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Looking for FOSS Games

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.

abbiistabbii ,
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Open transport Tycoon deluxe. Been going for years and it’s still great.

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

Simutrans, surely.

abbiistabbii ,
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Simultrans is good but it’s a bit barebones for my liking.

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

Really! I got started on Simutrans and had a lot of difficulty moving to TDD. The straw that broke the camels back was having to lay down rail tile by tile instead of routing between two point.

vintageballs ,

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

Teeworlds

Warmux

SuperTux

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

proceduralnightshade ,

Hell yeah Sauerbraten all the way

nasi_goreng ,
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Unfortunately Warmux is now a dead project, with official site taken over by unrelated company and only unofficial Flathub distribution exist.

Even Windows built and other OS is gone.

Prunebutt ,

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

MonkeMischief ,

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 ,

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.

poVoq ,
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There is !opensourcegames here on Lemmy.

MonkeMischief ,

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

Monstanner ,
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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.

jerkface ,
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I have thousands of hours in Urban Terror. I wish the jump mechanics could be enabled in other games. I have so many neurons dedicated to it.

ssm , (edited )
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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.

Wijnie ,

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

Lemongrab ,

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.

debil ,

ssh [email protected]

fhein ,

Nikki and the Robots, it’s written in Haskell

Crozekiel ,

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

fhein ,

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.

toastal ,

Language on the broad scope doesn’t matter, but something with a niche—especially not another object-oriented framework as dominates video games but less so elsewhere in the last decade where encapsulation & state have been seen more as anti-patterns in most cases—can make it either a better tool for the job or at least a curiousity on how to construct a full application of the type in said language—which helps fans of this or adjacent languages have a repository of ideas to draw upon.

pineapplelover ,

Supertuxkart and supertux

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

sem ,

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.

velox_vulnus ,

You might want to try Veloren and Battle for Vesnoth.

sem ,

Wesnoth?

Outsider9042 ,

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

cataclysmdda.org

HipsterTenZero ,
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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.

potentiallynotfelix ,

also check out libregamewiki its got lots of free games

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