager. I definitely have that selective male blindness where I can look right at something and it won’t appear in my vision.
i havent done anything with mineclone, but have messed with minetest, it’s pretty cool. Whats mineclone like?
Mineclone2 is pretty much a clone of Minecraft, like the name implies. It doesn’t have all the current features Minecraft has, but it tries to make itself appear like a clone by having the same features as the official game. It works good enough as a clone. Also, someone here once told me they added sprint in an old update, but I can’t get it to work if they did add it. So if you like sprinting around your world like I do, you might be out of luck.
In general it has the same things Minecraft has, but they’re plenty of updates behind the official game because (if I recall correctly) I’m pretty sure the people behind it want to make sure everything works before updating the game. Don’t recall if that’s true, so take it with a grain of salt.
I’d have to check about looking into which features they have since it’s been a while since I went into creative to check what they’ve added. I at least know they have the nether and end since there are achievements for them. Don’t know whether they have the end dragon fight, so going to the end might be a bust for anything besides end stone.
ah, so basically, mcpe nether reactor levels of minecraft. Seems cool. Might load it up some day and see whats going on then.
Is there any mod you know for making the world larger/infinite?
I was a big fan of just traveling in Minecraft and finding new areas along the way. But minetest space constrains seems not to fit that playstyle unless there’s a mod I don’t know of.
Have no clue. I don’t even know how far out MC2 allows you to go because I’ve never gone to the edges of the world before. Only thing I know about world limits is that you can go thousands of blocks down in just the base game Minetest comes with, which doesn’t apply to MC2.
idk about mineclone, but in minetest the world size is limited to a cube that is 62k in any direction, or from the center 31000 blocks in any direction. Which may not sound like a lot but even in my techmc world on javamc i’ve only ever been about 10000 blocks out from spawn, and that’s a multi minute commute in the nether (8x faster than overworld) even.
Unless you are literally kurtjmac the likelihood that you will go that far is very small.
Some of the assets still come from the original game, but OpenRCT2 is wonderful.
Unciv
