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GNU/Linux GamesClick here for manuals, magazines, tutorials, and etc. I am not listing Steam games. Long live SDL! And yes, this page is being worked on |
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Title |
Description |
Interface Type |
| A bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART | ||
| Play 2009 RuneScape offline; maintained exclusively by volunteers and not by the 2009scape team; click here for older alternative | ||
| A roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror | ||
| A turn-based space strategy game written in Python that uses curses for its display | ||
| Ancient Domains of Mystery. ADOM is a roguelike game which means that it is a single-user game featuring the exploration of a dungeon complex (and in the case of ADOM a few other games of this genre: the exploration of a large wilderness area with villages and many special locations). You control a fictional character described by race, class, attributes, skills, and equipment. This fictional character is trying to achieve a specific goal (see below) and succeed in a difficult quest. To fulfill the quest, you have to explore previously undiscovered tunnels and dungeons, fight hideous monsters, uncover long forgotten secrets, and find treasures of all kind. | ||
| An exploration, text-adventure game; comes from the 'bsd-games' package; also see Wikipedia; Play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/ | ||
| Play many different solitaire games | ||
| A tactical, roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie | ||
| Another good variant of the "Space Invaders" game | ||
| A free, single-player dungeon exploration game | ||
| A curses mode minesweeper solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods; click here for screencast; Play: ssh play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com -p 2222 | ||
| Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game; click here for screencast | ||
| See also Wikipedia | ||
| Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986; this version was written on Bash; see also Wikipedia; click here for screencast | ||
| Arkanoid game written in Sed | ||
| Arkanoid game written in Python | ||
| Quiz on simple arithmetic | ||
| An ASCII-art game like Space Invaders Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game | ||
| An ASCII art game about ski jumping; click here for screencast | ||
| A free space combat/exploration/trading game | ||
| A FREE, multiplayer, first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine | ||
| An ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other | ||
| Air traffic controller game; comes from the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| roguelike game with easy ADOM-like user interface | ||
| A backgammon game; you can play against the computer; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris) | ||
| Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface | ||
| A tropical adventure game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris) | ||
| The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast; see Wikipedia | ||
| A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| Play Billards | ||
| A black-jack card game; Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| A block-based puzzle game | ||
| The Blue Moon card solitaire | ||
| Word search game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| This game is the same as the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4, written by Simon Taylor | ||
| A Boulder Dash game clone for your favorite terminal. You are trapped in the CAVEZ of PHEAR, your mission is to escape through all the caves and make it out alive. To escape through a cave you will have to find all the diamonds located in it. Once you've found all the diamonds, their powers combined will help you get to the next cave, one step closer to freedom; see Wikipedia | ||
| Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library; click here for screencast | ||
| A nice version of the mastermind game | ||
| Brogue is a roguelike game | ||
| Battleships game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| The solitaire card game canfield; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| A multi-player card game, written by Hero; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| A boulder dash / digger like game for console using ncurses | ||
| A Zombie Survival roguelike | ||
| Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest | ||
| An implementation of the classic Battleship game in C++. Includes a server program, and multiple different client programs. The server program wait's until two client program connected to start a game. The server dictates the rules of the game | ||
| A set of sliding-block puzzles | ||
| A two-player board game, written by Alexi; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| Chess implemented in sed utility; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| A highly unusual "infinite" adventure game written by Chris Newall | ||
| A challenging puzzle game | ||
| Scrolling space shooter | ||
| Curses implementation of the laser board game Khet; Play: ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet | ||
| Color Lines clone in console | ||
| Minesweeper | ||
| Another Nibbles game with good and smooth animations | ||
| Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is one of the earliest computer adventure games and a precursor form of role playing video game. The original version was designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky | ||
| A two-player slot game, written by Sarac; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| The Connect4 game using ncurses C library | ||
| A real-time, multi-player space warfare game; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| A programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called “warriorsâ€) compete for control of a virtual computer | ||
| CPat is probably the best card game for the Linux console; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games from the most famous to less known games | ||
| One of the best games for the Linux console | ||
| The card game cribbage; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Escape From The Crypt | ||
