Open world games for Linux (Steam included)?
 

Recently I have been trying to take up gaming but I tend to find things too fast-moving and action-packed. I am, slowly, moving through Metro 2033 Redux, like a little Minecraft and mess about with Second Life.
Are there any Open World games available for Linux? Two games I find when I ask people or google about the type are the Fallout series and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl -- neither of which, sadly, are available for Linux.
Does anyone have any recommendations of this type of free-roaming game for Linux? I would prefer open source, but I have Steam and have bought Minecraft, for example.

• Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition
• 7 Days to Die
• Kerbal Space Program (KSP) | GOG
• Terraria | GOG
• Universe Sandbox^2
• Grow Home
• Running With Rifles (RWR)
• Factorio | GOG | Main
• Rising World | Main

Full disclosure, I've blended the meaning of Open World and Sandbox a bit.


These fit that well

• Factorio | GOG | Main
• Terraria | GOG
• Kerbal Space Program (KSP) | GOG
• Grow Home
• Universe Sandbox^2
• Rising World | Main

Thank you for that, I'll take a look. I suppose I am looking for something "easy" but really just looking for something complex.

None of these are open source (I'm keen to hear about some open source ones, too; so far the open source games I find have been mostly arena-style combat, or arcade-style - none of them open world by any means).

Divinity: Original Sin is pretty open world and has a non-linear plot that you can take at your own pace, and in your own order. It's a Baldur's Gate style RPG, with turn-based combat, lots of cool magick and weapons, great voice acting, and PLENTY of game play. Well worth whatever you pay for it.

Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are fairly open world and nonlinear. They're sort of dungeon crawler games.

Saints Row IV is open world in play style (you can choose what you want to do, when) but it's a fairly small world and you run out of things to do eventually, so you'll end up doing the assigned quests eventually.

Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale are open world-ish RPG's, but being "vintage", they do take some getting used to, if you're used to modern gaming.

Dead Island and Dying Light have worlds big enough that you can wander around for hours and hours, spending your time on side quests and admiring the views.


One open source one:
FreeDroid. Haven't played it much, but it's RPG.

http://www.freedroid.org/

Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are more recent, and should be the same idea.

Personally, I haven't played any of them. Been intending to, though.

If I may recommend one that is fully open source:

Star Control 2. This was one of the very best games of the DOS generation. Does it hold up today? Does it ever! In fact, I'd say they don't make them like they used to.

There's also Ultima 7 (one of the original open world games), which is best played natively with Exult.

STALKER series games work great in WINE.

Hmm, I'd not considered WINE, might have a look, thanks.

If WINE is a option, there are a plethora of games out there.
Unfortunately, many of them are older games as more recent ones more frequently have some kind of DRM.

However, https://www.winehq.org is a excellent resource for finding which ones work / kinda work / don't work.
The site has always made it difficult for me to find this search though, so here it is:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManag...Ascending=true
or
https://appdb.winehq.org/

One example..
Total Annihilation is a old game (released September 30, 1997 -- so 19 years old!) but it's still a amazing RTS (Real Time Strategy) game.
It was designed to be extended and so has hundreds of maps / extra units / mods that are still being created to this day.
It's "official" multiplayer is long dead, but direct connection is available, as well as unoffical clients to join players (or have bots).

Cavedog (team who made TA) is long out of business, but GOG has the game (with all expansions)

I wrote a blog post on how I set up WINE for STALKER. Ignore the platform I used. It works the same on Linux.

http://sam.gleske.net/blog/gaming/20...sx-gaming.html

How do you get a Steam game playing under WINE, or did you purchase it another way?

I set up WINE the way I did in that blog post and then installed steam normally. Don't forget to use the latest winetricks from source because I found that it resolved dead links with some of the commands on Linux. After wine was set up, and steam was installed from Valve's website, install the game normally from the Steam interface.

So is this WINE running "Windows Steam" or "Linux Steam" running games with WINE?
Sorry, I'm slow on the uptake with this kind of thing.

I run Windows Steam games all the time. My typical process is:

1. disable the overlay in Windows Steam
2. fire up Steam for Windows in WINE and download the game
3. create a launcher that cd's into the game's installation directory and uses WINE TO launch the .exe
4. start Steam for Linux
5. Add the launcher to Steam for Linux
6. launch the game from Steam for Linux

It is WINE running "Windows Steam". i.e. open Steam setup.exe in WINE.

Steam has always had this annoying bug when run through WINE where no text shows up.
Running the below fixes that.

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