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Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!
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Help us improve our guide! What free and open source #games or utilities do you recommend?
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My vote goes to @Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/) and 0 A.D. (https://play0ad.com/) two criminally underrated games that deserve much more exposure.
#minetest #0AD #linuxgaming
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I'm unfamiliar with 0 A.D., though as an on again off again Minecraft player for over a decade now I 110% agree minetest needs more exposure
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@[email protected] @[email protected] games? 0a.d. or minetest, sometimes playing other things but in browser. Idk
@[email protected] @[email protected] Pretty sure KPatience is the game I play most of the time because I struggle to start new games a lot lately... oh and sometimes gnome 2048 I guess, hope that doesn't revoke my KDE Shill License :3
@mitsunee @[email protected] @[email protected] yeah, i also downloaded gnome game package…
@[email protected] @[email protected] SuperTuxKart! Also I think you could also highlight emulators.
Not free and open source games but I think the guide should focus more on Steam Play (maybe even show a video of how just clicking play works on a AAA game) and Heroic for Epic Games (Many people may have free games they acquired from Epic Games)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Mangohud is really good. And for me the top video is a bit laggy on Firefox.
@kde @kde Maybe recommend @PrismLauncher ? Its using Qt and Minecraft is very popular.
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Minecraft is not free and open source software though.
Check out @Minetest. Apart from FLOSS, it is much more extensible, making it not only great for creating a wide variety of derivative games, but also a better educational and collaborative tool than Minecraft.
It's a treasure.
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Agreed 👍 . And most of the games you can play on Steam are also not open source, but read the question again: KDE is asking in this concrete case for more FLOSS software that you think deserves being boosted.
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My apologies. In no way was I trying to undermine your answer. I was trying to point out (maybe clumsily and untactfully) that Minecraft was not open source, so it did not fit the question. That is all.
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https://www.beyondallreason.info/ is a really really good floss rts game and i would mention lutris at same time as bottles as they both do pretty much the same thing and lurtris can even handle emulation, which i think bottles cant
@kde @kde Zero-K, greatest RTS of all time
@[email protected] @[email protected] Heroic Launcher (an open source client for epic, Amazon games and gog)
BAR - Beyond all Reason (sci-fi RTS built on the open source spring engine)
Ultrastar Deluxe (Karaoke-Partygame, similar to SingStar, but extensible with new songs through simple text files)
@kde @kde Do you have something for android games emulation?
On windows, LDPlayer works pretty well, but I couldn’t get it to work through Bottles on linux.
@zaki @[email protected] @[email protected] https://waydro.id/
@resera @kde @kde thanks, tried already, but no luck. will try again sometime later…