What Linux Games Are Most Important To You?

[Michael]

I've received a request to find out what the most popular / important Linux games are to you. For those that play any games on their Linux OS, please share the titles below. Once we have a nice list of games, we'll then set it up for a voting process.

While I don't normally play any games, I'll start by listing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars :)

Note: If you're playing games within WINE, just list WINE but the Windows game being run is not needed.

[RobbieAB]

xfreecell
Battle of Wesnoth
Heroes of Might and Magic III
nethack

[curaga]

Duke Nukem 3d
Ace of Penguins

[bridgman]

Nexuiz, 'cause you get lots of grenades :D

[Dragonlord]

To be honest, none so far. The games I like are not on Linux. The last I played though has been OA.

[deanjo]

UT99 and NWN

[storma]

savage2
sauerbraten
tremulous
ace_freecell

[Extreme Coder]

In addition to playing quite a few games in WINE, I play:

- Regnum Online - best native MMORPG for Linux so far, surprised nobody here plays it.. You should do an article on it Michael :)
- Urban Terror - Much better than CS for me ;)
- RTCW and W:ET - for the Woflenstein fan in me :P
- Teeworlds - Quite the fun little online game, also surprised no one here plays it..
- Savage 1 - Who can go for long without this one? :P I really want to buy the second part, but money issues prevent me from doing so..

I guess thats it.. I will post again if I find something I missed :P

[Dragonix]

(unsorted)
Already released
-Quake 3 Arena
-Frozen Bubble (I just love it :D)
-Penumbra (It's really awesome)

Announced:
-Shadowground :)


But I can't say which is the best. Even that list is only a top 3/4. I also love d3, et:qw, q4, ut2k4, ss1+1,5+2, nethack, . That's the advantage of Linux as a gaming platform: We get few games, but very good games :)

[Redeeman]

quake
ut2k4

[Kano]

Frets on Fire is really cool - I even patched the kernel once to support the GH3 PC guitar (same as the one for GH2 Xbox 360).

Zero Ballistics was fun too, just waiting for an update with more levels...

[xav1r]

quake 1-4.
ut2k4
dominions 3
Urban Terror
NWN

[grantek]

ETQW
Quake 1-4
Nexuiz
Wine

[Melcar]

Got into Tremulous again. Forgot how much the battles suck. Basically all everyone does is build a bunch of crap in their bases and wait. Fun game nonetheless.
Still, Warsow and Nexuiz are the top favorites. If fglrx were to seriously break those games I don't know what I would do.

[domkop]

(...)
-Frozen Bubble (I just love it :D)

Are you kidding me? This is also a favourite of mine. :eek: Gotta love tossin' 'em coloured balls. :D

Other games I like to play:
WINE - ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS - DOOM3 - SAVAGE 2: A TORTURED SOUL - PENUMBRA (both installments are just great) - OPEN ARENA - SECRET MARYO CHRONICLES - SUPER TUX KART (although a real physics engine would do this game good) - MEDAL OF HONOR: ALLIED ASSAULT - ...

[hdas]

played doom3 and quake4 completely in linux :). addictive games : frozen-bubble, neverputt, bzflag (on lan), cannonsmash (its a wonderful 3d table tennis game), chromium b.s.u., neverball (too difficult and frustrating for me :p), armagetron(ad), supertux, pingus, and last but not the least, quake3arena. Sorry if I missed out on any, but in short, there I find no dearth of quality games in linux, eventhough I would like to have some more. And these games are by-and-large perfect - I had nothing more to ask.

Speaking of wine, I have also played the entire game of portal through steam. Occasionally slow, but by-and-large very good. Pretty amazing how far wine has come. I was also amazed when one of the racing games I am addicted to - test drive unlimited, ran near perfectly on wine 0.9.55 (too bad it got borked later in 0.9.57, and guess it was fixed in wine 1.1.0) - a beautiful game, but it seems badly ported from console to pc. Although I don't play Need for Speed any more, last time I saw nfs underground play very well.

