Archive for the ‘Linux Gaming’ Category

This article is a brief selection of shooter and strategy games for Linux. It’s not intended to be a complete list, but you can dig into much more information and links by checking the included references at the end of the article.

Shooter Games

AssaultCube is a first-person shooter
http://assault.cubers.net

Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a 3D first-person shooter with integrated map editing mode
http://sauerbraten.org

Nexuiz is a first-person shooter
http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz

Project: Starfighter a multi-directional, objective based shooter game
http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/starfighter.php

Urban Terror is a standalone Quake III Arena first-person shooter
http://www.urbanterror.info/news/home

Warsow is a Quake-like, fast-paced first-person shooter
http://www.warsow.net

Strategy Games

Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game
http://www.wesnoth.org

Glest is a real-time strategy game, with optional multiplayer
http://glest.org/en/index.php

References:

Open Source Games at the Open Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Software/Games/

Linux Gaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming

Open Source Video Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_video_game

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