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Looking to get some games on my mint setup

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[–] sidewalker@thesidewalkends.io 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth

Wesnoth is one of those games where once you start playing, you fall into a time warp and lose hours before you know what happened.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Cool. The map reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic

[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Super Tux Kart is a classic

[–] LegoManIAm94@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same with Supertux which is a Linux Super Mario alternative.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Also the level editor isn’t super complex so it can be used as a Mario maker alternative

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[–] brie 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minetest and Mindustry are two of my favourites. It's a bit complicated to find a good combination of Minetest mods though.

[–] s3rvant 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for Minetest both client and server too; we run one locally for the kiddos :)

[–] Luella@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] knokelmaat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an MMO, what is the gameplay loop currently? Doing quests or raids or pvp or just sandbox?

[–] Luella@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not all that far in the game, but it seems progression revolves around crafting. Killing enemies and mining for materials to make various armours and weapons to take of harder dungeons.

I don't believe there are quests or pvp yet unfortunately, but it still ends up being fun despite being a highly ambitious game truthfully barely scraped the surface of its ambitions yet.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These get mentioned a lot:

  • Mindustry
  • Unciv
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon
  • Battle for Wesnoth
[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Bonus: they also work great on Android!

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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Beyond All Reason (RTS)

[–] Rentlar 2 points 1 year ago

Beyond All Reason is really cool! Had a lot of fun with it wrestling with the AI and teaming up with my friends.

It's scratching that Starcraft itch while I tap my fingers waiting for Microsoft to kick Bobby Kotick out of Activision-Blizzard lol.

[–] neelmor@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I can also recommend Beyond all Reason. If you ever played Supreme Commander, this game is like a sequel. It also has an active YouTube streaming community with tutorials and ingame are some scenarios to teach you about the various units and strategies.

[–] espiritu_p@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen OpenTTD mentioned yet: https://www.openttd.org/
If you like it you may also check out OpenRCT - although this one needs original game files from RollerCoasterTycoon (a few bucks on Gog or Steam)

[–] TheOtherJake 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Endless Sky. The save game is a text file. Save a file on the mobile app (F-Droid), and on the PC (Flatpak), and note the last line. This is the line you must swap to transfer the save file. It is the first game I have played on both practically. The game mechanics are different between the two and you need to alter your strategy accordingly. On mobile, I travel with a ship setup for boarding pirate vessels and never target enemies directly; all of my guns are automatic turrets. I just use a fast ship and travel with a large group of fighters. It is more of a grind on mobile, but it can be used to build up resources and reserves. The game is much bigger than it first appears to be. You need to either check out a guide or explore very deep into the obscure pockets of the map.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 1 year ago

Wesnoth, SuperTuxKart, and Xonotic

Cataclysm dark days ahead

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Palapeli. It's such a great jigsaw puzzle game.

[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to second the mentions of OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Ur-Quan Masters and Nethack.

I'd also like to add:

  • Widelands: A Settlers 2 clone.
  • Chromium B.S.U.: A top-down scrolling shooter. Don't let any enemies pass. Perfect if you need 5 minutes of adrenaline.
  • Scorched 3D: It's Scorched Earth, but 3D.
  • Frozen Bubble: Hard to describe. It's a bit like Dr. Mario.
  • GL-117: 3D air combat. The graphics are "a bit" dated, but the game is a lot of fun still.
  • Kobo Deluxe: A 2D action-puzzler. It doesn't have the most stunning graphics, but it sure is fun to play.

Then there are also some open-source re-implementations of commercial games (that need the original game files) that haven't been mentioned yet:

[–] donio 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some I don't see mentioned yet:

[–] Scarecrow59@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Zero k, RTS

[–] jam12705@lemmy.nexus 3 points 1 year ago
[–] vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/games/top50.html

Keep in mind that this list contains both full games and engines for closed source games.

[–] LassCalibur 2 points 1 year ago

Extreme Tux Racer is a nice ski racing game but tux the penguin has some aerial maneuverability for long jumps.

[–] knokelmaat 2 points 1 year ago

I have fond memories of Megaglest, an RTS similar to warcraft 3.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] scribblemacher 2 points 1 year ago

I played a lot of FreeCiv and had a lot of fun with it. Not sure if it's still dev/maintained

[–] thehellrocc 1 points 1 year ago

Warzone 2100 is a nice RTS, especially fun with friends

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Neverball seems far less known than the other ones, but it's really good and has tons of levels.