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What are your go-to native games for Arch Linux or any other Linux distro? edit:- It should be free.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

I don't know of any native Linux games that are specifically for Arch Linux. Your favourite distro is a bit of a red herring.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Package manager or game??

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Is their anything similar my goal is to have em free..

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You can pirate 'em if you're that short on cash. Most of them don't cost too much more than €20. 0 AD is entirely free, along with all of the Super Tux games.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Plese guide me on pirating them on linux. I dont want to opt for wine( its a headache on my system). Also i am from Pakistan so buying is a big no no..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

-Find pirating site (I don't really know any lol)
-Download Linux executable (FTL.x86_64)
-Maybe find a way to somehow sandbox it in case that it contains malware
-Enjoy!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Well I almost know all such sites but I dont think any of them offer linux executables..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I am biased as I have 1400 hours in the game but there is the demo you can try to see if it is to your liking

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
  • Dwarf Fortress - colony sim
  • CDDA - rougelike
  • FreeDoom - Doom port, compatible with most mods
  • Lugaru - ninja rabbit fighting
  • Minetest - minecraft clone
  • Super Tux Kart - racing game
  • Daggerfall Unity - rpg
  • Pathos - nethack clone rougelike
  • Endless Sky - space sim
  • Hedgewars - worms like game with hedgehogs
  • Battle for Wesnoth - strategy
  • ColoBot - programming puzzle game/rts
  • OpenTTD - transport tycoon
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon - rougelike
  • Mindustry - like factorio but more tower defense
  • 0.A.D - rts

these are the ones i've tried

oh and keep an eye out for Kitten Space Agency

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

How's CDDA these days? I jumped ship to CTLG instead and haven't been keeping up with DDA

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Battle for Wesnoth

0 AD

Widelands

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I used to play BfW a lot, I should try that again

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

rimworld, project zomboid, starsector...

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I started playing stardew Valley recently, great game and manages to run even on my 12 year old laptop

[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Free: Battle for Wesnoth is really great, I haven't played it in a long time but it was already great like 10-15 years ago so it's probably even better today, Nethack (if you don't mind the starting difficulty and the "graphics") is also great, VERY complex gameplay but very rewarding if you know it fairly well. Also saw a video of Xonotic today, looks also really good if you're into fast multiplayer arena shooters (Quake-like). Heard positive things about 0 AD as well (Age of Empires-like). All of these are open source and in the extra repository on Arch.

Non-free but really cheap: Stardew Valley is probably great, I've never played it and it doesn't look like my cup of tea but I've only heard positive things plus it's like #1 or #2 rated on Steam, so it must be really good.

Non-free: Stellaris (got into it recently, great game and well-maintained Linux client (not at all common), much better than I expected, VERY complex and content-rich, quite expensive when you want all DLCs. It's like a live service game, you'll pay quite a bit if you want everything, but you also get tons of content). Also, Alien Isolation is one of my favorite single player horror games of all time and it also has a Linux client (which was a surprise for me) but that one is probably outdated and not maintained anymore by now I'd guess (but didn't look it up) so it might be better to play the Windows client via Proton. I'm not up to date on that though - look it up. Oh, and POOLS also has a Linux client, that's a great small walking simulator, "Backrooms"-like, very atmospheric and great visual design.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

FTL is great. It'll probably run on a toaster. I've also heard that it has a bajillion great mods to play if you get tired of the base game

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You could try searching Archive.Org for Linux native games

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Red Eclipse and endless sky

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