What Linux games MUST I play?

Fat_Elvis · 12-11-2016, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

DOOM 3: BFG Edition (I have never played DOOM 3)
Day of the Tentacle (the upcoming remake)

Great suggestions overall. Most id games have gotten excellent Linux ports recently, which are a joy to play. Doom with full 3D and modern OpenGL lighting tricks, etc was a pleasant surprise for me, since I only ever played the original previously.

I'll agree with above posters that Doom 3 runs better on my machine than the BFG version, which seems to have a few problems, and suffers in performance presently. According to internet comments, the gameplay isn't really an improvement over the original either.

If you are into the olden days of FPSs, and/or played the originals when they were around, I'd highly suggest eduke32 as well. Just pure awesome.

dugan · 01-11-2017, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Those are all modern love letters to their respective genres, and among the best examples of them.

If that's my criteria, then I should probably add Legend of Grimrock and Torchlight II to the list.

patrick295767 · 01-15-2017, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by dugan

If that's my criteria, then I should probably add Legend of Grimrock and Torchlight II to the list.

supertux
supertuxkart
cube
sauerbraten (cube 2)
and if you run wine, you can use GTA VC on most debian's.

Quote:

./sauerbraten_unix -d -mlocalhost -c10
runcmd( " ./sauerbraten_unix " );
// t and type /connect 10.0.0.15

CUBE is also pretty cool and holds on less than 100Mb.
I install it directly from console.

Code:

    if ( strcmp( cmdval1 , "net get cube" ) == 0 )
    {
        chdirroot();
        chdirmake( "games" );
        if ( fexist( "cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz" ) != 1 ){
            runcmd(" wget \"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.3/
libstdc++5_3.3.6-27.2_i386.deb\"  " );
            runcmd(" wget \"http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/cube/cube/20
05_08_29/cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz\"     " );
            runcmd(" tar xf  cube_2005_08_29_unix.tar.gz " );
        }

    }