Cool games you play that others might not know of

[wootah]

In light of the "Cool applications you use that others might not know of (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=382137)" post by IYY, I thought it would be interesting to see what the effect would be if we talked about Linux games instead! So, I copy and pasted his exact thread, but changed it to games instead! Let's hope I don't irritate anyone with this move :popcorn:

Thus:

Cool games you play that others might not know of
Here are the rules:


No commonly used games: This means, no Tuxracer, Frozen Bubble, etc.
-Games must be in the repositories (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Gutsy, Hardy repos are all fine).- (Strike out)

Games can be from anywhere available as a .deb, .tar, through svn, git, etc

Games must be fun or additive!
No browser based games (ie: flash games, etc)


So to start things off, I was a on a thread and someone mentioned xmoto. I remember playing a game in Windows called Elastomania that has a very similar feeling and I was wicked addicted to that game :) Anyways, in this game you play as a guy on a motorbike and you have to navigate a course in a time-trial based style. Sometimes you have to collect objects and then hit an exit point, or just find and make it to the exit point.

Let's see where this thread goes :)

EDIT: Removed the games must be in the repositories rule. Should have been paying attention lol.

[onlineapps]

PokerTH. One of the greatest Texas Hold 'Em games ever.

[Frak]

Tremulous (apt:tremulous)- A first person FPS/RTS that takes place in a world where Humans are constantly fending off Aliens via the means of direct combat or the ability of a special called the Construction Kit, or the more advanced, Adv. Construction Kit to indirectly create a barrier against the opposing force. The humans later have the ability to build a Defence Computer (DCOM) which allows them to have smarter turrets or build electrifying teslas.

Also, on the reverse. Aliens are trying to defeat the Humans so they can have a world to themselves. With creatures like the dretch, which automatically attacks humans on impact, the Basilisk, a spider like creature that holds the ability to expel poisonous gas to its victim, all the way up to the Tyrant, which is the no-holds destruction being.
On the building side, the Granger is the keeper of the Aliens. It has the ability to build structures to protect the base, or use the Alien advantage of being able to build away from base early in-game to flank the opposing forces.

I play this game nearly everyday and try to help in the development as much as I can.

[zmjjmz]

GL-117.
It's an amazing Combat Flight sim.
And Airstrike. It's a 2D flight thingie with WWI style planes.
Slingshot too, but that's not in the repos.

[onlineapps]

GL-117.
It's an amazing Combat Flight sim.
And Airstrike. It's a 2D flight thingie with WWI style planes.
Slingshot too, but that's not in the repos.

GL-117 is loads of fun!

[bobdob20]

Tetris-bsd is good fun. Its part of the bsdgames package.

[Takmadeus]

liquidwar, it is a fun "strategy" game where you command an army of tiny units that try to absorb and assimilate the other player's units, it is a weird game but it is very addictig and fun, problem is that it has horrible graphics :( :p

yet it is a great game

[seventhc]

deleted
reason: at the time of posting, I didn't know they had to be in the repos.
That line from the OP is grey and doesn't stand out to much.

[YaroMan86]

Pioneers, that fun little Settlers of Cataan clone.

[PrimoTurbo]

I play a game called Action Quake2, it's a mod for Quake2 but is available as standalone.

http://action.telefragged.com/ (Has not been updated in years).


Action Quake 2 (aka AQ2, Action, Action Quake) was a popular mod for the computer game Quake II. Although it was originally released in 1998, it still has a small player base with active servers on several continents as of 2008. AQ2 was developed to recreate the look and feel of an action movie, having a fast pace and a semi-realistic damage system. It features many maps recreating realistic settings, such as city streets and office buildings, with a balanced range of weapons and equipment inspired by action movies. This action movie concept is emphasized by the tagline "All the fun and speed of your favorite action movie, without the cost of a ticket!!"

from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Quake_2

Here is an example of gameplay - http://youtube.com/watch?v=XqYkEyAhcAg

You can download a standalone client and use XFQ to find servers below:
You can probally run it through native Quake2 (Quake2 is in repos but you need default media) if you download all the components from original site, but I suggest to use wine to run it, runs very well.
http://axion2008.epicfail.us/

