Neowin's List of Free Linux Games

[tiagosilva29]

Linux isn't just to work. You can also have (and deserve) some fun too.

We should start a refence guide to Linux games available freely over the internet.

I know little uppon this matter, so, it's up to you, guys...

Every member should post in this way:

[B]Name Of The Game[/B] - [Game Category]
http://Link To The Official Site Of The Game

[I]A small introduction to the game and personal comments.[/I]

Thank you.

[MrA]

Tux Racer - Racing (sports I guess)

Tux Racer

This game needs no intro. Every linux user knows about it. It's Tux, racing downhill reaching very high speeds.

[DR_K13]

UT3 demo eventhough I havent got it to work right

linky

[tiagosilva29]

America's Army - 3D Action (FPS)

http://www.americasarmy.com

Q: What is the America's Army game?

A: ?an accurate portrayal of Soldier experiences ?

The America's Army game provides civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today's premier land force: the U.S. Army. The game is designed to provide an accurate portrayal of Soldier experiences across a number of occupations. In the game, players will explore progressive individual and collective training events within the game. Once they successfully completed these events they will advance to multiplayer operations in small units.[/quo

This is a great free game endorsed by the U.S. Army and it's multi-platform (it has Windows, Macintosh Linux clients).

Note: Neowin has an official clan at this game: The Neowin 1st Armory Division

[Veiva]

Egoboo - Roguelike RPG

egoboo.sf.net.

A rogue like game in the spirit of Nethack. You must save King Bishop (if you want) by getting all the sporks of power (again, if you want)

:)

[zer0]

Cube - FPS

http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL.

Flight Gear - Flight Sim

http://flightgear.org/

an open source fligh simulator on par with ms flight simulator 98.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Racer - car driving/racing simulator (Open Source, on top of it all!)

http://www.racer.nl/

I got this to install about a year and a half ago, but could not get it to run (various errors). Looks pretty impressive.

EDIT: Some good answers here. I'll pin this for the time being, and we'll see how this progresses.

Edited November 1, 2004 by markjensen

[metal_dragen Veteran]

Enemy Territory - Quake3-engine based FPS (First Person Shooter)

http://www.castlewolfenstein.com

Originally slated to be an expansion to the popular Return to Castle Wolfenstein game, Splash Damage, after nearly completing the game, decided to make a standalone game because of the difference in playing styles, objectives, and classes that the game brought. ET has a strong community in the competitive world as well, with well over 200 active clans.

[Veiva]

Nethack - Open Source Roguelike Game

Actually, this game has no storyline. You are just an @ that walks around and trys not to die. And it is all text...

[slapnuts_ox]

bzflag - multiplayer tank game http://www.freshrpms.net

doom 3 demo - FPS...does it need any info? http://www.id.com

Unreal Tournament 2004 demo - FPS....does it need any info? http://www.unrealtournament2004.com

torcs - racing game http://www.freshrpms.net

legends - FPS game with similar gameplay to tribes...still in devel http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/

[metal_dragen Veteran]

TORCS - actual homepage is http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

BZFlag - actual homepage is http://www.bzflag.org/

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Tux Racer - Racing (sports I guess)

Tux Racer

This game needs no intro.  Every linux user knows about it.  It's Tux, racing downhill reaching very high speeds.

584841142[/snapback]

Damn, i was going to say that, that game is great, i got it on my mac.

[Zerosleep]

I'm downloading neverball. Anyone ever play this?

Edit: This game rules, it's like Super Monkey Ball.

Edited November 2, 2004 by Zerosleep

[contra]

Frozen Bubble

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

Frozen Bubble arcade game

Throw colourful bubbles to build groups and destroy the groups. With 1p-game, aim is to destroy all bubbles, with 2p-game, aim is that your opponent dies before you.

Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, a level-editor, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.

[putzboy]

Chromium BSU is one of my favorites

Link: http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

[Zerosleep]

Yes I love frozen-bubble.

[tiagosilva29]

Armagetron - 3D Action (Racing/Strategy)

http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/

In this game, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. Only if you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them; but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!

[3nd3r]

http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ <-- check the games sections :)

[Knight']

3Dc , a three board game of chess.

netpanzer, a command & conquer like game.

[Spacce]

Scorched 3D

http://scorched3d.sourceforge.net/

[Malisk]

You are just an @ that walks around and trys not to die.  And it is all text...

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You don't have to be. :)

Another popular variant of these Nehack / Roguelike games is ZAngband, with more elements from JRR Tolkien's mythology.

[kairon]

Frozen Bubble

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

Frozen Bubble arcade game

Throw colourful bubbles to build groups and destroy the groups. With 1p-game, aim is to destroy all bubbles, with 2p-game, aim is that your opponent dies before you.

Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, a level-editor, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.

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Don't forget Monkey Bubble!

http://home.gna.org/monkeybubble/

[ichi]

rRootage - [Arcade]

http://rrootage.sourceforge.net/

Somewhere between SpaceInvaders and Ikaruga.

Boson - [RTS]

http://boson.eu.org/

Multiplayer (and only mp, there's no singleplayer mode) RTS with tanks and stuff, using 3D OpenGL graphics.

[tapo]

The Battle for Wesnoth - [Turn-Based Strategy]

http://www.wesnoth.org

A very fun, high quality and very polished, original strategy game. Destroy the enemy's leader to win while taking advantage of unit types and weaknesses, time of day, and the type of terrain. Capture villages to gain more gold and recruit more units, which gain experience (and have multiple upgrades) as they fight. Includes a Battle.net like multiplayer matchmaking service that allows you to host behind firewalls.

[Knight']

GLtron

#emerge gltron

=)