List of Applications/Games

1 Gaming

1.1 Action and Adventure

• Abuse — Side-scroller action game that puts you against ruthless alien killers.

http://abuse.zoy.org/ || abuse

• AstroMenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.

https://viewizard.com/ || astromenace.

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

https://lgames.sourceforge.io/Barrage/ || barrage

• Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D Action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars/ || blobwars

• BZFlag — Multiperson, first-person tank shooter.

http://bzflag.org/ || bzflag

1.2 Arcade

• Chromium B.S.U. — Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.

http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/ || chromium-bsu

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• LBreakout 2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

|| lbreakout2

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

https://lgames.sourceforge.io/LTris/ || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command

• Performous — A free game like "Singstar", "Rockband" or "Stepmania".

http://performous.org/ || performous

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

1.3 Casual Games

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

|| fortune-mod

1.4 Chess Simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Knights — Simple chess board for KDE 4. It is a rewrite of the KDE3 Knights.

https://noughmad.wordpress.com/knights/ || knights

• GNOME Chess — A 2D chess game which can use third party chess engines.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Chess || gnome-chess

1.5 Education

• GCompris — Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

http://gcompris.net/-en- || gcompris-qt

1.6 Interactive Fiction

See also Wikipedia:Interactive fiction#Development systems.

1.7 Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMO)

See also Wikipedia:List of massively multiplayer online games and Wikipedia:Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

• The Mana World — Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG

http://themanaworld.org || manaplus

1.8 Platformer

• SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.

http://supertux.lethargik.org/ || supertux

1.9 Puzzle

• Cgoban3 — Kiseido Go and SGF client.

|| cgoban

• Hitori — Small application written to allow one to play the eponymous puzzle game, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Hitori || hitori

• Picmi — Nonogram puzzle game

https://games.kde.org/games/picmi/ || picmi

• Pingus — Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.

http://pingus.seul.org/ || pingus

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

1.10 Racing

• Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.

http://armagetronad.net/ || armagetronad

• Extreme Tux Racer — 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer || extremetuxracer

• Super Tux Kart — Kart racing game featuring Tux and his friends.

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/ || supertuxkart

1.11 Rogue-like

See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level.

https://archive.org/details/asciiportal1.2c-win32 || asciiportal

• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Post-apocalyptic roguelike.

http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ || cataclysm-dda

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.

|| rogue

• Stone Soup — A roguelike game with huge and interesting scenarios.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

1.12 Role-playing Games(RPG)

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

• OpenMW — Attempt to reimplement the popular role-playing game Morrowind. OpenMW aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game's engine.

http://openmw.org || openmw

1.13 Shooters (FPS, third person)

• Warsow — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.

http://warsow.net || warsow

• Xonotic — Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).

http://xonotic.org || xonotic

1.14 Simulation

• Minetest — Free and open source game similar to Minecraft.

http://www.minetest.net/ || minetest

• openBVE — Free-as-in-freedom train simulator placed in the public domain.

https://openbve-project.net/ || openbve

1.15 Strategy

• 0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage.

http://play0ad.com/ || 0ad

• Endgame Singularity — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving.

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Globulation 2 — Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.

http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page || glob2

• MegaGlest — Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.

https://github.com/megaglest || megaglest

• OpenRA — An open-source implementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and OpenGL.

https://www.openra.net/ || openra

• The Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2".

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics.

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

1.16 Tycoon/Management Games

• Lincity — City simulation game in which you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.

https://www.berlios.de/software/lincity-ng/ || lincity-ng

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

http://www.openttd.org/ || openttd

1.17 Other

• Pygame — A set of python modules for writing games in python. It is used as the basis of the "Invent with Python" books.

http://www.pygame.org || python2-pygame

1.18 Comparison table

Name	Written in	Genre	License	Package	Description
0 A.D. - play0ad.com	C/C++	Strategy	LGPL/GPLv2	0ad	3D and historically-based real-time strategy game.
Abuse - abuse.zoy.org	C++	Action	PD/GPL/WTFPL	abuse	Side-scroller action game that pits you against ruthless alien killers.
Alien Arena - red.planetarena.org	C	FPS	GPLv2		Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots.
Angband - rephial.org	C	Rogue-Like	GPLv2	angband	Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.
AssaultCube - assault.cubers.net	C/C++	FPS	ZLIB		Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.
Endgame Singularity - emhsoft.com/singularity	Python	Strategy	GPLv2	singularity	Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving.
FlightGear - flightgear.org	C/C++	Simulation	GPLv2		Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
Foobillard++ - foobillardplus.sourceforge.net	C	Simulation	GPLv2		Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.
Freeciv - freeciv.wikia.com	C	Strategy	GPLv2	freeciv	Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.
Freecol - freecol.org	Java	Strategy	GPLv2	freecol	Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
Megaglest	C/C++	Strategy	GPLv3	megaglest	Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.
OpenRA - openra.net	C#	Strategy	GPLv3	openra	An open-source implementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and OpenGL.
PyChess - PyChess	Python	Chess	GPLv3		An advanced chess client for Linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
SuperTux - supertux.github.io	C++	Platform	GPLv3	supertux	Classic 2D jump'n side-scroller game similar to the Super Mario Bros games, featuring Tux. Milestone 1 of the game was released in 2003 and is provided by supertux-old. Milestone 2, the current version of SuperTux in the Arch Linux community repository, was released in December 2015.
The Battle for Wesnoth - wesnoth.org	C/C++/Java	Strategy	GPLv2	wesnoth	Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
The Mana World - themanaworld.org	C++	MMORPG	AGPLv3/GPLv3	manaplus	Serious effort to create an innovative free and open-source MMORPG.
Urban Terror - urbanterror.info	C	FPS	GPLv2		Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine.
Warzone 2100 - wz2100.net	C++	Strategy	GPLv2	warzone2100	3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth.

1.19 See also

• The Humble Bundle
• Wikipedia:Humble Bundle
• Wikipedia:Game engine recreation
• Wikipedia:Source port
• Lists of Linux games on Wikipedia