[Marox]

* both Penumbra titles
* Eschalon Book 1
* Penny Arcade (...) - Episode 1
* Postal 2 Multiplayer
* Planeshift
* FreeCiv

[eokiahn]

ETQW
Quake IV
Doom 3
UT2K4
NWN
Eschalon Book I
Majesty Gold
Heretic II
Kohan Immortal Sovereign

Those are the Linux-native titles I play, but the vast majority of my time playing games is spent playing WoW through Wine as well as The Orange Box titles. I'm also quite addicted to Peggle and the Oddworld compilation available through Steam.

[Snickersnack]

ioquake3
Openarena
Tremulous
Darkplaces
Nexuiz
Blobwars: Metal Blob Solid
Wesnoth
Nethack

[Joe Sixpack]

I just played Nexuiz for the first time about 2 weeks ago, and I'm hooked. I was always hesitant because the screenshots didn't look too good. Now that I've played it, I like it more than Warsow and Alien Arena combined. It's a really fun game, and the graphics are much better than I anticipated.

The funny part is, I wouldn't have tried it had I not seen the YouTube videos of it.

Oh, and the best game on Linux is clearly Neverball :)

[Extreme Coder]

I just played Nexuiz for the first time about 2 weeks ago, and I'm hooked. I was always hesitant because the screenshots didn't look too good. Now that I've played it, I like it more than Warsow and Alien Arena combined. It's a really fun game, and the graphics are much better than I anticipated.

The funny part is, I wouldn't have tried it had I not seen the YouTube videos of it.

Oh, and the best game on Linux is clearly Neverball :)
How could I've forgotten Neverball/Neverputt? :/

[Xipeos]

Alpha Centauri, Majesty, Kohan, Nexuiz and X.

[Fixxer_Linux]

UT2K4
Ennemy Territory : Quake Wars
Teeworlds (formely known as "Teewars")

[gilboa]

By order of importance:
1. X2/3. (My wife will divorce me one day because of this game...)
2. ETQW.
3. UT2K4.
4. Doom3. (When I need a good scare...)
5. Wine (TFC2, RO).
5. Quake 3/4 (Modifications).

- Gilboa

[niniendowarrior]

Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights, and Neverwinter Nights.

Does that count as 3? :D

To tell you the truth, I've been very frustrated everytime I try a new Linux game...

[Dragonlord]

I'm astonished so many can use Steam with Wine. That's a no-go over here ( steam crashes... bong ).

[energyman]

wesnoth, ut2004, vegastrike

[BlackStar]

WINE here.

[deanjo]

Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights, and Neverwinter Nights.

Does that count as 3? :D

To tell you the truth, I've been very frustrated everytime I try a new Linux game...


It could with all the expansion packs. Best damn linux native game around. Tons of replay value.

[ferreira]

Vendetta Online
ToME
BZFlag

[Joe Sixpack]

Hey...

You mean to tell me I'm the only person in here that likes PokerTH?

I'm an old school Linux gamer - I still play chromium :P

[Thetargos]

Here is my list, though I don't play all the games all the time, I DO play every now and then pretty much all of the following:

Commercial:

Quake 2 through 4
Unreal 1 (under UT99) and many other mods (Xidia/Operation Napali)
UT99
UT2K4
RTCW
Doom 3 and D3 RoE
Neverwinter Nights (I have also SoU and HotU)
Shogo MAD (the Hyperion version)
Serious Sam (first encounter)
Penumbra (both games)


Open Source

Battle for Wesnoth
Frozen Bubble
Open Arena (I still like some elements better in Q3A, tho)
Urban Terror
Super Tux
Super Tux Cart
Neverball/Neverputt
Free Droid RPG (what can I say, I do like it)
GNOME/KDE Games (especially solitaire and Mahjong)


Lastly, lots of Wine, I won't go into which games I do play under Wine (as requested by Michael).

[Thetargos]

Hey...

You mean to tell me I'm the only person in here that likes PokerTH?

