What is your favourite game with native Linux port?
What is your favourite game with native Linux port?
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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.
I was going to say Factorio as well! :D Hollow Knight has a native port and is a fantastic game, but my favorite games are ones like OpenMW or DevilutionX where the entire engine is remade from the ground up and open-source
BallisticNG. Incredible WipEout homage, Linux native, VR compatible, runs locked at 60fps on Deck. Fun tracks, cool ships, nice lore. Physics and mechanics are by default more geared towards classic PSX games (1, 2097, 3), with "modern" physics and mechanics (Pure/Pulse/HD with absorb, barrel roll etc.) getting an overhaul in the next version.
The Half-Life Games.
Somewhere between Minecraft Java edition and a modern title made with the Steam Deck in mind, like TMNT Shreaders Revenge.
I'm just happy to see a slowly increasing support base, even if its just to support wine
Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.
CitiesSkylines, it was that game (having lower requirements for linux listed in steam) that actually made me a linux user in the first place!
Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2! You need to own an official version of the game in order to get the models and textures and whatnot, which are still under copyright. After that, you can play with ORCT2 and enjoy the expanded capabilities,
I will also add other games that I've played and absolutely loved them on Linux
Linux Native games that I've played
@Psyhackological , the original Kerbal Space Program.
I bought Tales of Maj'Eyal from GOG and have been playing the Linux port. Yeah, I'd say it's my favorite. Even if I hate it sometimes.
- 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".
@Psyhackological @play0ad 's #0AD game has to be my favorite
Rimworld for me.
(I have never tried Dwarf Fortress.)
Honorable mention goes to War Thunder, while it isn't on of my favorites, I was still a bit blown away to find out it runs natively on Linux.
Songs of Syx. hiiiiiighly addictive
I'm not sure if I have a favorite game but if I had to choose one I'll probably have to say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup given the amount of time I have spent with that game.
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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.
I'm gonna say Valheim, even though the native version doesn't respect your default audio device so it can end up outputting sound to the wrong device at startup, which you can then correct using a volume mixer.
That's the reason why I still play the Windows version via Proton though.
But you were asking for my favorite game with a native Linux port, not for the game with the best Linux port :D
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.
Heroes of Might and Magic II, using the fheroes2 recreation engine.
Team fortress 2
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
I've been playing both Oxygen Not Included and Celeste regularly.
Tomb Raider 2013 reboot, although today the windows version under proton actually performs significantly better than the linux version
My favorite native game is flight simulation X-plane since version 8. For kids Super Tux Kart.
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.
Open source, more modern, Ultima Online client. Still need the original art files. https://github.com/ClassicUO/ClassicUO
Out of all the games that I know for sure that have a native Linux port, I'm either going with Minetest, which I have been playing for Voxel Libre (once Mineclone2), or the Sonic Robo Blast 2 with the Reveries mod, despite not knowing what exactly it changes. They're the 2 games I know have a native port that I've been playing the most recently.
Since no one mentioned XCOM 2 I'll pick that. For some reason it only lets me play it with War of the Chosen expansion, though, and it's very difficult. But I have fun getting my squad wiped because I'm masochist like that.
Paradox games! Stellaris, Victoria 3, CK3, HOI4, etc. They just make the effort with all their games and it's great
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