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.

Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria || AUR , AUR

Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.

Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.

BZFlag — Multiplayer, first-person tank shooter.

Commander_Keen — side-scrolling platform action video game

Gish — 2D physics platformer about adventures of ball of tar.

Hammerfight — 2-dimensional physics-based combat game.

http://www.koshutin.com/ || 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.

kobodeluxe — An enhanced version of Akira Higuchi's game XKobo, an addictive space shoot'em up

Kollision — Moving a ball to avoid other balls. Part of .

KSpaceDuel — Player attempts to destroy opponent’s satellite and controll their own one to keep it orbiting. Part of

Liquid War — 2D multiplayer game with a simple and unique game mechanic. It could be classified as a fast-paced strategy.

http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/ || AUR A rewrite of the game program, now adopted as a GNU project: AUR , homepage: | Liquid War 6

Minecraft — Java based sandbox game.

Neverball — 3D game to guide a ball through a maze.

OpenLieroX — An extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community.

Rune — 3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay using Unreal Engine. Runs great from box installation.

Paintball Party 2 — Paintball Party 2 is the sequel to Paintball Party, a multiplayer action platformer for all ages.

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!

The Ur-Quan Masters — a port of Star Control 2.

Veloren — Veloren is an open-world, open-source multiplayer voxel RPG.

XBill — Kill all instances of a virus before it infects all computers with a malware resembling Microsoft Windows.

Arcade

Bomber — A 2D game with a goal by hitting targets with bombs before their plane crashes into them. Part of .

Bomberclone — Free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players.

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.

Chromium — Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.

Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

Crack-attack — Free OpenGL game, based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.

DDNet — DDraceNetwork, a mod of Teeworlds

Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

Granatier — A clone of Bomberman. Part of

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.

kapman — A clone of PacMan. Part of .

kbreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of .

lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

kbounce — Building walls to limit amount of space occupied by two balls bouncing off the walls. Part of .

ksnakeduel — Snake-like game for 2 players which compete to survive longer than the opponent. Part of .

LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

Pinball — Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.

PowerManga — Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.

Quadrapassel — A Tetris remake for GNOME.

Streets of Rage Remake — A remake of the classic Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 by Sega.

Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

https://www.teeworlds.com/ || (0.7 branch) or AUR (0.6 branch)

Tetrinet — Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people.

Trackballs — A 3D marble game inspired by the classic Marble Madness.

Warmux (previously Wormux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

Casual games

Aisleriot — A collection of solitaire card games.

Atanks — A multi-platform Scorched Earth clone similar to the Worms series of games

bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

Kajongg — An implementation of Mahjong for 4 players. Part of .

KPatience — A set of solitarire card games. Part of .

KSquares — A dots-and-boxes game for two players. Part of .

Lskat — A variation of Skat card game for two players. Part of

Mah-Jong — Chinese Classical mahjong (not solitaire) with network support

nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

QCheckers — Qt-based checkers boardgame.

xroach — cockroaches hide under your windows

|| AUR

Chess simulators

GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

chessx — Chess Database and PGN viewer

cutechess — A graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess

Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

Knights — Chess board by KDE with XBoard protocol support.

PyChess — An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

GNOME Chess — A 2D chess game which can use third party chess engines.

glChess — 3D Chess Frontend.

Education

Artikulate — Pronunciation trainer that helps improving and perfecting a learner's pronunciation skills for a foreign language. Part of .

Blinken — Sequence-remembering game for training memory. Part of .

GCompris — Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

Kanagram — Letter order game. Part of .

KBruch — Small program to practice calculating with fractions and percentages. Part of .

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 .

KHangMan — Hangman game. Part of .

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 .

Minuet — Software for music education. Part of .

Nootka — Application to learn classical score notation.

Tux Math — Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.

Tux Paint — Drawing program designed for young children.

Tux Typing — Educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux.

Interactive fiction

See also Wikipedia:Interactive fiction#Development systems.

