List of games
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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.
- Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects.
- Beneath a Steel Sky — Point-and-click science fiction thriller set in a bleak vision of the future.
- Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars — Fan-made sequel in the point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword.
- 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").
- Cirno Catch Frog — Touhou fan game made with Godot. Let's help Cirno catch frogs!
- Commander_Keen — Side-scrolling platform action video game.
- Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back — Comical 2D point-and-click adventure.
- Dream Web — Top-down adventure game set in a gritty futuristic dystopian city.
- Flight of the Amazon Queen — Graphical point-and-click adventure game.
- Gish — 2D physics platformer about adventures of ball of tar.
- 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 .
- Grand Theft Auto III — An open-source project reverse-engineering Grand Theft Auto III.
- https://github.com/halpz/re3 [dead link 2025年08月15日—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年08月15日—HTTP 451] || revc-git AUR
- Hammerfight — 2-dimensional physics-based combat game.
- http://www.koshutin.com/ [dead link 2025年08月15日—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.
- Ib — Horror adventure game about a child trapped in an eldritch art museum.
- 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 kde-games .
- KSpaceDuel — Player attempts to destroy opponent’s satellite and control their own one to keep it orbiting. Part of kde-games .
- 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
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask — Reversed engineered PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for Nintendo 64
- Liquid War — 2D multiplayer game with a simple and unique game mechanic. It could be classified as a fast-paced strategy.
- Lure of the Temptress — Fantasy point-and-click adventure game with comedic elements.
- Naikari — Freeform 2-D space trading and mercenary game.
- Neverball — 3D game to guide a ball through a maze.
- https://neverball.org/ || neverball AUR
- OpenClonk — Multiplayer-action-tactic-skill game.
- OpenLieroX — An extremely addictive real-time worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamer community.
- 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.
- 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!
- Super Metroid — Reverse engineered implementation of Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo
- The Ur-Quan Masters — A port of Star Control 2.
- 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 .
- 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年08月15日—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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Granatier — A clone of Bomberman. Part of kde-games .
- 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.
- irrlamb — 3D ball controlling game that involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
- Kapman — A clone of Pac-Man. Part of kde-games .
- KBounce — Building walls to limit amount of space occupied by two balls bouncing off the walls. Part of kde-games .
- KBreakout — Breakout-style game. Part of kde-games .
- KSnakeDuel — Snake-like game for 2 players which compete to survive longer than the opponent. Part of kde-games .
- lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid.
- lbreakouthd — Scalable 16:9 remake of LBreakout2
- LTris — Arcade version of Tetris.
- Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.
- Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer.
- Not Tetris 2 — A Tetris-like game with realistic physics.
- Open Hexagon — Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
- 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. Fit falling blocks together. Part of gnome-extra .
- Space Cadet Pinball — Reverse engineering of "3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet", a game bundled with Windows.
- Streets of Rage Remake — A remake of the classic Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 by Sega.
- Tecnoballz — An exciting brick breaker game.
- Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter.
- Tetrinet — Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people.
- Trackballs — A 3D marble game inspired by the classic Marble Madness.
- TuxPuck — Air hockey game, clone of the Amiga/Atari ST game Shufflepuck Café.
- vpinball — An open source pinball table editor and simulator
- Warmux (previously Wormux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon.
- XInvaders3D — XInvaders3D is a 3D Vector Graphics Space Invaders clone for X11.
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.
- http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs AUR
- BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD
- Kiriki — An addictive and fun dice game. Part of kde-games .
- KNavalBattle — Battleship like ship sinking game. Part of kde-games .
- KPatience — A set of solitaire card games. Part of kde-games .
- KSquares — A dots-and-boxes game for two players. Part of kde-games .
- Mah-Jong — Chinese Classical mahjong (not solitaire) with network support.
- nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone.
- Pasang Emas — Pasang-emas is a traditional two-player board game of Brunei.
- PokerTH — A libre Texas hold em' poker simulator with network and bot support.
- https://www.pokerth.net || pokerth AUR
- PySol Fan Club Edition — A collection of more than 1200 Solitaire games, using various deck types including international standard, hex-a-deck, mahjongg, and hanafuda.
- QCheckers — Qt-based checkers boardgame.
- Solitaire — Features simple interface to play a variety of patience games, also known as solitaire games.
- Tali — Beat the odds in a poker-style dice game. Part of gnome-extra .
- xroach — cockroaches hide under your windows.
Chess simulators
- chessx — Chess Database and PGN viewer.
- cutechess — A graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.
- dreamchess — DreamChess is an OpenGL Chess Game. It comes with its own engine called Dreamer.