I'm an old school Linux gamer - I still play chromium :P

Ever since it vanished from the repos in Fedora, I have been longing for it (though I know I can still install the Fedora Core 2 rpm), it is my understanding that the game has been largely unmaintained.

[Thetargos]

I also have, though do not play them as much, not to mention one has a complete substitute:


Rune for Linux
Soldier of Fortune for Linux
Unreal Tournament 2003

[RagingDragon]

Games I currently play somewhat regularly:

Quake 4
Doom 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
Sauerbrauten
Warzone 2100
Battle for Wesnoth


Commerical games I'd like to purchase in near future:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Never Winter Nights


I also plan to experiment with Nexuiz, Glest and Freeciv. I'll eventually get around to trying the other open source FPS games, and I'm always looking for good strategy games (though time limits my ability to actually play them...:(). At some point I'll probably look at TORCS, x-plane and flight gear.

[yotambien]

Openarena 99.99% of the time.

On the freak side, and at the time of the last cigarette before leaving work, Slingshot match against some colleague.

[dashcloud]

I play Frozen Bubble and KQ (final fantasy style clone, open source).

[grantek]

Oooh - while Wine's on the table, put down SWF (Flash) as well - I'd play more flash games if the proprietary Linux player wasn't buggy...

[Thetargos]

Michael, this is not fair, there are simply too many games a single person can care to have, even if you don't play them all the time... How could I have forgotten three other games (two commercial, one free) such as:

*Glest (very well done, if only its map editor was easier to use [or there was a 3D based map editor] and I'd very much appreciate a campaign, there's plenty with the current two factions to come up with a campaign, problem is if it does support scripting)

*Heretic II, I loved this game back in the day, and simply forgot about it.

*Hexen II, I know though not "officially" ported there are native binaries to run it on Linux (I simply never cared, but maybe I'll install it again just for kicks)

[niniendowarrior]

It could with all the expansion packs. Best damn linux native game around. Tons of replay value.

Damn right there! I have that and Kingmaker, and other Premium modules. That should count for umm... more! :D

Ever since I've installed it on Linux, I've never really uninstalled it. It's also a good reference point while working on Neveredit.

[Joe Sixpack]

Ever since it vanished from the repos in Fedora, I have been longing for it (though I know I can still install the Fedora Core 2 rpm), it is my understanding that the game has been largely unmaintained.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Linux games had an updated to it about a month ago, although I couldn't find the changes it made, if any.

Right now I'm using openSUSE 11, but Gentoo also provides a functional ebuild for it. I emerged it myself on an AMD64 system about 3 weeks ago.

[niniendowarrior]

To be honest, I've always wanted to get Baldur's Gate 2 to work, but much of that GEMrb refuses to cooperate with me.

[Thetargos]

If I'm not mistaken, I think Linux games had an updated to it about a month ago, although I couldn't find the changes it made, if any.

Right now I'm using openSUSE 11, but Gentoo also provides a functional ebuild for it. I emerged it myself on an AMD64 system about 3 weeks ago.

IIRC one of the problems with the game was that (apparently) it didn't work right with newer versions of OpenAL. I'll have a look around, though.

[grigi]

NWN + 2 expansions
Ankh
Ankh 2
Cold War
Battle for Wesnoth
Xmoto
Lincity
OpenTTD
Nethack

[Aradreth]

Nexuiz
nethack
xmoto
Neverball
Uplink
NWN + expansions

[Aradreth]

To be honest, I've always wanted to get Baldur's Gate 2 to work, but much of that GEMrb refuses to cooperate with me.
I've had a fair few problems with GEMrb when I last tried it and ended up using wine to get my BG2 fix.

[Nille_kungen]

I like games like ankh where you solve things.
I'm thinking about grabbing a copy Jack Keane since it's my kind of games.
The only thing about that kind of games is that it's only real fun the first time you solve it. (but it's the most entertaining game genre)

Other then that i play heroes3 (and 5 in wine), rune and wesnoth.

I play allot more native games but only now and then.