Screenshots:
http://axion2008.epicfail.us/quake000.JPG
http://axion2008.epicfail.us/quake001.JPG
http://axion2008.epicfail.us/quake002.JPG

[kevin11951]

Tremulous (apt:tremulous)- A first person FPS/RTS that takes place in a world where Humans are constantly fending off Aliens via the means of direct combat or the ability of a special called the Construction Kit, or the more advanced, Adv. Construction Kit to indirectly create a barrier against the opposing force. The humans later have the ability to build a Defence Computer (DCOM) which allows them to have smarter turrets or build electrifying teslas.

Also, on the reverse. Aliens are trying to defeat the Humans so they can have a world to themselves. With creatures like the dretch, which automatically attacks humans on impact, the Basilisk, a spider like creature that holds the ability to expel poisonous gas to its victim, all the way up to the Tyrant, which is the no-holds destruction being.
On the building side, the Granger is the keeper of the Aliens. It has the ability to build structures to protect the base, or use the Alien advantage of being able to build away from base early in-game to flank the opposing forces.

I play this game nearly everyday and try to help in the development as much as I can.

That game actually brought me to Linux 2+ some years ago... i know its on windows, but something about tremulous + Ubuntu = something good...

[barbedsaber]

assault cube, realistic looking modern first person shooter.
It is really simple (you cant even crouch) but it is a lot of fun.
http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:a:assaultcube (follow the 64 bit instillation guide it you are stuck, it works fine in 32 bit as well)

[etnlIcarus]

Scorched 3D.

Might be commonly known about, I'm not sure but it's a cool 3D worms game, regardless.

[afderrick]

Urban Terror, it's a FPS game, lots of people always on. Like counter strike style of game. Not in the repos, but a pretty easy download from their site.

[onlineapps]

Urban Terror, it's a FPS game, lots of people always on. Like counter strike style of game. Not in the repos, but a pretty easy download from their site.

Actually, there is a Debian package for it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=747587

[TomMK]

neverball - simple, huge enjoyable and quite professional-feeling.

[quanumphaze]

You can download a standalone client and use XFQ to find servers below:
You can probally run it through native Quake2 (Quake2 is in repos but you need default media) if you download all the components from original site, but I suggest to use wine to run it, runs very well.


The "quake2-data" package just copies the data files off of the CD. It doesn't include the binaries for the engine. There doesn't seem to be a quake2 package in the hardy repos. After failing to run the official binaries and compiling it my self I just used Wine, 100% working.

I don't think anyone mentioned Alien Arena, a multiplayer FPS using quake3 engine. In the repos.

[Frak]

That game actually brought me to Linux 2+ some years ago... i know its on windows, but something about tremulous + Ubuntu = something good...
+ compiling your own 755 or Trunk SVN client feels awsomely amazing too :D

[atomkarinca]

Beyond the Red Line (http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/). It feels good to kill some frakkin' toasters every now and then.

[etnlIcarus]

Beyond the Red Line (http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/). It feels good to kill some frakkin' toasters every now and then.
I believe I just had a nerdgasm. As soon as I change my pants, I'm downloading this.

Thankyou, good sir!

[MaximB]

In light of the "Cool applications you use that others might not know of (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=382137)" post by IYY, I thought it would be interesting to see what the effect would be if we talked about Linux games instead! So, I copy and pasted his exact thread, but changed it to games instead! Let's hope I don't irritate anyone with this move :popcorn:

Thus:

Cool games you play that others might not know of
Here are the rules:


No commonly used games: This means, no Tuxracer, Frozen Bubble, etc.
Games must be in the repositories (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Gutsy, Hardy repos are all fine).
Games must be fun or additive!
No browser based games (ie: flash games, etc)


So to start things off, I was a on a thread and someone mentioned xmoto. I remember playing a game in Windows called Elastomania that has a very similar feeling and I was wicked addicted to that game :) Anyways, in this game you play as a guy on a motorbike and you have to navigate a course in a time-trial based style. Sometimes you have to collect objects and then hit an exit point, or just find and make it to the exit point.

