Best Linux games
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Revision as of 09:30, 15 January 2012 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (Chess)
Wanna try some new games? Here are our top recommendations:
Game | Genre | Remarks |
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bzflag | 3D tank Shooter | Drive around in a tank and shoot at other tanks. Get a flag that makes you invisible, fast, agile or something else. |
freeciv | strategy | Be the leader of a civilization and conquer the world. Decide if you want to go to war, develop your science or build world wonders and so on. |
AngryBirds for chrome | Fire birds to destroy buildings :) | |
ksokoban | tactics | Move boxes, but do not let the boxes get surround you. |
pingus | tactics | Lead your pingus from one end of the dungeon to the other. Have them build tunnels, holes and so on. |
frozen-bubble | tactics | Shoot the bubbles together by color |
Battle for Wesnoth | strategy | Turn-based strategy game with multiplayer over Internet/LAN and hotseat mode (multiple players playing on one computer). |
Neverball | action | Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course. |
OpenTTD | simulation | Open source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with many extension. If you liked Transport Tycoon, you're going to love this. |
xboard | strategy | Chess for Linux |
Sources
There is a great german page on linux games http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/ with lists and screenshots
Jochens favorites
- 0ad, online realtime strategy http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/
- The quake3 based egoshooters Open Arena http://openarena.ws/, Alien Arena http://red.planetarena.org/ , Urban Terror http://www.urbanterror.info/ and World of Padman http://worldofpadman.com/ , the latter a great multiplayer game made with much love and great design
- and of course flight gear the flight simulation http://www.flightgear.org/
- as well as little games like e.g. foobilliard http://foobillard.sourceforge.net/ or PokerTH http://www.pokerth.net/
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--ThorstenStaerk 20:40, 14 January 2012 (CET)