List of games

Note: This page strives to lists all games known to run under GNU/Linux. Some of them are freely accessible via Official Repositories and AUR. For more about running games, related system configuration tips, see Gaming.

Games

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs and unauthorized emulation (without written permission of the copyright holder allowing the user to do so) are illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Consoles

• Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ || citra-git^AUR

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

https://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.

https://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe^AUR

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte. || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt^AUR), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl^AUR).

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

https://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

https://github.com/pepone42/gngeo || gngeo^AUR

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ || higan

• mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64py^AUR or cutemupen^AUR.

• Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.

http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ || nestopia^AUR

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx^AUR

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

pcsxr^AUR || not packaged? search in AUR

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.

https://ppsspp.org/ || ppsspp

• RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3^AUR

• Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba-m.com/ || vbam-wx

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

https://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm^AUR

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

https://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2^AUR

See also

• Emulation General wiki
• Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators

Netbook Games

Note: The following sections will be merged in the above ones soon.

Arcades

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer.

• If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d^AUR

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki^AUR

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon^AUR

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard^AUR

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7^AUR

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads^AUR

Puzzles

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma^AUR

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

Racing

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery

http://adom.de || adom^AUR

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal^AUR

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl)

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl^AUR

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl^AUR

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)Template:Linkrot || tome^AUR tome3^AUR tome4^AUR

Casual games

Console

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders^AUR

Graphical

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral^AUR

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command^AUR

RPG

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

RTS

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

TBS

• Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Singularity (Endgame) — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

Tycoon/Management Games

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features

http://www.openttd.org/en/ || openttd

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital^AUR

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally^AUR

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot^AUR

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo^AUR

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair^AUR

Wine

Wine does not slowdown most games (even speeds up some), so most games with low system requirements that run in Windows work in Wine too. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compability information.

Games

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs and unauthorized emulation (without written permission of the copyright holder allowing the user to do so) are illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Consoles

• Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ || citra-git^AUR

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

https://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.

https://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe^AUR

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte. || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt^AUR), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl^AUR).

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

https://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

https://github.com/pepone42/gngeo || gngeo^AUR

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ || higan

• mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64py^AUR or cutemupen^AUR.

• Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.

http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ || nestopia^AUR

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx^AUR

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

pcsxr^AUR || not packaged? search in AUR

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.

https://ppsspp.org/ || ppsspp

• RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3^AUR

• Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba-m.com/ || vbam-wx

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

https://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm^AUR

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

https://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2^AUR

See also

• Emulation General wiki
• Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators

Netbook Games

Note: The following sections will be merged in the above ones soon.

Arcades

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer.

• If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d^AUR

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki^AUR

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon^AUR

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard^AUR

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7^AUR

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads^AUR

Puzzles

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma^AUR

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

Racing

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery

http://adom.de || adom^AUR

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal^AUR

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl)

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl^AUR

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl^AUR

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)Template:Linkrot || tome^AUR tome3^AUR tome4^AUR

Casual games

Console

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders^AUR

Graphical

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral^AUR

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command^AUR

RPG

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

RTS

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

TBS

• Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Singularity (Endgame) — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

Tycoon/Management Games

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features

http://www.openttd.org/en/ || openttd

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital^AUR

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally^AUR

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot^AUR

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo^AUR

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair^AUR

Wine

Wine does not slowdown most games (even speeds up some), so most games with low system requirements that run in Windows work in Wine too. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compability information.

Games

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs and unauthorized emulation (without written permission of the copyright holder allowing the user to do so) are illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Consoles

• Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ || citra-git^AUR

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

https://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.

https://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe^AUR

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte. || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt^AUR), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl^AUR).

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

https://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

https://github.com/pepone42/gngeo || gngeo^AUR

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ || higan

• mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64py^AUR or cutemupen^AUR.

• Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.

http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ || nestopia^AUR

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx^AUR

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

pcsxr^AUR || not packaged? search in AUR

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.

https://ppsspp.org/ || ppsspp

• RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3^AUR

• Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba-m.com/ || vbam-wx

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

https://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm^AUR

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

https://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2^AUR

See also

• Emulation General wiki
• Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators

Netbook Games

Note: The following sections will be merged in the above ones soon.

Arcades

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer.