Let's see where this thread goes :)

I don't like those rules so much...

Games must be in the repositories ?! why ???
If they are in the repros they are fairly known.
But if you take a game like "clock rage" which isn't in the repros , it is a very well made game, it runs naively on Linux and it is not very well known.
there are many other games like that...
The repros are big but they are limited and miss many not very well known games.

Take a loot at my thread here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700222

[atomkarinca]

I believe I just had a nerdgasm. As soon as I change my pants, I'm downloading this.

Thankyou, good sir!

You are utterly and totally welcome :)

[Frak]

Beyond the Red Line (http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/). It feels good to kill some frakkin' toasters every now and then.
Meh, until they fix some usability bugs, this won't go far fast.

4/10

I have no idea why all of your weapons are nerfed to tickle mode and the controls are just sooo frakkin touchy.

Also, where did the missiles go? I was taught how to use them, but for some reason they don't equip you with them?

[etnlIcarus]

I couldn't get it working. Would crash the moment I tried to go to a briefing.

[ad_267]

Nexuiz.

Awesome graphics and gameplay.

Oh yeah and Vegastrike. The version in the repos is old though, I use the svn.

[Lostincyberspace]

I like dopewars (yes it's in the repositories).

[golgo13]

I don't like those rules so much...

Games must be in the repositories ?! why ???
If they are in the repros they are fairly known.
But if you take a game like "clock rage" which isn't in the repros , it is a very well made game, it runs naively on Linux and it is not very well known.
there are many other games like that...
The repros are big but they are limited and miss many not very well known games.

Take a loot at my thread here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700222

the thread you posted actually has less agmes mentioned than this one....
but as you started it maybe you think its got better rules
why???

[Tridion2000]

I agree. Can we please remove the "must be in the repositories" rule. I can easily look through the repos for myself and I am far more interested in finding out about games that are NOT in the repository.

[Sealbhach]

I agree. Can we please remove the "must be in the repositories" rule. I can easily look through the repos for myself and I am far more interested in finding out about games that are NOT in the repository.

Rainslick Precipice of Darkness.

It's funny. I paid the $20 for the full license because they support Linux.



.

[FFighter]

Bioshock... err, I don't think it is in the repos.

GTAIV is nice too :D

Serious though, I'm not the kind of person who wastes time playing puzzle or "mini" games. If I'm to waste my time, I better waste it Hollywood-style on my XBOX 360 ;)

So, no, Linux != Games for me right now... sorry.

[Scientia]

Does anyone know of a hamsterball game.. there was one in windows and it was quite funny..

[etnlIcarus]

Does anyone know of a hamsterball game.. there was one in windows and it was quite funny..
Neverball is similar to all those Marble Madness-type games.

[wootah]

I don't like those rules so much...

Games must be in the repositories ?! why ???
If they are in the repros they are fairly known.
But if you take a game like "clock rage" which isn't in the repros , it is a very well made game, it runs naively on Linux and it is not very well known.
there are many other games like that...
The repros are big but they are limited and miss many not very well known games.

Take a loot at my thread here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700222

the thread you posted actually has less agmes mentioned than this one....
but as you started it maybe you think its got better rules
why???

Fair enough :) I just copy pasted exactly what the original poster had. I'll remove that from the first page rules.

Please post games that may not be in the repositories :)

[calraith]

Please post games that may not be in the repositories :)

w00t! OK. Regnum Online (http://regnumonline.com.ar/) is a free medieval-themed MMORPG like Evercrack or World of Warcrack with a focus on king-of-the-hill style team vs. team fortress siege and defense at higher levels.

[joninkrakow]

Fair enough :) I just copy pasted exactly what the original poster had. I'll remove that from the first page rules.

Please post games that may not be in the repositories :)

In that case, I'll Mac fanboi here. AlephOne! And the whole Marathon series of games, as well as the many total conversions and mods that you can play on this. This was Bungie's original fps, from which Halo comes. The game play is unique for a fps, and the best part is not the running around shooting bugs (which is fun), but the interaction that you have with the AIs in the game via the text computer terminals.

