At least once a week I like to report video games and online games, always free and always beautiful. After all, the world of videogames is an important part of computer science and not only children or those who are fixated play it, but all those who work on the computer, be they professionals or technical phenomena. In other articles I was reproached for having always reported online or free games to download only for Windows forgetting that there are also minorities that use Linux or Mac.
To make a level playing field, below I have compiled a list of (for now) opensource games that can be downloaded and installed on both Linux PCs, both on Mac and Windows . The peculiarity of these games, listed here in alphabetical order, is that they are not only free to download, but will be free to play forever, precisely because they are open source, not belonging to profit-making companies and developed by volunteers.
READ ALSO: Best free PC games
1) Alien Arena is a fast-paced multiplayer first-person computer shooter game based on the same lines as Quake and Unreal Tournament. With 60 levels, ten weapons and eight-player characters, it is one of the best free games and worth a try.
2) Armagetron Advanced is a 3D multiplayer game based on the movie Tron, where players ride light double-wheeled motorcycles, which run very fast and create a trail behind which you can crash.
3) AstroMenace is a very fun and very classic 3D space shooter arcade game.
4) Battle for Wesnoth is one of the best-known fantasy, open source, turn-based strategy games. There are many things to do in this game and the games last a long time: there are many missions to perform, great game maps, multiplayer and online modes to grow when you get tired of playing alone. The view is from above and graphically it is very clear, without excess.
5) Bos Wars is a real-time war strategy game where you fight combat teams and to beat the enemy you have to be intuitive and smart generals.
6) BRAIN OUT is a 2D multiplayer shooter, with powerful weapons of all types to use to defeat enemies. Even if you don't like 2D games, it's definitely worth a try. BRAIN OUT is easily one of the best free Linux games around.
7) Crack Attack is similar to Bejeweled or Biotronic or any of the other games where you click to eliminate the blocks of bricks.
8) Cube2: Sauerbraten is an excellent open source FPS or first person shooter.
In another article there are instead the first person 3D games open source for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs
9) Dota 2 is played by millions of players, with a large selection of heroes, skills and weapons, where you win or lose exclusively based on your skills. Starting a game as popular as a new player from scratch may require you to read guides to quickly become competitive.
Dota 2 is definitely among the best free RTS strategy games for PC
10) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup also known as DCSS, is a roguelike game in which players create characters who have to go through a dungeon to fight monsters and avoid traps.
11) Eat The Whistle is one of those games that should not be missing on any computer, both Linux and Windows or Mac. Two-dimensional football video game with horizontal scrolling that brings the minds back to the fantastic Sensible soccer. You can do the World Cup, the championship and you can manage your career during the game and the various games.
12) Endless Sky is a clone of the 1996 Escape Velocity game. The 2D space combat game based on the exploration of countless star systems. By driving a spaceship, you have to transport goods to earn money and buy better spaceships. This is one of the best Star Wars and Space Travel games for PC and online (free).
13) FlightGear is the best realistic open source flight simulator, among the most popular ever.
14) FreeCiv is another of those free games that have nothing to envy to the paid ones. It is practically a civilization of Sid Meier's, free and online where you have to develop a civilization, build cities, expand the borders of your state, deal with diplomacy with other peoples and fight them in continuous and strategic wars. The multiplayer mode allows a game even between 30 players. Free Civ is also translated into Italian.
15) Freedoom is one of the best open source computer games, clone of the Doom game.
16) FreeDroid is a modern futuristic RPG (based on the Diablo series) with an abundance of robots, weapons of all types and a wide range of magical attacks. You can also take control of enemies and use them against each other. The game is all in single player mode.
17) Frets on Fire a classic among music games, similar to Guitar Hero, rock guitar is played using the computer keyboard and following the combination of keys that scrolls on the screen.
18) Glest is a battle to be managed on the playing field using dragons, magic, technologies, knights and soldiers. The graphics are three quarters in 3D and are very well done.
