Comments on: 12 Open Source Games that Don't Suck

By: adult

adult — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:02:52 +0000

thanks.Great post.

By: jayk1993

jayk1993 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:45:56 +0000

UFO AI is a good game
the soundtrack is just awsome

By: Club Penguin Cheats

Club Penguin Cheats — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:02:42 +0000

I’ve downloaded flight gear and like it. Very good for a free product and a great way to kill a few hours. Thanks for the list. I will check out some more.

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:46 +0000

doing will thanks for this thing

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:54:03 +0000

You should mention games such as :
OpenTTD (openttd.org)
Civilization – Call to Power
Doom 3
Duke 3D
Hopkins FBI
Majesty
Mindrover
Postal 2
Sim City 3000
Sin
Tribal Trouble
UT (Unreal Tournament)
UT 2003 (as I recall, Linux version is on the Retail Windows CD)
Uplink
World Of Padman
X2 – The Threat
Alpha Centauri
Kohan – Immortal Soverigns
Shogo MAD
Cube 2 (sauerbraten.org)

Not all of them are Opensource, but are native Linux games.

.. And many many more

By: scrooloose

scrooloose — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:23:01 +0000

what?! no mention of angband or nethack? ZOMG UNACCEPTABLE

By: X

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:52:19 +0000

Thanks for the pr0n link!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:33:44 +0000

Hi Nixie, great list. I’d just like to add a few more. Revolution Software released some of their early games: Lure of the Temptress and Beneath a Steel Sky (which I have played to completion and can say is awesome if you like adventure games).

There’s also an open-source port of the Dink Smallwood engine that plays the original game, plus all the mods.

And finally, the somewhat famous Frozen Bubble- as good a game to kill a few minutes (or hours) with as any.

By: Vilenjak

Vilenjak — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:24:37 +0000

i can’t believe you left out Urban Terror!

By: Eldritch

Eldritch — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:11:24 +0000

Nice links, but I’m still unconvinced. I recently wrote a post about open-source gaming. My take? (http://www.weaselsnake.com/2009/04/open-source-gaming-mostly-sucks_09.html)

It still mostly sucks. Most of the games you mentioned are pretty good for open-source games, but compared to what’s out there in the shareware and commercial arena, they’re all pretty sub-par. Except Wesnoth, which I was really impressed with.