Since I don’t use Steam and NEVER ever rent a game, I buy/own or else I do without I find it a little hard to get good games. Yes, I have KPatience,Kmahjong, Speed Dreams, SuperTuxKart but besides those not much to my fancy. In my opinion, I don’t know how some of the junk games even get into the repository. Sure, they may not have any bad code but they aren’t even close to be of any quality. I wish this could be addressed somehow and tthe standards raised. Just my 2 cents is all.
I guess they came included in workstation or plasma.
It is a shame that many older games that used to be good are not not working or not great and are still packaged in the desktops.
There is also a Fedora Games Lab that is not very good and is largely broken. Some people have planned to replace it and upgrade it to KDE, but the timeline on that has stretched out.
Personally, I have hundreds of games on Linux that run awesome via Wine and Lutris. I purchase them from GOG. There are also some other very cheap sources of games that run under Wine.
If you want to raise the standard, post here or get in touch with the Games SIG and let us know what games are still great.
Getting in touch with the dev a lot of times is impossible. As far as some that still work there is Unreal Tournament, xonotinic, extreme tux racer. These are of course in the repository. Others I have gotten elsewhere like Blur, Drive Rally, Need for speed most wanted, Need for speed Prostreet, Super Woden Rally to name a few.
I can’t find Unreal Tournament in the Fedora repos.
There is Quake 3, but it does not work (on my F43).
Yes, sorry. Only the launcher. I got it elsewhere. I forget but sometimes if you google it you can find out how to install via the terminal.
that package is totally out of date. According to changelog the last significant update is from
Thu Jul 28 2011 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 1.36-11.svn2102
- Update to 1.36 svn snapshot r2102
- This fixes 2 security issues where a malicious server could execute arbitrary
code on connecting clients (rhbz#725951):
CVE-2011-1412: Execute arbitrary shell commands on connecting clients
CVE-2011-2764: Arbitrary code execution when native-code DLLs are enabled
- Update the autodownload + launch script for UrbanTerror to 4.1.1
better check out the source from GitHub - ioquake/ioq3: The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena · GitHub and compile yourself or download a precompiled binary.
An alternative that works also very well is quake3e
I’m interested in games packaged in Fedora as along with another contributor I am writing a beginners guide to Fedora.
We want to feature some great games that are packaged in Fedora and work out of the box.
So far we have supertuxcart and 0ad
I’ve always been a keen gamer, and only want to show off the best.
More recommendations welcome.
How could I forget Minetest (Luanti)
and I just heard of Endless Sky
I mostly clone the source, modify and compile locally
quake:
- vkquake (vulkan port)
- ironwail opengl4.6 port with many, (too many?) , QoL changes
- both are forks of quakespasm Opengl SDL/SDL2 works on almost every hw, requires only very modest opengl support.
quake2: yamagi quake2 source port
Doom3
dhewm3 ( packaged by rpmfusion?) for the original game data, not the BFG version
RBDOOM source port for the DOOM3 BFG edition
some other classics maybe worth looking into are:
uzdoom and eduke32
One game I started playing recently which is pretty funny is freedink. It’s in the repos. It’s a rpg and has some dark humor in it if that’s your thing.
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I just found Cro-Mag Rally and if you like racing games with style I would recommend this one.
I would also add Freeciv and The Battle for Wesnoth.
Cheers,
Wesnoth installs and then crashes before the second turn,
sudo dnf install wesnoth
Freeciv (Gtk4) works well and is gives that classic Civ vibe.
sudo dnf install freeciv
Hmmm, OK. I haven’t installed and played it in a while.
