I’m looking for recommendations for my Linux setup. But shattered pixel dungeon is amazing on android
Mindustry is neat if you like tower defenses and factory/automation games.
[edit] Though this isn’t exactly a game, I thought I’d mention it: The Powder Toy. Really fun physics-ish sandbox game if you like just playing around with little particles or making electronics or nuclear powered fireworks shows, etc.
Github link for convenience
https://github.com/Anuken/MindustryMindustry is great! I’ve put a ton of hours into it and I’ve gotten my kids into it. Super active dev and good community.
I prefer it to factorio
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the post. Mindustry is awesome, I got so addicted to it for a bit haha
Open source game based on Transportation Tycoon Deluxe.
I wish it had a modern GUI though. The old one is almost unusable even though they’ve made an attempt to implement DPI scaling.
0AD! It’s similar to age of empires
The graphics are beautiful too!
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Beautiful. Also reminds me of Widelands
Mindustry and Shattered Pixel Dungeon, I played those a lot of my phone but haven’t done so in quite a while! I think both of those are available on desktop Linux too, Shattered Pixel Dungeon even works on my Linux phone.
Yeah, Mindustry is cross platform and available on Linux too. Love mindustry, such an awesome game!
It took me two or three attempts to really try and grasp the scale (one of the most complex games I ever played on my phone) but once I did I played it for countless hours! :)
It’s pretty basic, but I’m going to say SuperTuxKart as a must if you are into kart racers (especially since I don’t know any others).
I also recommend the still in development SuperTux Advance by Kelvin Shadewing. It’s similar to just plain old SuperTux but has unique levels and more playable characters that will have different abilities (probably still mostly locked behind debug for them).
Not a very original answer, but I still enjoy The Battle for Wesnoth after many years.
I’m surprised hardly anyone else has mentioned Wesnoth yet. I last played it over a decade ago, so I’m not sure if it’s still as well-known now as it used to be, but it’s one of the highest-quality open-source games out there.
It’s a turn-based fantasy strategy game that feels like a combination of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, and D&D. And I suppose it was a lot more unique back in the 2000’s when there weren’t a dozen indie games out there that fit the same description.
3 out of 4 begin with “Super”!
Beyond All Reasons. It’s a spiritual successor of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander using the Spring engine.
It’s also a great game in its own right, especially the various advanced unit positioning and selection features had me amazed. The graphics are good and the performance with many units is finally very good too, after some patches last year (or two years? I don’t remember).
If Roblox counts as a game instead of a platform, then I guess Minetest also counts as an open-source game.
Roblox isn’t a game. Minetest is an engine (providing it’s own APIs that game developers use to develop games), and a platform to distribute them. In a sense, Minetest is like Unity or Godot. Games built on Minetest include MineClone2/5, Nodecore, Exile etc.
Yeah, but truth is a lot of people do consider it a game.
Only you, it seems. First I have seen this assertion.
I could go into depth on why it’s an engine, but you seem to have already made your mind up and are going to stick with it regardless.
Edit: Actually, I’ll leave it up to the Minetest project… “Minetest is an open source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation” - https://github.com/minetest/minetest
I also think that it and Roblox should be considered game engines, not games, but they are classified as games not platforms by the likes of Apple and random people on Reddit.
Yeah, let me open up Unity for that vanilla gameplay experience, oh wait…
Also, are wc3 and hl also not games because they were used to develop and distribute games that ended up being more popular?
You cannot play default minetest without a game. It comes installed with minetest game (which is a crappy game and more of a modding base). Delete it and see if you can play, yeah?
What is wc3 and hl?
You are expanding the scope of what we’re saying. Half Life is not a game engine, GoldenSrc is. Warcraft III doesn’t appear to have a public game engine. However, Roblox & Minetest don’t really have a bundled game.
Minetest fulfils the role of platform because of content db, which is a separate thing with it’s own name, it wasn’t always there, and it’s maintained by 1 person. The rest of the developers code the API’s which are used for making games. You know what else provides API’s for making games? Unity, Unreal and Godot.
Not really, wc3 and hl are definitely more “gamey” than Minetest, but you can still install Minetest to play and mod Minetest.
Minetest is the game that comes bundled with Minetest.
Minetest Game is the game that comes bundled with Minetest, not Minetest. Nobody said WC3 and HL is a game engine.
Horrible naming scheme, and I don’t think I’ve seen the Minetest Game ever mentioned as anything but just Minetest.
It’s not a naming scheme, it’s just the default and everything makes it clear that Minetest is the engine. It’s kinda the example game.
Currently Endless Sky! Although I haven’t gotten far, and playing without mods, I love the vibes
ScummVM works really well in linux, if youre a fan of classic point and click adventure games.
Running on that VM, I really enjoyed Flight of the Amazon Queen a few years back. Warning: it’s an oldie containing lots of sexist moments - I’m not sure I would enjoy it as much today.
OpenMW
Doesn’t that need the original, very much not open source, data files?
yes, i think they’re working on support for custom games though
veloren! also my favorite game too to play with my friend
Is this an inside joke, a technical bug or a mistake? Your link directs me to this post, going in circles.
looks like a mistake
Currently downloading and making an account
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Xonotic is one that i would reccomend heavily, and it’s an arena shooter
I remember trying it a long time ago, and it was pretty fun.
I haven’t played in over a year, but I really spent some hours in Veloren the last time I picked it up!
