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Saved from oblivion by a dedicated team of programmers who've kept it alive, updated it and released the source code for Linux. One of the best RTS games ever released, Warzone 2100 looks and plays like a modern game, not something from the late 90s - which it actually is. The genre-defying Darwinia runs natively on Linux, but its lightly coded follow up is so good that we've included it as the only game requiring Wine on the list, too. £8/£16 - As a developer, Introversion specialises in games that are rewarding to play rather than look fancy. it's hard describe as everything is highly abstracted, but it comes together beautifully well and has a Linux native installer. All you need is a CD key from the Windows game to start nuking the world.įree - The last of our picks from the Independent Games Festival, Dyson is a strategy game that involves conquering asteroids using.
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£6 - There's a fully working Linux client for this beautifully simple strategy game - based on 80s movie WarGames - from Introversion. Winning the game can be achieved by colonising space, and version 2.0 was released just last month. Just like the Maxis title of yore you have to build and maintain a thriving metropolis. Give it a go for something different.Īnother Linux essential is this spin on SimCity. The chances are you'll sit at a blank screen as there's no instructions and what you to do is fairly odd, but the clue is in the title. Guess what Super Tux Kart is a bit like.?Īnother of the finalists from the Independent Games Festival, Coil is a bizarre art-meets-gaming-with-haunting-music-Flash affair. Super Tux is a clone of the Italian plumbering platformer, Super Mario. It may not be quite as slick as the latest Need For Speed, but neither do you need an uber-rig to run it - indeed you'll get it going on low settings on an Eee.įree -, Īgain, we can't not mention these stalwarts of Linux gaming, although they've been around seemingly forever. You can't mention Linux gaming without mentioning TORCS, The Open Source Racing Car Simulator. The MAME project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has been going on for years, and can allow you to play arcade and console games from the 90s (including Atari ST and Amiga classics) if you have the original game code handy.

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One advantage of using a full Linux distribution is that you'll find many games and apps in the standard repositories, which are a one click download and install. Not everything is of that quality, but YHTBTR shows off the kind of quirky thinking of many indie developers well. Free - A good place to start looking for innovative games that won't stress the system is the short-list of the Independent Games Festival awards - the event that spawned the incredible Portal.
