List of games

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Gaming
This page strives to list all games which have a package available in the
official repositories
or the
AUR
. There are many more Linux games available, which are not packaged. See
Gaming#Getting games
for ways to obtain them.
For more about running games, related system configuration tips, see
Gaming
. For an up to date selection of games available in the AUR, try checking the
AUR 'game' keyword
.
Action and adventure
Abuse
— Side-scroller action game that pits you against ruthless alien killers.
http://abuse.zoy.org/
||
abuse
AUR
Aquaria
— 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.
https://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria
||
aquaria-ose
AUR
,
aquaria-hib
AUR
Astromenace
— Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.
https://github.com/viewizard/astromenace
||
astromenace
.
Barrage
— Violent
point-and-click
shooting game with nice effects.
https://lgames.sourceforge.net/Barrage/
||
barrage
Beneath a Steel Sky
— Point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future.
https://revolution.co.uk/games_catalog/beneath-a-steel-sky/
||
bass
Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid
— 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars/
||
blobwars
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars
— Fan-made sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword.
http://www.brokensword25.com/
||
sword25
AUR
BZFlag
— Multiplayer, first-person tank shooter.
https://bzflag.org/
||
bzflag
AUR
C-Dogs
— Enhanced SDL port of DOS arcade game C-Dogs (aka "Cyberdogs 2").
https://cxong.github.io/cdogs-sdl/
||
cdogs
AUR
Cirno Catch Frog
— Touhou fan game made with Godot. Let's help Cirno catch frogs!
https://yuna0x0.itch.io/cirno-catch-frog
||
cirno-catch-frog
AUR
Commander_Keen
— Side-scrolling platform action video game.
https://clonekeen.sourceforge.net/
||
clonekeen
AUR
Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back
— Comical 2D point-and-click adventure.
https://www.scummvm.org/games/
||
drascula
AUR
Dream Web
— Top-down adventure game set in a gritty futuristic dystopian city.
https://www.scummvm.org/games/
||
dreamweb
AUR
Flight of the Amazon Queen
— Graphical point-and-click adventure game.
https://www.scummvm.org/games/
||
fotaq
AUR
Gish
— 2D physics platformer about adventures of ball of tar.
https://github.com/freegish/freegish
||
freegish-git
AUR
GNOME Nibbles
— The aim of this
Nibbles
game is to swallow as many objects as you can while avoiding maze walls and other worms. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nibbles
||
gnome-nibbles
Grand Theft Auto III
— An open-source project reverse-engineering Grand Theft Auto III.
https://github.com/halpz/re3
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 451]
||
re3-git
AUR
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
— An open-source project reverse-engineering Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
https://github.com/halpz/re3/tree/miami
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 451]
||
revc-git
AUR
Hammerfight
— 2-dimensional physics-based combat game.
http://www.koshutin.com/
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 403]
||
hammerfight
AUR
The open-source Unix port of the Haaf's Game Engine is available at
icculus.org
.
Hollow Knight
— 2D metroidvania platform game with deep lore and hard boss battles.
https://hollowknight.com/
||
gog-hollow-knight
AUR
Ib
— Horror adventure game about a child trapped in an eldritch art museum.
https://vgperson.com/games/ib.htm
||
ib-en
AUR
kobodeluxe
— An enhanced version of Akira Higuchi's game XKobo, an addictive space shoot'em up.
https://www.olofson.net/kobodl/
||
kobodeluxe
AUR
Kollision
— Moving a ball to avoid other balls. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kollision/
||
kollision
KSpaceDuel
— Player attempts to destroy opponent’s satellite and control their own one to keep it orbiting. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kspaceduel/
||
kspaceduel
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
— Reversed engineered PC port of
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
for the Super Nintendo
https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3
||
zelda3-git
AUR
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
— Reversed engineered PC port of
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
for Nintendo 64
https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp
||
zelda64recomp
AUR
Liquid War
— 2D multiplayer game with a simple and unique game mechanic. It could be classified as a fast-paced strategy.
https://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/
||
liquidwar
AUR
Lure of the Temptress
— Fantasy point-and-click adventure game with comedic elements.
https://www.revolution.co.uk/games/lure/
||
lure
AUR
Naikari
— Freeform 2-D space trading and mercenary game.
https://naikari.github.io/
||
naikari
AUR
Neverball
— 3D game to guide a ball through a maze.
https://neverball.org/
||
neverball
AUR
OpenClonk
— Multiplayer-action-tactic-skill game.
https://www.openclonk.org/
||
openclonk
AUR
OpenLieroX
— An extremely addictive real-time worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamer community.
https://www.openlierox.net/
||
openlierox
AUR
Rune
— 3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay using Unreal Engine. Runs great from box installation.
http://www.rune-world.com
||
rune
AUR
Space Station 14
— A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
https://spacestation14.io/
||
spacestation14-launcher-bin
AUR
S.U.A.V.E.
— Fun racing game, where you drive very small, but very brave tank! This tank is equipped by modern heavy weapon, which strikes the rivals in different distances!
https://archive.org/details/Sport-Utility_Assault_Vehicle_Extreme
||
suave
AUR
Super Metroid
— Reverse engineered implementation of
Super Metroid
for the Super Nintendo
https://github.com/snesrev/sm
||
sm-git
AUR
The Ur-Quan Masters
— A port of Star Control 2.
https://sc2.sourceforge.net/
||
uqm
Veloren
— Veloren is an open-world, open-source multiplayer voxel RPG.
http://www.veloren.net/
|| Launcher:
airshipper
AUR
, stable:
veloren
AUR
XBill
— Kill all instances of a virus before it infects all computers with a malware resembling Microsoft Windows.
http://www.xbill.org/
||
xbill
AUR
Yume Nikki
— A 2004 surrealist exploration game where you wander the eerie dream world of a girl named Madotsuki.
https://www3.nns.ne.jp/~tk-mto/
||
yumenikki-en
AUR
,
yumenikki-jp
AUR
,
yumenikki-zh-cn
AUR
Arcade
Bomber
— A 2D game with a goal by hitting targets with bombs before their plane crashes into them. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/bomber/
||
bomber
Bomberclone
— Free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players.
https://www.bomberclone.de/core.html
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 404]
||
bomberclone
AUR
Cave Story/Doukutsu
— Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer. If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.
https://cavestory.org
||
doukutsu
AUR
Chromium
— Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
https://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
||
chromium-bsu
Counter-Strike 2D
— 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod.
https://cs2d.com
||
counter-strike-2d
AUR
Crack-attack
— Free OpenGL game, based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
https://www.nongnu.org/crack-attack/
||
crack-attack
AUR
DDNet
— DDraceNetwork, a mod of Teeworlds.
