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Anonymous05/12/26, 17:01No.12567523Retro Games Native On Linux
No Wine.
No Steam.
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Anon05/12/26, 17:05No.12567526
Quake 2
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Anon05/12/26, 17:09No.12567527
Are you ruling out Linux games released on Steam altogether, or just personally forbidding the use of the Steam client? Half-Life 2 is Linux-native, so go pirate it if you don't want to use Steam.
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Anon05/12/26, 17:11No.12567530
I have 50+ native Linux games in my GOG library but I always just install the Windows versions in Lutris since there's no difference in performance and you get more options in Lutris.
To be quite desu, native Linux ports aren't even necessary anymore in most cases.
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Anon05/12/26, 17:15No.12567539
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Entertainment
I was going to do an experiment where I tried installing an ancient version of Debian on a period accurate computer and try these ports out. Sounds like fun.
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Anon05/12/26, 17:16No.12567541
Cave Story - Pixel Art MetroidvaniaDaggerfall Unity - Launcher for Elderscrolls 2Dune Legacy - RTSeDuke - launcher for Build Engine gamesFallout 1 & 2 Community Edition - RPGsFreeciv - StrategyFreecol - StrategyFrozen Bubble - Puzzle Bobble "homage"GZDoom - Doom Engine for Mods & Total ConversionsOpen Fodder - FOSS Engine for "Cannon Fodder"OpenMW - Launcher for Morrownd & KOTOR total conversion StarwindOpenRA - FOSS RTS Engine for "Tiberian Dawn", "Red Alert" & "Dune 2000"Open TTD - Transit Management SimOpenTyrian - FOSS Engine for Top-Down Shmup "Tyrian"Perfect Dark - PC Port of N64 Game with Keyboard/Mouse SupportPingus - Lemmings "Homage"ScummVM - FOSS Engine for Classic Point & Click GamesThe Ur-Quan Masters - FOSS Port of Space Sandbox "Star Control II"
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Anon05/12/26, 17:37No.12567581
install the bsdgames package, those are some true old-school retro gamesalso rogue, nethack, bzflag, these are right classix
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Anon05/12/26, 17:47No.12567598
Most of the old Loki ports are unplayable these days, due to Linux being an ever-evolving mess that's actively hostile towards binary releases by design
Sound went from OSS to ALSA to PulseAudio to Pipewire
Display Server went from Xfree86 to Xorg to Wayland
And all of that shit is varying levels of incompatible with each other
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Anon05/12/26, 18:26No.12567668
What do you actually do when you publish a video game "native to Linux" versus "native to Windows"? How does the process differ between the two?
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Anon05/12/26, 18:37No.12567682
Hedgewars and SuperTux
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Anon05/12/26, 21:55No.12568013
Is quite easy.
>secret maryo chronicles.
>super tux.
>super tux kart.
>wesnoth
>nexuiz
>alien arena
>torcs
>0 A.D
Those would be the native ones i remember from 20 years ago there could be quite a lot more.
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Anon05/12/26, 23:20No.12568189
UFO: Alien Invasion is a great X-Com style game which has been around for like 25 years but no one talks about.
https://youtu.be/KSGqmcN1dn4?si=OkjUEMnNxcYri7HO
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Anon05/13/26, 03:21No.12568437
xbill still gives me a chuckle. Fuck you, Bill Gates!
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Anon05/13/26, 15:43No.12569451
Jak & Daxter with OpenGOAL
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Anon05/13/26, 20:58No.12569963
Pekka kana 2
A hard yet fun europlat made for Windows in 2003. Then ported to SDL in 2010(NOT RETRO). It may be in some distros' repos but I typically just build from source.
https://github.com/danilolc/pk2
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Anon05/14/26, 00:15No.12570246
ssh snakes.run
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Anon05/14/26, 02:15No.12570427
Quake BJ3 has a linux native version.
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Anon05/14/26, 23:58No.12572402
Quake 3: Arena was one of my favorite FPS games on Linux. Was tons of fun with classmates on the school network.