19) Globulation 2 is a war management software that I personally find a little poor graphically but which, for lovers of the genre, remains one of the best free games.
20) Hedgewars, Wormux and Worms clones are turn-based games similar to Worms with cartoon graphics and fun challenges.
21) LinCity is one of the best Sim City clones . The mayor of the city must think of everything, build infrastructure, develop buildings, build roads, schools, hospitals, police barracks, avoid pollution, employ citizens, build their houses, aqueducts and light poles. In short, a city simulation complete with everything.
22) MARS is an Asteroids-style game, where the spaceship moves in the center and rotates by shooting the stones that divide into smaller and smaller pieces.
23) Neverball is a clone of the old Marble Madness, in 3D, where you have to use the mouse to tilt the playing surface and maneuver a ball, without dropping it and until you reach the finish line avoiding the traps.
24) MegaGlest is a 3D real-time strategy game, with great battles, epic adventures, magic and re-imagined elements of past civilizations.
25) Minetest is a Minecraft clone sandbox game, set in an infinite world with unlimited possibilities. Each player explores a block world and can even become one of them.
26) OpenRCT 2 is a clone of the famous 2002 simulation game RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, where you can create and manage an amusement park with attractions of all kinds, including the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster.
27) No More Room in Hell is a very cute, first-person, fun 3D shooter game of zombies like Left 4 Dead, for Linux, Windwos and Mac.
28) Oolite is one of the best spaceship and space exploration games for PC.
29) OpenRA is a RTS (REal Time Strategy) clone game of Command & Conquer: Red Alert created by fans and continuously improving with support for replays, capture of civil structures, fog and the possibility of streaming online.
30) OpenTTD is one of the best open source games of the city transport simulation and management genre. Compared to past versions, this game has an improved user interface, local and Internet multiplayer, up to a maximum of 255 players. In addition, the game has been visually improved with elegant graphics, larger maps, new features and greater complexity.
31) Phun had already been seen in these pages as the best example of physics applied to a video game. No specific purpose, only realistic effects and an editor to draw scenarios and natural phenomena.
32) Red Eclipse, fast paced first person shooter.
33) Robocraft is a multiplayer customizable robot shooter, fighting with other online players, very fluid, fast and with a futuristic setting.
34) Scorched 3D - A remake of Worms-type turn-based games where you shoot your opponent trying to hit him, setting the trajectory of the shot to do as much damage as possible.
35) Secret Maryo Chronicles is one of the best Super Mario-like games on PC
36) Smokin 'Guns set in the old West is a shooter where duels with the gun and desert dust are the protagonists of the scene.
37) Star Conflict is a space combat MMO where you play as elite pilots in space, spaceship shooter, with PVP and PVE battles and missions, single player and multiplayer campaigns, over 100 types of spacecraft, various tactical roles and so on.
38) Super TuxKart is one of the best Mario Kart-like games, with different racing modes, from the normal standard to the time trial and Egg hunt and football game mode.
39) Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer first person shooter for Windows, Linux and Mac, with lots of fun, easy to get started and with real MMO action.
40) Teeworlds is one of the best open source games, a mix of the classic Quake, Mario and Kirby games. This is a 2D side-scrolling multiplayer shooter with physics-based cartoon-themed graphics. You can fight with 16 players and choose from the variety of game modes available, including Deathmatch and Steal Flag.
41) The Saga of Ryzom is one of the few online multiplayer MMORPG role-playing games available as open-source, although it does have a subscription to unlock all its features.
42) The Dark Mod is another of the best open source games, clone of Looking Glass Studios' cult classic Thief. The player is a thief who moves in a dark fantasy world and must use various equipment to steal goods while avoiding capture. There are 170 missions available.
43) UFO: Alien Invasion is an open source strategy game where you can deploy soldiers to defeat invading aliens.
44) Unvanquished is a real-time first person shooter where you fight against monstrous aliens. This game is multiplayer only and lacks a single player mode. The game has monthly updates, although the graphics are a bit old.