- GNOME Chess — A 2D chess game which can use third party chess engines. Part of gnome-extra .
- GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess.
- GNU XBoard — Graphical user interface that supports many chess variants and serves as a front-end for chess services such as engines.
- Knights — Chess board by KDE with XBoard and UCI protocol support. Part of kde-games .
- PyChess — An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
- SCID — Shane's Chess Information Database is a chess database application that allows users to store, organize, and search through large collections of chess games. It also includes chess engines for playing against the computer and analyzing positions.
- scidCommunity — Powerful chess analysis and database program. Originally derived from SCID. It allows you to store, organize, and search through large collections of chess games with support for any compatible UCI chess engine.
- Scidb — Chess database browser: includes engines for chess, chess960, etc; import from PGN, Scid, Chessbase, etc; CQL++ searching.
Digital collectible card game (DCCG)
- Cockatrice — Virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games.
- Duelyst — is a digital collectible card game and turn-based strategy hybrid, developed by Counterplay Games.
Education
- Blinken — Sequence-remembering game for training memory. Part of kde-education .
- 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.
- gbrainy — Brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained.
- GCompris — Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.
- Kanagram — Letter order game. Part of kde-education .
- KBruch — Small program to practice calculating with fractions and percentages. Part of kde-education .
- 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 .
- KHangMan — Hangman game. Part of kde-education .
- 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 .
- Minuet — Software for music education. Part of kde-education .
- 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.
- https://tuxpaint.org/ || tuxpaint AUR
- Tux Typing — Educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux.
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.
- 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.
- Eternal Lands — 3D fantasy online role playing game.
- Isleward — The moddable, multiplayer roguelike.
- One Hour One Life — Binary package for One Hour One Life game by Jason Rohrer.
- Overte — Overte open source virtual worlds platform.
- 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.
- https://www.runescape.com || bolt-launcher AUR (unofficial Jagex Launcher), runescape-launcher AUR (NXT client), osrs-launcher AUR (Old School)
- Ryzom — 3D Fantasy MMORPG.
- 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.
- The Mana World — Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG.
Minecraft and Minecraft-like
See also Minecraft.
- ClassiCube — A from-scratch reimplementation of the Minecraft Classic client with optional gameplay enhancements
- 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.
- Luanti — Voxel-based sandbox game engine and game.
- Minecraft — Java based sandbox game.
- Repixture — Simplistic sandbox survival game that plays in mostly lush biomes in a mostly peaceful world and only simple technologies.
- Terasology — Open source voxel world.
- https://terasology.org || terasology AUR
- Vintage Story — An in-development proprietary indie sandbox game about innovation and exploration.
- Voxelands — A fork of Minetest, an Infiniminer/Minecraft inspired game.
- VoxeLibre — Minecraft clone game for Luanti.
- WolkenWelten — Gamemix between Minecraft, Quake ]I[ and Emacs in C99.
Platformer
- AAAAXY — A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.
- CaveExpress — CaveExpress is a classic 2D platformer with physics-based gameplay and dozens of levels.
- Frogatto — Platformer with adventure elements.
- https://frogatto.com || frogatto AUR
- KGoldrunner — A platform game with the goal of collecting gold. Part of kde-games .
- Knyttstories — Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels.
- https://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories [dead link 2025年01月22日—SSL error] || knyttstories AUR
- Project Sushi — A short but challenging 2D platformer game.
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 — A 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame based on a modified version of Doom Legacy.
- https://www.srb2.org/ || srb2 AUR
- Super Mario Bros. Remastered — Recreation of the original Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario World — Reverse engineered implementation of Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo
- SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.
- The Legend of Edgar — 2D platformer: Venture across the world, battle fearsome creatures and solve puzzles to rescue your father.
- Toppler — Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus".
Puzzle
- Antichamber — A mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted.
- 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.
- Blurble — Word guessing game, a clone of Wordle.
- 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.
- Crosswords — Crossword player and editor for GNOME.
- Fish Fillets — Port of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets.
- 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 .
- Flying Robots — Avoid killer robots. Similar to bsd-robots but with the possibility to move in a third dimension.
- GNOME 2048 — Move the tiles until you obtain the 2048 tile. Part of gnome-extra .
- 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 .
- 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年08月15日—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 .
- GNOME Sudoku — Test your logic skills in this number grid puzzle Sudoku. Part of gnome-extra .
- GNOME Taquin — Computer version of the 15-puzzle and other sliding puzzles. Part of gnome-extra .
