This page contains scripts or deb files that when downloaded and run install particular game. These games are not in repository, and some of them are hard to install. These scripts install them for You, and furthermore add shortcuts in the menu with icons. Enjoy and please share this page!
Engines are not full games, but rather allow you to install the original game on Linux. If Genre is “Engine”, under “Clone of” there are the games it can run.
Mini tutorial how to run .sh files:
- Open terminal and navigate to directory where the game has been downloaded: cd Downloads/
- First make script executable: sudo chmod +x gamename.sh
- Execute it: sudo ./gamename.sh
| Name, License, Genre, Clone of. | Description | Download |
| Cave Story, Freeware, Metroidvania, None. | Cave Story is a freeware platform-adventure video game released in 2004 for the PC. It was developed over five years by Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya in his free time. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is intended as a homage to the classic games that the author played in his youth, such as Metroid. | Download |
| GemRB, GPL, Engine, Baldur’s Gate series, Planescape: Torment, and the Icewind Dale. | GemRB is a clone of BioWare’s Infinity Engine. This game engine is a reverse engineered clone of the original Infinity Engine used in the Baldur’s Gate series, Planescape: Torment, and the Icewind Dale series. | Download |
| OpenClonk, GPL, Action, Clonk. | OpenClonk is a free multiplayer action game where you control clonks, small but witty and nimble humanoid beings. The game is mainly about mining, settling and fast-paced melees. | Download |
| FreeCol, GPL, Turn-Based Strategy, Sid Meier’s Colonization. | The player manages the cross-Atlantic expansion of an established one in the service of the Crown. As the colonies become more self-sufficient their subservience shifts from boon towards bane, and to win the player must ultimately declare independence and defeat the Royal Expeditionary Force in battle. | Download |
| OpenRA, GPL, Engine, Command & Conquer, Red Alert. | OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. | Download |
| Doomsday, GPL, Engine, Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen. | The Doomsday Engine allows you to play the classic first-person shooters DOOM, Heretic, and Hexen using modern technology, with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, surround sound and much more. The only thing you need is the data files from the original games — Doomsday takes care of the rest. | Download |
| Dune Legacy, GPL, Engine, Dune. | Dune Legacy is an effort by a handful of developers to revitalize the first-ever real-time strategy game. The original game was the basis for the hugely successful Command and Conquer series, and the gameplay has been replicated an extended to a wide variety of storylines and series. | Download |
| OpenMW, GPL, Engine, Morrowind. | Engine for Morrowind | 32b 64b |
| VCMI, GPL, Engine, Heroes of Might and Magic III. | Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3 | 32b 64b |
| FreeDroid, GPL, RPG, Paradroid. | The game is set on a spaceship viewed from a top-down perspective. The ship consists of numerous rooms and levels, each one populated by hostile robots or “droids”. The player, in control of a special droid called the “Influence Device”, must destroy all the other droids on the ship. Requires SDL. | Only downloads and extracts: Download |
| Mortal Kombat Karnage, Freeware, Fighting, Mortal Kombat 3. | Remake of part of Mortal Kombat 3. Only few characters are available. Controls are A, S, D, and arrow keys. | Play |
| OpenTTD, GPL, Management, Transport Tycoon. | OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe”, written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. | Download |
| Warzone 2100, GPL, RTS, None. | In Warzone 2100, you command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics. Warzone 2100 was originally developed as a commercial game by Pumpkin Studios and published in 1999, and was released as open source by them in 2004, for the community to continue working on it. | Downloads, installs requirements and extracts: Download |
| Privateer Gold, GPL, Adventure Space Flight Simulation, Wing Commander: Privateer | Back in 1993 Privateer was released as part of the Wing Commander series and became a great success in the gaming industry. Over 10 years later a small group of privateer enthusiasts reintroduced the game with a new graphic engine and real 3D spaceflight. As Grayson Burrows you inherited a small old scout class ship from your grandfather, to start over as a Privateer in a new and sparsely populated sector of the Confederation. Take your chance and become a pirate, merchant or bounty hunter upgrade your ship and experience the hard truth in a border sector where no one has anything to give away … | Download |
| Unknown Horizons, GPL, RTS, None. | Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy. | Download |
| OpenDungeons, GPL, RTS, Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius. | OpenDungeons is an open source, real time strategy game sharing game elements with the Dungeon Keeper series and Evil Genius. Players build an underground (or overground) dungeon which is inhabited by creatures. Players fight each other for control of territory by indirectly commanding their creatures, directly casting spells in combat, and luring enemies into sinister traps. | Download |
| Zelda Classic, GPL, Action Adventure, The Legend of Zelda | The Legend Of Zelda games feature a mixture of action, puzzles, adventure/battle gameplay, exploration, and questing. These elements have remained constant throughout the series, but with refinements and additions featured in each new game. Later games in the series also comprise stealth gameplay, where the player must avoid enemies while proceeding through a level, as well as racing elements. Although the games can be beaten with a minimal amount of exploration and side quests, the player is frequently rewarded for solving puzzles or exploring hidden areas with helpful items or increased abilities. | Download |
| Commander Stalin, GPL, RTS, None. | Commander Stalin is a Soviet real time strategy game (RTS) based on Boswars. In a RTS game, the player has to combat its enemies while running his war economy. Its so called real-time, as opposed to turn based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building the economy and building and army to defend an attack the enemies | Download |