AI Dungeon — AI generated infite text adventure

Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://instead.syscall.ru/ || AUR AUR

TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

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

Eternal Lands — 3D fantasy online role playing game

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

RuneScape — Massive online adventure game by Jagex

http://www.runescape.com || AUR (old Java client), AUR (new NXT client)

Ryzom — 3D Fantasy MMORPG

Savage: The Battle for Newerth — Online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS hybrid. Open-sourced in September 2006. Savage XR, the most improved continuation (including SFE patches), is completely free (no purchasing/ads whatsoever) however closed-source to reduce cheating.

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.

The Mana World — Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG

Platformer

Frogatto — Platformer with adventure elements.

KGoldrunner — A platform game with the goal of collecting gold. Part of .

Knyttstories — Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels.

Secret Maryo Chronicles — Mario-style game.

SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.

Toppler — Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus".

The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M. — A fork of Secret Maryo Chronicles.

Puzzle

Atomix — Build molecules out of single atoms.

Blockout II — 3D tetris, free adaptation of the original BlockOut DOS game edited by California Dreams in 1989

Bovo — Gomoku-like game. Part of .

Cgoban3 — Kiseido Go and SGF client.

Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

Crack Attack! — Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.

GNOME Sudoku — Test your logic skills in this number grid puzzle.

Gnu Go — A terminal-based implementation of Go from GNU.

Gopanda — Client for the Pandanet-IGS go Server.

gweled — Eliminating tiles by joining them in groups of three.

Hitori — Small application written to allow one to play the eponymous puzzle game, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku.

KAtomic — Slide elements so they resemble a chemical molecule. Part of .

KBlackbox — Finding positions of hidden balls by using hints. Part of .

KBlocks — Tetris clone. Part of .

KDiamond — Eliminating tiles by joining them in groups of three. Part of .

KFourInLine — Competition between two players to put a line of four pieces before the opponent. Part of .

Kigo — Go for KDE. Part of .

Killbots — A turn-based game with an objective of avoiding robots that are trying to kill the player. Part of .

KJumpingCube — Take-all-tiles game in which one gains fields by increasing value of one’s own nearby fields. Part of .

Klickety — Clearing the board by removing aligned tiles. Part of .

KLines — Moving balls around the board to form a line of 5 of the same color. Part of .

Klooni1010 — A polished and addictive game clone. The player places blocks to create full vertical or horizontal lines.

KMines — Minesweeper, part of .

KNetwalk — Rotating tiles with wires to connect all computers to internet. Part of .

Kolf — A minigolf game with 2D overhead view. Part of .

KShisen — Shisen-Sho. Part of .

KSudoku — Sudoku game and more for KDE. Part of .

Kubrick — A Rubik’s cube solving game. Part of .

Marvellous Inc. — MarvInc is a zachlike puzzle game with a story told through emails.

Palapeli — Jigsaw puzzle game. Part of .

Pathological — Complete all wheels on the board by collecting marbles of the same color in each of them.

Picmi — Nonogram puzzle game

Pingus — Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.

Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

qgo — A Go client and full featured SGF editor

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

VVVVVV — Highly praised 2D puzzle platform indie game with a C64 retro theme, with a great chiptune soundtrack. You can buy the full version for £1.67.

XMahjongg — Mahjong solitaire for X.

Xscorch — Clone of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.

World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.

Fish Fillets — Port of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets

Racing

Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.

Extreme Tux Racer — 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring.

Maniadrive — Arcade car game on acrobatic tracks with quick and nervous gameplay.

Moon Buggy — Simple game for the text mode.

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.

RVGL — Rewrite of Re-Volt, popular 3D RC car racing game from 1999 with an active online community.

Speed Dreams — Fork of Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features as well as improving realism.

http://speed-dreams.org/ || AUR [broken link: package not found]

Stunt Rally — Racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel.

Supertux Kart — Kart racing game featuring Tux and his friends.