45) VDrift, Project Torque, ManiaDrive and other car games are listed and described on another page and are free and to be played online for lovers of motors and racing in the Fast and Furious style. The machines run and tire in very good and fast 3D graphics.
46) Vega Strike is a strategic game where you have to explore space, build a stellar empire and spaceships to fight aliens and enemies.
47) Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory is one of those games of pure adrenaline, in first person where you can only see the gun barrel in front of you. It is a war game, set in the Second World War.
48) Unvanquished is a real-time first person shooter where you fight against monstrous aliens. This game is multiplayer only and lacks a single player mode. The game has monthly updates, although the graphics are a bit old.
49) Wakfu is an MMORPG (multiplayer online role-playing game) where you can live a life of your own, very fun both in the game and in the graphics.
50) Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory is one of those pure adrenaline games, in first person where you can only see the gun barrel in front of you. It is a war game, set in the Second World War.
51) Warsow is what you would say, a crazy cool. A fast paced and fast paced game where you don't stop for a moment and where the character never stands still.
52) Warzone 2100 is a total war game set in a 3d scenario in the future with many destructive weapons and many soldiers to send to certain death. Multiplayer mode supports up to eight players.
53) Widelands is very reminiscent of an old game called The Settlers. A great empire must be created and the people developed to make them strong and ambitious.
54) Xonotic is a first-person FPS in the arena similar to Unreal Tournament and Quake, with 16 different game modes and many levels to overcome.
55) Yo Frankie! has been covered in another post and is one of the best free and opensource platform games there are. Beautiful fantasy graphics, it is suitable for children of all ages.
56) 0 AD is a game similar to Civilization and, above all, to Age Of Empires. We must therefore develop a people, make them evolve, build structures and avoid being conquered by an enemy nation.
57-60) Neuiz / Tremulous / Urban Terror / OpenArena are great additional choices to add to your collection of free first person shooter games. Really beautiful graphically, fast and fun to let off steam at the computer, whatever it is, Linux, Mac or Windows.
READ ALSO: download old games, those of arcades, those for pc dos of the 80s and 90s
To make a level playing field, below I have compiled a list of (for now) opensource games that can be downloaded and installed on both Linux PCs, both on Mac and Windows . The peculiarity of these games, listed here in alphabetical order, is that they are not only free to download, but will be free to play forever, precisely because they are open source, not belonging to profit-making companies and developed by volunteers.
READ ALSO: Best free PC games
1) Alien Arena is a fast-paced multiplayer first-person computer shooter game based on the same lines as Quake and Unreal Tournament. With 60 levels, ten weapons and eight-player characters, it is one of the best free games and worth a try.
2) Armagetron Advanced is a 3D multiplayer game based on the movie Tron, where players ride light double-wheeled motorcycles, which run very fast and create a trail behind which you can crash.
3) AstroMenace is a very fun and very classic 3D space shooter arcade game.
4) Battle for Wesnoth is one of the best-known fantasy, open source, turn-based strategy games. There are many things to do in this game and the games last a long time: there are many missions to perform, great game maps, multiplayer and online modes to grow when you get tired of playing alone. The view is from above and graphically it is very clear, without excess.
5) Bos Wars is a real-time war strategy game where you fight combat teams and to beat the enemy you have to be intuitive and smart generals.
6) BRAIN OUT is a 2D multiplayer shooter, with powerful weapons of all types to use to defeat enemies. Even if you don't like 2D games, it's definitely worth a try. BRAIN OUT is easily one of the best free Linux games around.
7) Crack Attack is similar to Bejeweled or Biotronic or any of the other games where you click to eliminate the blocks of bricks.
8) Cube2: Sauerbraten is an excellent open source FPS or first person shooter.
In another article there are instead the first person 3D games open source for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs
9) Dota 2 is played by millions of players, with a large selection of heroes, skills and weapons, where you win or lose exclusively based on your skills. Starting a game as popular as a new player from scratch may require you to read guides to quickly become competitive.
