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.
Does Katawa Shoujo count? It’s not quite FOSS, but it’s a renpy game under CC BY-NC-ND.
Selaco is a quite recent FOSS game, pased on DOOM.
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.
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.
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.
Wikipedia has a list, it may not have every single one but it should have most of them.
There’s also this.
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.
Oh wow, both seem really great.
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.
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.
Unciv - this one’s especially good on mobile
FreeDoom
Sonic Robo Blast 2 if fangames are acceptable
I haven’t played it yet, but a game called Veloren looks really good, and I’ve heard great things about it.
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.
Nikki and the Robots, it’s written in Haskell
For those unaware, what is the significance of it being written in Haskell?
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.
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.
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)
Open transport Tycoon deluxe. Been going for years and it’s still great.
Simutrans, surely.
Simultrans is good but it’s a bit barebones for my liking.
Supertuxkart and supertux
