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Awesome Linux Games

🐧 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Linux games for any users/developers.
🐧 Feel free to contribute / star / fork / pull request . Any recommendations and suggestions are welcomed.

Forked from Awesome Linux Software which lists more than just games (CN of original here and here.)

Table of Contents

• Games
• Contributors
• Guideline to Contribute

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Games

• 0 A.D - Age of Empires like open source RTS game.
• Civilization5 - Sid Meier’s Civilization® is recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
• Cockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
• Desura - Desura is a community driven digital distribution service for gamers, putting the best games, mods and downloadable content from developers at gamers fingertips, ready to buy and play.
• FreeCiv - Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.
• Galois - Galois is a Falling Blocks type game that isn't limited to the standard tetrominoes that most games in it's genre are limited to.
• GBrainy - Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained.
• Minetest - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
• Mudlet - A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua.
• Nethack - Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics.
• OpenTTD - An open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Plus with major improvements.
• OhMyGiraffe - A delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions.
• PlayOnLinux - Play Windows Game on Linux.
• Simutrans - Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator.
• Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which opens the gates to many games.
• Snake Game - Cross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js.
• SuperTuxCar - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
• Tales of Maj'Eyal - Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.
• The Battle for Wesnoth - Free, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
• TripleA - The World's Foremost Open Source Grand Strategy Game.
• Unknown Horizons - A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Multiplayer currently broken.
• Urban Terror - A "Hollywood" tactical shooter - realism based, but the motto is "fun over realism".
• Warzone2100 - Open-source real-time strategy/real-time tactics game.
• Wine - Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD
• Widelands - Widelands is a open source RTS game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode inspired by Settlers II.
• Xonotic - Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake.
• Zandronum - Leading the way in newschool multiplayer Doom online.
• Zelda Classic - A tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges.
• Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX - A direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, using the same graphics and game mechanisms.

Engine Re-creations (require the actual game)

• NXEngine - A source port of Cave Story that runs natively on Linux, source needs to be built.
• openage - Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built.
• OpenMF - Free and open-source Mafia game engine
• OpenMW - A recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game.
• OpenRA - Classic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source.
• OpenRCT2 - A recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests.

Command Line

• 2048 - Play the famous 2048 in commandline.
• Backgammon - Play Backgammon in commandline.
• Bastet - Play Tetris in commandline.
• Greed - Tron game in the linux command line.
• Ninvaders - Play Space Invaders on the command line.
• nSnake - Play the classic Nokia snake game on the command line.
• Pacman4console - Play Pacman game in console.
• Tron - Play the best action game, Tron in the command line.

Contributors

List of contributors :

1. Original author (LuongVo)
2. anewuser
3. nathanmusoke
4. bpearson
5. orestisf1993
6. lasseborly
7. sebasspf
8. buivnhai
9. ankurk91
10. mAzurkovic
11. bocklund
12. grebenschikov
13. fareez-ahamed
14. MichaelAquilina
15. Wamadahama
16. Alasin
17. LYF610400210
18. willmtemple for a more correct repo name.
19. jakub-olczyk
20. shakib609
21. talisk
22. smdrz
23. bishoyh
24. Voicu
25. ryandaniels
26. mame98
27. Kastmeski
28. johnjago
29. shuliandre
30. stelariusinfinitek
31. tnga
32. hg8
33. ChrisLeeGit
34. alim0x
35. Spacebody
36. AyoIsaiah
37. Everyone @ reddit.com/r/linux & reddit.com/r/ubuntu & vozforums.com for many suggestions and compliments ...

(The list above is updated on 10th January 2017)

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Guideline to contribute

• Simply put the name of the game in the list.
• Link to its homepage or a guide on how to install it.
• Also write a short description for the game + add icon.
• If the game doesn't fit in any existing topic, make a new one for it.
• Ensure everything is alphabetically sorted.

Items marked with are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with are free (as in free beer).

>*Author's note: Recently, I received feedbacks from you about the quality of some applications on this list. I myself tested them out a lot (not all of them, though). If you have any problems with the apps, please: -> head to the dev page (if available) -> make an issue for the dev there -> make an issue here so that I can consider whether I should get the app out of the list. Remember : Everything has its own quality, so there will never be anything like "best app" or "selective list" here, thank you.*

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Author of original Awesome Linux Software

> [](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5ZG5Z47L2ZGYC) > A beer in your country can buy a meal in mine.