https://ddnet.tw/
||
ddnet
AUR
Doom 2D
— Doom-themed platformer by Prikol Software, modern ports of original game (use flatwaifu).
https://doom2d.org
||
doom2d-rembo
AUR
or
flatwaifu
AUR
Doom 2D Classic
— Doom-themed platformer by Prikol Software, original (classic) version. Using DOSBox.
https://doom2d.org
||
doom2d-classic
AUR
Doom 2D: Forever
— Doom-themed platformer with network play, a modern port of Doom 2D by Prikol Software.
https://doom2d.org
||
doom2df-bin
AUR
Frozen Bubble
— Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy.
http://frozen-bubble.org
||
frozen-bubble
AUR
Granatier
— A clone of
Bomberman
. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/granatier/
||
granatier
Hedgewars
— Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.
https://hedgewars.org/
||
hedgewars
irrlamb
— 3D ball controlling game that involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
https://irrlamb.gitlab.io/
||
irrlamb
AUR
Kapman
— A clone of
Pac-Man
. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kapman/
||
kapman
KBounce
— Building walls to limit amount of space occupied by two balls bouncing off the walls. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kbounce/
||
kbounce
KBreakout
—
Breakout
-style game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kbreakout/
||
kbreakout
KSnakeDuel
—
Snake
-like game for 2 players which compete to survive longer than the opponent. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ksnakeduel/
||
ksnakeduel
lbreakout2
— Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid.
https://lgames.sourceforge.net/LBreakout2/
||
lbreakout2
lbreakouthd
— Scalable 16:9 remake of LBreakout2
https://lgames.sourceforge.net/LBreakoutHD/
||
lbreakouthd
AUR
LTris
— Arcade version of Tetris.
https://lgames.sourceforge.net/LTris/
||
ltris
AUR
Mari0
— The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.
https://stabyourself.net/mari0/
||
mari0
Nikki and the Robots
— Cute physics platformer.
https://github.com/nikki-and-the-robots/nikki
||
nikki
AUR
Not Tetris 2
— A Tetris-like game with realistic physics.
https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
||
nottetris2
AUR
Open Hexagon
— Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
https://vittorioromeo.info/openhexagon.html
||
open-hexagon-git
AUR
Penguin Command
— Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.
https://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/
||
penguin-command
AUR
Pinball
— Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.
https://pinball.sourceforge.net/
||
pinball
AUR
PowerManga
— Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.
http://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/
||
powermanga
AUR
Quadrapassel
— A
Tetris
remake. Fit falling blocks together. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Quadrapassel
||
quadrapassel
Streets of Rage Remake
— A remake of the classic Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 by Sega.
https://sorr.forumotion.net/
||
streetsofrageremake
AUR
Tecnoballz
— An exciting brick breaker game.
https://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/
||
tecnoballz
AUR
Teeworlds
— Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter.
https://www.teeworlds.com/
||
teeworlds
Tetrinet
— Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people.
https://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/
||
gtetrinet
AUR
,
tetrinet
Trackballs
— A 3D marble game inspired by the classic Marble Madness.
https://trackballs.github.io/
||
trackballs
AUR
vpinball
— An open source pinball table editor and simulator
https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball
||
vpinball
AUR
Warmux (previously
Wormux
)
— Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon.
https://github.com/a-team/wormux/
||
warmux
AUR
XInvaders3D
— XInvaders3D is a 3D Vector Graphics Space Invaders clone for X11.
https://github.com/JoesCat/xinvaders3d
||
xinvaders3d
AUR
Casual games
Aisleriot
— A collection of solitaire card games.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Aisleriot
||
aisleriot
Atanks
— A multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games.
https://atanks.sourceforge.net/
||
atanks
AUR
bs
— Battleships based shooter for the console.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/
||
bs
AUR
BSD Games
— Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD
LQWiki:BSD games
||
bsd-games
Kajongg
— An implementation of
Mahjong
for 4 players. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kajongg/
||
kajongg
Kiriki
— An addictive and fun dice game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kiriki/
||
kiriki
KNavalBattle
—
Battleship
like ship sinking game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/knavalbattle/
||
knavalbattle
KPatience
— A set of solitaire card games. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kpat/
||
kpat
KSquares
— A
dots-and-boxes
game for two players. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ksquares/
||
ksquares
LSkat
— A variation of
Skat
card game for two players. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/lskat/
||
lskat
Mah-Jong
— Chinese Classical mahjong (not solitaire) with network support.
https://mahjong.julianbradfield.org/
||
mahjong
AUR
nInvaders
— Ncurses based space invaders clone.
https://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/
||
ninvaders
AUR
Pasang Emas
— Pasang-emas is a traditional two-player board game of Brunei.
https://pasang-emas.sourceforge.net/index.xhtml
||
pasang-emas
AUR
PokerTH
— A libre Texas hold em' poker simulator with network and bot support.
https://www.pokerth.net
||
pokerth
AUR
QCheckers
— Qt-based checkers boardgame.
https://github.com/portnov/qcheckers
||
qcheckers
AUR
Tali
— Beat the odds in a poker-style dice game. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tali
||
tali
xroach
— cockroaches hide under your windows.
https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/tree/master/usr/src/games/xroach
||
xroach
AUR
Chess simulators
chessx
— Chess Database and PGN viewer.
https://chessx.sourceforge.net
||
chessx
AUR
cutechess
— A graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.
https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess
||
cutechess
AUR
dreamchess
— DreamChess is an OpenGL Chess Game. It comes with its own engine called Dreamer.
https://www.dreamchess.org/
||
dreamchess
AUR
GNOME Chess
— A 2D chess game which can use third party chess engines. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Chess
||
gnome-chess
GNU Chess
— One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess.
https://gnu.org/s/chess
||
gnuchess
GNU XBoard
— Graphical user interface that supports many chess variants and serves as a front-end for chess services such as engines.
https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
||
xboard
Knights
— Chess board by KDE with XBoard and UCI protocol support. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/knights/
||
knights
PyChess
— An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
https://pychess.github.io/
||
pychess
Scidb
— Chess database browser: includes engines for chess, chess960, etc; import from PGN, Scid, Chessbase, etc; CQL++ searching.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidb/
||
scidb-svn
AUR
Digital collectible card game (DCCG)
Duelyst
— is a digital collectible card game and turn-based strategy hybrid, developed by Counterplay Games.
https://github.com/open-duelyst/duelyst
||
open-duelyst-bin
AUR
Education
Blinken
— Sequence-remembering game for training memory. Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/blinken/
||
blinken
Colobot GOLD
— Colobot GOLD is a real-time strategy game with programmable bots.
https://colobot.info
||
colobot-gold
AUR
GameShell
— Software to learn how to use a terminal emulator.
https://github.com/phyver/GameShell/
||
gameshell
AUR
gbrainy
— Brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/gbrainy
||
gbrainy
GCompris
— Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.
