Favorite Ubuntu games.

[undecim]

I've set up an HTPC system for my family with Kubuntu.

One of the things they like the most about it is the games. They don't have to find a CD and stick it into a console, just choose the game, and grab a keyboard/mouse/remote and start playing.

But now they would like to see some more games. I was looking through the games in the repos and there are a lot of them.

I need some suggestions. What are some of your favorite Ubuntu games?

I've got Wormux, Tux Racer, Chromium-bsu, and sdl-ball so far.

[Kdar]

What are specs of your HTPC? I am planning to build one really soon too.

You want just some simple games?
I love Wesnoth, I am not sure if it really fit to be played on HTPC.

[sudoer541]

I like world of goo and super tux

[Kdar]

I like world of goo and super tux

+1
I enjoyed playing those too. Especially super tux.

[undecim]

What are specs of your HTPC? I am planning to build one really soon too.

You want just some simple games?
I love Wesnoth, I am not sure if it really fit to be played on HTPC.

core 2 quad @ 2.5 Ghz, 4GB Ram, onboard intel graphics (seem like pretty great graphics for onboard intel, actually), Gigabit ethernet, 320GB sata for /, 1TB sata raid 1 for /home

I love Wesnoth! Don't know why I haven't added it yet. Also adding globulation 2.

The games don't necessarily have to be "simple", just fun.

[Matthewthegreat]

I really like grappling hook!

[portets]

get supertuxkart! it's like mario kart and you can use items on other players too.

it's a perfect family game

[Directive 4]

enemy lines 3

[Austin25]

supertux2

[NightwishFan]

I play Frozen Bubble, I made a review of it here:
http://linuxadventures.net/reviews/bubble.html

I also play Urban Terror, I go by the name 25or6to4, if I have fragged you, sorry! Please enjoy.
http://www.urbanterror.info/news/home/

[Goldwolferadior]

Here are my suggestions:

If you want something that has insane graphics, is slightly complex, and is crazy fun, then I would suggest trying out the Spring engine with its mods. You can check it out with this link right here (http://springrts.com/).

Also, Wesnoth is really good as well. I have played it, and enjoyed it quite a bit.

If you like combat flight simulators, gl-117 is the game for you. The graphics are well done for flight simulators I have played. Not only that, but the dogfights are really good, as you only have so many missiles so you have to resort to cannon.

[Noraphalem]

1. Super Tux Kart

2. The Battle For Wesnoth

3. Widelands

4. Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe

[efikkan]

* OpenTTD
* Hedgewars (http://www.hedgewars.org/) (better than Wormux)
* Extreme Tux Racer

[Cygnia]

Similar to SuperTux is Secret Maryo Chronicles. I play that every day.

Also Solarwolf is a cool arcade game.

For a fun puzzle game try Enigma.

[Sealbhach]

The games I've tried that I enjoyed the most:

OpenTTD
Sauerbraten
Urban Terror
Vendetta Online


.

[aarenlainey]

1. Super Tux Kart

2. The Battle For Wesnoth

3. Widelands

4. Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe

Also Solarwolf is a cool arcade game.

For a fun puzzle game try Enigma.

[_h_]

Mmmm...

AssaultCube
UrbanTerror
Nexuiz
Sauerbraten
The Battle for Wesnoth
FreeCol


More to be added later. ;P

[l.billon]

OpenTTD, Gtetrinet and Slime volley are a lot of fun when played with friends!

[MorleyPotter]

Have you tried open arena? It's in the software channel - very similar to quake 3.

[Diogo Falcomer]

LoL

I am a hardcore player! hehe

I'm play World of warcraft in my ubuntu!!

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

The Babylon Project.
Sauerbraten

however, as wine has broken (and purging didnt work) so thinking of installing XP in virtual box.

therefore I can use XP for the odd game and music encoding (sony & FLAC...) whilst keeping a proper OS for everything else

[Krang the Brain]

Nobody got any B.A.L.L.Z. around here?!

[Georgia boy]

I like Frozen Bubble, Open Arena, SuperTux, Geweled, Pacman. There's another one but my mind went blank and I'm not at my computer to look at my games to see which one it is.

[williswalteris]

The Battle For Wesnoth
Vega Strike
Open Arena

Good Stuff :)

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

I've not been able to get vega strike or free orion to work. even using synaptic it does nothing.

[LaurenJadeTaylor]

hi friends

these are the Favorite Ubuntu games :-

Battle for Wesnoth
Beneath a Steel Sky
Bos Wars
Chromium
Epiphany
Extreme Tux Racer
Flight Gear

[MrDevilHand]

Mine are:
(strictly NOT in order)

- Urban Terror
- Mine (LoL)

I'm trying to play Battle for Wesnoth, but I can't figure out how to use the mouse (I know it's a bit strange xD) and I'll try the Spring Engine (since I heard good things about it).

