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Paul Crowley ([personal profile] ciphergoth) wrote2007-11-13 10:10 pm

Linux games?

What's the best open source single-player game for Linux?

[identity profile] skx.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends on the genre.

Personally I like:

neverputt - An insanely addictive golfing game. (Better than it sounds).

pioneers - A good implementation of Settlers of Catan.

tremulous - A first-person shooter.

crawl - A text-based dungeon adventure game.

frozen-bubble - The classic puzzle-bobble clone.

clanbomber - A clone of Bomberman. Sucky graphics though :(

koules - A single-player space-ship based shooter. Addictive but hard.

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I thought Tremulous was multiplayer-only, no?

[identity profile] skx.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You might be right. The rest definitely aren't.

(I only played that at Debconf but I was pretty sure it had bots / AI play..)
reddragdiva: (ubuntu)

[personal profile] reddragdiva 2007-11-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Honest to God: Frozen Bubble is why we run Ubuntu here. [livejournal.com profile] redcountess saw it at [livejournal.com profile] ruthi's, begged her laptop be converted to Ubuntu, and so I shifted mine to 5.04 because FreeBSD 5 wasn't happy with the hardware. GOD HELP ME.

[identity profile] dmh.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
I've got to agree. What the world needs is a LiGNUx-compatible Compiz-compatible adventure game. Preferably with with some Doctor Who/Douglas Adams references. That'll sort the planet out. ;o)

[identity profile] helger.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
GnuGo? :)

Otherwise - freeciv.
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[identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
(Or even Lincity-NG.)

And who could forget Nethack - Falcon's Eye?

[identity profile] kimble.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Monkey-bubble, which is much like Frozen-bubble, but with less ambiguous colours and monkeys.

[identity profile] keirf.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know Frozen-bubble had ambiguous monkeys...

[identity profile] uon.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
sendmail.cf

(although I find it really hard to get past the sokoban level)

[identity profile] ephermata.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been wasting a lot of time on freeciv lately. Not Linux-only, but open source.

[identity profile] altamira16.livejournal.com 2007-11-13 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I like "bog" single player Boggle.

[identity profile] dmh.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Teh LiGNUx? WTF? FFS nethack!!!!1!

[identity profile] shevek.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
I rather enjoy warzone2100 - it really shines in multiplayer, but the single player is very challenging, and you can play multiplayer against the AI, too.
aegidian: (pirate)

[personal profile] aegidian 2007-11-14 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I've heard people enjoy Oolite
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[personal profile] babysimon 2007-11-14 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
:)

[identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nethack.

So addictive I dont go near it any more.

addictive games

[identity profile] ablueskyboy.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
What? No Pac Man Clone???

[identity profile] skullculture.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com 2007-11-14 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
NetHack and Derek Ray's variant "Sporkhack". Crawl for when NetHack gets too easy.
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[personal profile] lovingboth 2007-11-14 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends on your definition of 'game' really.

The SGT puzzles waste a lot of my time.