• If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d^AUR

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki^AUR

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon^AUR

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard^AUR

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7^AUR

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads^AUR

Puzzles

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma^AUR

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

Racing

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery

http://adom.de || adom^AUR

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal^AUR

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl)

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl^AUR

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl^AUR

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)Template:Linkrot || tome^AUR tome3^AUR tome4^AUR

Casual games

Console

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders^AUR

Graphical

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral^AUR

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command^AUR

RPG

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

RTS

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

TBS

• Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Singularity (Endgame) — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

Tycoon/Management Games

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features

http://www.openttd.org/en/ || openttd

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital^AUR

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally^AUR

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot^AUR

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo^AUR

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair^AUR

Wine

Wine does not slowdown most games (even speeds up some), so most games with low system requirements that run in Windows work in Wine too. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compability information. An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs and unauthorized emulation (without written permission of the copyright holder allowing the user to do so) are illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Consoles

• Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ || citra-git^AUR

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

https://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.

https://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe^AUR

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte. || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt^AUR), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl^AUR).

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

https://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

https://github.com/pepone42/gngeo || gngeo^AUR

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ || higan

• mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64py^AUR or cutemupen^AUR.

• Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.

http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ || nestopia^AUR

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx^AUR

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

pcsxr^AUR || not packaged? search in AUR

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.

https://ppsspp.org/ || ppsspp

• RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3^AUR

• Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba-m.com/ || vbam-wx

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

https://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm^AUR

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

https://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2^AUR

See also

• Emulation General wiki
• Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators

Games

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulator' keyword.

Warning: Owning a high-level emulator is legal, but distribution of any type of copyrighted ROMs and unauthorized emulation (without written permission of the copyright holder allowing the user to do so) are illegal. Consequently, Arch Linux does not distribute this copyrighted content, including game ROMs and ripped console BIOSs. You are fully responsible for whatever usage of the emulators obtained from the official repositories or the Arch User Repository you make, as well as any legal repercussion that result. Arch Linux bears no responsibility at all.

Consoles

• Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.

https://citra-emu.org/ || citra-git^AUR

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

https://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.

https://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe^AUR

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator

https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte. || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt^AUR), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl^AUR).

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

https://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

https://github.com/pepone42/gngeo || gngeo^AUR

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ || higan

• mednafen — Command-line driven multisystem emulator.

https://mednafen.github.io/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64py^AUR or cutemupen^AUR.

• Nestopia — Very accurate NES emulator.

http://0ldsk00l.ca/nestopia/ || nestopia^AUR

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx^AUR

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

pcsxr^AUR || not packaged? search in AUR

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

https://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.

https://ppsspp.org/ || ppsspp

• RPCS3 — Experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger.

https://rpcs3.net/ || rpcs3^AUR

• Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba-m.com/ || vbam-wx

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

https://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

https://www.mamedev.org/ || mame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm^AUR

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

https://www.libretro.com/ || retroarch

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

https://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2^AUR

See also

• Emulation General wiki
• Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators

Netbook Games

Note: The following sections will be merged in the above ones soon.

Arcades

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer.

• If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d^AUR

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki^AUR

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon^AUR

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard^AUR

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7^AUR

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads^AUR

Puzzles

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma^AUR

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

Racing

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery

http://adom.de || adom^AUR

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal^AUR

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl)

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl^AUR

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl^AUR

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)Template:Linkrot || tome^AUR tome3^AUR tome4^AUR

Casual games

Console

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders^AUR

Graphical

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral^AUR

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command^AUR

RPG

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

RTS

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

TBS

• Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Singularity (Endgame) — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

Tycoon/Management Games

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features

http://www.openttd.org/en/ || openttd

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital^AUR

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally^AUR

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot^AUR

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo^AUR

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair^AUR

Wine

Wine does not slowdown most games (even speeds up some), so most games with low system requirements that run in Windows work in Wine too. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compability information.

Netbook Games

Note: The following sections will be merged in the above ones soon.

Arcades

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer.

• If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu^AUR

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d^AUR

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki^AUR

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon^AUR

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard^AUR

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7^AUR

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads^AUR

Puzzles

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma^AUR

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li^AUR

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

Racing

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery

http://adom.de || adom^AUR

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal^AUR

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl)

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl^AUR

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl^AUR

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)Template:Linkrot || tome^AUR tome3^AUR tome4^AUR

Casual games

Console

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs^AUR

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders^AUR

Graphical

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral^AUR

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command^AUR

RPG

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

RTS

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer^AUR

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git^AUR

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

TBS

• Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• Singularity (Endgame) — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

Tycoon/Management Games

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features

http://www.openttd.org/en/ || openttd

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital^AUR

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally^AUR

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot^AUR

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo^AUR

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en^AUR

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair^AUR

Wine

Wine does not slowdown most games (even speeds up some), so most games with low system requirements that run in Windows work in Wine too. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compability information.