[me262]

Commercial:
Neverwinter Nights
UT99
Quake 4
UT2004
Wine/Cedega

Open Source:
Widelands
Nexuiz
Scorched 3D

There's more in the lists, but in the heels of a system reload, I'm still installing applications as I need them.

[BlueKoala]

Nexuiz =]
Doom3
Quake4
Savage2 occasionally

Planning on getting ET:QW when my newer system is more stable.

I do play Counter-strike 1.6 via steam via Wine.
I find using steam a bit of a pain, plus when it's stacked on top of Wine.

I also use dosbox to play older titles such as:
Carmageddon (Still my favorite game!!)
Blood
Simcity 2000(DOS)
Syndicate Wars

Mind you I am using ubuntu and I do fairly often download random games from add/remove applications menu.

Tuxmath keeps me from rusting
GFCE Ultra is a must if you like NES games.
I use also use ZSNES.

Again, if the issues are resolved on my ATI rig with Ubuntu's 8.10 release I'll be a very happy camper playing ET:QW (Not a camping gimp)

I have yet to find 2 copies of UT2004 for me and my roomate to play.
UT3 would be nice.... but........ =/

[Mithrandir]

The Battle for Wesnoth
NetHack

[divan]

Don't forget OpenTTD :)

[ChemicalBrother]

True Combat: Elite
Teeworlds
Warsow
WINE
Neverwinter Nights + 2 expansions
Battle for Wesnoth
Widelands
Freeciv
UFO: Alien Invasion
Wormux
Secret Maryo Chronicles


Many... I know. :D

[Killermuecke]

Games right now: Quake 4; et:qw and ut2k4.

Once the UT3-client is out I will replace my nv-card (8600gts) with a new one from ATI. (I pre-ordered two copies of UT3, still waiting for the client... special thanks to phoronix for sticking to that topic)

I don't put money into games that do not have native linux support, no wine for me.

[map_]

Battle for Wesnoth
TA Spring
Kohan
Majesty
Frozen Bubble
ut2003 & ut2004
dosbox
WINE

[blubberblafasel]

TA Spring definitely!

[cttw]

A big cheer for the Spring Project. Its more addictive than crack.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/

[nycerine]

Personally I use WINE for 3 titles, but I do a lot of playing with Urban terror.
I'm partly surprised that there's not so many playing it, atleast not here.

[Mr. Anderson]

Battle for Wesnoth
freeciv
widelands
lgeneral
the KDE4 games are neat, too

[Detructor]

Wine


Enemy Territory:Quake Wars


Teeworlds


Glest


World of Padman


Nexuiz


Zero Ballistics (atm it's only beta...but one the devs said that it'll be finale before christmas :))

[dotancohen]

Whenever you play a game in Wine, make sure that you write to the developer and let them know that there is interest in running their game on Linux. If we don't let them know that we want Linux-native games, then they will never write them.

ArenaNet (Guild wars) http://www.arena.net/contact.php

Ironclad Games (Sins of a Solar Empire) http://www.ironcladgames.com/contact.html

Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform-us.xml

Firzxis (Civilization IV) http://www.firaxis.com/support/

Electronic Arts (lots of games) http://www.info.ea.com/company/company_prlist.php

Valve (Steam: Counterstrike, other games) http://www.valvesoftware.com/contact.html

Activision (Gun) http://www.activision.com/index.html#contact|en_US

Nival Interactive (Heroes of Might and Magic V) http://www.nival.com/contacts/

Ubisoft (Heroes of Might and Magic V) http://www.ubi.com/US/Info/Info.aspx?tagname=ContactUs

[[Knuckles]]

Only play occasionally, but:


Savage
Tremulous
Wine

[Thetargos]

Whenever you play a game in Wine, make sure that you write to the developer and let them know that there is interest in running their game on Linux. If we don't let them know that we want Linux-native games, then they will never write them.

Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform-us.xml

While letting know the producers of the game that you'd like their game natively, chances are that if it runs in Wine is good enough for them.

