The only game I have ever played is FIFA on a PS4. Now I have a gaming laptop but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux. Appreciate your help in advance!
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Uh… Tux Racer if it’s still on there.
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Addictive? Factorio.
cracktorio. I had to uninstall it
The factory must grow!
So steam is your best bet for gaming on linux overwll. For specific games:
Stellaris - space empire game, grow and manage your fledgling galactic empire with a large amount of flavour to change playthru to playthru. From being peace loving spacegoats to horrible all consuming bugs, its up to you.
Civilization series - similar idea to Stellaris but taking control of various famous world leaders to grow a nation state
Rimworld - its the Sims but you can commit warcrimes. Colony management game. Take control of 1 - 5 ‘pawns’ and try to survive in the harsh wilderness as long as you can
Factorio - build a factory. start as one person with a pickax and slowly build things to automate things so you can automate more things. The factory MUST grow.
Terraria - sandbox side scrolling adventure game. Hunt down monsters, ore and loot to craft better weapons and armor. invite local townsfolk into your well crafted box huts and create a little village
Counter strike 2 - premier clicking heads simulator. Very competitive fps game but even if your new just play a little death match to get used to shooting and moving, then jump right into competative. Tons of idiots but dw about toxic fucks. Mute them and have fun shooting people
Old school runescape - sandbox mmorpg. Start as a useless nobody, level skills by clicking till you have carpel tunnel syndrome and wonder where the last 1000hrs of your life went.
Kenshi - sandbox RTS/RPG game. Wander the desert, get attacked by a wandering pack of dogs and get patched up and captured by wandering slavers. Attempt a dramatic escape and lose an arm. Steal a prosthetic robot arm and run for the hills. Gather some followers and start a base. Then liberate the slaves from the slave colony you used to belong to
Deadcells - action side scrolling roguelike. You get one life to attempt to slay the hand of the king. 100s of different weapons and layout changes each attempt. Use a frying pan to smack the shit outta baddies or a giant broadsword to cleave them in half
Stardew valley - comfy relaxing farming Sim. take over your grandfather’s neglected farm. Grow crops, raise animals and become friends with the local towns folk. Argue with the broader stardew community about who the best person to marry is
Portal 1/2 - certified classic puzzle games. Shoot portals, solve puzzle and make the machine intelligence progressively angrier
Half life 1/2 - classic fps games that set the stage for storytelling in modern fps game. Recommend black mesa for HL1 over the og version
BioShock 1 - fps storytelling at its arguably peak form. Would you kindly play this game?
Disco elysium - unorthodox RPG game. Solve a murder mystery as a cop with no memory. Actually a novel in disguise with fantastic voice acting
Metro 2033/34 - another contender for fps storytelling at its finest. Can you save the people from the menace plaguing the Moscow metro stations?
Minecraft - THE sandbox survival game. Dig some tunnels, build a castle. Slay hordes of zombies, farm some pigs and wheat. Its been popular for a decade+ for good reason.
Dota2 - I dont play this myself but you said addictive and plenty of people have dumped 1000s of hours into this game. I’d say league of legends but that requires more effort to play on linux
All I can think of rn, besides dota all of these games have eaten 100+ hrs of my life at some point or another. These titles broadly cover my own taste in video games so I hope you find 1 or 2 to your own liking
Get MultiMC instead for playing Minecraft.
Prism launcher is even better it is multimc with a mod downloader
I play dota 2, community can be toxic, but if you are not a snowflake or know how to use the mute button, its good.
I played this game way before dota 2, when it was a Warcraft 3 map, so I have been playing dota for about 18 years. Can confirm, it is addictive, and I believe it is one of the best competitive games out there.
Minecraft is super fun and addictive, and works great on Linux.
With Lutris + Wine-ge you can play practically any game you want. My recommendation is the games I have enjoyed playing since I got my PC a few months back, in no particular order.
- God of War
- Spiderman Remastered + MM
- Horizon Zero Dawn + FW
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Forza Horizon 5
- Armored Core 6
- Maybe Hogwarts Legacy if you’re into the gameplay hint mash RT
I agree!
Get Freedoom for free or the doom2.wad-file from somewhere, download GZDoom (flatpack), download Brutal Doom and start it with Doom Runner.
Damn, it sounds pretty complicated like this, watch a YouTube-tutorial maybe. It’s worth it.This is the only game to have a permanent shortcut on my desktop.
I play it with some modern tweaks and mods. It’s a sure way to get my quick dose of gaming rush.
Same here. I wouldn’t consider myself a gamer, but 30 minuten of mindless rippin and tearin every couple of days improves my quality of life significantly. :)
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Install Team Fortress 2
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Get prawned like a noob repeatedly
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Get good
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Prawn noobs repeatedly
I’m somewhere between steps 2 and 3 myself after around 2500 hours or so of gameplay.
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These are my favorite games:
Hyper Light Drifter
Dark souls 3
Hades
Nier Automata
Control
Everspace
Hollow Knight
BioShock
Bastion
Transistor
Saints Row 3
Rimworld if you want to play the Sims but with war-crimes.
Factorio if you like automation and IRL time skipping.
Oxygen not Included if you like to accidentally starve people due to your poor understanding of thermodynamics 100 hours ago.
Minecraft because everyone likes Minecraft.
Noita if your an unhinged masochist.
Helldivers 2 to discover your friends lead a much more busy life than you.For future readers: if you want something like Rimworld, but with a fantasy setting instead of SciFi, there’s Dwarf Fortress. But yes, it can be confusing, so Rimworld is easier to get into, as it’s more user friendly.
N++ is a very fun puzzle platformer. Vvvvvvv is a very fun puzzle platformer with cool music Hades is an excellent isometric fighter game with cool music 2048 is a very simple puzzle game that’s very very replayable. It’s like solitaire with simple addition Unreal tournament is three gold standard first person action game period. The npc enemies are no fucking joke and is fun and fast
Probably check out Batman series, they run quite well on Linux, just been working my way through them myself. Otherwise Red Dead Redemption 2 I found difficult to put away once I started.
Most games will run fine through Steam, as long as you check of the compatibility box in steam settings. Otherwise there is Heroic Launcher, and Lutris as different launchers.
Yes! That was my advice too. Most things work well, I’m using a 1060 and 4th generation i5 on a cheap 10+ yr old SSD.
Lutris really simplifies things too, I was able to easily install Battle.net and the Epic store too through it.
Steam has Proton now which is a god send for Linux gaming. https://www.protondb.com/ which is just a setting in the Steam client.
For games it depends on what might interest you. If you are into history sorta stuff, maybe Civilization V or VI? If you want more of a fun game that a lot of non gamers play, you try The Sims or Stardew Valley. If you want something like the current trend of games, try Helldiver’s 2 or Baldurs Gate 3.
If you ultimately don’t have a preference. Just browse the sales on steam for games that look interesting as well as browsing https://www.humblebundle.com/ which can sometimes be good. Just check it against that protondb or look up if the game runs good on Linux first before purchasing.
Honestly not sure if Guild Wars 2 works on Linux but if it does… It’s free for the core game. Tons of play time there
It works on proton