https://gcompris.net/
||
gcompris-qt
Kanagram
— Letter order game. Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/kanagram/
||
kanagram
KBruch
— Small program to practice calculating with fractions and percentages. Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/kbruch/
||
kbruch
KGeography
— Geography learning tool, which allows you to learn about the political divisions of some countries (divisions, capitals of those divisions and their associated flags if there are some). Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/kgeography/
||
kgeography
KHangMan
—
Hangman
game. Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/khangman/
||
khangman
KLettres
— Application specially designed to help the user to learn alphabet in a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables. Part of
kde-education
.
https://apps.kde.org/klettres/
||
klettres
Minuet
— Software for music education. Part of
kde-education
.
https://minuet.kde.org/
||
minuet
Nootka
— Application to learn classical score notation.
https://nootka.sourceforge.io/
||
nootka
AUR
Tux Math
— Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.
https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath
||
tuxmath
AUR
Tux Paint
— Drawing program designed for young children.
https://tuxpaint.org/
||
tuxpaint
AUR
Tux Typing
— Educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux.
https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxtype
||
tuxtype
AUR
Interactive fiction
See also
Wikipedia:Interactive fiction#Development systems
.
Inform
— Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
http://inform7.com/
||
inform7
AUR
INSTEAD
— Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language.
https://instead.hugeping.ru/
||
instead
AUR
TADS
— Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games.
https://tads.org
||
frobtads
AUR
Massively multiplayer online games (MMO)
See also
Wikipedia:List of massively multiplayer online games
and
Wikipedia:Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games
.
Dofus
— Free, manga inspired, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) for Adobe AIR.
https://www.dofus.com
||
ankama-launcher
AUR
Eternal Lands
— 3D fantasy online role playing game.
http://www.eternal-lands.com
||
eternallands
AUR
Isleward
— The moddable, multiplayer roguelike.
https://www.isleward.com/
||
isleward
AUR
One Hour One Life
— Binary package for One Hour One Life game by Jason Rohrer.
http://onehouronelife.com/
||
onehouronelife-bin
AUR
Overte
— Overte open source virtual worlds platform.
https://overte.org/
||
overte-appimage
AUR
Planeshift
— Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account.
https://www.planeshift.it
||
planeshift-legacy
AUR
RuneScape
— Massive online adventure game by Jagex.
https://www.runescape.com
||
bolt-launcher
AUR
(unofficial Jagex Launcher),
runescape-launcher
AUR
(NXT client),
osrs-launcher
AUR
(Old School)
Ryzom
— 3D Fantasy MMORPG.
https://www.ryzom.com
||
ryzom-client-git
AUR
Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
— Fantasy themed online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS/RPG hybrid. Free-to-play as of December 2008. Pay for premium accounts providing crucial game elements such as extra inventory slots, access to clans and removal of the Hellbourne unit restrictions (per-account), as well as access to replays and stats.
https://savage2.net/
||
savage2
AUR
Stendhal
— Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with an old school feel.
https://www.stendhalgame.org/
||
stendhal-bin
AUR
The Mana World
— Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG.
https://www.themanaworld.org
||
manaplus
AUR
Minecraft and Minecraft-like
See also
Minecraft
.
ClassiCube
— A from-scratch reimplementation of the Minecraft Classic client with optional gameplay enhancements
https://classicube.net/
||
classicube
AUR
Freeminer
— An open source sandbox game inspired by Minecraft.
https://freeminer.org/
||
freeminer
AUR
Hytale
— Early access sandbox adventure game primarily developed by
Hypixel
Studios.
https://hytale.com
||
hytale-launcher-bin
AUR
Luanti
— Voxel-based sandbox game engine and game.
https://www.luanti.org/
||
luanti
,
luanti-server
Minecraft
— Java based sandbox game.
https://minecraft.net/
||
minecraft-launcher
AUR
Repixture
— Simplistic sandbox survival game that plays in mostly lush biomes in a mostly peaceful world and only simple technologies.
https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/repixture/
||
minetest-repixture
AUR
Terasology
— Open source voxel world.
https://terasology.org
||
terasology
AUR
Vintage Story
— An in-development indie sandbox game about innovation and exploration.
https://www.vintagestory.at/
||
vintagestory
AUR
Voxelands
— A fork of Minetest, an Infiniminer/Minecraft inspired game.
https://gitlab.com/voxelands/voxelands
||
voxelands
AUR
VoxeLibre
— Minecraft clone game for Luanti.
https://git.minetest.land/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre
||
luanti-voxelibre
AUR
WolkenWelten
— Gamemix between Minecraft, Quake ]I[ and Emacs in C99.
https://wolkenwelten.net/
||
wolkenwelten-git
AUR
Platformer
AAAAXY
— A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.
https://divverent.github.io/aaaaxy/
||
aaaaxy
AUR
CaveExpress
— CaveExpress is a classic 2D platformer with physics-based gameplay and dozens of levels.
http://www.caveproductions.org/
||
caveexpress
AUR
Frogatto
— Platformer with adventure elements.
https://frogatto.com
||
frogatto
AUR
KGoldrunner
— A platform game with the goal of collecting gold. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kgoldrunner/
||
kgoldrunner
Knyttstories
— Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels.
https://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories
[
dead link
2025-01-22—SSL error]
||
knyttstories
AUR
Project Sushi
— A short but challenging 2D platformer game.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/33983587
||
project-sushi
AUR
Super Mario Bros. Remastered
— Recreation of the original Super Mario Bros.
https://github.com/JHDev2006/Super-Mario-Bros.-Remastered-Public
||
smb1r-bin
AUR
Super Mario World
— Reverse engineered implementation of
Super Mario World
for the Super Nintendo
https://github.com/snesrev/smw
||
smw
AUR
SuperTux
— Mario-style game featuring Tux.
https://supertux.lethargik.org/
||
supertux
The Legend of Edgar
— 2D platformer: Venture across the world, battle fearsome creatures and solve puzzles to rescue your father.
https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/games/edgar/
||
legendofedgar
AUR
Toppler
— Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus".
https://gitlab.com/roever/toppler/
||
toppler
AUR
Puzzle
Antichamber
— A mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted.
http://www.antichamber-game.com/
||
antichamber
AUR
Atomix
— Build molecules out of single atoms.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Atomix
||
atomix
Blockout II
— 3D tetris, free adaptation of the original BlockOut DOS game edited by California Dreams in 1989.
http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/
||
blockout2
AUR
Blurble
— Word guessing game, a clone of
Wordle
.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Blurble
||
blurble
Bovo
—
Gomoku
-like game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/bovo/
||
bovo
Cgoban3
— Kiseido Go and SGF client.
http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/
||
cgoban
AUR
Chroma
— Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode.
https://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/
||
chroma
AUR
Crack Attack!
— Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
http://www.aluminumangel.org/attack/
||
crack-attack
AUR
Fish Fillets
— Port of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets.
http://fillets.sf.net/
||
fillets-ng
Five or More
— GNOME port of the once popular Windows game called Color Lines. The game's objective is to align as often as possible five or more objects of the same color and shape causing them to disappear. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Five(20)or(20)more
||
five-or-more
Flying Robots
— Avoid killer robots. Similar to bsd-robots but with the possibility to move in a third dimension.
https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots
||
flying-robots
AUR
GNOME 2048
— Move the tiles until you obtain the
2048
tile. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/2048
||
gnome-2048
GNOME Klotski
— This game is a clone of the
Klotski
game. The objective is to move the patterned block to the area bordered by green markers. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Klotski
||
gnome-klotski
GNOME Mahjongg
— Solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game,
Mahjongg
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Mahjongg
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 403]
||
gnome-mahjongg
GNOME Mines
—
Minesweeper
puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Mines
||
gnome-mines
GNOME Sudoku
— Test your logic skills in this number grid puzzle
Sudoku
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sudoku
||
gnome-sudoku
GNOME Taquin
— Computer version of the
15-puzzle
and other sliding puzzles. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Taquin
||
gnome-taquin
GNOME Tetravex
— Simple
edge-matching puzzle
where pieces must be positioned so that the same numbers are touching each other. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tetravex
||
gnome-tetravex
Gnu Go
— A terminal-based implementation of Go from GNU.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
||
gnugo
Gopanda
— Client for the Pandanet-IGS go Server.
https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/gopanda2
||
Gopanda
AUR
gweled
— Eliminating tiles by joining them in groups of three.
https://launchpad.net/gweled/
||
gweled
AUR
Hitori
— Small application written to allow one to play the eponymous puzzle game
Hitori
, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Hitori
||
hitori
iQPuzzle
— A diverting and challenging pentomino puzzle.
https://elth0r0.github.io/iqpuzzle/
||
iqpuzzle
AUR
KAtomic
— Slide elements so they resemble a chemical molecule. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/katomic/
||
katomic
KBlackbox
— Finding positions of hidden balls by using hints. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kblackbox/
||
kblackbox
KBlocks
—
Tetris
clone. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kblocks/
||
kblocks
KDiamond
— Eliminating tiles by joining them in groups of three. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kdiamond/
||
kdiamond
KFourInLine
— Competition between two players to put a line of four pieces before the opponent. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kfourinline/
||
kfourinline
Kigo
—
Go
for KDE. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kigo/
||
kigo
Killbots
— A turn-based game with an objective of avoiding robots that are trying to kill the player. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/killbots/
||
killbots
KJumpingCube
— Take-all-tiles game in which one gains fields by increasing value of one’s own nearby fields. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kjumpingcube/
||
kjumpingcube
Klickety
— Clear the board by clicking on groups to destroy them. An adaptation of the
Clickomania
game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/klickety/
||
klickety
KLines
— Moving balls around the board to form a line of 5 of the same color. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/klines/
||
klines
Klooni1010
— A polished and addictive game clone. The player places blocks to create full vertical or horizontal lines.
https://lonami.dev/klooni/
||
klooni1010-git
AUR
KMahjongg
—
Mahjongg
for one or two players. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kmahjongg/
||
kmahjongg
KMines
—
Minesweeper
, part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kmines/
||
kmines
KNetwalk
— Rotating tiles with wires to connect all computers to internet. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/knetwalk/
||
knetwalk
Kolf
— A minigolf game with 2D overhead view. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kolf/
||
kolf
KSame
— Simple, yet challenging color matching game modeled after once famous game of
SameGame
. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ksame/
||
klickety
KShisen
—
Shisen-Sho
. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kshisen/
||
kshisen
KSudoku
—
Sudoku
game and more for KDE. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ksudoku/
||
ksudoku
KTuberling
— Simple constructor game suitable for children and adults alike. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ktuberling/
||
ktuberling
Kubrick
— A Rubik’s cube solving game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kubrick/
||
kubrick
Lights Off
— Puzzle game, where the objective is to turn off all of the tiles on the board. Also known as
Lights Out
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lightsoff
||
lightsoff
Lix
— Lemmings clone, i.e. assign roles to some of many constantly walking creatures to lead them safely through the exit.
https://www.lixgame.com/
||
lix
AUR
Marvellous Inc.
— MarvInc is a zachlike puzzle game with a story told through emails.
https://github.com/MarvellousSoft/MarvInc
||
marvinc-git
AUR
nudoku
— ncurses-based sudoku game.
https://jubalh.github.io/nudoku/
||
nudoku
AUR
Palapeli
— Jigsaw puzzle game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/palapeli/
||
palapeli
Picmi
— Nonogram puzzle game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/picmi/
||
picmi
Pingus
— Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.
https://pingus.seul.org/
||
pingus
qgo
— A Go client and full featured SGF editor.
https://github.com/pzorin/qgo
||
qgo
Ri-li
— Toy wood engine GPL game.
https://ri-li.sourceforge.net/
||
ri-li
AUR
Sabaki
— An elegant Go board and SGF editor for a more civilized age.
https://github.com/SabakiHQ/Sabaki
||
sabaki
AUR
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
— 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI .
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
||
puzzles
Skladnik
— The Japanese warehouse keeper
Sokoban
game. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/skladnik/
||
skladnik
Swell Foop
— Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles. Also known as
SameGame
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Swell(20)Foop
||
swell-foop
VVVVVV
— Highly praised 2D puzzle platform indie game with a C64 retro theme, with a great chiptune soundtrack.
https://thelettervsixtim.es/
||
vvvvvv-git
AUR
World of Goo
— Great 2D puzzle game.
https://www.2dboy.com
||
worldofgoo
AUR
XMahjongg
—
Mahjongg
solitaire for X.
https://www.lcdf.org/xmahjongg/
||
xmahjongg
AUR
Xscorch
— Clone of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.
http://www.xscorch.org/
||
xscorch
AUR
Racing
Armagetron Advanced
— Tron Clone in 3D.
http://armagetronad.org/
||
armagetronad
Extreme Tux Racer
— 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer
||
extremetuxracer
AUR
Maniadrive
— Arcade car game on acrobatic tracks with quick and nervous gameplay.