By the way, this Blizzard link is flawed, it only allows for WoW, while that is about the only Blizzard title I don't play in Wine ;)

[Dragonlord]

I would add emulators for consoles. Linux had it's share and ( even if it might be questionable )... plays games :D .

That said I had around here besides OA... ut99/2k4... and some of the older quake games. They are though no more installed ( need space for other things ).

Will there be a list of all the mentioned games? I've seen some flashing by which I should try out once upon time ( more brainer games than shooters I mean ).

[Morlyn]

Wine. I play a lot and wine is my savior atm. Blizzard needs to make clients for linux, seriiosly, its about time.

[hochglanz]

X2 - The Threat
X-Plane 9 (although it's a simulator, not a game)
Uplink

and it will be probably X3 - Reunion when the holy day of release is coming...

[Filthpig]

I'm not much of a gamer, but I did buy Doom 3 because of the Linux support, the same with nwn + both exps. These days though, I mainly play Civ IV through Wine, and I'd love to get football manager working. Other than that it's old games like sam & max hit the road, full throttle, and Warcraft 3.. So I mostly use Wine for my games.. I often find the open source games a bit.. boring, sorry. Too often they feel like half-hearted clones of old bestseller games. I do mean to try out this Nexuiz-game when I'm back home, my old laptop which I use right now is hardly capable of pulling compiz smoothly ;)

[M1AU]

Titles I play(ed) and think these are important to me on Linux.


Most importantly ETQW and almost every ID title such as the Quake or Doom series with a native Linux port.
ioQuake3/Qfusion - because a lot of good games such as UrbanTerror or Warsow are based on it. Again ID Software is responsible for this.
Savage 2, Eschalon, Rain-Slick, Darwinia, Defcon, Uplink, Penumbra, etc. - because these are great titles and were developed from Indi developers which plays an important role in this whole Linux Gaming market.
EVE-Online - It's actually cedega/wine based and not really that great supported, but still one of the few MMOGs out there which bundles a Linux package together.
WINE - (Starcraf, Warcraft, etc.)

[ethana2]

Nexuiz: completely awesome but at the same time very traditional
Tremulous: buggy as crap and old as moses, but still quite unique and strategic
Urbanterror: because plasma weapons aren't all that satisfying when you really just want to shoot things up.
Warsow: looks like it would be awesome, if, you know, it worked. Meh, I'll just blame nVidia..

[quintesse]

UT2K4 (but that's already years ago)
WINE (for WoW, but also a year or so that I haven't played it)

what I *want* is CS but that's just unplayable using WINE (or rather instead of being a reasonably good player it turns me into a bottom feeder)

[Slash]

All of them are important to me! If it's got linux binaries, I buy it. I even search eBay for Loki and other releases that are out of print. Here's a list of only a few setup on my computer:

Alpha Centauri
Darwinia
Defcon
Doom
Doom 3
Doom II
Duke Nukem 3D (eduke32)
Enemy Territory
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
FreeOrion
Freeciv
Frozen Bubble
Hereos of Might and Magic III
Legends
MAME (gmameui) and other countless emulators ;)
Nethack
Neverball
Neverwinter Nights
Nexuiz
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Overture
Quake (ezquake)
Quake 2
Quake 3 (ioQuake3) + Mods
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Savage
Savage 2
Second Life
Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam: First Encounter (icculus binaries)
Serious Sam: Second Encounter (icculus binaries)
Soldier of Fortune
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
Warsow
X2

And if you want to count Wine, I run Steam to play Day of Defeat (classic) and World of Warcraft. It's a shame there isn't a native client for World of Warcraft, seeing as the beta had one :(

[Throwing Strikes]

-Glest
-Nexuiz
-Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
-Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
-Quake 4.
-Neverball
-Frozen Bubble
*World of Warcaft under wine

[psdbdn]

1- Wine
2- Postal²
3- Frozen Bubble

[matti3]

for the moment:
- urban terror
- enemy territory
- wine
- tremulous

[bell]

