![]() Every Linux magazine from here to India puts this in their top ten list. It's Bust-A-Move, that game that's like Breakout plus Bejeweled where you break the walls by adding more bricks. Old school adventure platformer with RPG elements like quests and buying powerups. If you preferred the sort-of sequel "Colonization," check out FreeCol. It's been upgraded since to play more like Civ2. The awesome that is Sid Meier's Civilization, now with multiplayer that isn't hot-seat, custom tilesets, and you can tinker the hell out of the rules. Fun fact: the background art is drawn by Dave Gibbons of Watchmen fame. Requires ScummVM to be played, but that is also a free install from your local package repository. Download stable version if you just want to play the game without too many bugs.Ĭlassic adventure style game that follows Robert Foster on a journey through a cyberpunk-esque metropolis. Fantastic quality considering it's freeware. Dozens of custom units are available for single player and multiplayer by downloading player mods known as "eras". It makes you really feel like you're commanding an army by having you level troops into hardened veterans, which you can recall for future battles. ![]() Six well-balanced factions are available for play at the start. The game plays on a hex based system, with terrain affecting the accuracy of attacks and unit movement. No campaign mode (yet) but the multiplayer works and the AIs are decently challenging.įantasy strategy game where much of the game's units, music, artwork, and campaigns are player contributed. Very nice graphics and a variety of historical civilizations to play as. Historical RTS heavily inspired by Age of Empires. For those of us who love to tinker on the engine more than driving the car, you can get the source code for each of these and compile it by hand. If something is not in your distro's manager, you can still port the package over but you might need to puzzle out some missing dependencies. To download and install programs on Linux, one typically does not download executable files from various websites and run them by hand instead, distros provide a software repository or package manager.
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