The only game I have ever played is FIFA on a PS4. Now I have a gaming laptop but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux. Appreciate your help in advance!
For someone new to gaming, I’d recommend Outer Wilds. It isn’t “addictive” in that you can play it endlessly, but it’s something easy to get into for someone new to gaming and one of the best games ever made. It’s also only $15 right now.
If you end up sucking at flying, like many players do, just remember it doesn’t matter how pretty your landing is if you can walk away from it. Even if you can’t, no big deal.
I just broke 1000 hours on baldurs gate 3.
Minecraft also great, thankfully it does not tell me how many hours I’ve spent mining and crafting…
Statistics. It’s a menu option.
If you look, be thankful it only shows per-world information. And there’s no count of server time once you lose access to a server’s world.
No-one can know.
If you’re going to be on Steam, and become a gamer, the other suggestions over here are good.
However, if games aren’t really your thing, and you just want a casual gaming experience, then I’d suggest a few Linux native games, that exist in all distro repos: gweled, ltris, lbreakout2, lgeneral, frozen-bubble, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-tetravex, xye, kobo-deluxe, aisleriot, powermanga, open-invaders, supertux, pingus, berusky, opentyrian (requires data from the dos game, which are also free to download elsewhere).
Then there are some more heavy hitters (still native linux games), like freeciv-gtk3, opencol, 0ad, tuxracer, lincity-ng, simutrans etc.
Stellaris
My Foss game list:
- Veloren
- Minetest
- Super Tux Kart
- Super Tux
- Mindustry
There are tons more but I’m not a heavy gamer.
Mindustry is so damn good.
I have been have my eye on Cube World for ages, is Veloren empty?
Pretty much there’s very few players. In my experience the mods are also a bit too ban happy
With Lutris + Wine-ge you can play practically any game you want. My recommendation is the games I have enjoyed playing since I got my PC a few months back, in no particular order.
- God of War
- Spiderman Remastered + MM
- Horizon Zero Dawn + FW
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Forza Horizon 5
- Armored Core 6
- Maybe Hogwarts Legacy if you’re into the gameplay hint mash RT
osu! is a free and open source rhythm game. Its pretty much the best pc rhyrhm game.
Strange that no one mentioned cdda, here’s sseth review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyoj4-niEPc
Dead Cells. Bloody love it.
But use the widows version and the proton layer. The Linux version is horribly coded.
Osrs and WoW both run on Linux if you want something addictive lol. Bottles seems to work best for battle.net stuff.
Battle for Wesnoth is my go to Linux for a decade at this point. Free fantasy turn based strategy game with fun campaigns.
And is a great starting point for new gamers on linux, since it’s free and available at almost any distro’s software sources.
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (or any other part)
0AD is better
The two games are not even remotely related, 0AD is more comparable to Age of Empire series.
I feel guilty, I’ve downloaded it but haven’t played it yet :')
0AD is really fun (and hard)
No joke, that’s the main reason I’ve barely played it. Even with the built in tutorial and with Distrotube’s guide on 0AD I still feel a bit lost and overwhelmed
@theshatterstone54 @TwinTusks Did you play against the easy AI ?
Back in the days when I first started I had to play 10 games before I could beat the Ai because I chose the normal mode.But playing against the easy or very easy AI gives you all the time you need to understand the mechanics
I can beat easy AI, but theres like 60% chance I’ll lose on normal.
@TwinTusks How does it go ? Is it that you get overrun by a larger army ? Or you have trouble maintaining your economy ?
#0AD #games
Dwarf Fortress.
But you need to read the wiki :)
Not the one. I love it, but it’s not a good first game suggestion, ha ha!
I mean, it can be the ONLY game you ever play ;)
Team Fortress 2 has native support and is very addictive and has a large active community despite the game being over 15 years old now.
…just don’t play in casual servers. It’s filled with bots
TF2, addictive class shooter with cartoony style.
Borderlands 2 (especially with friends), very fun looter shooter. Can be modded with some pain, but it will refreshen the experience after 1k hours into vanilla.
Ultrakill. Not very addictive, but a very fun doom-like shooter.
