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Open world games for Linux (Steam included)?
Recently I have been trying to take up gaming but I tend to find things too fast-moving and action-packed. I am, slowly, moving through Metro 2033 Redux, like a little Minecraft and mess about with Second Life.
Are there any Open World games available for Linux? Two games I find when I ask people or google about the type are the Fallout series and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl -- neither of which, sadly, are available for Linux.
Does anyone have any recommendations of this type of free-roaming game for Linux? I would prefer open source, but I have Steam and have bought Minecraft, for example.
None of these are open source (I'm keen to hear about some open source ones, too; so far the open source games I find have been mostly arena-style combat, or arcade-style - none of them open world by any means).
Divinity: Original Sin is pretty open world and has a non-linear plot that you can take at your own pace, and in your own order. It's a Baldur's Gate style RPG, with turn-based combat, lots of cool magick and weapons, great voice acting, and PLENTY of game play. Well worth whatever you pay for it.
Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are fairly open world and nonlinear. They're sort of dungeon crawler games.
Saints Row IV is open world in play style (you can choose what you want to do, when) but it's a fairly small world and you run out of things to do eventually, so you'll end up doing the assigned quests eventually.
Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale are open world-ish RPG's, but being "vintage", they do take some getting used to, if you're used to modern gaming.
Dead Island and Dying Light have worlds big enough that you can wander around for hours and hours, spending your time on side quests and admiring the views.
One open source one:
FreeDroid. Haven't played it much, but it's RPG.
Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale are open world-ish RPG's, but being "vintage", they do take some getting used to, if you're used to modern gaming.
Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are more recent, and should be the same idea.
Personally, I haven't played any of them. Been intending to, though.
If I may recommend one that is fully open source:
Star Control 2. This was one of the very best games of the DOS generation. Does it hold up today? Does it ever! In fact, I'd say they don't make them like they used to.
There's also Ultima 7 (one of the original open world games), which is best played natively with Exult.
If WINE is a option, there are a plethora of games out there.
Unfortunately, many of them are older games as more recent ones more frequently have some kind of DRM.
One example..
Total Annihilation is a old game (released September 30, 1997 -- so 19 years old!) but it's still a amazing RTS (Real Time Strategy) game.
It was designed to be extended and so has hundreds of maps / extra units / mods that are still being created to this day.
It's "official" multiplayer is long dead, but direct connection is available, as well as unoffical clients to join players (or have bots).
Cavedog (team who made TA) is long out of business, but GOG has the game (with all expansions)
How do you get a Steam game playing under WINE, or did you purchase it another way?
I set up WINE the way I did in that blog post and then installed steam normally. Don't forget to use the latest winetricks from source because I found that it resolved dead links with some of the commands on Linux. After wine was set up, and steam was installed from Valve's website, install the game normally from the Steam interface.
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