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 are cross platform and all of them completely free. You don’t have to use ‘Wine’ to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.
America’s Army is a tactical, multiplayer, FPS (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 2.8.2 was released on september 2007.
Edit: Latest Linux available version is 2.5
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.
Tremulous is an open source team-based FPS (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.
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.
Nexuiz is a free, cross platform, FPS (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, 2.3, was released on May 31, 2007. Available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
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
Alien Arena is a completely free FPS (first person shooter) 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 Linux, Windows and FreeBSD.
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.
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.
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 is really addictive.
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.
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.
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Nice list - But you forgot UrbanTerror !
Posted on December 10, 2007 5:55 AM
Warsow isn't on this list...
free FPS based on Qfusion engine, a cross between Quake3CPM and UT2k4
oriented towards competitive play, leagues such as CAL and Clanbase have players competing in it, and had CDC3 lan earlier this year and CDC4 lan next year for it
www.warsow.net
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:05 AM
You also forgot Wolfenstein: Enemy-Territory. A free FPS from Splash Damage & ID-software. Based on the very popular FPS Return To Castle Wolfestein.
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:29 AM
Savage: Battle for Newerth NEVER gets any love on any of these lists.
One of the most fun, action packed ridiculously awesome games I have ever played.
Its now totally free, and is supported entirely by the player community.
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:30 AM
I think that you could add
this one to the list, too :-)
it's not a shoot-em-up, neither a car racing simulator, nor tux racing.
It's Gillo.
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:33 AM
How could you miss Sauerbraten from this list? It about the only game I consistently play under linux.
http://www.sauerbraten.org/
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:34 AM
x2
I play a lot of Sauerbraten also. While it lacks originality, it is very well done with awesome graphics and good gameplay - definitely a very fun game.
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:39 AM
dude u missed out on sauerbraten .....its one superb game i love it.....how can u miss on it...its the best....
Posted on December 10, 2007 7:06 AM
im kinda sad open arena isnt on the list either. its a great open source quake 3 arena clone. frozen bubble too, while not as advanced as most on the list, im surprised its not there. oh and stepmania, holy crap am i addicted to it.
Posted on December 10, 2007 7:08 AM
Also the now opensource project freespace doesn't appear in the list.
for who don't know about it jast watch this amazing video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VhyMzu12c
Posted on December 10, 2007 7:33 AM
How about Warzone 2100 RP:
http://wz2100.net/
This game is also GPL...
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:26 AM
Non sense, Urban Terror should be on top of this list, at least on top 3.
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:41 AM
No Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line? Sacriledge!
http://www.game-warden.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3502
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:45 AM
Nice list, a number of games I did not know about. Another omission seems to be Neverball (see http://icculus.org/neverball/), a crazy zany but smooth-scrolling tilting game where you have to guide a ball through obstacles. It comes with an accompanying game called Neverputt, a multiplayer miniature golf game, using the same smooth 3D engine.
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:52 AM
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Posted on December 10, 2007 10:16 AM
fred, is there a link for project freespace? I did a google search and only came up with freespace 2? Seems like is not open source.
Posted on December 10, 2007 10:25 AM
There is much more cool games - For example xTA, a remake of Total Annihilation based on the Spring engine. Have a look on this: http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/h2006/space/start
Posted on December 10, 2007 10:29 AM
For the Freespace Source start from here
http://scp.indiegames.us/news.php
for the linux binary and installer look here http://icculus.org/freespace2/
(found with google);
i know there are other builds elsewhere and for OSX too.
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:06 AM
Should have made this "Top 20"
And I'm surprised Digital Paint's Paintball 2.0 didn't make the list... it's a very good Linux/Windows Quake 2-based paintball game (stand-alone)
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:46 AM
Why TuxRacer and not ExtremeTuxRacer? ;-)
It is an improved version.
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:48 AM
Thanks for that, theres a few games on there I haven't tried yet. But you did miss a couple out, especially Digital Paint: Paintball 2, x-platform fps based on a a heavily-modded Quake2 engine.
www.dpball.com
Cheers for the list
Posted on December 10, 2007 12:21 PM
What about Flightgear, the open source flight sim? http://flightgear.org
Posted on December 10, 2007 1:54 PM
yep, sauerbraten is better than most of these games.. it is definately missing!
Posted on December 10, 2007 2:25 PM
not bad .. but you forgot Savage from S2 Games.
Posted on December 10, 2007 3:11 PM
Thanks for mentioning Tremulous. I am a complete Tremulous junkie... 0.o One question: Why not give a nod to OpenArena?
Posted on December 10, 2007 3:15 PM
A little FPS heavy list for being so short.
Wesnoth should definitely be on your listing. This turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme has been consistently well rate and has an active development team behind it.
Posted on December 10, 2007 4:36 PM
openarena, which is in debian/ubuntu repository.
you can find openarena in ubuntu add/remove software easily and install....
Posted on December 10, 2007 6:40 PM
Glist (sort of War Craft III clone) is really good - I reckon.
http://www.glest.org/
Posted on December 10, 2007 7:09 PM
the best thing about this list has been the games mentioned in the comments!!! nice one
Posted on December 10, 2007 7:14 PM
Astromenace is quite fun too.
