Top 21 Linux Games Of 2007

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Below are addictive 3d games for linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most of it is cross platform and free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers. some of the screenshots have been expired due to high bandwidth usage. so readers please co-operate by going to link.

  1. Battle For Wesnoth
  2. David White who started Wesnoth back in 2003, had a vision of a free open source strategy game that had very simple rules, uses a strong artificial intelligence, challenging and fun. Wesnoth has already passed the 1 million mark for downloads. As of March 2007, the game is available in 35 different languages.

    A normal Wesnoth player has

    • 200+ unit types
    • 16 different races
    • 6 major factions

    to choose from. Actually, you can even make your own custom units, design your own map, scenarios or even campaigns. It’s all up to your creativity. The most interesting part of any game is the ability to multiplay. You can challenge up to a total of 8 friends in multiplayer fantasy battles.

  3. Nexuiz
  4. Nexuiz is a free, cross platform, first person shooter distributed under GNU General Public License by Alientrap Software. It started back in May 31 2005 with version 1.0 using DarkPlaces, a significanlty modified quake engine. The current version, 2.2.3, was released on January 26, 2007. Nexuiz’s logo is based on the chinese character “力” which means strength.

    Several notable features of the game include

    • ability to multiplay up to 64 players
    • ability to generate bots for practice sessions
    • dynamic lighting system similar to Doom 3

  5. America’s Army
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    America’s Army is a tactical, multiplayer, first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. The first version, Recon, was released on 4th July 2002. The current version 2.8.1 was released on 22nd Mar 2007.

    It’s the first well known computer game used for political aims. The game is used as a playable recruiting tool and critics have charged the game serves as a propaganda device. A counter on the homepage of the PC version shows over eight million registered accounts as of 2007. GameSpy tracked the game usage and reported an average of 4,500 players at any one time between 2002 and 2005. It is enough for America’s Army to rank in the Top 10 Online Games chart.

  7. Enemy Territory : Quake Wars
  8. is a first-person shooter follow-up to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It also has the same science fiction universe as Quake 4, with a story serving as a prequel to Quake II. Quake Wars is the second multiplayer-only game in the Quake series after Quake III Arena. The gameplay is almost the same as Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but with the addition of controllable vehicles and aircraft, asymmetric teams, much larger maps and the option of computer-controlled bots. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is being developed by Splash Damage for the PC using a modified version of id Software’s Doom 3 engine and MegaTexture rendering technology.

    At E3 2006(Electronic Entertainment Expo), the game won the Game Critics Award for Best Online Multiplayer.

  9. Tremulous
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    Tremulous is an open source team-based first-person shooter with a game play that is similar to Gloom(a quake 2 mod) and Natural Selection (a Half-Life mod). The game features two teams, humans and aliens, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The game has been downloaded over 200,000 times and was voted “Player’s Choice Standalone Game of the Year” in Mod Database’s “Mod of the Year” 2006 competition.

  11. Tux Racer
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    Tux Racer is a newbie friendly, open source, 3D computer game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. Like many open-source games, the replay value of Tux Racer is extended by easy modification of the game. New maps can be created by making three raster images to indicate height, surface, and object placement. The last release of Tux Racer was version 0.61, 29th October 2001.

  13. World Of Padman
  14. padman

    WOP is a new and free comic style game that uses the Quake 3 engine. The game was recently featured in 3 German magazine covers; PC Action, ‘BRAVO Screenfun’ and ‘Linux Intern’.

  15. Vendetta
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    is a first person twitch based MMORPG. New players get an 8 hour trial which is enough to get anyone hooked to it. After that, you gotta pay $5 a month which is quite worthwhile, especially considering the incredibly communicative development of the game. It has a native linux installer as well as one for Macs and Windows.

  17. Alien Arena 2007
  18. Alien Arena is a completely free FPS started by COR Entertainment in 2004 comprising of a science fiction ambience and a Quake like gameplay. This game is playable in single player mode against bots, but the action and thrill lies at the online multiplayer mode. Features of the Alien Arena 2007 include an internal server browser for finding other people to play online and an external program that acts as an IRC interface. There are 6 game types and 6 game mutators that changes the gameplay. Cattle Prod is a new game type that requires you to herd robotic cattle to earn points. Alien Arena 2007 is playable in Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

  19. Urban Terror
  20. Thanks AstralSin for mentioning it.

    A mod of Quake III Arena, Urban Terror focuses a lot on realism. Number of weapons and gear that can be carried is limited. Accuracy is reduced when fired while moving and magazines require reloading upon expension. Damage areas are identified throughout the body. Wounds require bandaging and slows down movement significantly if the damage is not bandaged. Even a stamina bar is present to indicate if the player is able to sprint or jump. Released on 1st April 2007, Urban Terror 4 introduced 4 new features namely, ‘powersliding’, new weapons, player models and improved hit detection. It also supports anti cheating tools like PunkBuster, BattleEye and RunDMC.