* Quake World: Enemy Territory
* a little bit of WoW (opengl)
* Quake 4
* Doom 3

(And a little bit of TrackMania Nations, which I would love to be able to play on linux, but which I must dualboot into XP to play for now :( )

[blueskynis]

Frozen bubble ;)
Sudoku
AisleRiot Solitaire :)

[numasan]

I don't play as much PC now as before, but not only because I just use Linux (can't find the time..). Still very interested in gaming, though. The most important games for me are the Quake-series, primarily Q3A. id Software is very important to Linux gaming and me, as they release prior engines under GPL and I like the gameplay, so I always buy their games even though I don't play them through ("I'll complete it another time"..).


My list:

id Software games (+ games by partners)
Darwinia
Warsow
NWN
Neverput
UT2004
Chromium B:S:U
Majesty Gold
Typespeed ;)
WINE (only for Blizzard games except WoW)

I haven't bought it yet, but I'm very excited about the Penny Arcade game(s), so I'm sure that would be high on my list. If Blizzard made native Linux clients for SC2 & D3, I think they would maybe rank higher than id!

Lastly I like and own two older shareware games, Marble Blast Gold and Mutant Storm, but gave up trying to get them to work on a modern Linux system... Not so cool.

Curious what you have in mind, Michael! :)

[dotancohen]

While letting know the producers of the game that you'd like their game natively, chances are that if it runs in Wine is good enough for them.

By the way, this Blizzard link is flawed, it only allows for WoW, while that is about the only Blizzard title I don't play in Wine ;)

Then especially the games that don't run in Wine, tell them about! I will find another Blizzard link, thanks.



Wine. I play a lot and wine is my savior atm. Blizzard needs to make clients for linux, seriiosly, its about time.

Tell them that, seriously!


what I *want* is CS but that's just unplayable using WINE (or rather instead of being a reasonably good player it turns me into a bottom feeder)

Write to them and let them know!

[Thetargos]

I'd also like to have more adventure games on Linux, the genre itself seems to be making a comeback (Ankh, Jack Keane, Penumbra), but I'd definitely like other titles as well (such as Longest Journey and the like) or Action-Adventure titles (a la Prince of Persia, God of War et al. [of course not those specific titles, much less console-exclusive titles]). Gaming seems to be becoming saturated with Action shooters and MMOs.

[Aradreth]

Gaming seems to be becoming saturated with Action shooters and MMOs.
So true FPS games have been done to death now, where are the RPG's and RTS's already? :(

[cyrex]

On DosBox i play:
+A LOT of old sierra games like quest for glory, kings quest and others of that time. Great times..

On WINE i play:
+WoW
+Penumbra Part 1, Part 2
+Starcraft + Broodwar
+Civilization 4
+N4SU, N4SU2
+Max Payne 1 & 2

On Native Linux i play:
+Lemming style Penguin (dont remember the name)
+Wesnoth
+StarFighter

[Forge]

The ones that are released.

Here's looking at you, Epic.

[dscharrer]

Wine
Neverwinter Nights (+ SoU and HotU)
Nexuiz
Super Tux
Open Astromenace
Neverball/Neverputt
OpenTTD
KPatience
Crack-attack
Also lots of other smaller arcade games.
Sauerbraten, Warsow, Alien Arena and World of Padman also look nice, but I currently don't play them much.

[bruno08]

Top ten.

1. Savage 1
2. TA-Spring
3. Urban Terror
4. World of Padman
5. Wormux
6. Battle for Wesnoth
7. Quake 4
8. Savage 2
9. Unreal Tournament 2004
10. Enemy Territory:Quake Wars

Others on occasion and Wine with some simple Windows games for the kids.

[ovoskeuiks]

All a little sedate but this is work machine

PokerTH
Sudoku
Mahjong

[bulletxt]

MAME
epsxe
psx
zsnes

True Combat Elite

[Chris]

While letting know the producers of the game that you'd like their game natively, chances are that if it runs in Wine is good enough for them.
If a company cares about the game running in Wine, they don't care about the game running on Linux (wee, paradox!). Wine is way too volatile for the type of gaurantee developers/publishers would give, so those that would say "Wine is good enough" really doesn't care if Wine runs it or not.

