XONOTIC! Its a great little arena shooter that’s only flaw is the low playerbase.

More people playing near me means I don’t need to join the 160ms ping server lol.

What are some games you’ve found solely because of linux?

I’ve been using primarily Linux on my desktop since IIRC 1998 and eliminated dual-boot in a year or so after that. So pretty much every game I still play outside of a few emulated ones has been from using Linux.

But there were older games that I probably wouldn’t have played if I hadn’t been on Linux; years back, the selection was a lot more limited. Today, virtually every game on Windows works on Linux.

• Quake and Quake II had very early Linux support; John Carmack took time away from working on id Software games to work on Linux 3d video drivers, which were pretty much nonexistent at that point, so I was playing a game that he wrote using video drivers that he helped write.

• bzFlag is a graphically-simple 3D multiplayer tank shooter.

• Linley Henzell, the author of Linley’s Dungeon Crawl (which later became Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup), wrote some simple games kind of in the Gravity Wars genre, but much earlier: Lacewing and Overgod.

• Pingus, an open-source Lemmings clone.

• Lincity-NG. A city-builder that focuses on transportation of goods and sustainability. The original version of this was graphically about on par with a color version of the original Sim City.

• Night Hawk, a Paradroid clone.

• ToME 2. ASCII roguelike. This is very different from ToME 3, which eventually went up on Steam (and is quite popular in its own right, though it never drew me in as much as ToME 2).

It’s been a lot of years since I paid any attention to games that don’t run on linux, but I remember one of the first I found that did was The Ur-Quan Masters — a free (as in GPL) version of one of the best games of the early 1990s.

There are so many, it’s pretty awesome.

Tiny list I’ve been enjoying, plus an ancient classic:

1. The Battle for Wesnoth
2. 0 A.D.
3. DOOM the Roguelike
4. Nethack

I’ve sadly found myself lamenting the fact that a lot of my favorite genres are tragically underrepresented on Linux. I still gotta keep my Switch, and buy a Switch 2, for some of those games.