Are There PC Games for Linux?

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jmcomps · Post by **jmcomps** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:54 am

Is there any Game that Linux can run???
Most games nowadays run in microsoft platform..
I don't even know any game that can run in Linux platform..

iopi · Post by **iopi** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:18 am

well counterstrike works excellently through wine

warcraft 3 toc/ft
starcraft
baldurs gate 2

also play very well under wine

if you are talking about native games there are several: http://games.linux.sk/ (quick google popped this up)

newer commercial games you may have some luck with running through wine/cedega--however imo the best for those would be to dual boot and just run those on m$ while doing everything else on linux

what types of games are you looking for exactly?

btw: just pulled these up as well
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/
http://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page
http://linux.strangegamer.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

hope this helps

arathalion · Post by **arathalion** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:34 am

id games?

baaann · Post by **baaann** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:39 am

fps ebuilds in portage
http://pebuilds.peschke.us/games-fps

Quake Wars only has demo in portage but there is an ebuild on Bugzilla that is referenced in this thread
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-60 ... quake.html

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:43 am

Neverwinter nights has also a native client for linux.

Nwn2, oblivion, morrowind and lots of others can be run under wine on linux.

You can also take a look at the winedb:

http://appdb.winehq.org/

Also, take a look at the portage tree, under /usr/portage/games-*/. There are lots of stuff in there.

TravisBy · Post by **TravisBy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:48 am

It depends what genre you're looking for. There are a lot of *NIX games, and even more a lot of open source *NIX games [however, more are closed].

If you can name the genre I'm sure there'll be a lot from it.

And I can personally speak for War3/TFT working well in wine ^.^

From the top of my head before I head off to school:

MMO: Regnum Online
FPS:
1. Counter-Strike Clone: Assault Cube, enemy territory [+ mods]
2. Quake-Based: Nexuiz, Tremulous, Quake, Alien [something], and a lot, lot more.
3. Unreal tournament, Cold War
Flight Sim: Flightgears, Gl-117, Thunder&Lightning, and some other game I can't remember the name to :/
Stealth: Cold War

Those are all I can remember with corresponding categories that have native *NIX executables that aren't Tetris/Battleship clones and the like.

drescherjm · Post by **drescherjm** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:25 pm

Look at portage. There are quite a few games in portage and all of them are linux games.

http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/

murray · Post by **murray** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:30 pm

some other commercial games:

http://linuxgamepublishing.com/

you can get them directly from lgp or from other resellers like tuxgames.com

AllenJB · Post by **AllenJB** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:00 am

Everything by the last of the bedroom programmers (DefCon, Uplink, Darwinia + more on the way!)

Also check icculus' site. There's also the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe via OpenTTD and Eve Online (from what I've heard it basically runs in Wine or a variant there of, but atleast they're marketing it as being linux compatible).

Philluminati · Post by **Philluminati** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:51 am

call of duty 2 and 4 run in Linux under wine

samuel.penn · Post by **samuel.penn** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:43 pm

The Elite-like space shooter Vendetta Online http://www.vendetta-online.com/ has native Linux binaries for x86 and AMD64, and even has an ebuild, vendetta-online-bin

downer · Post by **downer** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:03 pm

samuel.penn wrote:The Elite-like space shooter Vendetta Online http://www.vendetta-online.com/ has native Linux binaries for x86 and AMD64, and even has an ebuild, vendetta-online-bin

whoa, never heard of this one, thanks for the tip!
/me <3 elite 2: frontier

//D

GODhack · Post by **GODhack** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:46 pm

Some games:
http://www.boswars.org/ - The best RTS.
http://www.warsow.net/ - The best free shoter.
http://www.idsoftware.com/ - The best non free games.

All in my opinion.

Dugan · Post by **Dugan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:07 am

Some recent scene overviews:

http://www.linux-gamers.net/smartsectio ... oters.html
http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/16/li ... -shooters/
http://rangit.com/software/top-8-linux-games-of-2007/
http://www.7pas.com/software/top-25-lin ... s-for-2008

And I've enjoyed the following commercial games, which work perfectly under Wine:

http://www.eetsgame.com/
http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/

Eragon2890 · Post by **Eragon2890** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:05 pm

Savage 1 is a great, free, fantasy game that's an combination of an rts and an fps.

www.newerth.com (I don't know if it's in portage, because I am using ubuntu, but you can download the full version from there. Just unzip it, and play)

Oh and it's closed-source, in case anybody cares, I don't

Northland is a fun commercial RTS game with vikings, costs 44$ at www.tuxgames.com.

I can recommend it

Cyker · Post by **Cyker** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:57 pm

I'll also take this opportunity to pimp the Freespace 2 SCP - Goto www.hard-light.net now!

I highly recommend some of the TCs (Total Conversions) like Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line, and Babylon 5.