The OG nexuiz. I played on a server with people from Mexico, and brooo. It was the funnest experience ever. Even tho I sucked at the game.
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Seiklus, Knytt (and Knytt Stories) were some of my all time favourite free games and are still worth a go.
Good times… I feel like these kinds of games exploded after Cave Story was released, then TIGSource came along, and now… Nada :[
A very incomplete list of Honorable mentions:
I honestly prefer old games for cheap over any free to play title.
If you are paying nothing, that is probably how much it is worth.
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I’ve sunk about 200 hours in MTG Arena, it’s good stuff… spent like $10 on it though.
Just wanna try to run destiny 2 on proton … download size 84GB.
FFS!
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If youve never experienced half life, or you have but you want to try out something different, this mod (doesnt need original games to run) us pretty decent.
I wouldnt bother with that. They have a history of permabanning people for trying to run destiny 2 on linux.
Also destiny 2 as a free game is pretty trash because everyone has moved on to the newer expansions and other content. You can still play the story which isnt that bad but its not worth getting into IMO.
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I consider warframe and planet side 2 to be great games!
If you can deal with development idiocracy but other than that pretty fun with a few friends
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Its the same thing with PLS2 it sucks because your not really cheating but hey that’s what wonderful DRM and anticheat engines are for right? Screwing over everybody because of a few 10 year olds on their parents couch script kiddie"ing" their way into fake prowess…
Haha anyways yeah most anticheats work this way… Sucks… I wish they would do something about it… Its not hard to recode a C++ based anticheat engine program for Linux at all … Saw a proof of concept at a gamecon once
Its extra stupid because paid hacks typically go undetected indefinitely.
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I often play Open TTD, which is an open source version,
of the old Microprose Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
This is a pretty cool game, for those who like simulation games.
Both available for linux and windows.
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In the same idea there is OpenRA for Command & Conquer Red Alert.
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Alright. I updated OP with a table to make it easier to see what was recommended so far. I tried to get Links to Posts and the Game for all of them.
If i missed a recommendation, feel free to let me know.
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Hmm seems theres a group of fans for an old game called Blacklight: Retribution (dead) that are willing to work on a new Game that imitates what made BLR so great, I dont know if they’ll make it free to play but I cant wait to see what they do as the devs for BLR really flopped hard on a game that had so much potential.
0AD. I can’t believe that no one said it already. The game was origianlly closed source, but then the group open sourced it. It’s basically a FOSS Age of Empires.
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I think most of the free PC games I’ve played have already been mentioned, so I’ll throw out the only two mobile games I play, both of which are free:
Plague Inc. is available on Steam for about 15 bucks, but there’s a free version available for Android as well. It’s been a while since I’ve played it but there was no ‘pay to win’ features that I recall. Really fun strategy game.
Pixel Dungeon is pretty popular here in our office as well. No ads, no pay to win, just a simple dungeon questing game. Pretty challenging.
I also just found out that Prison Architect is free for tablet devices, but I haven’t tried it yet. I love the PC version though.
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Wanted to give it a try. It’s currently not working on Ryzen 3000 CPUs. Their Forum has a patch you can compile yourself, but it leads to an Out of Memory error later in the game, so… Sadly won’t try that today.
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Ooo that reminds me, heres the mobile games I enjoy:
Meteor-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BitDimensions.Meteor_Blast&hl=en_us