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.
Supertuxkart and supertux
I can also recommend Rota, it’s a relatively new puzzle platformer. https://snapcraft.io/rota
Snap is closed-source backend and is hardcoded to use Canonical’s repo (therefore centralized). Kinda ironic I think. I can’t find it through flathub sadly.
I spent several years on OpenBSD playing mostly foss games (no WINE support) before I got my steam deck, so I feel fairly qualified with recommending Cataclysm DDA, Xmoto, and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Say goodbye to the next several months of your life. Other cool FOSS games that grabbed me, but not to the same level: Ur Quan Masters (Star Control 2), and endless-sky.
Here are some less mentioned FLOSS games, that are excellent quality:
Fillets-ng (2D fish sokoban)
The Dark Mod (3D stealth game, bow and sword)
Crrcsim (3D model glider flightsim, slope soaring)
Wikipedia has a list, it may not have every single one but it should have most of them.
There’s also this.
@[email protected] Sonic RoboBlast 2 and Sonic RoboBlast 2 Kart.
The former is a fork of the original Doom that turns it into a 3D platformer. The latter is a fork of the former that turns it into an online kart racing gameDidn’t see any mention of dungeon crawl stone soup so I’m adding it here
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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.
Would reccomend osu!. A cool rhythm game with support for different gamemodes. The lazer version is open source and is on development to ensure it can match all expectations.
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.
Selaco is a quite recent FOSS game, pased on DOOM.
Selaco looks awesome, and GZDoom it’s running on is indeed FOSS, but the game itself appears to be a commercial endeavor and not FOSS itself, from what I could find. :)
Absolutely a cool looking game though. Super impressive.
FOSS doesn’t require that it’s not sold commercially.
The “Free” is as in speech.
I think it’s great that FOSS developers can get paid.
You’re correct, although I didn’t necessarily dispute that.
I also think it’s awesome to see FOSS software people are buying voluntarily to support the project! Stuff like Cataclysm: DDA being on Steam for instance.
But is Selaco’s source code available and does it have a permissive license to distribute, like the GPL? That’s what I had trouble substantiating. Happy to be shown otherwise! But I think this might be a case of “The engine / platform is FOSS, but the IP is not.”
Looks like a really cool game though. I love the artwork.
The engine is FOSS under GPL3, so… yeah.
I’ve played and enjoyed:
OpenTTD
OpenRCT2
OpenClonk
Hedgewars
Foobillard++I’ve also been looking at Tabletop Club but haven’t played with it much yet.
Oh wow, both seem really great.
Ones I’ve played (mostly when I was younger) and enjoyed a lot:
Teeworlds
Warmux
SuperTux
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
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.
Hell yeah Sauerbraten all the way
Open transport Tycoon deluxe. Been going for years and it’s still great.
Simutrans, surely.
Simultrans is good but it’s a bit barebones for my liking.
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.
Does Katawa Shoujo count? It’s not quite FOSS, but it’s a renpy game under CC BY-NC-ND.