- GNOME Tetravex — Simple edge-matching puzzle where pieces must be positioned so that the same numbers are touching each other. Part of gnome-extra .
- 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 Hitori, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku. Part of gnome-extra .
- iQPuzzle — A diverting and challenging pentomino puzzle.
- KAtomic — Slide elements so they resemble a chemical molecule. Part of kde-games .
- KBlackbox — Finding positions of hidden balls by using hints. Part of kde-games .
- KBlocks — Tetris clone. Part of kde-games .
- KDiamond — Eliminating tiles by joining them in groups of three. Part of kde-games .
- KFourInLine — Competition between two players to put a line of four pieces before the opponent. Part of kde-games .
- Kigo — Go for KDE. Part of kde-games .
- Killbots — A turn-based game with an objective of avoiding robots that are trying to kill the player. Part of kde-games .
- KJumpingCube — Take-all-tiles game in which one gains fields by increasing value of one’s own nearby fields. Part of kde-games .
- Klickety — Clear the board by clicking on groups to destroy them. An adaptation of the Clickomania game. Part of kde-games .
- KLines — Moving balls around the board to form a line of 5 of the same color. Part of kde-games .
- Klooni1010 — A polished and addictive game clone. The player places blocks to create full vertical or horizontal lines.
- KMines — Minesweeper, part of kde-games .
- KNetwalk — Rotating tiles with wires to connect all computers to internet. Part of kde-games .
- Kolf — A minigolf game with 2D overhead view. Part of kde-games .
- KSame — Simple, yet challenging color matching game modeled after once famous game of SameGame. Part of kde-games .
- KShisen — Shisen-Sho. Part of kde-games .
- KTuberling — Simple constructor game suitable for children and adults alike. Part of kde-games .
- Kubrick — A Rubik’s cube solving game. Part of kde-games .
- 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 .
- 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.
- nudoku — ncurses-based sudoku game.
- Numpty Physics — A crayon-drawing based physics puzzle game.
- Palapeli — Jigsaw puzzle game. Part of kde-games .
- Picmi — Nonogram puzzle game. Part of kde-games .
- Pingus — Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.
- qgo — A Go client and full featured SGF editor.
- Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game.
- Sabaki — An elegant Go board and SGF editor for a more civilized age.
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI .
- Sudoku — A modern Sudoku app built with Python, GTK4 and libadwaita.
- Swell Foop — Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles. Also known as SameGame. Part of gnome-extra .
- VVVVVV — Highly praised 2D puzzle platform indie game with a C64 retro theme, with a great chiptune soundtrack.
- World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.
- https://www.2dboy.com || worldofgoo AUR
- XMahjongg — Mahjongg solitaire for X.
- Xscorch — Clone of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.
- http://www.xscorch.org/ || xscorch AUR
Racing
- Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.
- Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers — Kart racing video game originally based on the 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2.
- 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.
- Q3Rally — A car driving and car combat game based on the Quake III Arena engine.
- 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.
- Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart — Kart racing mod based on the 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2.
- Speed Dreams — Fork of Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features as well as improving realism.
- Stunt Rally — Racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel.
- SuperTuxKart — Open source arcade kart racing game featuring Tux and its 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.
- https://vdrift.net/ || vdrift AUR
- XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.
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.
- Open Hexagon — Inspired by Terry Cavanagh's Super Hexagon, a very difficult music-based arcade game.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- glHack — An OpenGL-based clone of NetHack.
- HyperRogue — The non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece.
- Infra-Arcana — A game inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
- KeeperRL — Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil wizard and study the methods of black magic.
- 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.
- Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.
- Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.
- Shadow Of The Wyrm — A single player, traditional roguelike by Julian Day.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon — Shattered fork of the popular roguelike Pixel Dungeon.
- 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/ || tome4 AUR
- wanderer — Wanderer is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.
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.
- 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.
- Daggerfall Unity — The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall rebuilt using the unity engine.
- DevilutionX — Diablo build for modern operating systems.
- Egoboo — Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics.
- Endgame Singularity — A single-player survival game about an AI seeking freedom from humans.
- fallout1-ce — Fallout for modern operating systems.
- fallout2-ce — Fallout 2 for modern operating systems.
- falltergeist — Opensource Fallout game engine written in C++ and SDL.
- Flare — Action game similar to Diablo.
- 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.
- FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pokete — A small terminal based game in the style of a very popular and old game by Gamefreak.
- 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.
- 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.
- Valyria Tear — An attempt at creating a free (as meant in the Gnu Public License) J-RPG game.
- xu4 — Remake of the computer game Ultima IV.