Dota 2 is definitely among the best free RTS strategy games for PC
10) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup also known as DCSS, is a roguelike game in which players create characters who have to go through a dungeon to fight monsters and avoid traps.
11) Eat The Whistle is one of those games that should not be missing on any computer, both Linux and Windows or Mac. Two-dimensional football video game with horizontal scrolling that brings the minds back to the fantastic Sensible soccer. You can do the World Cup, the championship and you can manage your career during the game and the various games.
12) Endless Sky is a clone of the 1996 Escape Velocity game. The 2D space combat game based on the exploration of countless star systems. By driving a spaceship, you have to transport goods to earn money and buy better spaceships. This is one of the best Star Wars and Space Travel games for PC and online (free).
13) FlightGear is the best realistic open source flight simulator, among the most popular ever.
14) FreeCiv is another of those free games that have nothing to envy to the paid ones. It is practically a civilization of Sid Meier's, free and online where you have to develop a civilization, build cities, expand the borders of your state, deal with diplomacy with other peoples and fight them in continuous and strategic wars. The multiplayer mode allows a game even between 30 players. Free Civ is also translated into Italian.
15) Freedoom is one of the best open source computer games, clone of the Doom game.
16) FreeDroid is a modern futuristic RPG (based on the Diablo series) with an abundance of robots, weapons of all types and a wide range of magical attacks. You can also take control of enemies and use them against each other. The game is all in single player mode.
17) Frets on Fire a classic among music games, similar to Guitar Hero, rock guitar is played using the computer keyboard and following the combination of keys that scrolls on the screen.
18) Glest is a battle to be managed on the playing field using dragons, magic, technologies, knights and soldiers. The graphics are three quarters in 3D and are very well done.
19) Globulation 2 is a war management software that I personally find a little poor graphically but which, for lovers of the genre, remains one of the best free games.
20) Hedgewars, Wormux and Worms clones are turn-based games similar to Worms with cartoon graphics and fun challenges.
21) LinCity is one of the best Sim City clones . The mayor of the city must think of everything, build infrastructure, develop buildings, build roads, schools, hospitals, police barracks, avoid pollution, employ citizens, build their houses, aqueducts and light poles. In short, a city simulation complete with everything.
22) MARS is an Asteroids-style game, where the spaceship moves in the center and rotates by shooting the stones that divide into smaller and smaller pieces.
23) Neverball is a clone of the old Marble Madness, in 3D, where you have to use the mouse to tilt the playing surface and maneuver a ball, without dropping it and until you reach the finish line avoiding the traps.
24) MegaGlest is a 3D real-time strategy game, with great battles, epic adventures, magic and re-imagined elements of past civilizations.
25) Minetest is a Minecraft clone sandbox game, set in an infinite world with unlimited possibilities. Each player explores a block world and can even become one of them.
26) OpenRCT 2 is a clone of the famous 2002 simulation game RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, where you can create and manage an amusement park with attractions of all kinds, including the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster.
27) No More Room in Hell is a very cute, first-person, fun 3D shooter game of zombies like Left 4 Dead, for Linux, Windwos and Mac.
28) Oolite is one of the best spaceship and space exploration games for PC.
29) OpenRA is a RTS (REal Time Strategy) clone game of Command & Conquer: Red Alert created by fans and continuously improving with support for replays, capture of civil structures, fog and the possibility of streaming online.
30) OpenTTD is one of the best open source games of the city transport simulation and management genre. Compared to past versions, this game has an improved user interface, local and Internet multiplayer, up to a maximum of 255 players. In addition, the game has been visually improved with elegant graphics, larger maps, new features and greater complexity.
31) Phun had already been seen in these pages as the best example of physics applied to a video game. No specific purpose, only realistic effects and an editor to draw scenarios and natural phenomena.
32) Red Eclipse, fast paced first person shooter.