Torcs — 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.

Trigger Rally — Free OpenGL rally car racing game.

Ultimate Stunts — Remake of the famous DOS-game 'stunts'.

VDrift — Open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind.

XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.

Rhythm

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.

opsu! — An open source Java client for the rhythm game osu!.

Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.

Performous — An open-source karaoke, band and dancing game.

Ultrastar Deluxe — A SingStar karaoke clone.

Rogue-like

See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.

ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery.

Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.

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.

Brogue — A beginner-friendly Rogue-like.

DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters.

Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world.

glHack — An OpenGL-based clone of NetHack.

Infra-Arcana — A game inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

https://sites.google.com/site/infraarcana/ || AUR , AUR

Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.

Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.

Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Tales of Maj'Eyal (previously Troubles of Middle Earth) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

https://te4.org/ || AUR , AUR

wanderer — Wanderer is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.

http://e271.net/~marina/wanderer.html || AUR AUR

Shattered Pixel Dungeon — Shattered fork of the popular rogue-like game Pixel Dungeon.

http://www.shatteredpixel.com/ || AUR , AUR

Role-playing games (RPG)

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.

Egoboo — Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics.

fheores2 — Attempt to reimplement the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine using SDL.

Flare — Action game similar to Diablo.

FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.

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.

Undertale — The RPG where attacking is optional. Includes bullet hell elements and is often praised for its soundtrack.

VCMI — Attempt to reimplement Heroes of Might and Magic III.

http://forum.vcmi.eu/portal.php || AUR AUR

Shooters (FPS, third person)

Alien Arena — Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots.

AssaultCube — Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.

AssaultCube Reloaded — AssaultCube improved.

Cube 2: Sauerbraten — Improved version of the Cube engine.

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 – AUR

Brutal Doom — A gore-themed gameplay mod for Doom that was created in 2010 by Marcos Abenante (Sergeant_Mark_IV). http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom || AUR Note: Instructions at AUR directly without AUR . is required for in-game audio. Instructions at Brutal Doom#Installation show how to modifydirectly without. is required for in-game audio. Freedoom — Project aimed at creation of free Doom data files. http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/ || AUR Chocolate Doom — Doom port reproducing the behavior of the original DOS version. https://www.chocolate-doom.org/ || AUR Doomsday — Advanced port of the Doom game engine, capable also of running Heretic, and Hexen games. http://www.dengine.net/ || AUR GZDoom — Doom source port based on ZDoom with an OpenGL renderer. https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom || AUR PrBoom Plus — Enhanced version of the PrBoom Doom engine port. http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/ || AUR ZDoom — Enhanced Doom port with additional support for Heretic, Hexen and Strife. https://www.zdoom.org/ || AUR

Doom 3 — Stock Doom 3 binaries http://www.idsoftware.com || AUR Doom 3 Engine — Source-based Doom 3 engine http://www.idsoftware.com || AUR dhemw3 — Fork of iodoom3 https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 || AUR RBDOOM-3-BFG — Fork of Doom 3 BFG Edition https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG || AUR

ezQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. The popular, modern and maintained Quake/QuakeWorld client. Can play on-line for free

eduke32 — Advanced source port. http://eduke32.com/ || AUR

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.

HHeretic — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Heretic.

http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hheretic.html || AUR Heretic Demo game data – AUR

HHexen — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.

http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html || AUR Hexen 1 Demo game data – AUR

Nexuiz — Free, open-source first person shooter. Development ceased, most of the developers moved to project Xonotic.

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 play on-line for free.

OpenArena — Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.

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.

Prey — First Person Shooter released in 2006 (with a GNU/Linux port in 2008), published by 3D Realms.

