Looking to get some games on my mint setup
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth
Wesnoth is one of those games where once you start playing, you fall into a time warp and lose hours before you know what happened.
Cool. The map reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic
Minetest and Mindustry are two of my favourites. It’s a bit complicated to find a good combination of Minetest mods though.
+1 for Minetest both client and server too; we run one locally for the kiddos :)
Super Tux Kart is a classic
Same with Supertux which is a Linux Super Mario alternative.
Also the level editor isn’t super complex so it can be used as a Mario maker alternative
These get mentioned a lot:
- Mindustry
- Unciv
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Battle for Wesnoth
Bonus: they also work great on Android!
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Beyond All Reason (RTS)
I can also recommend Beyond all Reason. If you ever played Supreme Commander, this game is like a sequel. It also has an active YouTube streaming community with tutorials and ingame are some scenarios to teach you about the various units and strategies.
Beyond All Reason is really cool! Had a lot of fun with it wrestling with the AI and teaming up with my friends.
It’s scratching that Starcraft itch while I tap my fingers waiting for Microsoft to kick Bobby Kotick out of Activision-Blizzard lol.
Veloren!
As an MMO, what is the gameplay loop currently? Doing quests or raids or pvp or just sandbox?
I’m not all that far in the game, but it seems progression revolves around crafting. Killing enemies and mining for materials to make various armours and weapons to take of harder dungeons.
I don’t believe there are quests or pvp yet unfortunately, but it still ends up being fun despite being a highly ambitious game truthfully barely scraped the surface of its ambitions yet.
Endless Sky. The save game is a text file. Save a file on the mobile app (F-Droid), and on the PC (Flatpak), and note the last line. This is the line you must swap to transfer the save file. It is the first game I have played on both practically. The game mechanics are different between the two and you need to alter your strategy accordingly. On mobile, I travel with a ship setup for boarding pirate vessels and never target enemies directly; all of my guns are automatic turrets. I just use a fast ship and travel with a large group of fighters. It is more of a grind on mobile, but it can be used to build up resources and reserves. The game is much bigger than it first appears to be. You need to either check out a guide or explore very deep into the obscure pockets of the map.
I haven’t seen OpenTTD mentioned yet: https://www.openttd.org/
If you like it you may also check out OpenRCT - although this one needs original game files from RollerCoasterTycoon (a few bucks on Gog or Steam)Wesnoth, SuperTuxKart, and Xonotic
Cataclysm dark days ahead
I have to second the mentions of OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Ur-Quan Masters and Nethack.
I’d also like to add:
- Widelands: A Settlers 2 clone.
- Chromium B.S.U.: A top-down scrolling shooter. Don’t let any enemies pass. Perfect if you need 5 minutes of adrenaline.
- Scorched 3D: It’s Scorched Earth, but 3D.
- Frozen Bubble: Hard to describe. It’s a bit like Dr. Mario.
- GL-117: 3D air combat. The graphics are “a bit” dated, but the game is a lot of fun still.
- Kobo Deluxe: A 2D action-puzzler. It doesn’t have the most stunning graphics, but it sure is fun to play.
Then there are also some open-source re-implementations of commercial games (that need the original game files) that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Xonotic!
Palapeli. It’s such a great jigsaw puzzle game.
Some I don’t see mentioned yet:
- Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection ported to pretty much everything.
- Nethack (and its variants), Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue are great roguelikes.
- For boardgame fans the original Keldon AI for Race for the Galaxy is open source and works very well on Linux.
- Fish Fillets NG is one I have fond memories of from many years ago.
- The Ur-Quan Masters is Star Control 2, another classic.
Zero k, RTS
https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/games/top50.html
Keep in mind that this list contains both full games and engines for closed source games.