What are your go-to native games for Arch Linux or any other Linux distro?
pacman?
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What are your go-to native games for Arch Linux or any other Linux distro?
pacman?
Package manager or game??
Factorio.
Is their anything similar my goal is to have em free…
Try Mindustry: mindustrygame.github.io
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.
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
Battle for Wesnoth
0 AD
Widelands
I used to play BfW a lot, I should try that again
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
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How’s CDDA these days? I jumped ship to CTLG instead and haven’t been keeping up with DDA
rimworld, project zomboid, starsector…
Stardew Valley
I started playing stardew Valley recently, great game and manages to run even on my 12 year old laptop
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, native and well-maintained Linux client (not at all common), much better than I expected, VERY complex and content-rich but still not that hard to grasp, 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.
FTL is great. It’ll probably run on a toaster.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Doom
Red Eclipse and endless sky
who@feddit.org 10 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.