What's your favourite game on Linux?

[Sunnz]

I am in need of good games (preferably 3D and in Ubuntu6.10 repo, and maybe racing games... and no not Tux.)

Basically I am building a computer for a elder relative who wants to do casual web/email/office and a little gaming... without tell them that I am putting something other than Windows on it!!!

[finferflu]

You could give a look at www.happypenguin.org, it's a portal for Linux games, both free and commercial, with reviews, rating, and obviously they're sorted by category.

Good luck!

By the way, I know it's not a racing game, but I really suggest you to try out The Battle for Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org), it's a masterpiece of GPL games. Worth trying!

[matthew]

You might take a look at Trigger.

[fuscia]

golf solitaire (the kpat version) with gnome mahjongg a close second.

[mindtrick]

Neverball and Neverputt
LBreakout
Frozen Bubble
Foobillard

Racing games
Vdrift
Torcs

Check out http://gaming.gwos.org/

[weatherman]

wesnoth, kpat

[Sunnz]

You might take a look at Trigger.
I love to see it but their site is down so I can't even get any screenshot of it?

[matthew]

I love to see it but their site is down so I can't even get any screenshot of it?Hmm...it sure is. Give it an hour or even a day and see if it comes back up I guess...or you could just install it and play around for a bit if you like. It's in the Ubuntu repos.

[BarfBag]

Battle for Wesnoth. I have a Windows partition full of cool games like Halo, CS, Half-Life 2, etc. and I play Wesnoth over them! Frozen Bubble is also good.

[mand0]

It's in the Ubuntu repos.

Seriously.

Just look in the games section of 'add/remove' and you'll find so many. It's fun to experiment with them. :mrgreen:

[Hex_Mandos]

Tremulous

[Klaidas]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Linux#Gaming

[Phatfiddler]

The hit game "make install"

ubergamer@comp:~$ make install
Cannot find file please install file.
ubergamer@comp:~$ sudo apt-get install file
ubergamer@comp:~$ make install
Cannot find other file please install other file.
ubergamer@comp:~$ sudo apt-get install other file
ubergamer@comp:~$ make install
Cannot find other other file please install.
ubergamer@comp:~$ ...
bash: ...: command not found
ubergamer@comp:~$ kolf

[sloggerkhan]

Enemy Territory, Armagetron are my linux favorites. (For 3-D games)

[sailingboarder]

def Supertux

just downloaded it and i think i'm already in love
nothing beats penguins

[Blondie]

Happypenguin.org has a list of Linux games sorted by average user rating here (http://www.happypenguin.org/list?sort=avg_rating). I would start at the highest rated and cast your eye down the list from there to see what tickles your fancy.

[K.Mandla]

Armagetron Advanced, Wolfenstein ET, Neverwinter Nights, Serious Sam, Battle for Wesnoth, TORCS, VICE, Foobillard, Glest, Cube/Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, Tremulous, Alien Arena (which makes me laugh), Vendetta Online, FreeCiv, LinCity-NG ...

Not all of those are 3D, not all are in the repos, and not all are racing games ... but they're the ones I keep coming back to.

[PatrickMay16]

Unreal Tournament 2003 is my favorite game on linux.

[Sunnz]

Thanks guys, I have installed some apps from the repo, tried them out, I think my friend is going to like them!!

However, none of the 3D racing game really worked. I tried Torc, Vdrift, and Trigger - even when I change the settings to the lowest possible, it is still lagging so much that it is unplayable. I have installed nVidia (non-beta) driver with 3D Direct enabled.

Also, LXDoom did not work, it said that it is missing something when I try to run it from the cli.

[mahy]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory!

[amgeex]

Enemy Territory and its addon, True Combat: Elite

I'm currently installing Tremulous via synaptic, I'll post back after playing it!

[max.diems]

Configure wine to let me play this Windows game. :)

[ihatethedekoys]

mednafen + gba roms

snes9x + snes roms

For games that I own, of course.

[dolny]

http://www.ufoai.net

http://alts.homelinux.net/shots/334-0-thumb.jpg

Inspired by UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM.
Doesn't get better than that ;)

[Mateo]

Neverball

[jeffc313]

FretsOnFire, its a free open source clone of guitar hero

[~LoKe]

Enemy Territory. There is no other.

[Mateo]

i also really like GLTron, it really updates the classic game well.