I enjoy also playing with the Visual Boy Advance emulator and I'm trying to understand how to play with Age of Empires I with Wine...

[hackb0y294]

Wolfenstein (http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/) sounds cool; I haven't tried it yet though.

[PC_load_letter]

Have you tried open arena? It's in the software channel - very similar to quake 3.

I'd have to say used to be addicted to OpenArena, great FPS game, but then came Blood Frontier :D:D:D this game is so sick and so awesome, I haven't touched OpenArena in a month.

[peteraugusts]

There are lots of games, I have played open arena. My favorite ones are eboard, pychess or xboard.

[tattooeddoll]

Hex-A-Hop is a favourite in my house.

[Wardje]

Most definitely Assault Cube, great lightweight FPS

[Tux118]

Freeciv has always been one of my favorites. It is installable with add/remove software.

[namluc]

I quite like ufoai, a remake of ufo enemy unknown, x-com. the svn version is much more up to date than the one on playdeb.

[sakuramboo]

Vedetta Online
Warzone2100
Violetland
Shadowgrounds: Survivor

and Savage2 every now and then.

[FreezWay]

Tremulous!!!!!!

[tica vun]

I'm not much of a gamer, but these three pass the time well enough.

Chromium-bsu (apt://chromium-bsu)
Teeworlds (apt://teeworlds)
Barrage (apt://barrage)

Now in apt-url for single-click install. Does this work for everyone?

[ikacer]

This has already been discussed ad nauseam, so here, let me google that for you (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+ubuntu+games).

[EmmaMadeleineMcDonald]

Tremulous

Gridwars

VDrift

World of Padman

Nexuiz

Scorched 3D

Glest

[Sealbhach]

I've just started playing Regnum Online (a free MMORPG). I'm loving it, spending hours and hours on it.:)

.

[kaboyish]

Sauerbraten has to be one of my favourites

[sunu mishra]

guys some action game suggestion please.:)
i'm new to linux
i want something equivalent to cs,igi or cod
thanks

[joshthechamp14]

Try bzflag
very fun game

[merchantofsoul]

guys some action game suggestion please.:)
i'm new to linux
i want something equivalent to cs,igi or cod
thanks

Urban Terror sounds right up your alley:

http://www.urbanterror.info

[peterbndrs]

Here it is discussed about grappling hook and super tux. Super tux more I like to get off 9 enemies across 26 levels

[jv2112]

Regnum :guitar:

[Romanrp]

smokinguns is great
It's a western themed FPS with great graphics and fun gameplay.
edit: And I must not forget hedgewars,very fun

[Chame_Wizard]

AlienArena and Nexuiz.:P

[lessmemorelove]

1. Hedgewars

2. Galcon Fusion

3. World of Goo

4. Wine to install some Windows Favs

[Daniel0108]

My favorite games are:
- Wormux (This is a Worms like game :D You can play as Firefox or GNU ;) It's really great fun :))
- I think that Secret Maryo Chronicles is lol, cause it's like Super Mario xD
- Glest (It's cool because it's 3D)
- Tux Racer

I will test Wesnoth now :) Is anyone here who knows it? Is it good?

Greets,
Daniel

[NightwishFan]

Wesnoth is great, really professional feeling.

[Daniel0108]

Oh, cool!
I'm downloading it :D
EDIT: I downloaded it and its really cool :D
Thanks,
Daniel

[rcktsingh]

Sauerbraten has to be one of my favourites

+1. I play it on a daily basis :)

[Mitchell Hale]

Urban Terror (http://www.urbanterror.info/news/home/) -Realistic FPS

Tremulous (http://tremulous.net/) -FPS/RTS with really cool alien team

Sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/) -FPS with built in map editor

Warsow (http://www.warsow.net/) -Fast paced FPS

Warzone 2100 (http://wz2100.net/) -Starcraft-like RTS

[monymirza]

Tekken 6 and

Need for Speed

Metal Slug

The house of death

[NRDNick]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - The best team based FSP game I've ever played. I play and administer on Whosgaming.com, come frag Ubuntu gamers!

[e-Gee]

Urban Terror, World of goo, Go olie !!

[laurief]

- Battle for Wesnoth (turn based strategy game)
- Oolite (remake of the the greatest space simulator game ever)
- FreedroidRPG but I cant get to it after the last distro-upgrade
- Angband, TOME and other rogue-likes

there is also a big number of addicting shooting games :)

[mordak13]

I'm loving UFO: Alien Invasion. It's very similar to the old X-COM UFO Defense game I loved back in the day. Turn based strategy and micro managing. And FreeCol is like the old Colonization game from the 90's.

[laurief]

I'm loving UFO: Alien Invasion. It's very similar to the old X-COM UFO Defense game I loved back in the day. Turn based strategy and micro managing. And FreeCol is like the old Colonization game from the 90's.

aaa UFOai!!!
I knew I was missing somthing ](*,)

UfO enemy unknown was a big love of mine (amiga times)
AWESOME game!!

