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is there any place that has a list of native linux games that one can buy, new or newer, that do not require steam, etc.? Every search I do through brave, duckduckgo, even google gives me steam, steam, steam (Or the old classic linux games)... Steam already stole money from me as it is, I won't deal with them anymore. But it looks like only steam has games for linux these days?
Actually I have another question I might as well post here since the title is games. Does anyone know of any good world building games or deck building games for linux? World building games like Garys Mod, Starsone, platinum arts sandbox, etc. Deck building games like Magic, Minion Masters, etc. I am still looking for standalone games, not steam games. Thanks.
https://www.gog.com/games?system=lin...ularity&page=1 GOG provides an 'all games for linux' top-level - see if you can't find what you're looking for with some searches within that (it offers more category refinement or you can just browse all 32 pages).
Also remember that there's plenty of 'Windows only' games that will run in linux via Wine and/or CrossOver, both of which have searchable databases (you'll have to specify the name of a program to search, so its a bit 'backwards' from how GOG organizes things): https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility
So if you find a game you like (e.g. on GOG) that says its Windows-only, you may still have a chance of it working on linux. You might take a look at Lutris or PlayOnLinux for additional insights into compatibility there as well.
I'm less familiar with Itch, but it also seems to have a 'linux' category (and returns over 50,000 (!) results - probably will need to search a bit more there): https://itch.io/games/platform-linux
itch.io does not require a signup to download games. They are simple zips That unzip into folders.
Gog.com requires a signup (just provide some temp. email address). The games are shell scripts that include zipped games inside the shell code! It runs some sort of installer and you end up with .desktop menu entries. Slightly more comfortable, but slightly suspicious as well.
All games I tried so far from both sites just work.
Gog.com requires a signup (just provide some temp. email address). The games are shell scripts that include zipped games inside the shell code! It runs some sort of installer and you end up with .desktop menu entries. Slightly more comfortable, but slightly suspicious as well.
Part of the 'sign up' for GOG is to handle payment processing I imagine (most of the games on GOG are paid software, but they do have a few FOSS games appearing, like OpenTTD). The Linux installer is based on MojoSetup (https://www.icculus.org/mojosetup/ and https://github.com/icculus/mojosetup). I would imagine Linux games from Itch could use this without problems if the developer(s) so wanted, as it does not appear to be exclusive to GOG (its zlib licenced).
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