Posted on December 10, 2007 8:56 PM
Flightgear ...
has a big future, great team behind it, will be big next to MS FSX
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:26 PM
rob - Wesnoth is a decent game, but it certainly doesn't belong on a list of 3D games...
Posted on December 10, 2007 9:27 PM
I second the motion that Neverball/Neverputt should have easily made this list. The SVN version has new levelsets and courses, and a major sound overhaul/fix. Check it out at Neverforum, link available from main neverball page, listed above!
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:18 PM
Also oldy-but-goody Savage (www.s2games.com)
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:31 PM
I'll have to give some of the ones I havent played before a try and I agree Paintball 2.0 should be on this list also I heard they are upgrading to build 20 check out dplogin.com
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:44 PM
I also think that Wolfenstein: Enemy territory should be included in that list
Posted on December 10, 2007 11:59 PM
Thank you people for the feedback. I´m impressed with the reaction to the post (979 diggs and 28 backlinks so far).
I promess I´ll compile another list with some of the games you mentioned.
Stay tuned ;)
Regards from Uruguay.
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Posted on December 11, 2007 12:30 AM
Bro WTF
Digital Paintball 2 is by far better than all of these. Try it out give it a chance. Fun game.
DP2 monster Game.
http://digitalpaint.planetquake.gamespy.com/files/
Posted on December 11, 2007 2:09 AM
Wot, no bzflag?
Posted on December 11, 2007 5:27 AM
I like True Combat: Elite a lot, but as far as I can tell, when you download the list of public servers you'll find that NOBODY plays it. I used to be able to find a decent number of people but now it's disappointing.
Posted on December 11, 2007 1:29 PM
There's this source, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters
Posted on December 11, 2007 1:30 PM
The Spring RTS engine has dozens
of game mods and hundreds of maps.
Engine:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/
Screenshots:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/screenshots.php
Maps & Mods:
http://www.unknown-files.net/spring/home/
Posted on December 11, 2007 1:42 PM
No offense to the author of the article, but the comments have been much more useful than the story. As I expected, and the reason I followed the link... Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list.
Posted on December 11, 2007 3:13 PM
"Legends is a fast-paced first-person-perspective online multiplayer game released as freeware (software license). The game is designed to take advantage of the beautiful environments available from the Torque engine it is based on, while still offering the breakneck pacing and variety of styles available from such classics as Quake and Tribes."
Posted on December 12, 2007 3:21 AM
Planeshift is an online 3D MMORPG with a linux version available for download. It is under development and has an emphasis on role playing. There are various player made guilds that gather on the forums. Go to planeshfit.it to download it.
Posted on December 12, 2007 1:26 PM
typo above: planeshift.it (link works though).
Posted on December 12, 2007 1:31 PM
Don't forget the excellent game Rocks'n'Diamonds, freely available at http://artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/ (runs on Windows, Linux, and so on).
Posted on December 14, 2007 11:53 AM
Wow where was the Free Linux MMORPG Regnum-Online? http://www.regnumonline.com.ar
This game is GREAT, and mirrors modern MMOs like WoW, I think for the majority of us, it blows PlaneShift out of the water.
Posted on December 15, 2007 2:07 PM
Man, everytime somebody posts a list like this, you get a bunch of hurt feelings and posts about games that should be there instead of what he has in the list. Get a grip people, it's his *opinion*, and he's allowed to have it. Don't shoot the messenger.
Posted on December 17, 2007 12:40 PM
If he changes the list to the top 20 and adds those games mentioned, would that make people happy?
Posted on December 21, 2007 2:02 AM
People asked for it...
Top 25 Linux 3D Games
Enjoy.
Posted on December 23, 2007 10:37 AM
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I will it my pages,too.thank you
Posted on December 23, 2007 2:53 PM
What the... No sauerbraten?
Apparently this guy has not tried sauerbraten.
www.sauerbraten.org
Posted on January 3, 2008 8:02 PM
Nope this list isn't right... It's missing Step Mania (How could you have Frets On Fire and miss Step Mania?)
Posted on January 4, 2008 11:02 PM
Found this nice little list of Fresh
Free Open Source Games for Linux / Windows
Posted on January 14, 2008 2:50 AM
Really liked online combat!
Posted on January 27, 2008 7:03 PM
I cannot say that I have tried all these, but two that I really like are Glest and UFO: Alien Invasion.
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Posted on February 15, 2008 5:58 AM
What happened with Travian? Does anyone like Travian? It's an addictive game but doesn't seem to get much votes when it comes to online review sites.
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Posted on February 22, 2008 11:34 PM
hey great post. After this I am dying to play these game.
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Posted on February 29, 2008 10:00 PM
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Posted on April 12, 2008 8:40 PM
I don't know that those games can be played in Linux. I just knew that Linux are mainly for application and web server management only. :D
Posted on April 23, 2008 11:20 AM
Great list of games. I'll definitely have to give all these games a try.
Posted on May 4, 2008 11:35 PM
another vote to
"where's flightgear?"
it isn't big next to ms fsx like someone said above..
but I think it's really the best
free flightsim out there. And you forgot to mention it.
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Posted on August 19, 2008 3:44 PM
Great list ! I love Frets On Fire ! I broke 3 keyboards since I've installed the game :D.
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