Being officially supported by something like Cedega or CrossOver (where game compatibility is gauranteed for certain titles) would be something else, but then, with the work needed to get it working properly and get an official gaurantee of continued compatibility.. may as well just make a native Linux port at that point (especially if you have the hard part done with porting to GL+AL/whatever with an OSX port).

[SlickMcRunfast]

Quake 3 (keeping people entertained until the end of time)
UT2004 (keeping the competition)
Penumbra 1/2 (keeping people urine free)
ETQW (keeping the graphics level up)
Savage 2 (keeping people pissed off)
Penny Arcade EP. 1 (keeping people laughing)

[Thetargos]

On WINE i play:
+Penumbra Part 1, Part 2


Err, Penumbra has native versions of both games, or did you buy the Windows version before migrating to Linux?

[Svartalf]

The ones that are released.

Here's looking at you, Epic.

Heh... That's the right way of presenting your ire, Forge. :D

[cjr2k3]

WINE and WINE :P

[niniendowarrior]

I'm sad that Darwinia does not get a nod here. :( It's a mighty fine game, you know?

Adding to the list, Mupen64 Plus and Mame. Ironically, playing the same game.

I will say is that, what Linux as a platform has in abundance is shooters. Almost every shooter in Linux is a derivative of Quake 3. lol.

[Remco]

Just registered.

I mostly play X-Moto now. It's a 2D motor stunting game. The reason I play it so often is because a level only takes about a minute, so you can always start the game, hit Quick Play and do a few stunts if you're bored. And it's actually very challenging.

The more serious games I play are:

Free software:

Nexuiz
Sauerbraten
Warsow

Non-free:

Descent 2 (d2x)
Doom 3
Quake
Quake 3
UT
UT2004
Return to Casdtle Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line (might become free when released, but the demo isn't)

And in Wine: Half-Life series, Hitman series, C&C3, GTA2, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Scorcher.

[niniendowarrior]

I wonder if this thread is really about:

Native Linux games vs Wine games tally.

I'm certainly getting a gut feel that's how this article will focus on.

[Slythought]

native:
Alpha Centauri

Wine:
Steam (except i haven't gotten it to work yet)
Heroes of might and magic III complete

[Aradreth]

I'm sad that Darwinia does not get a nod here. :( It's a mighty fine game, you know?
It's a very good game but without multiplayer support it lacks at bit... (can't wait for multiwinia though!)

[sloggerKhan]

Nexuiz is huge.
Enemy Territory on occasion.
Super Tux
TA Spring (I have trouble managing this properly, I wish there were a better linux front end for setting up games, managing mods and maps.)
Am waiting for Danger from the deep, it seems pretty cool.
I give BSG:BTRL and Vega Strike a shot on occasion. Used to be they taxed my graphics to much and weren't that playable, but I have a newer card now.
Lastly, that 3-D tanks game with the different weapons is pretty fun.

[Vadi]

Savage 2 (what's up with the character limit?)

[djdoo]

WOW! Smells like Crossfire spirit...
I read all the posts and I am really very happy with the response of all of you folks! Learned new game titles too:)

Most of the games I 'd like to mention are already here(Nexuiz etc..) except 2...

-RACER(http://www.racer.nl)
-No Gravity
-Sauerbraten (Only one friend told about it which is really unfair for this very well built modern 3D open source game)

For the commercial ones now I really don't think we should mention them here their companies can tell AMD to include their titles at Crossfire support.

[kaptain_zero]

Nexuiz
UT2004

I use wine a lot but not for games.

[RagingDragon]

I haven't used Wine, or any of it's derivatives, for gaming. I play the Linux ports of UT2004, Doom 3 and Quake 4, and I'll probably buy ET:QW too. I also play a variety of open source games.