33) Robocraft is a multiplayer customizable robot shooter, fighting with other online players, very fluid, fast and with a futuristic setting.
34) Scorched 3D - A remake of Worms-type turn-based games where you shoot your opponent trying to hit him, setting the trajectory of the shot to do as much damage as possible.
35) Secret Maryo Chronicles is one of the best Super Mario-like games on PC
36) Smokin 'Guns set in the old West is a shooter where duels with the gun and desert dust are the protagonists of the scene.
37) Star Conflict is a space combat MMO where you play as elite pilots in space, spaceship shooter, with PVP and PVE battles and missions, single player and multiplayer campaigns, over 100 types of spacecraft, various tactical roles and so on.
38) Super TuxKart is one of the best Mario Kart-like games, with different racing modes, from the normal standard to the time trial and Egg hunt and football game mode.
39) Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer first person shooter for Windows, Linux and Mac, with lots of fun, easy to get started and with real MMO action.
40) Teeworlds is one of the best open source games, a mix of the classic Quake, Mario and Kirby games. This is a 2D side-scrolling multiplayer shooter with physics-based cartoon-themed graphics. You can fight with 16 players and choose from the variety of game modes available, including Deathmatch and Steal Flag.
41) The Saga of Ryzom is one of the few online multiplayer MMORPG role-playing games available as open-source, although it does have a subscription to unlock all its features.
42) The Dark Mod is another of the best open source games, clone of Looking Glass Studios' cult classic Thief. The player is a thief who moves in a dark fantasy world and must use various equipment to steal goods while avoiding capture. There are 170 missions available.
43) UFO: Alien Invasion is an open source strategy game where you can deploy soldiers to defeat invading aliens.
44) Unvanquished is a real-time first person shooter where you fight against monstrous aliens. This game is multiplayer only and lacks a single player mode. The game has monthly updates, although the graphics are a bit old.
45) VDrift, Project Torque, ManiaDrive and other car games are listed and described on another page and are free and to be played online for lovers of motors and racing in the Fast and Furious style. The machines run and tire in very good and fast 3D graphics.
46) Vega Strike is a strategic game where you have to explore space, build a stellar empire and spaceships to fight aliens and enemies.
47) Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory is one of those games of pure adrenaline, in first person where you can only see the gun barrel in front of you. It is a war game, set in the Second World War.
48) Unvanquished is a real-time first person shooter where you fight against monstrous aliens. This game is multiplayer only and lacks a single player mode. The game has monthly updates, although the graphics are a bit old.
49) Wakfu is an MMORPG (multiplayer online role-playing game) where you can live a life of your own, very fun both in the game and in the graphics.
50) Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory is one of those pure adrenaline games, in first person where you can only see the gun barrel in front of you. It is a war game, set in the Second World War.
51) Warsow is what you would say, a crazy cool. A fast paced and fast paced game where you don't stop for a moment and where the character never stands still.
52) Warzone 2100 is a total war game set in a 3d scenario in the future with many destructive weapons and many soldiers to send to certain death. Multiplayer mode supports up to eight players.
53) Widelands is very reminiscent of an old game called The Settlers. A great empire must be created and the people developed to make them strong and ambitious.
54) Xonotic is a first-person FPS in the arena similar to Unreal Tournament and Quake, with 16 different game modes and many levels to overcome.
55) Yo Frankie! has been covered in another post and is one of the best free and opensource platform games there are. Beautiful fantasy graphics, it is suitable for children of all ages.
56) 0 AD is a game similar to Civilization and, above all, to Age Of Empires. We must therefore develop a people, make them evolve, build structures and avoid being conquered by an enemy nation.
57-60) Neuiz / Tremulous / Urban Terror / OpenArena are great additional choices to add to your collection of free first person shooter games. Really beautiful graphically, fast and fun to let off steam at the computer, whatever it is, Linux, Mac or Windows.
READ ALSO: download old games, those of arcades, those for pc dos of the 80s and 90s
