Fedora Gaming
Contrary to what many people may think, there is a growing number of Free and open source games available for Linux. From first-person shooters to RPGs to card games to puzzles and roguelikes, there is plenty to do if you don't feel like working.
A sampling of the current games available from Fedora are listed here. All games are open source, and are free to download and play! Entries marked with
are 3D games that may require a 3D accelerated graphics card.
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News
2008-02-08 Red Hat Magazine: 113 Fedora games
2007-06-11 Red Hat Magazine: Five great games in Fedora
Action Games
Wormux - 2D Convivial Mass Murder Game!
Action: First Person Shooters
freedoom - A new set of episodes for DOOM2.
bzflag - Tank versus tank in a battle of mayhem and strategy
openarena - Open source first person shooter based on Quake III Arena
Arcade and Classic Games
bsd-games - A collection of 42 classic text based games including 'adventure' and 'wump'
freedroid - Clone of the C64 game Paradroid
lacewing - Another multiplayer space shooter
overgod - Another multiplayer space shooter
scorched3d - 3D accelerated version of Scorched Earth
xpilot-ng - A multiplayer space shooter
xscorch - Tanks fighting other tanks
tecnoballz - A Brick Busting game
Card Games
poker2d - 2-D poker client for poker-network servers
poker3d - OpenGL poker client to play on a poker-network server
Platform Games
Abe's Amazing Adventure - A side-scrolling arcade game akin to the old C64 games
supertux - A classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game
Puzzle
pengupop - Networked Game in the vein of Move/Puzzle Bobble!
tong - An odd mixture of multiple arcade games
neverball - Table tilt game, Roll a ball through an obstacle course with your mouse!
pipepanic - Connect as many different shaped pipes together as possible within the time given
Roguelike/RPG
haxima - An old-school RPG game built on the Nazghul game engine
nethack - Hunt for the Amulet of Yendor
nethack-vultures - Enhanced version of NetHack and Slash'EM
rogue - The original terminal-based role playing game
ularn - Another roguelike rpg
RPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)
crossfire - 2D Multiplayer RPG, similar to the 'Gauntlet' arcade game
The Mana World - A free open source 2D MMORPG in development!
Scrolling Shooters
powermanga - An Arcade Shoot'Em'Up Game!
raidem - A fast-paced 2d top-down shoot'em up
Simulation
lincity-ng - City Simulation Game
Sports
Sports: Racing
ppracer - Tux the Penguin belly-racing down a mountainside
Strategy
Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based Tactics and Strategy Game with a Fantasy Theme!
freeciv - World conquest
freecol - Colonization-like strategy game
glest - 3D real time strategy game (website, screenshot)
gnugo - Text-based Go program
grhino - Reversi game for GNOME
quarry - Multi-purpose board game GUI
qascade - Classic puzzle game
netpanzer - An Online Multiplayer Tactical Warfare Game222
uqm - The Ur-Quan Masters, a port of the classic game Star Control II
Utilities and Engines
nazghul - An old-school RPG engine
prboom - Doom/Doom2/Heretic game engine
deutex - Doom wad file manipulator
yadex - Doom level editor
Special Interest Group: Games
Take a look at the Fedora SIG for Games if you are interested in packaging, debugging, testing, or suggesting games. Any help will be appreciated.
