What are your favourite obscure games for (Arch) Linux?
September 8, 2013 8:44 AM Subscribe
What are your favourite obscure games for (Arch) Linux?
I don't play so many games in general but I'm interested in obscure games for Linux such as Dwarf Fortress, or Wolfenstein etc. Genre irrelevant - so i'm NOT ONLY looking for text-adventures, or FPS or whatever - bring em all on!
I don't play so many games in general but I'm interested in obscure games for Linux such as Dwarf Fortress, or Wolfenstein etc. Genre irrelevant - so i'm NOT ONLY looking for text-adventures, or FPS or whatever - bring em all on!
Tremulous is lots of fun (maybe this is the right Arch package?)
Abuse is old, but amazing (and still looks pretty great). I don't see an Arch package, but I think you can get it here.
posted by wrok at 9:24 AM on September 8, 2013
Abuse is old, but amazing (and still looks pretty great). I don't see an Arch package, but I think you can get it here.
posted by wrok at 9:24 AM on September 8, 2013
Teewords is a fun game, very much like the aforementioned abuse but with Kirby-style graphics. Urban Terror is a counterstrike like FPS game.
If you're looking for old school games, there's a billion roguelikes, Nethack being the most popular. There's also Netrek, which I've never played.
My favorite obscure game though, is the sgt-puzzles package. A set of continually growing puzzle games. You could call them single player, or perhaps cooperative games =)
posted by pwnguin at 11:15 AM on September 8, 2013
If you're looking for old school games, there's a billion roguelikes, Nethack being the most popular. There's also Netrek, which I've never played.
My favorite obscure game though, is the sgt-puzzles package. A set of continually growing puzzle games. You could call them single player, or perhaps cooperative games =)
posted by pwnguin at 11:15 AM on September 8, 2013
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I don't know if there's an arch package, but it can be built from source.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 12:18 PM on September 8, 2013
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 12:18 PM on September 8, 2013
Depends on your definition of "obscure" but this FPP lists open source re-implementations of classic video games, many of which are still going and even better than they were half-a-decade-plus ago when the post was made.
posted by XMLicious at 3:06 PM on September 8, 2013
posted by XMLicious at 3:06 PM on September 8, 2013
Sauerbraten is an open source FPS in the vein of Quake. The community is pretty tiny compared to a lot of other shooters, but there's usually at least a few people playing at any time of day. What makes it unique is a built-in voxel-based map editor that supports cooperative editing. It's pretty cool to play around with.
Scorched3D supposedly works on Linux, but I've only ever tried it on Windows. There are also plenty of really old games that were originally written for various flavors of Unix, and then ported to Linux: xpilot and xbattle are from the early 90s, and some of the text-only games in
(There are also a bunch of games with Linux support that have been featured in various Humble Bundles, but that's pushing the definition of "obscure.")
posted by teraflop at 6:01 PM on September 8, 2013
Scorched3D supposedly works on Linux, but I've only ever tried it on Windows. There are also plenty of really old games that were originally written for various flavors of Unix, and then ported to Linux: xpilot and xbattle are from the early 90s, and some of the text-only games in
bsdgames are even older.(There are also a bunch of games with Linux support that have been featured in various Humble Bundles, but that's pushing the definition of "obscure.")
posted by teraflop at 6:01 PM on September 8, 2013
Speaking of Arches, you may want to look into RetroArch, a free classic video game emulator for Win/Mac/Linux with support for tons of systems including NES, SNES, Gameboy Color/Advance, Sega Genesis, Playstation, Nintendo DS, and arcade. If there's any retro games you'd love to revisit or explore for the first time, it's a fantastic tool. You can get ROM files for old games via CoolRom (currently hacked by some dumb forum, but it should be back up soon). Also, this forum thread might help for getting it working on Arch Linux.
posted by Rhaomi at 9:09 PM on September 8, 2013
posted by Rhaomi at 9:09 PM on September 8, 2013
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