[DangerOnTheRanger]

1. SuperTuxKart(love the music)

2. Extreme Tux Racer(idea of racing a penguin down a mountainside appeals to me :))

3. SuperTux(especially the SVN version)

4. Frozen Bubble(fast and furious action in multiplayer mode)

5. gl-117(I am deadly with airplane simulators! :twisted:)

[ilovelinux33467]

For me its nexuiz. I just find that game sooooooo addicting!!! :)

[samshamolian]

There are thousands of games out there which are free software and will run natively on Ubuntu, and many Windows games can be run using an emulator. There are even emulators available for classic games consoles. Whether you enjoy card games or shoot 'em ups, there's something for everyone.



Savage 2 (http://www.squidoo.com/linuxgames#module9779294)
Alien Arena (http://www.squidoo.com/linuxgames#module9779296)
What's you favourite Ubuntu Books? (http://www.squidoo.com/linuxgames#module9388729)
Excalibur: Morgana%u2019s Revenge v3.0 (http://www.squidoo.com/linuxgames#module9779293)
Vendetta (http://www.squidoo.com/linuxgames#module9388723)

[TheStroj]

Wormux is the best :D

[StreetlightManifesto]

Would any of these games listed above work well on an Acer Aspire One?

I tried the TuxRacer (the snow one) and the FPS was fairly low. Unplayable and not fun in my opinion (though I'm sure it'd be fun if the computer could run it). Any suggested games for Acer Aspire One that wouldn't lag too much?

[5dolla]

free orion!

[robinhoods]

The Linux games are hugely popular and that's not just because they are free, its also because a developer can take a great game and make it even better.

I am sharing some popular games which are played most.


1. Alien Arena 2008


2. Warzone 2100


3. Tremulous


4. Nexuiz


5. Sauerbraten


6. RACER: The Real Deal


7. True Combat: Elite


8. Super Tux


9. Glest


10. Spring

[Rustybolts]

Free ones
1. Battle for Wesnoth
2. Wing Commander Gemini Gold ( toss-up between this and Oolite)
3. Astro Menace
4. UFO Alien Invasion
5 Warzone 2100

Commercial Indie
1. Penumbra (full series)
2. World of Goo
3. Eschalon Book 1
4. Caster (still waiting for second episode though)
5. Lugaru (was disappointed at first but turned out to be really addictive)

Comercial
1. UT 2004 (own Doom 3 on steam but doubt will be able to run it using current linux graphics drivers)
2. Serious Sam 2
3. Serious Sam 1
4. Quake 1 + 2
5. Duke 3d

[Ozymandias_117]

edit: I tried it some more, and it's not any good. :P

[asqn34]

Pain to install but has to be flight gear2.

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

World of goo gets a thumbs up from me,

and StreetlightManifesto, I got that running on my aspire one, (150l) had it connected to the TV as well (I'll have to test if the acer will go to full HD, something for tomorrow.)

[nicoverbking]

My recommendations:


Battle for Wesnoth (strategy)
Nexuiz (FPS)
Sauerbraten (FPS)


Especially Wesnoth can be quite addictive! It's one of my favorite games!

[ucal]

Mine are:
(strictly NOT in order)

- Urban Terror
- Mine (LoL)

I'm trying to play Battle for Wesnoth, but I can't figure out how to use the mouse (I know it's a bit strange xD) and I'll try the Spring Engine (since I heard good things about it).

I enjoy also playing with the Visual Boy Advance emulator and I'm trying to understand how to play with Age of Empires I with Wine...

Okay, this is sort of grasping at straws, but by LoL do you mean League of Legends, and if so how did you get it working in linux? I heard wine wasn't doing too well with it.

[rizzeh]

Hive Rise is a neat RTS:http://www.hiverise.com/

OpenTTd and Warsow rock too :guitar:

[ecchis]

nexuiz (FPS)

urban terror (FPS)

i wan try wolfenstein but... playdeb still have problems :(

[Raffles10]

Fun games for Linux

FPS:
Assault Cube
Blood Frontier
Urban Terror

RTS:
Warzone 2100
Glest
Wesnoth

[XanII]

Is there anywhere a list and maybe reviews or even screenshots of games that you can get from Ubuntu software center?.

Found some real gems there like B.A.L.L.Z and this allegator game that is in hilarious retro monochrome colors. But it is taking too long to wade through all the games as there are loads of them. I could really use some help from interneeeetsssz. :)

[Rustybolts]

Is there anywhere a list and maybe reviews or even screenshots of games that you can get from Ubuntu software center?.

Found some real gems there like B.A.L.L.Z and this allegator game that is in hilarious retro monochrome colors. But it is taking too long to wade through all the games as there are loads of them. I could really use some help from interneeeetsssz. :)
Use google with any of the suggestions above :confused: