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!
This is such a short, sweet game, runs on everything: Portal. Even my mom likes it!
Portal and Portal 2 are my go to tests for if a machine qualifies as “an computer”. Basically, if it can run those, it’s probably good enough to be grandmas facebook machine. Might have to toss an ssd into it (exactly what I did with an old core2duo hp pavilion), but generally I find it to be a good rule of thumb.
Plus it gives me an excuse to play Portal when I test a machine :P
Just last week, I fired up Portal with RTX (on Windows, I’m ashamed to admit), and holy guacamole, I think it stresses my gpu more than any other game in my library!
I am not a gamer but even I enjoyed portal.
Addictive? Factorio.
The factory must grow!
cracktorio. I had to uninstall it
Factorio
The factory must grow.
It must grow.
This factorio has a native linux cliënt!
So cozy on steamdeck
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.
Minecraft is super fun and addictive, and works great on Linux.
Factorio
It’s worse than crack cocaine.
How does it feel, to ruin a life?
Others must share in my pain. I cannot be lost alone.
You should be brought up on charges for the heinous act of suggesting this game ….
But the factory must grow.
People joke but when I started playing factorio, I was playing multiplayer with my brother and a friend. We played for almost 24hrs straight. I remember going to sleep afterwards and seeing transport belts when I closed my eyes. THE FACTORY MUST GROW.
Doesn’t seem to be on the list yet:
Terraria.
I have hundreds of hours on my steam account, and I’m pretty sure it’s actually thousands. It’s a great game, and it’s been updated so much since it released. When you could buy and hold gift copies of steam, I used to regularly buy new copies to hang on to to hand out to people; I’ve probably gotten ten people into it. Currently doing a modded master playthrough with my family and having a great time.
Terraria is an absolutely wonderful game, I’m in the thousands of hours as well. It’s probably worth a warning for a first time gamer that it can be hard to progress without a bit of guidance. If you want to stumble in the dark for a while, that’s awesome, just go for it. If you want a little more guidance, check out the official wiki (https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki) and especially its getting started guide.
Yeah, the wiki is a big help, as is being aware that any item that has ‘Material’ in the list of traits when you mouse over it, can be brought to the guide, when you talk to him one of the options is ‘crafting’, and the empty blue box in that menu can have said items dropped into it for a list of all recipes using it, along with what workstation it takes.
Calamity.
It’s like a second game.
I can’t believe people don’t add it to the recommendation every time.
Finish Terraria, get Calamity, go nuts.
Calamity is great, but if you’ve never played any other games, I’d try others before running straight from Terraria to Calamity. If just for a broader experience
Factorio and OpenTTD
I second OpenTTD, it takes a bit to figure it out, but it’s so much fun when you really get the hang of it
Fucking trains, man
YUP. Don’t miss the multiplayer.
Which one?
Both
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.Aah, the good old times. It was my first game to get motion sickness from.
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. :)
Oh man now were talkin
Play Disco Elysium
That’s just a massive book with extra steps lol
my 2012 laptop cant handle it (cant even launch).
Hard to say without some indication of what sort of thing you’d like. Are you looking for something to just power trip and blow off steam, are you looking for strategy games that make you think, narrative experiences, dexterity/reaction time challenges etc etc etc? But knowing absolutely nothing here’s 3 good games:
Stardew Valley has native Linux support. It’s a game about farming. There’s not really any consequences for doing things slowly so take your time and enjoy the game.
factorio is a strategy game essentially about optimizing supply lines. Programmer types tend to find it extremely addicting.
Baulder’s gate 3 is a Turn based RPG based on Dungeon’s and Dragons. It may be a little difficult for beginners especially if you haven’t played DnD but it is also one of the best games to have come out recently having swept all the award shows for both it’s great story telling and run mechanics.
If there’s anyone in your life who really likes gaming asking them for games you can play together or that they can watch/guide you through would be a great idea.
So, you’re a tech nerd who wants an addictive game?
Factorio.
Also Satisfactory, but I’m not sure how well it runs on Linux. Fairly sure Factorio will run on just about anything
I’ve played quite a bit of Satisfactory on Linux. Proton is some amazing stuff.
Also Dyson Sphere Program. They are all amazing factory games, but personally I like DSP the most when playing alone, and Satisfactory for multiplayer. And yes they all run fine on Linux.
Valheim, factorio, rimworld, dwarf fortress, songs of syx, openttd, kopanito, battletech, baldurs gate 3, Witcher 3, project zomboid, streets of rogue, terraria, stardew valley. All of this works on Linux
You have good taste in game
Unrelated, but it is interesting that people ask for addictive games rather than for good games. Those are not the same.
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
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.
Get MultiMC instead for playing Minecraft.
Prism launcher is even better it is multimc with a mod downloader