Red Crucible

Red Crucible®: Firestorm - Free to play online FPS – AUR

Red Crucible®: Reloaded - Free to play online FPS – AUR

Advanced Quake 1 game engine – AUR

High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project – AUR

Quake 2 — Built by Icculus https://www.icculus.org/quake2/ || AUR A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures – AUR

Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits. AUR

Quake III Arena binaries – AUR

ioquake3 — De-facto FOSS Quake 3 distribution. https://ioquake3.org/ || AUR

Demo version – AUR

Quake 4 engine – AUR

Red Eclipse — Single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2.

Tesseract — Smooth FPS with map editing, instagib, DM and CTF.

Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.

Unreal Tournament (upcoming) — Free and open-source remake of the original using Unreal Engine 4

Unvanquished — Team-based fps/rts hybrid game which pits aliens against humans. Monthly release that can be played on official servers.

Urban Terror — Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine.

Warsow — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.

Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS – AUR

Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server – AUR

World of Padman — Stand slone somplex – cartoon-style multiplayer first-person shooter.

Xonotic — Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).

Simulation

Beyond the Red Line — Completely free stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2 based on the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Presumed abandoned, see Diaspora: Shattered Armistice for an alternative.

Endless Sky — Open source, 2D space trading and combat game similar to the classic Escape Velocity series.

Flight Gear — Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.

Foobillard++ — Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.

FreeSpace 2 — Open sourced space emulator.

Minetest — Voxel-based sandbox game engine and game.

Naev — Open source, 2D space trading and combat game, taking inspiration from the Escape Velocity series.

openBVE — Free-as-in-freedom train simulator placed in the public domain.

Oolite — 3D space trading and combat simulator in the spirit of Elite.

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.

Pydance — Python Dance Dance Revolution style game.

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.

Terasology — Open source voxel world.

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.

Voxelands — A fork of Minetest, an Infiniminer/Minecraft inspired game.

Stealth

The Dark Mod — First person stealth game inspired by the Thief series.

Strategy

Real-time

0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage. Based on the Age of Empires series.

Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.

Factorio — A proprietary game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies.

Factorio demo — A proprietary game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies. (Demo)

FTL: Faster Than Light — Popular rogue-like space-sim released to positive reception in 2012.

Globulation 2 — Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.

Heroes of Newerth — Online, multi-player strategy game that is based upon DoTA (Defense of the Ancients). Free-to-own (gameplay free; pay for cosmetic upgrades only)

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.

MegaGlest — Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.

Mindustry — Open-source sandbox tower defense and factory-building game.

https://mindustrygame.github.io/ || AUR , AUR

Netpanzer — Real-time strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

OpenRA — Real-time strategy game written in C# and based on the Command & Conquer game franchise

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.

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.

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).

Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2".

Zero-K — Zero-K is a free multi-platform open source real-time strategy computer game. Initially based on content from Total Annihilation on the open source Spring Engine, it was forked and all proprietary content replaced, and evolved into a completely new game with unique features. It can be easily installed by installing the flobby client from the AUR or alternatively (and preferably) by installing the official mono package and downloading and running the Zero-K lobby from the official website.

Turn-based

Advanced Strategic Command — Turn-based strategy game in the tradition of the Battle Isle series.

Endgame Singularity — Turn-based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving.

Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.

FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.

KReversi — A reversi implementation. Part of .

KsirK — A risk-styled game in which players try to conquer the world by deciding which area to be invaded next. Part of .

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 || AUR , AUR An extended and more customisable version of Open X-COM (OXCE) [2] – AUR , AUR

, Mods for Open X-COM and OXCE AUR , AUR , AUR , AUR , AUR

Pioneers — A clone of the famous Settlers of Catan game with on-line functionality

The Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

UFO: Alien Invasion — Fight aliens trying to capture Earth.

Tycoon/management games

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.

Konquest — A turn-based game in which the player wage wars by managing a fleet of spaceships and conquering other planets. Part of .

Simutrans — Another Transport simulation that works on linux with sdl.

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.

OpenRCT2 — Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.

Visual novels

Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend.

Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities.

Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.

Ren'Py — Visual novel engine with a rich repository.

Comparison table

See also