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
||
maniadrive
AUR
Moon Buggy
— Simple game for the text mode.
https://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy.html
||
moon-buggy
AUR
Q3Rally
— A car driving and car combat game based on the Quake III Arena engine.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/q3rallysa/
||
quake3-rally
AUR
Rigs of Rods
— Sandbox-style vehicle simulator, the open-source predecessor to
Beam.NG drive
. Features a realistic soft-body physics model, and an active modding community as of 2020.
https://www.rigsofrods.org/
||
rigsofrods
AUR
RVGL
— Rewrite of Re-Volt, popular 3D RC car racing game from 1999 with an active online community.
https://rvgl.re-volt.io/
||
rvgl-bin
AUR
,
all content packs in AUR
Speed Dreams
— Fork of Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features as well as improving realism.
http://speed-dreams.org/
||
speed-dreams-appimage
AUR
Stunt Rally
— Racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel.
https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/
||
stuntrally-git
AUR
SuperTuxKart
— Open source arcade kart racing game featuring Tux and its friends.
https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page
||
supertuxkart
Torcs
— 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.
https://torcs.sourceforge.net/
||
torcs
AUR
Trigger Rally
— Free OpenGL rally car racing game.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/trigger-rally/
||
trigger
AUR
Ultimate Stunts
— Remake of the famous DOS-game 'stunts'.
http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
||
ultimatestunts
AUR
VDrift
— Open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind.
https://vdrift.net/
||
vdrift
AUR
XMoto
— Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.
https://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/
||
xmoto
AUR
Rhythm
Clone Hero
— A Guitar Hero/Rock Band clone that is accurate to how the series played. Supports the original controllers and community made song imports.
https://clonehero.net/
||
clonehero
AUR
Etterna
— An open source rhythm game forked from Stepmania that focuses on keyboard and competitive play (shows different skillsets, online leaderboard etc).
https://etternaonline.com
||
etterna
AUR
Friday Night Funkin'
— Friday Night Funkin' is an open-source donationware rhythm game first released in 2020 for a game jam.
https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin/
||
funkin-git
AUR
Open Hexagon
— Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
https://vittorioromeo.info/openhexagon.html
||
open-hexagon-git
AUR
osu!
— A free-to-win rhythm game with four game modes: osu!standard, a circle clicking simulator; osu!taiko, a drumming emulator; osu!catch, a fruit salad catcher; and osu!mania, a key smashing synthesizer.
https://osu.ppy.sh/
||
osu
AUR
,
osu-lazer-bin
AUR
Performous
— An open-source karaoke, band and dancing game.
https://performous.org/
||
performous-git
AUR
Project Outfox
— Generalist rhythm game engine. Started as a Stepmania fork, with the latest patches, classic OpenITG scripting support, and more. Currently supports 17 rhythm games style including dance, guitar, parapara, taiko, bongos, etc.
https://projectoutfox.com/
||
outfox_bin
AUR
Stepmania
— Advanced dance simulation game.
https://www.stepmania.com/
||
stepmania
AUR
Ultrastar Deluxe
— A
SingStar
karaoke clone.
https://usdx.eu/
||
ultrastardx-git
AUR
Rogue-like
See also
Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games
.
ADOM
— Ancient Domains Of Mystery.
https://adom.de
||
adom
AUR
Angband
— Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.
https://rephial.org/
||
angband
ASCIIpOrtal
— Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level.
https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal
||
asciiportal
AUR
Brogue
— A beginner-friendly Rogue-like.
https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
||
brogue
AUR
Cataclysm: Bright Nights
— A fork/variant of Cataclysm:DDA by CleverRaven.
https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN
|| graphical:
cataclysm-bn-tiles
AUR
, curses:
cataclysm-bn
AUR
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
— Post-apocalyptic roguelike focusing on realism.
https://cataclysmdda.org/
|| graphical:
cataclysm-dda-tiles
, curses:
cataclysm-dda
DoomRL
— Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters.
https://drl.chaosforge.org/
||
drl
AUR
Dwarf Fortress
— Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world.
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
||
dwarffortress
glHack
— An OpenGL-based clone of NetHack.
https://glhack.sourceforge.net/
||
glhack
HyperRogue
— The non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece.
https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
||
hyperrogue
AUR
Infra-Arcana
— A game inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
https://sites.google.com/site/infraarcana/
||
infra-arcana
AUR
KeeperRL
— Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil wizard and study the methods of black magic.
https://keeperrl.com/
||
keeperrl-git
AUR
Linley's Dungeon Crawl
— An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.
http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/
||
crawl
AUR
Nethack
— Single player dungeon exploration game.
https://www.nethack.org
||
nethack
Rogue
— Original dungeon crawl game.
http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/
||
rogue
AUR
Shadow Of The Wyrm
— A single player, traditional roguelike by Julian Day.
https://www.shadowofthewyrm.org
||
sotw
AUR
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
— Shattered fork of the popular roguelike Pixel Dungeon.
https://www.shatteredpixel.com/
||
shattered-pixel-dungeon
Stone Soup
— Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/
||
crawl-ncurses
,
crawl-tiles
Tales of Maj'Eyal
(previously
Troubles of Middle Earth
)
— A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.
https://te4.org/
||
tome4
AUR
wanderer
— Wanderer is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.
https://e271.net/~marina/wanderer.html
||
wanderer
AUR
Role-playing games (RPG)
An Anime Game Laucher
— A launcher for Genshin Impact in Wine, with telemetry blocking and the necessary patches to play the game. Not officially endorsed or supported by the game developers.
https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher
||
an-anime-game-launcher
AUR
Arx Libertatis
— This project is a fully working, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. It features some improvements over the original engine like bug fixes and wide screen support.
https://arx-libertatis.org/
||
arx-libertatis
AUR
Daggerfall Unity
— The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall rebuilt using the unity engine.
https://www.dfworkshop.net/
||
daggerfall-unity-bin
AUR
DevilutionX
— Diablo build for modern operating systems.
https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX
||
devilutionx
AUR
Egoboo
— Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics.
https://egoboo.sourceforge.net/
||
egoboo
AUR
Endgame Singularity
— A single-player survival game about an AI seeking freedom from humans.
https://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/
||
singularity
fallout1-ce
— Fallout for modern operating systems.
https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout1-ce
||
fallout1-ce-game
AUR
fallout2-ce
— Fallout 2 for modern operating systems.
https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce
||
fallout2-ce-game
AUR
falltergeist
— Opensource Fallout game engine written in C++ and SDL.
https://falltergeist.org/
||
falltergeist
AUR
Flare
— Action game similar to Diablo.
http://www.flarerpg.org/
||
flare-game
AUR
FoundryVTT
— A standalone application built for experiencing multiplayer tabletop RPGs using a feature-rich and modern self-hosted application where your players connect directly through the browser.
https://foundryvtt.com/
||
foundryvtt
AUR
FreedroidRPG
— Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future.
https://freedroid.org/
||
freedroidrpg
GemRB
— Attempt to reimplement the
Bioware's Infinity Engine
under GNU GPL.
https://www.gemrb.org/
||
gemrb
AUR
OFF
— A freeware RPG Maker game known for its surreal environments and story. (Fan-made English translation).