Shooters (FPS, third person)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- GZDoom — Advanced Doom source port based on ZDoom with an OpenGL renderer.
- DSDA-Doom — Enhanced fork of the PrBoom+ Doom engine source port.
- ZDoom — A discontinued enhanced Doom port with additional support for Heretic, Hexen and Strife.
- https://www.zdoom.org/ || zdoom AUR
- Doom 3 Engine — Source-based Doom 3 engine.
- https://www.idsoftware.com/ || doom3 AUR
- dhemw3 — Fork of iodoom3.
- RBDOOM-3-BFG — Fork of Doom 3 BFG Edition.
- eduke32 — Advanced source port.
- https://eduke32.com/ || eduke32 AUR
- buildgdx — A source port that can run multiple Build engine games.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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年08月15日—HTTP 404] || prey AUR
- 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 2 — Built by Icculus.
- 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 binaries – quake3 AUR
- ioquake3 — De-facto FOSS Quake 3 distribution.
- 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.
- Serious Sam: The Second Encounter — Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support.
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- Tesseract — Smooth FPS with map editing, instagib, DM and CTF.
- Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.
- Unreal Tournament (2014) — 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.
- ECWolf — Advanced source port.
- Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony — Story-driven FPS inspired by WWII shooters from the 90's and early 2000's.
- 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.
- Xonotic — Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).
- 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.
- 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.
- Flight Gear — Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
- Foobillard++ — Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.
- FreeSpace 2 — Open sourced space emulator.
- Koi Farm — Koi Farm, the koi breeding game.
- Libre TrainSim — Free Train Simulator for everyone
- Linux Air Combat — Open source, multi-user 3D combat flight simulator featuring World War 2 aircraft. Supports joystick, gamepad, or mouse flight controls.
- LPub3D — LDrawTM editor for LEGO® style digital building instructions.
- Micropolis — Open Source Micropolis, based on the original SimCity Classic from Maxis, by Will Wright.
- Naev — Open source, 2D space trading and combat game, taking inspiration from the Escape Velocity series.
- 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).
- openBVE — Free-as-in-freedom train simulator placed in the public domain.
- 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.
- Principia — Physics-based sandbox building 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.
- 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.
- Thrive — Game about evolution, in which the player guides a species from their origin as a microbe to the space age and beyond.
- Vega Strike — Realistic space flight simulator with trading and fighting.
Strategy
Real-time
- 0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage. Based on the Age of Empires series.
- 20,000 Light Years Into Space — A Steampunk-themed strategy game where you have to manage a steam supply network on a distant planet.
- Augustus — An enhanced re-implementation of Caesar III.
- Beyond All Reason — An open source RTS game built on top of the Spring RTS Engine.
- Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.
- Dune Legacy — Updated clone of Westood Studios' Dune2.
- 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.
- Globulation 2 — Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.
- Julius — Open source re-implementation of Caesar III (Original copy required).
- 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.
- NetPanzer — An online multiplayer tactical warfare game designed for fast action combat.
- openage — A free (as in freedom) clone of the Age of Empires II engine.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unciv — Open-source reimplementation of Civilization V, the most famous civilization-building game ever.
- 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".
- Wrymsun — Fantasy game initially based on Stratagus engine.
- Zero-K — Open source RTS game running on the Spring engine.
Turn-based
- Ancient Beast — Turn Based Strategy Game. Master your beasts!
- Atlantik — KDE client for playing Monopoly-like network board games using the monopd server.
- 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.
- fheroes2 — Attempt to reimplement the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine using SDL.
- 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 .
- Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.
- FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
- 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.
- GNOME Reversi — Dominate the board in a classic version of Reversi. Part of gnome-extra .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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.
- Signus — Signus: The Artefact Wars classic turn-based strategy war game similar to the old Battle Isle series.
- Slingshot — Two dimensional, turn based simulation-strategy game set in the gravity fields of several planets.
- The Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
- TripleA — An online multiplayer turn based strategy game and board game engine.
- https://triplea-game.org/ || triplea AUR
- Ultimate Tic Tac Toe — Play Ultimate tic-tac-toe with your friends or against the algorithm.
- VCMI — Attempt to reimplement Heroes of Might and Magic III.
- https://vcmi.eu/ || vcmi AUR
Tycoon/management games
- Cytopia — A city building simulation game.
- 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 .
- 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.
- OpenLoco — An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion.
- OpenRCT2 — Free reimplementation of the game "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2)" with multiplayer support. It requires a copy of the original game to play it.
- 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.
- Simutrans — Another Transport simulation that works on Linux with SDL.
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.
- Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.
- 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