| Another version of the tetris game | ||
| A landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine | ||
| A free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS | ||
| A fast-paced action strategy game for Linux originally implemented using ncurses user interface | ||
| A game with a hacking atmosphere | ||
| Dots and Boxes game | ||
| A roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo | ||
| DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software | ||
| Dopewars drug dealing game; Grab Linux-ified version config file (hidden) | ||
| A command line solitaire card game | ||
| A turn based command line fighting game for Windows and Unix-like systems | ||
| A text-based roguelike game | ||
| A single-player fantasy game | ||
| Actually, it is not a game but a text editor; it includes a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc | ||
| A roguelike game | ||
| A puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order | ||
| Another variant of Angband | ||
| Another minesweeper-style game | ||
| An open source, 2D action role-playing game; similar to Diablo | ||
| This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game. Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game. Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| Rock out with your keyboard; a "Guitar Hero" clone of sorts | ||
| A very nice roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere | ||
| Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner. | ||
| GearHead is the first roguelike to explore the world of (giant robots) | ||
| Another variant of the snake game with a smooth movement | ||
| GNU Chess is a chess-playing program. Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest) | ||
| GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go | ||
| 3D Rubik's cube game | ||
| GNUSki is an open source clone of Skifree, the old Windows game | ||
| A multiplayer galactic game | ||
| Gomoku is a two player game where the object is to get 5 in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally on a 19 by 19 grid. It's a BSD game. See also wikipedia. | ||
| Goblin Hack is a roguelike opengl-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game | ||
| An free/opensource casino text-console game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market. | ||
| Grand Digital Clock (curses) | ||
| A puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| Connect to a Monopd server (Monopoly) | ||
| Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| The Hack of Life is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life | ||
| A nice roguelike game (variant of angband). | ||
| Hamurabi is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. Its name is a shortening of Hammurabi, reduced to fit an eight-character limit. See also wikipedia. | ||
| Computer version of the game hangman. It's a BSD game; click here for screencast | ||
| Hellband is a roguelike game in which you descend through the nine circles of Hell and find an even more dangerous Hell beyond the city of Dis. | ||
| Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game. | ||
| The puzzle game of "HuaRongDao" | ||
| The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters. Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. It's a BSD game. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| A fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing Play: ssh hunt@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: kalte | ||
| A nice and easy roguelike game. | ||
| Imperium is a game of intergalactic exploration, warfare, and economics. Imperium has no set goal, and fairly flexible rules about what you can do, thus, while a single player could run their own game just for the fun of exploration, they would be missing out on most of the aspects of the game with no one to compete against. | ||
| A game of competitive puzzle-design. At its core, this is an abstract turn-based puzzle game in which you pick a lock by co-ordinating a pair of tools to manipulate its mechanism. The locks you pick are designed by other players; once you have figured out the secret of how to pick a lock, you must secure that secret behind a lock of your own devising. Play: ssh intricacy@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: intricacy | ||
| A ball-and-paddle game with nice graphics | ||
| multiplayer (and single player) infinite-world block sandbox | ||
| nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org | ||
| A two-player board game, written by Unk; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 | ||
| Jump pegs to eliminate them | ||
| Remake of the old arcade classic in OpenGL | ||
| Rubik's cube game | ||
| Unjumble letters | ||
| Play Go online and against computer | ||
| A fast-pace, arena style, Sci-Fi, first person shooter | ||
| The RuneScape UNIX client | ||
| An online virtual world | ||
| An open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler with randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use. | ||
| A racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel | ||
| A classic 2D platform game similar to Mario | ||
| A kart racing game similar to MarioKart but with FOSS mascots | ||
| Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles | ||
| A first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing | ||
| A free, first-person, survival-horror game that uses GZDoom as the engine; you have an item inventory and can combine items to create weapons; the environment and monsters are all 3D rather than the typical 2.5D; grab the "Retro" version if you have an older computer; installation via flatpak is the easiest way | ||
| A tactical-teamplay oriented, modern-world combat simulation modification for the Quake III, Enemy Territory and Call of Duty 4 engines | ||
| Chess Game; use pgn2web to convert saved games to an HTML file (uses JavaScript) | ||
| A Nexius fork; a free and open-source Sci-Fi first-person shooter video game | ||
GNU/Linux Games |
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Command-line |
Game Console Tools |
List below (as of 2019-04-15) pulled from: https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-ttygames |
PlayStationNote: You will need a soft-modded PS2 for the following to work... ELF files listed in this section are for running on a PlayStation-related system |