For me, it’s Factorio.
a game in which you build and maintain factories.
It even has Wayland support!
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- Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)
What’s yours?
EDIT: Great Linux ports* not like some forced ports that barely work or don’t.
Space Station 14, seriously one of the best games I’ve played.
My favorite native game is flight simulation X-plane since version 8. For kids Super Tux Kart.
I will also add other games that I’ve played and absolutely loved them on Linux
Linux Native games that I’ve played
Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.
The thing I love more about the Cube series is that it introduced me to Marc A. Pullen
Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.
Never played it but totally agree!
Isn’t that open source?
Yes, it’s glorious 🤗
I prefer actioncube
- unreasonably realistic open ended post apocalyptic survival simulator roguelike
- similar to dwarf fortress adventure mode (allegedly, never played it)
- you will lose 3 weeks of progress
- every major release makes the game feel like a different game
- cool lore, even if it changes all the time
- puts zomboid to shame
- the best traditional roguelike
- extremely focused design
- tedious features get cut, pure gameplay
- only (subjective) downside is the game is fairly heavily RNG dependent
Both of them are probably in your distribution repository, dcss may be packaged as “crawl” or “stone-soup”.
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Dota 2
UT2004
UT2004
Unreal Tournament 2004? Since when has it native Linux port?
Since release.
Since people have already mentioned Factorio, Dead cells, and Stellaris (which btw all of paradox grand strategy games since CK2 have native versions). I’ll mention a lesser known game that me and my wife love to play, it’s similar to Overcooked (which btw Overcooked 2 has native Linux support) but a lot more calm: Out of Space
Heroes of Might and Magic II, using the fheroes2 recreation engine.
Also HOMM3 using VCMI
A great game I haven’t seen mentioned yet is The Talos Principle (1) that also has a really good native port using Croteams Serious Engine.
Oh, nice. I didn’t know that!
Sadly with The Talos Principle 2 they moved their entire studio to the Unreal Engine 5 and retired their own engine in the process. Apparently they lost a few engineers working on the engine and also couldn’t have kept up with modern engines without some serious investment (no pun intended). On one hand it’s probably for the better as we got a really pretty game where they could focus more on the game instead of bringing the engine up to speed but it’s also sad to see the entire industry converge around engines like Unreal.
Considering the technical mess that was Serious Sam 4 and the fast turnaround of Talos 2, retiring Serious Engine was probably the right call. Wish they went to Godot, but at least they didn’t go with Unity.
Unreal Engine 5 seems fine, but it’s backed by Epic Games that despite Linux users. But that’s understandable. The game engine is not an easy thing to do and maintain.
Most of mine have already been mentioned; KSP, Rimworld, Stellaris.
So I’ll add one of my all time favourite games and say XCom and XCOM 2. I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into xcom 2 with various mods.
Close second is Crusader Kings 2, and close third after that is Empire Total War.
And of course CIV. It’s not a proper list without CIV.
I’ve never finished Xcom 1. It’s the second part that much better that’s it’s worth trying it out still?
I’d say yes; with the mods available 2 is still WELL worth it. i n fact I’m doing yet another play through at this moment.
1 is also excellent, especially with the Long War overhaul installed.
I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.
I hadn’t noticed. but I have no real comparison since I was on Linux long before starting either title, so I’ve never played either on Windows.
They seem to run well enough, so even if its faster on windows and that’s the tradeoff for having no Windows in my house, I’m cool with it.
Yeah. Normally I wouldn’t care, but when the colonies/galaxies get big, even a 30% TPS hit or whatever starts to feel very painful.
My top answers are of course Kerbal Space Program, Dwarf Fortress and Stellaris.
However, all those have been mentioned already, so, to add something new to the list: Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It is currently my favourite cRPG.
Edit: Since you mentioned “Great Linux ports”: Kingmaker has a game-breaking bug in the Linux version regarding Gamepad input. However, as long as you play it with mouse and keyboard (as the gods intended - insert PC Master Race meme), the Linux version is working perfectly fine. However, if you plan on playing it on the Steam Deck, you might want to play the Windows build.
The new Valheim update was pretty fun. I also like playing CS2
Open source, more modern, Ultima Online client. Still need the original art files. https://github.com/ClassicUO/ClassicUO