  21. A Tale In The Desert
  22. Thanks Kristjan Siimson for mentioning it.

    Set in Ancient Egypt, ATITD focuses on society rather than combat. Actually, there is no combat system whatsoever. The fun of the game lies in economic development. Most of the players are from the US and Europe and the variety of social activities encourages a lot of interaction. Players are to participate in building, community, research and test themselves through challenges called ‘Tests’. The male to female players ratio is considerably equal compared to other online games and the game is also noted by many to have high levels of civility and generosity. The first 24 hours is free, after that a monthly fee of $13.95 is required to continue playing.

  23. Second Life

  24. Second Life is an online virtual world that allows ‘Residents’ to explore, meet each other, socialize, participate in group activities, trade items and services. It’s creators, Linden Lab, intends to create a world like the Metaverse described by Neal Stephenson in his novel, Snow Crash. In this Metaverse, people can interact, have fun and do business. The current currency is Linden Dollar (L$) and is EXCHANGEABLE for US$ in a marketplace consisting of residents, Linden Lab and real life companies. It is hardly considered a game as tt does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels or an end-strategy. More than 7 million accounts have been registered since its conception. Basic accounts is free but Premium account is US$9.95 if you want to own lands.

  25. Savage 2
  26. Thanks nemesis for mentioning it.

    This fantasy / science fiction, real-time strategy, fps, rpg game is a sequel to to S2 Games’ Savage : Battle for Newerth. Both teams of human and beasts are pitted against each other in a gameplay where strategy, agility and alertness is needed. The game is downloadable for free but online access requires a one time account purchase of US$29.99. Activities such as kills, deaths, assists, building razes, damage and score points are tracked. All Savage 2 matches are saved and thus searchable in the form of replays. The automatic replay network is a system that will greatly increase the skill levels of overall player populations and competitiveness.

  27. Warsaw

  28. Warsaw is a free FPS based in Qfusion 3D engine playable on Windows and Linux developed under the motto ‘by gamers for gamers’. Beta testers from the community goes through internal testing sessions and gives feedback on public releases where the main developers will carefully judge suggestions and comments made. Gameplay is focused a lot on agility. Weapons picked up will have weak ammo until a new ammo pack is found. Graphic effects are minimal, clear and visible.

  29. TrueCombat: Elite

  30. TC:Elite happens to be a total-conversion modification of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory by Team Terminator and Groove Six Studios. The game is free and playable across all platforms. Notable features include iron sights aiming (no crosshair), multi layer object penetration, letterbox / wide screen view modes, lag compensation, client side bullet prediction and support for PunkBuster, the anti cheat software.

  31. Frozen Bubble

  32. The latest version 2.0 includes an adjusted launcher speed, new scoring system, 4 lives and online multiplayer mode, but only available to Linux users at the time of writing. Version 1.0 of the game is available across all platforms including Symbian Series 60 line of smartphones and a single player Java applet version. Written in Perl, the free to play Frozen Bubble features 100 levels and a cute penguin (I think it’s supposed to be Tux) who shoots to form bubbles of the same color.

  33. The Open Racing Car Simulator

  34. TORCS is an open source 3D racing simulator using OpenGL technologies. It is runnable on all Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows platforms. There are 50 different cars, 20 tracks and 50 opponents to race against. The multiplayer mode can accommodate up to 4 human players. Several of the simulation include damaged models, collisions and aerodynamics like ground effects, spoilers, etc. Development is currently being carried out to enable online racing mode.

  35. FlightGear

  36. Since 1996, FlightGear has been a collaborative project that aims to create a sophisticated open source flight simulator framework. FlightGear uses the SimGear simulation engine. Some of the aircraft models available in FlightGear include gliders, helicopters, airliners, fighter jets, etc. Weather effects such as clouds, lightning effects and time of the day is illustrated.

  37. Frets On Fire

  38. Winner of the Assembly Demo Party 2006, Frets on Fire is a music video game that uses the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. The player has to imagine the keyboard as a guitar and pick it up to play. One hand will be used to press the ‘frets’ (F1 to F5) and another will be used to press the ‘picks’ (Shift or Enter). Colored markers that appears are to be played by pressing ‘frets’ of the correct color and ‘picks’ at the correct moment. There are also song editors and tutorials featured in the game. This game was addictive once I got the hang of it.

  39. Scorched 3d
  40. Thanks james, Pyro for mentioning it.

    Scorched 3D is a 100% free turn-based artillery game modeled after the classic DOS game Scorched Earth ‘The Mother Of All Games’. Operatable across all operating systems. What started as a 3D landscape generator has now become a cool 3D game that requires skills to master. Players are supposed to take turns homing in to hit the target by adjusting the angle, rotation, power and a weapon of choice every other turn. Hits and kills will generate income for you to buy better weapons and items. Note that items are as important as weapons.

  41. ManiaDrive

  42. ManiaDrive is a free clone of Trackmania, the great game from Nadéo studio, and is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute), and features a network mode, as the original. Lots of crazy driving involved.

