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FOSS Games are actually pretty good! (rldane.space)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6819337

Mon 04 December 2023 by R.L. Dane

There's a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that's exciting, because it's drawing attention to Linux's capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it's good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only pragmatic reasons.

But beyond the attention-grabbing AAA titles, there are many FOSS games worth checking out.

Admittedly, I am not much of a gamer, and never have been. I'm hoping to draw attention to the possibilities of FOSS gaming, but what will follow is hardly exhaustive. But I have tried to gather the names a few FOSS games on Android I've enjoyed burning time with, and a few desktop games I've heard of or played with occasionally that are worthy of more attention from the gaming community:

https://rldane.space/foss-games-are-actually-pretty-good.html

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good on android are also unciv, feudal tactics, beat feat and flowit!

~~Not Foss, but free without ads or trackers~~ FOSS and my all-time favorite is "Simon Tatham's Puzzles". This is so addicting I go through a cycle of playing it obsessively until I have to delete it and wait a few months until installing it again xD

ETA: thanks for providing the sources. Couldn't find it on fdroid because of the different name :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Source code 1, source code 2, f-droid link

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Ever tried it out yourself?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I play some every once in a while. My current starred are Bridges, Mosaic (my fav), Net, Solo, and Untangle.