It's not in the repos, but there may be binaries you can install on Ubuntu. Right now, I'm playing it under Puppy. It really is a unique game experience, and I highly recommend it. I hope that the url for it is source.bungie.org... oh, heck, let me go look it up...

Yup... http://source.bungie.org

-Jon

[Linuxratty]

Mahjongg 3D

http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j25/Blueroo22/th_screenshot-001-2.jpg

[ad_267]

Mahjongg 3D

http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j25/Blueroo22/th_screenshot-001-2.jpg

Do you have a link for that? I do a search for linux mahjongg 3D and get a whole lot of different games, lots of them for Windows.

[houstonbofh]

Pingus. Lemmings for Linux, kinda... http://pingus.seul.org/ It is in the repos.

[wootah]

Pingus. Lemmings for Linux, kinda... http://pingus.seul.org/ It is in the repos.

Alright, that is freakin' cool! :)

[meborc]

Do you have a link for that? I do a search for linux mahjongg 3D and get a whole lot of different games, lots of them for Windows.

maybe this - http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=670118 ?!

not sure

[TomMK]

Jazz Jackrabbit 2

its a windows game, but it works with wine. fantastic community, its getting a little old now but its great fun.

http://www.jazz2online.com
http://jazz2.blogspot.com

[Frak]

Team Fortress 2

This game will survive like Quake still is.

Runs under wine just fine with the exception of a little slower than the Windows native running.

[days_of_ruin]

Don't know if it has been mentioned or not but,
Assault Cube!Fun online fps that anyone can play even on dialup.

[Rhubarb]

World of Padman (FPS cartoony game)
http://worldofpadman.com/

Sauerbraten (Fast FPS game)
http://sauerbraten.org/
(get it from this website, the one in the repositories is out of date)

Wormux (a worms clone)
http://www.wormux.org/
(get it from getdeb.net, the one in the repositories is more buggy and out of date)

Frozen Bubble

sudo aptitude install frozen-bubble

I'm sure there's many other really great games that I've possibly missed out on too :D

[grossaffe]

PokerTH. One of the greatest Texas Hold 'Em games ever.

I actually installed that last week. its really nice but could use a little work on the gui (there needs to be a way to get more accurate raises with using only a mouse and not taking forever)

[reyfer]

Orbital Eunuchs Sniper. It is in the repos


Orbital Eunuchs Sniper is an overhead shooting game. You (the Eunuch on the orbital laser platform) are tasked with protecting the VIPs (blue) from the terrorists (red)!

[Hells_Dark]

Pingus. Lemmings for Linux, kinda... http://pingus.seul.org/ It is in the repos.

But tooooo short.

[unutbu]

To play extra levels in pingus:
Save this script to a file called play-pingus.sh


#!/bin/sh

PINGUS_DIR=/usr/share/games/pingus/data/levels/playable

cd $PINGUS_DIR
exec >/dev/null 2>&1 # silences pingus output
f=1
while [ "$f" != "" ]
do
f="$(zenity --title="Last Level: $(cat ~/.pingus.last)" --file-selection)"
[ "$f" != "" ] && echo $(basename $f) > ~/.pingus.last
pingus $f
cd $(dirname $f)
done


Make it executable:


chmod 755 play-pingus.sh

Run it by typing


./play-pingus.sh
It will open a window from which you can select to play lots of extra pingus levels. The quality of the puzzles vary.

[Soeasy1]

Savage 2, and its free predecesor Savage, Both run on linux I beleive

http://savage2.s2games.com/download.php

http://www.notforidiots.com/SFE/

[Funk Phenomena]

I've been monkeying around with Savage 2 on the laptop. I hope it's online time that gets put towards the five hour demo limit. I've only been practicing, but it looks relatively fun.

For Penny Arcade's Rainslick Precipice, I turned off Visual Effects and then it was able to go full screen. Otherwise with compiz, it kept going back to windowed mode. Oh, and as was mentioned in another thread, if running Ubuntu 64, copy the two files in linuxlibs to /usr/lib32. Someone else mentioned this was fixed, but I couldn't get the game to run till I did that.

