Another thing I’ve liked about linux. The community is amazing, and I find games I never would have heard of otherwise! What are some games you’ve found solely because of linux?

For me,

Luanti (voxelibre, mineclone)

Tuxcart

Horripilant

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Back in the day I discovered World Of Goo because it was one of the few commercial games with Linux support.

  • unautrenom@jlai.luEnglish
    11·
    4 days ago

    The incredible CrossCode! Absolute gem of a game I wouldn’t have discovered eight eyars back if they didn’t have any Linux support.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    It’s been a lot of years since I paid any attention to games that don’t run on linux, but I remember one of the first I found that did was The Ur-Quan Masters — a free (as in GPL) version of one of the best games of the early 1990s.

  • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    XONOTIC! Its a great little arena shooter that’s only flaw is the low playerbase.

    More people playing near me means I don’t need to join the 160ms ping server lol.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    What are some games you’ve found solely because of linux?

    I’ve been using primarily Linux on my desktop since IIRC 1998 and eliminated dual-boot in a year or so after that. So pretty much every game I still play outside of a few emulated ones has been from using Linux.

    But there were older games that I probably wouldn’t have played if I hadn’t been on Linux; years back, the selection was a lot more limited. Today, virtually every game on Windows works on Linux.

    • Quake and Quake II had very early Linux support; John Carmack took time away from working on id Software games to work on Linux 3d video drivers, which were pretty much nonexistent at that point, so I was playing a game that he wrote using video drivers that he helped write.

    • bzFlag is a graphically-simple 3D multiplayer tank shooter.

    • Linley Henzell, the author of Linley’s Dungeon Crawl (which later became Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup), wrote some simple games kind of in the Gravity Wars genre, but much earlier: Lacewing and Overgod.

    • Pingus, an open-source Lemmings clone.

    • Lincity-NG. A city-builder that focuses on transportation of goods and sustainability. The original version of this was graphically about on par with a color version of the original Sim City.

    • Night Hawk, a Paradroid clone.

    • ToME 2. ASCII roguelike. This is very different from ToME 3, which eventually went up on Steam (and is quite popular in its own right, though it never drew me in as much as ToME 2).

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn’t appeal to me.

    Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.

    So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn’t need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.

    I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though…)

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I started using Linux as my only OS when I was like 15 or so, at the time largely playing Runescape or EVE Online.

    Still feel nostalgia for runescape sometimes but then remember the grind, no thanks. EVE is similar too, remember the great times in a fleet but if I go back I then am reminded of all the dull times when not much is happening and I find PvE is so fucking boring in EVE. Even a few things that are fun for half an hour are painfully tedious after 4, and sometimes there isn’t even a fleet forming up that day. Albion online I find a similar issue with. I don’t really care about solo PvP either.

    Can’t really say Linux has shaped what I play that much as I have pretty much always been using it since I was making choices of what game to play beyond being limited to the games my dad had bought CDs for.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    I’ve sadly found myself lamenting the fact that a lot of my favorite genres are tragically underrepresented on Linux. I still gotta keep my Switch, and buy a Switch 2, for some of those games.

      • missingno@fedia.io
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        4 days ago

        Fighting games
        Arcade/versus puzzle games (but the genre as a whole is dead on every platform, not just Linux)
        JRPGs
        Rhythm games

        • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Ahh, yea. Fighting like SF or MK is a tough one for sure.

          Although some might be web-based and not necessarily native to Linux, Itch.io does have a large pool of jRPGs, and the RPGMaker communities have a lot of hidden gems, as well. Might be worth a shot, but there will obviously be some less-than-interesting ones along the way, too. They can’t all be zingers.

          There’s one fairly big rhythm game for Linux that I can’t for the life of me remember. I’ll try to find it and link, but I think it was posted on Lemmy not too long ago. There’s also Clone Hero that might be of interest if you have guitar controllers.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          3 days ago

          I mean, I get not having a particular loved series in the genre or having older games, but I don’t know about being underrepresented as a whole. There’s a lot of stuff on Steam.

          Like, okay, take fighting games.

          Assuming that this list is indeed a complete list of Switch fighting games:

          https://www.nintendolife.com/games/browse?system=nintendo-switch&genre=fighting

          Then there are 75 fighting games for the Switch.

          There are 2,230 games tagged with “Fighting” on Steam.

          EDIT: In fairness, some of the stuff tagged as “Fighting” on Steam extends beyond what I’d call the fighting game genre, includes stuff like beat-em-ups, but that’s still only partially offsetting the numbers there.