Comments (49)

awesome roundup

Tux Racer is an old game. Take a look at the recently released Extreme Tux Racer.

Yeah this is a good roundup, but there is nothing "2007" about most of these games. Tuxracer has been around forever, as have most of these others. Some may have made notable upgrades, but that wasn't mentioned. If you wanted a "best so far" roundup, I'd say you missed some biggies: doom 3, quake 4, ut2k7, even neverball/putt.

you've missed to give westernquake3 a credit ;)

Good list.

Nice lineup!

Though, Warsaw should probably be Warsow ;)

Warsow needs more players in Australia! The wsw community is fantastic. =)

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sweet, but imho tremulous should have been no.1 , because i played most of this games.

Excellent !!!

Good info, thats what im lookin for :)

I'm sick of these kind of top games lists for linux. Same games over and over and over and over. Games nobody plays (except your loyal linux nerd)

Gaming in linux sucks. (along with many other things)

You don't eat shit because it's free.

By the way all those shiny first person shooters owe their ass to Quake 3 engine source. If you really want to puke, download some linux racing game. They're at Windows 95's level.

Digg is also keen on serving the same shit over and over.

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I love linux and i love games.
I must play the top 10 games here

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Nice resource.... i like it!

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Warsaw is a town. Warsow is the game.

cannot see images - plz move them to flickr or sth else - imageschack b/w has expired

I hate to break it to you, but ET:QW hasn't been released for Linux yet. Why, then, is it on your list?

Congrats for the article. I'd like to give some suggestions /comments to help clarify some points.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars isn't out yet. Actually the windows version will be available this Friday. As for the Linux version it was promised by Id shortly after the release.

You should have however inserted Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory as one of the top games if not the first on the list. A free and marvelous game I should say (been playing for 4 years now and won't be stopping any time soon :D).

This is the game that gives fame to Quake Wars and creates the new Id franchise Enemy Territory: insert random name.

As the Linux's version of America Army game has stalled in version 2.5 while the Windows version is currently in its 2.8.

Congrats for the article.

I'd like to add some comments / suggestion:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars isn't out yet. Actually the windows version will be available this Friday. As for the Linux version it was promised by Id shortly after the release.

You should have however inserted Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory as one of the top games if not the first on the list. A free and marvelous game I should say (been playing for 4 years now and won't be stopping any time soon :D).

This is the game that gives fame to Quake Wars and creates the new Id franchise Enemy Territory: insert random name.

As the Linux's version of America Army game has stalled in version 2.5 while the Windows version is currently in its 2.8.

Have you even tried installing these games? America's Army hasn't been releasing a Linux version for a while, and I can't seem to find 2.5 (I believe that was the last one with Linux support) :(

Awful dominance of FPS or just simple real time things, only one good exception being Battle for Wesnoth. Licensing should be more clearly written - bold "free", "trial", "opensource" should be on second line after game name on every case.

There are still some good things like open transport tycoon, UFO AI, free colonization - at least under work are more, but can someone do a list like "top linux free/open source strategy/building/rpg games"? They are quite rare still sadly.

You didn't spell "Warsow" correct, you spelled it as "Warsaw" which is a city in Poland. Please correct it. :)

Thanks for "yet another Linux games list". Really I mean it! Fun games are definitely available. ManiaDrive looks fun! So does World of Padman.

and ut 2004???

Nice list.Hope it helps the home user to accept Linux for general purpose operating system, even to play.

My favorites to add to the list:

- lgeneral Totally addicted to this, and always come back for more. (almost) Every game is a challenge.

- netpanzer Havent been on for a while, bit its always enthralling

- currently hooked badly on glest. Looking fwd to seeing more development on this in the future. Great game

Unreal Tournament 3 will be bigger than all those, though there is some question whether the linux client binary will be ready before the end of the year.

HunkaHunkaBurninLove

thank you for you great work.

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All around nice post.

I miss Racer on there:
http://www.racer.nl/

I think it's a really great and realistic racing game.

We release a 3D SciFi Racer for Linux this year.

It's called H-Craft Championship and there's even a free demo (without stuff like a timelimit to play it):
http://www.irrgheist.com/games.htm

well done -- but unfortunately i see no RPG mentioned in here. As a matter of fact, i remember the first NEVERWINTER NIGHTS was developed for Linux too (see, for instance, http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html)
Cheers from Italy!

Why Oolite is not on the list?

Neverwinter Nights is not free, nor really built on open source philosophy.

However, there is an open source 3D RPG game which is not mentioned...

http://www.planeshift.it/

Online gaming has come of age.

Gamers are now experimenting with newer themes. Themes that are local in taste, but can be
leveraged on a global scale.

For example see this post on "Video games history"

http://blog.games2win.com/games2win-labs/a-brief-history-of-video-games-in-india/

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Nice post.i want to ask a few thing. Linux games provided here is supported with all Linux platform i mean versions of red hat?