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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by theshatterstone54@feddit.uk to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago

You might want to try Veloren and Battle for Vesnoth.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago
[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unciv - this one's especially good on mobile

FreeDoom

Sonic Robo Blast 2 if fangames are acceptable

Edit: Since I mentioned FreeDoom -- Gzdoom acts as a sort of platform for Libre FPSes. Ashes 2063 and Wolfenstein Blade of Agony for instance.

[-] Monstanner@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

To name a few: AssaultCube, Battle for Wesnoth, Cube2: Sauerbraten, FligthGear, Freeciv, Freeciv21, Nexuiz Classic, OpenArena, OpenHV, OpenRA, OpenTTD, Remnants of the Precursors, SpeeDreams, Stone Kingdom, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, Unciv, Urban Terror, Veloren, Warozone 2100, Widelands, Xonotic

P.S. It may be that not all of them are FOSS, but they run natively on linux.

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[-] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

BAR - Beyond All Reason, for Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander style RTS, learned about this one in another thread here on lemmy

Zero-K - similar premise, plays different from BAR, also the graphics seem less demanding

OpenSoldat - 2D arena shooter. For anyone that never played or saw something similar, think of multiplayer maps of halo, quake or unreal, but if it was a 2D platformer

Not quite open source, but Daggerfall Unity is a FOSS update to the engine for Daggerfall, a game which Bethesda has made free for years now. You can get the game off GOG, too.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 months ago
[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Many thanks! No idea how I wasn't already subscribed to that!

[-] Outsider9042@aussie.zone 14 points 3 months ago
[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] vintageballs@feddit.de 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ones I've played (mostly when I was younger) and enjoyed a lot:

Teeworlds

Warmux

SuperTux

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

[-] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah Sauerbraten all the way

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[-] sag@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Games which I have played for more than 100 hours.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon: A traditional rougelike dungeon crawler.

Rhythia or Sound Space Plus: Rythm-based aim game.

Taisei: A Touhou FOSS Fangame.

Osu!: A rythm based game.

[-] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

There is a Wikipedia article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games

It is, however, vastly incomplete, as entries without "reliable sources" get deleted. Mind that linking the source code repository, the steam page, the license file and news about a game going open source are not enough to count as "reliable source".

[-] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia has a list, it may not have every single one but it should have most of them.

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

There's also this.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago
[-] Futurama@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Endless Sky is an amazing one. I've put tons of hours into it. It's a top down 2d space trading/fighting game, very similar to Escape Velocity if you've ever played that game.

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Open transport Tycoon deluxe. Been going for years and it's still great.

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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ghostdancer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

Adding to what others have said If you are looking for or interested in game engine clones https://osgameclones.com/

[-] fhein@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

For those unaware, what is the significance of it being written in Haskell?

[-] fhein@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's a functional programming language, so you have to think quite differently when using it if you're used to imperative programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Python, Basic). I learned it at uni and it was quite fun, but I wouldn't know how to write a larger project in it.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Supertuxkart and supertux

[-] potentiallynotfelix 6 points 3 months ago

also check out libregamewiki its got lots of free games

[-] Monstanner@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here is also a website where you can see if there is an open source port to non-open source games or an alternative that e.g. tries something of its own / based on the gameplay. As an example, the following "clones" are listed for Minecraft: Minetest, Mineclone2 (now VoxeLibre), ManicDigger and more.

Edit: fixed some grammatic fails.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] debil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

ssh nethack@alt.org

[-] mudle@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago
[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

Didn't see any mention of dungeon crawl stone soup so I'm adding it here

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Selaco is a quite recent FOSS game, pased on DOOM.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

The engine is FOSS runder GPL3, so... yeah.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Every couple of years I throw 40-80 hours into (eg) https://crawl.akrasiac.org:8443/#lobby

[-] potentiallynotfelix 4 points 3 months ago

its pretty complex and can be hard to learn, but flightgear is super fun once you get the hang of piloting.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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)

[-] banghida@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago
[-] Wijnie@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

I can also recommend Rota, it's a relatively new puzzle platformer. https://snapcraft.io/rota

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] s12@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does Katawa Shoujo count? It’s not quite FOSS, but it’s a renpy game under CC BY-NC-ND.

[-] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

BZFlag has existed for a while now.

[-] DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I haven't played it yet, but a game called Veloren looks really good, and I've heard great things about it.

[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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