https://zchr.org/off
||
off-en
AUR
OpenGothic
— Open source remake of Gothic 2: Night of the raven.
https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic
||
opengothic
AUR
OpenMW
— Attempt to reimplement the popular role-playing game
Morrowind
. OpenMW aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game's engine.
https://openmw.org/
||
openmw
Pokete
— A small terminal based game in the style of a very popular and old game by Gamefreak.
https://lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
||
pokete
AUR
Sleepy Launcher
— A launcher for Zenless Zone Zero in Wine, with telemetry blocking and the necessary patches to play the game. Not officially endorsed or supported by the game developers.
https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher
||
sleepy-launcher
AUR
Sulis
— Turn based tactical RPG with several campaigns, written in Rust.
https://www.sulisgame.com/
||
sulis
AUR
The Honkers Railway Launcher
— A launcher for Honkai: Star Rail in Wine, with telemetry blocking and the necessary patches to play the game. Not officially endorsed or supported by the game developers.
https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher
||
the-honkers-railway-launcher
AUR
Valyria Tear
— An attempt at creating a free (as meant in the Gnu Public License) J-RPG game.
https://valyriatear.blogspot.com/
||
valyria-tear-git
AUR
xu4
— Remake of the computer game Ultima IV.
https://xu4.sourceforge.net/
||
xu4-svn
AUR
Shooters (FPS, third person)
AssaultCube
— Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.
https://assault.cubers.net/
||
assaultcube-client
AUR
AssaultCube Reloaded
— AssaultCube improved.
https://acr.victorz.ca
||
assaultcube-reloaded
AUR
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
— Improved version of the Cube engine.
http://sauerbraten.org/
||
sauerbraten
Blood
is a horror-themed FPS shooter from 1997 that uses the Build engine. More details about various source ports of Blood is available at the
Blood Wiki
. In addition to the original
MS-DOS
version and the Blood: Fresh Supply remaster, there are also various free software source ports available.
Raze
— Raze is a source port based on GZDoom engine tech and merged features from various other Blood source ports.
https://raze.zdoom.org
||
raze
AUR
BuildGDX
— BuildGDX (also sometimes called
BloodGDX
) is a source port that can run multiple Build engine games.
http://m210.duke4.net/index.php
||
buildgdx
AUR
Doom
: The famous shooter from ID Software has several ports for Linux. None of the id-engine games have copyleft game resources, only the game engine code was open sourced. See
[1]
for details.
Doom 1 Demo data –
doom1-wad
AUR
Ashes 2063
— Ashes is a Post-apocalypse themed total conversion for the GZDoom engine.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063
||
ashes-2063
AUR
Brutal Doom
— A gore-themed gameplay mod for Doom that was created in 2010 by Marcos Abenante (Sergeant_Mark_IV).
https://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
||
brutal-doom
AUR
Note
Instructions at
Brutal Doom#Installation
show how to modify
gzdoom-git
AUR
directly without
brutal-doom
AUR
.
openal
is required for in-game audio.
Chocolate Doom
— Doom port reproducing the behavior of the original DOS version.
https://www.chocolate-doom.org/
||
chocolate-doom
AUR
Doomsday
— Advanced port of the Doom game engine, capable also of running Heretic, and Hexen games.
http://www.dengine.net/
||
doomsday
AUR
Freedoom
— Project aimed at creation of free classic Doom data files.
https://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/
||
freedoom
AUR
GZDoom
— Advanced Doom source port based on ZDoom with an OpenGL renderer.
https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom
||
gzdoom
AUR
DSDA-Doom
— Enhanced fork of the PrBoom+ Doom engine source port.
https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom
||
dsda-doom
AUR
ZDoom
— A discontinued enhanced Doom port with additional support for Heretic, Hexen and Strife.
https://www.zdoom.org/
||
zdoom
AUR
Doom 3
Doom 3 Engine
— Source-based Doom 3 engine.
https://www.idsoftware.com/
||
doom3
AUR
dhemw3
— Fork of iodoom3.
https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3
||
dhewm3
AUR
RBDOOM-3-BFG
— Fork of Doom 3 BFG Edition.
https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG
||
rbdoom-3-bfg
AUR
Duke Nukem 3D
eduke32
— Advanced source port.
https://eduke32.com/
||
eduke32
AUR
buildgdx
— A source port that can run multiple Build engine games.
http://m210.duke4.net/index.php
||
buildgdx
AUR
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
— Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.
https://www.splashdamage.com/games/enemy-territory-quake-wars/
||
etqw
AUR
ezQuake
— Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. The popular, modern and maintained Quake/QuakeWorld client. Can be played online for free.
https://ezquake.sourceforge.net/
||
ezquake
AUR
HHeretic
— Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Heretic.
https://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hheretic.html
||
hheretic
AUR
Heretic Demo game data –
heretic1-wad
AUR
HHexen
— Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.
https://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html
||
hhexen
AUR
Hexen 1 Demo game data –
hexen1-wad
AUR
Hypersomnia
— A hardcore eSports shooter that comes with an in-game Editor.
https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia
||
hypersomnia-appimage
AUR
nQuake
— Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. This is the popular Quake/QuakeWorld package, including ezQuake client, 24bit textures, maps, bots and more. Can be played online for free.
https://nquake.sourceforge.net/
||
nquake
AUR
OpenArena
— Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.
http://openarena.ws
||
openarena
AUR
OpenXRay
— Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Game assets must be bought separately.
https://github.com/OpenXRay
||
openxray
AUR
Note
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
is the only supported game as of January 2023. Support for
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
and
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
is coming soon
[2]
[3]
.
Perfect Dark
— Reverse engineered port of
Perfect Dark
for the Nintendo 64
https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
||
perfect-dark-git
AUR
Prey
— First Person Shooter released in 2006 (with a GNU/Linux port in 2008), published by 3D Realms.
https://www.3drealms.com/prey/index.html
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 404]
||
prey
AUR
Quake
Advanced Quake 1 game engine –
darkplaces
AUR
High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project –
quake-qrp-textures
AUR
A modern Quake 1 engine. Forked from Fitzquake. Stable version with optional Mission pack desktop files –
quakespasm
AUR
Quake II
Quake 2
— Built by Icculus.
https://www.icculus.org/quake2/
||
quake2
AUR
A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures –
quake2-retexture
AUR
Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits –
yamagi-quake2
AUR
id Software's Quake 2 v3.21 with Vulkan support –
vkquake2
AUR
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena binaries –
quake3
AUR
ioquake3
— De-facto FOSS Quake 3 distribution.
https://ioquake3.org/
||
ioquake3-git
AUR
Quake 4
Demo version –
quake4-demo
AUR
Quake 4 engine –
quake4
AUR
Red Eclipse
— Single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2.
