Looking to get some games on my mint setup
Minetest and Mindustry are two of my favourites. It’s a bit complicated to find a good combination of Minetest mods though.
+1 for Minetest both client and server too; we run one locally for the kiddos :)
These get mentioned a lot:
- Mindustry
- Unciv
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Battle for Wesnoth
Endless Sky. The save game is a text file. Save a file on the mobile app (F-Droid), and on the PC (Flatpak), and note the last line. This is the line you must swap to transfer the save file. It is the first game I have played on both practically. The game mechanics are different between the two and you need to alter your strategy accordingly. On mobile, I travel with a ship setup for boarding pirate vessels and never target enemies directly; all of my guns are automatic turrets. I just use a fast ship and travel with a large group of fighters. It is more of a grind on mobile, but it can be used to build up resources and reserves. The game is much bigger than it first appears to be. You need to either check out a guide or explore very deep into the obscure pockets of the map.
Some I don’t see mentioned yet:
- Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection ported to pretty much everything.
- Nethack (and its variants), Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue are great roguelikes.
- For boardgame fans the original Keldon AI for Race for the Galaxy is open source and works very well on Linux.
- Fish Fillets NG is one I have fond memories of from many years ago.
- The Ur-Quan Masters is Star Control 2, another classic.
Palapeli. It’s such a great jigsaw puzzle game.
Extreme Tux Racer is a nice ski racing game but tux the penguin has some aerial maneuverability for long jumps.
I played a lot of FreeCiv and had a lot of fun with it. Not sure if it’s still dev/maintained
I have fond memories of Megaglest, an RTS similar to warcraft 3.
Warzone 2100 is a nice RTS, especially fun with friends