While I do like games with relatively good graphics, Pingus was very fun. Thanks for the tips on how to get more levels! And... thanks for this thread...

[calraith]

GGZ (http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/). It's an online card game service kind of like the MSN Gaming Zone, only open source, cross platform, and fewer trolls. It's not nearly as popular as it should be, so you might have to hang out and play Spades against the AI for a while till other people show up. Spread the word and see if we can get some tables populated.

You can play on GGZ using the java client from the website on Windows, Mac, or Linux / Unix (maybe more); or you can use the gtk or kde client in the repos. The non-java clients don't seem terribly mature, and require installing the actual game modules in addition to the games. However, download links for the game modules are proving pretty elusive to me at the moment. So just stick with the Java version for now.

[vvlist]

Gridwars 2 (http://www.getdeb.net/app/GridWars+2). A clone of a popular XBOX 360 dashboard arcade/shooter game. Enjoy. Let's keep this thread going, I loved the other apps thread.

[wootah]

Gridwars seemed to run veeeeeery slowly on my machine :( It was a lot worse than by using Windows. I would be nice if they would improve the performance?

[cardinals_fan]

Gridwars 2 (http://www.getdeb.net/app/GridWars+2). A clone of a popular XBOX 360 dashboard arcade/shooter game. Enjoy. Let's keep this thread going, I loved the other apps thread.
Works great for me :)

[wootah]

Works great for me :)
Well considering my computer is... sub-par (AMD 3000+ (single core), 1gig ram), that might be a reason. Also, my vid. card is kind of a piece of crap (ATI Radeon 9600) but at least it is fanless :).

What are your specs?

[Frak]

Well considering my computer is... sub-par (AMD 3000+ (single core), 1gig ram), that might be a reason. Also, my vid. card is kind of a piece of crap (ATI Radeon 9600) but at least it is fanless :).

What are your specs?
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz, 768MB of RAM, Geforce 6800 XT.

Runs pretty zippy.

[MaxIBoy]

Dunno if anyone's already posted this, but you should definitely try Alien Arena 2008. It's a free first-person-shooter with pure Q2 physics and a renderer more advanced than Q3. There is an Alien Arena in repositories, but it's about a year out of date.

Version 7.10 can be downloaded from here:
http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/aquire.html

But I recommend getting the subversion (currently in version 7.12,) it's already been much improved. There are SVN commits every couple of days or so!
svn://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk

[Lster]

Assaultcube.

[drawhole]

and every one forgets about warzone2100 -- RTS red alert like game but with lots and lots of research --- in repo

[floreal]

Commander Stalin

http://sourceforge.net/projects/commanderstalin/

Historical strategy game
Musics by the Red Army Choir

[vvlist]

Gridwars seemed to run veeeeeery slowly on my machine :( It was a lot worse than by using Windows. I would be nice if they would improve the performance?

I have this running full speed on an eee pc. That's 900mhz, and onboard video :) But I had to edit the config file (Config.txt) to make it run fast. Just reduce the number following "[Particle Count]". On my eee pc, I changed it to 500. You probably won't have to lower it that much for your set up. Good luck.

[vandorjw]

POST # 25 already said it... but.

NEXUIZ

[scragar]

can't belive no-ones mentioned it yet:

knetwalk
It's in the repo's, oh so very addictive, and insanly easy to learn, near impossible to master(ps, for the first 3 difficulties start outside working in, on the hardest start inside going out).

[Frak]

It was states earlier, but its still such a great game.

Tremulous

1.2 is due soon, and it rumours to include features from Xreal. If you don't know what that is, its a needed update to ioquake3 to include what is now trivial things such as shadows.

Remember, update your client. Newer clients have much faster download speeds and more features. Backport clients, such as TJW, can make guids, which protect your name, New clients, such as Tremwars (unmaintained) or Tremfusion support stronger guids, but aren't very compatable with features/downloads of old servers, and finally, backported new clients, such as FSM-Trem, have support for older features while still supporting newer ones. It really depends on how/where you play at.