https://redeclipse.net
||
redeclipse
AUR
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
— Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support.
https://github.com/tx00100xt/SeriousSamClassic-VK
||
serioussam-vk
AUR
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
— Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support.
https://github.com/tx00100xt/SeriousSamClassic-VK
||
serioussam-vk
AUR
Spear of Destiny
ECWolf
— Advanced source port.
https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/
||
ecwolf
AUR
Super 3D Noah's Ark
ECWolf
— Advanced source port.
https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/
||
ecwolf
AUR
Tesseract
— Smooth FPS with map editing, instagib, DM and CTF.
http://tesseract.gg/
||
tesseract-game
AUR
Tremulous
— FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.
https://github.com/grangerhub/tremulous/
||
tremulous-grangerhub-bin
AUR
Unreal Tournament (2014)
— Free and open-source remake of the original using Unreal Engine 4.
https://www.unrealtournament.com/
||
unrealtournament4
AUR
Unvanquished
— Team-based fps/rts hybrid game which pits aliens against humans. Monthly release that can be played on official servers.
https://unvanquished.net/
||
unvanquished
AUR
Urban Terror
— Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine.
http://urbanterror.info
||
urbanterror
AUR
Warsow
— Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.
https://warsow.net
||
warsow
Wolfenstein 3D
ECWolf
— Advanced source port.
https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/
||
ecwolf
AUR
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS –
enemy-territory
AUR
Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server –
etlegacy32
AUR
World of Padman
— Stand slone somplex – cartoon-style multiplayer first-person shooter.
https://worldofpadman.net/website
||
worldofpadman
AUR
Xonotic
— Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).
https://xonotic.org
||
xonotic
XPilot
— XPilot is a multi-player 2D space game. Some features are borrowed from classics like the Atari coin-ups Asteroids and Gravitar, and the home-computer games Thrust (Commodore 64) and Gravity Force (Commodore Amiga), but XPilot has many new aspects too.
https://www.xpilot.org/
||
xpilot
AUR
Simulation
A/B Street
— Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit.
https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
||
abstreet-git
AUR
CorsixTH
— Open source reimplementation of the Bullfrog hit game Theme Hospital.
https://corsixth.com
||
corsix-th
AUR
Endless Sky
— Open source, 2D space trading and combat game similar to the classic Escape Velocity series.
https://endless-sky.github.io/
||
endless-sky
Flight Gear
— Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
https://www.flightgear.org/
||
flightgear
AUR
Foobillard++
— Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.
https://foobillardplus.sourceforge.net/
||
foobillard++
AUR
FreeSpace 2
— Open sourced space emulator.
https://www.hard-light.net/
||
fs2_open
AUR
Koi Farm
— Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
https://jobtalle.itch.io/koifarm
||
koifarm-git
AUR
Libre TrainSim
— Free Train Simulator for everyone
https://www.libretrainsim.org/
||
libre-trainsim-bin
AUR
Linux Air Combat
— Open source, multi-user 3D combat flight simulator featuring World War 2 aircraft. Supports joystick, gamepad, or mouse flight controls.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat//
||
linux-air-combat
AUR
LPub3D
— LDraw™ editor for LEGO® style digital building instructions.
https://trevorsandy.github.io/lpub3d
||
lpub3d-appimage
AUR
Micropolis
— Open Source Micropolis, based on the original SimCity Classic from Maxis, by Will Wright.
https://github.com/simhacker/micropolis
||
micropolis-git
AUR
Naev
— Open source, 2D space trading and combat game, taking inspiration from the Escape Velocity series.
https://naev.org/
||
naev
Oolite
— 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite.
https://oolite.space/
||
oolite
AUR
openblack
— Open source reimplementation of the game Black & White (2001).
https://github.com/openblack/openblack
||
openblack-git
AUR
openBVE
— Free-as-in-freedom train simulator placed in the public domain.
https://openbve-project.net/
||
openbve
Pioneer
— Open source, 3D, freeform single player space adventure set in the Milkyway galaxy at the turn of the 31st century in the spirit of Frontier: Elite II.
https://pioneerspacesim.net/
||
pioneer
Principia
— Physics-based sandbox building game.
https://principia-web.se/
||
principia-git
AUR
Rigs of Rods
— Sandbox-style vehicle simulator, the open-source predecessor to
Beam.NG drive
. Features a realistic soft-body physics model, and an active modding community as of 2020.
https://www.rigsofrods.org/
||
rigsofrods
AUR
Star Citizen
— A multiplayer, space trading and combat simulation video game.
https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper
|| Community launcher:
lug-helper
AUR
The Powder Toy
— Open source physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances.
https://powdertoy.co.uk/
||
powder-toy
AUR
Thrive
— Game about evolution, in which the player guides a species from their origin as a microbe to the space age and beyond.
https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
||
thrive-bin
AUR
Vega Strike
— Realistic space flight simulator with trading and fighting.
https://www.vega-strike.org
||
vegastrike
AUR
Strategy
Real-time
0 A.D.
— 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage. Based on the Age of Empires series.
https://play0ad.com/
||
0ad
20,000 Light Years Into Space
— A Steampunk-themed strategy game where you have to manage a steam supply network on a distant planet.
https://www.jwhitham.org/20kly/
||
20kly
AUR
Augustus
— An enhanced re-implementation of Caesar III.
https://github.com/Keriew/augustus
||
augustus
Beyond All Reason
— An open source RTS game built on top of the Spring RTS Engine.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
||
beyondallreason-appimage
AUR
Dark Oberon
— Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.
https://dark-oberon.sourceforge.net/
||
dark-oberon
AUR
Dune Legacy
— Updated clone of Westood Studios' Dune2.
https://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/
||
dunelegacy
AUR
Factorio
— A proprietary game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies.
https://www.factorio.com/
||
factorio
AUR
,
factorio-demo
AUR
FTL: Faster Than Light
— Popular rogue-like space-sim released to positive reception in 2012.
https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html
||
ftl
AUR
Globulation 2
— Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.
https://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
||
glob2
Julius
— Open source re-implementation of Caesar III (Original copy required).
https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
||
julius
Kernel Panic
— A game based around combat inside a computer, with 3 unique sides: the System, the Hacker and the Network waging war in a matrix of DOOM! No resource economy exists in KP, with the only constraints being time and space.
https://springrts.com/wiki/Kernel_Panic
||
springlobby
MegaGlest
— Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.
https://megaglest.org/
||
megaglest
Mindustry
— Open-source sandbox tower defense and factory-building game.
https://mindustrygame.github.io/
||
mindustry
AUR
NetPanzer
— An online multiplayer tactical warfare game designed for fast action combat.
https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer
||
netpanzer-appimage
AUR
openage
— A free (as in freedom) clone of the Age of Empires II engine.
