I never got back into gaming since I kicked it for school... my nephew has to twist my arm to play with him on my PS3, for him, (movies for me. )

I've been trying hard to narrow down my "Linux games I must play" queue to something I can realistically get through this year, and I've gotten it down to:

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

And Torchlight II if I have time before or after those two.

DOOM 3 was okay but don't expect much more than DOOM with better graphics...

i'm just a casual game player and have an intense dislike for FPS or actually most shooting games, but i do enjoy riding my supertuxkarts every now and then (don't laugh, it's a good game).
thing is, i'm growing weary of it, but i find it very hard to find something similar.
there's some native car (racing) games, but none that have that particular quality with simplified physics, powerups, offline multiplayer, and - well - fun.
it doen't necessarily have to be car(t)s.
any ideas?

I always thought Doom 3 was an amazing game. In my opinion though if you haven't already bought it don't bother with the BFG edition. Get the original edition. You can use various texture packs out there that look way better than the BFG edition, The BFG edition uses a different file type structure than the original that doesn't work with the best existing texture packs. You do get the resurrection of evil expansion pack with the BFG edition but you can buy doom 3 and ROE expansion cheaper than the BFG on steam, $12.99 for both as of this writing.

Vroom... Vroom... Not sure if theses are the "native" ones but I like them:

• Stunt Rally
• TORCS
• Xmoto
• VDrift
• Racer

As I google around, looks like a lot more racing games to pick from now a days...

I've been enjoying Factorio lately. If you like Minecraft (or at least the farming/redstone/automation aspects of it) and RTS games, then I think you will like Factorio. Another little indie strategy game I had some fun with is Sol 0: Mars Colonization.

And if you like city builders/sim games then give Cities: Skylines a try. I normally don't care for that type of game but I had a blast with it.

Teeworlds

I would say:

Dwarf Fortress
Minecraft
Stardew Valley
Starbound
Terraria
Alien Isolation
Cities Skylines
Cave Story
The Talos Principle
Factorio
Stellaris
Super Meat Boy
Binding of Isaac (remastered)
Epistory (typing training, and a good one)
Goat Simulator

My favourite games (they are all open source, in fact):

• Sauerbraten
• Red Eclipse
• Assault Cube
• 0 A.D.
• SuperTuxKart (v. < 0.9)
• OpenArena
• PCSX (PSX emulator)

The fore runner to Doom, Wolfenstein 3D is avaiable as a linux only port. The Level data for level 1 was available on some form of freeware license. A full windows licinsed game can be bought for a few dollars, just create a wolf3d directory in /usr/share/games copy all *.wl6 files and wolf.ico there. It's a bit of trouble because you have to convert all file names to lowercase.

Also this is only just a game openBVE. It's a rail simulator excelent fun if you are a trains and transport fan.

Mounting the directory using ciopfs is usually another option.

I recently went through this, and I need to gush that this absolutely is a game that everyone must play. The Linux port is perfect too.

I did a ctrl+F on this thread and didn't see freeorion mentioned. It's in the Debian repos, it's a pretty good Galactic Civilizations type of game, if you're into those. If I had paid $50 for it in 2005 I wouldn't have been disappointed.

I also enjoy messing around with Pioneer, but there's only a few hours worth of gameplay before your average person would get bored.

The Mana World was a fun, mindless, time waster, but the developers are busy porting it to a new server so it's going to be dead until that's done.

Tales of Maj'Eyal was worth a play through as well, but isn't capable of consuming years of your life the way Dwarf Fortress and DCSS are.

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If someone else asked this, I would probably say:

• Undertale
• Axiom Verge
• Shovel Knight
• Blue Revolver
• Pillars of Eternity

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