https://openage.sft.mx/
||
openage-git
AUR
OpenDUNE
— Open source re-creation of the popular game Dune II.
http://www.opendune.org/
||
opendune
AUR
OpenHV
— Pixelart Science-Fiction Real-Time-Strategy game based on OpenRA.
https://www.openhv.net/
||
openhv
AUR
OpenRA
— Real-time strategy game written in C# and based on the Command & Conquer game franchise.
https://www.openra.net/
||
openra
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries
— Conquer the world and build your empire! Lead one civilization to glory through sophisticated trade, diplomacy, espionage and conquest.
https://7kfans.com/
||
7kaa
AUR
Spring:1944
— A WWII themed game with four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain), period-accurate units and strengths. Realism comes second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play. The game can be downloaded through SpringLobby, the official lobby client for the spring lobby.
https://spring1944.net/
||
springlobby
Unknown Horizons
— 2.5D isometric real-time strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.
http://www.unknown-horizons.org/
||
unknown-horizons
AUR
Warzone 2100
— You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics. The AUR package installs its videos (
FS#55310
).
https://wz2100.net/
||
warzone2100
,
warzone2100-sequences
AUR
Widelands
— Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2".
https://widelands.org
||
widelands
Wrymsun
— Fantasy game initially based on Stratagus engine.
https://andrettin.github.io/
||
Wyrmsun
AUR
Zero-K
— Open source RTS game running on the Spring engine.
https://zerok.itch.io/zero-k
||
zero-k
AUR
Turn-based
Ancient Beast
— Turn Based Strategy Game. Master your beasts!
https://ancientbeast.com/
||
ancientbeast
AUR
C-evo
— A civilization style game, of the Civ II era.
http://www.c-evo.org
||
c-evo-dh
AUR
Dealer's Choice
— Online Multiplayer Stud and Draw Poker, where the deal rotates and each new game allows a different player to select the variant.
https://dealer-s-choice.github.io/
||
dealers-choice
AUR
fheroes2
— Attempt to reimplement the
Heroes of Might and Magic II
engine using SDL.
https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2/
||
fheroes2
AUR
Four in a Row
— Build a line of four of your marbles while trying to stop your opponent from doing the same. Also known as
Connect Four
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Four(2d)in(2d)a(2d)row
||
four-in-a-row
Freeciv
— Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.
https://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
||
freeciv-gtk3
,
freeciv-gtk4
,
freeciv-qt
FreeCol
— Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
https://www.freecol.org/
||
freecol
FreeOrion
— Turn-based space empire and galactic conquest computer game. Inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but does not try to be a clone or remake of that series or any other game.
https://www.freeorion.org/
||
freeorion
GNOME Reversi
— Dominate the board in a classic version of
Reversi
. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Reversi
||
iagno
GNOME Robots
— The classic
Chase
game where you have to avoid a hoard of robots who are trying to kill you. Part of
gnome-extra
.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Robots
||
gnome-robots
KReversi
— A
Reversi
implementation. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/kreversi/
||
kreversi
KsirK
— A
risk
-styled game in which players try to conquer the world by deciding which area to be invaded next. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/ksirk/
||
ksirk
OpenXCom
— An open source implementation of the game UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO defence in North America), with a plethora of community created mods.
https://openxcom.org
||
openxcom
AUR
An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE)
[4]
–
openxcom-extended
AUR
Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE –
openxcom-mod-40k
AUR
,
openxcom-mod-area51
AUR
,
openxcom-mod-twots
AUR
,
openxcom-mod-xfiles
AUR
,
openxcom-mod-xpiratez
AUR
Pioneers
— A clone of the famous Settlers of Catan game with on-line functionality.
https://pio.sourceforge.net/
||
pioneers
AUR
Signus
—
Signus: The Artefact Wars
classic turn-based strategy war game similar to the old
Battle Isle
series.
https://github.com/signus-game/signus/
||
signus
AUR
The Battle for Wesnoth
— Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
https://www.wesnoth.org/
||
wesnoth
TripleA
— An online multiplayer turn based strategy game and board game engine.
https://triplea-game.org/
||
triplea
AUR
VCMI
— Attempt to reimplement
Heroes of Might and Magic III
.
https://forum.vcmi.eu/portal.php
||
vcmi
AUR
Tycoon/management games
Cytopia
— A city building simulation game.
https://www.cytopia.net/
||
cytopia-git
AUR
Konquest
— A turn-based game in which the player wage wars by managing a fleet of spaceships and conquering other planets. Part of
kde-games
.
https://apps.kde.org/konquest/
||
konquest
Lincity-ng
— City simulation game in which you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
https://github.com/lincity-ng/lincity-ng
||
lincity-ng
OpenLoco
— An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion.
https://github.com/OpenLoco/OpenLoco
||
openloco
AUR
OpenRCT2
— Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.
https://openrct2.org/
||
openrct2
OpenTTD
— Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
https://www.openttd.org/
||
openttd
Simutrans
— Another Transport simulation that works on Linux with SDL.
https://www.simutrans.com/
||
simutrans
Visual novels
Katawa Shoujo
— Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities. The game is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND.
http://katawa-shoujo.com/
||
katawa-shoujo
AUR
Katawa Shoujo:Re-Engineered
— An open-source refactor that aims to provide a revamped version of the beloved visual novel Katawa Shoujo, developed with a strong emphasis on accessibility and user-friendly experience.
https://github.com/fleetingheart/ksre
||
katawa-shoujo-reengineered
AUR
Narcissu
— Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.
http://narcissu.insani.org/
||
narcissu2
AUR
School Days
— The story, a dramatic slice-of-life, follows Makoto Ito, a high school student who becomes the ambivalent love interest of several girls during his second term, and the effects this has on himself and his relationships with other characters.
https://schooldays.us/
||
nice-boat
AUR
Summer Days
— Spin-off from the "Days" series and remake of Summer Days.
https://shinydays.us/
||
nice-boat
AUR
See also
PCGamingWiki
- "PCGamingWiki aims to list fixes and workarounds for every single PC game"
Wikipedia:Category:Linux games
The Linux Gamers' Game List
Penguspy
./play.it list of games
Linux Installers for Linux Gamers
Storefronts
itch.io Linux games
GOG.com Linux games
Humble Bundle Linux games
Steam Linux store
ProtonDB
- "The goal of ProtonDB is to gather reports from other gamers as they test games with Proton on Linux and provide aggregate scores of how well games perform. A growing pool of [...] tweaks".
Luxtorpeda
- Steam Play compatibility tool to run games using native Linux engines; see also
list of game engines
Free, libre, open source games
"LibreGameWiki, the libre, opensource and free games encyclopedia"
r/linux_gaming List of free games
LGames - open source games for Linux
Source ports
:
Open Source Game Clones