Another thing I’ve liked about linux. The community is amazing, and I find games I never would have heard of otherwise! What are some games you’ve found solely because of linux?

For me,

Luanti (voxelibre, mineclone)

Tuxcart

Horripilant

  • missingno@fedia.io
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’ve sadly found myself lamenting the fact that a lot of my favorite genres are tragically underrepresented on Linux. I still gotta keep my Switch, and buy a Switch 2, for some of those games.

      • missingno@fedia.io
        2·
        3 days ago

        Fighting games
        Arcade/versus puzzle games (but the genre as a whole is dead on every platform, not just Linux)
        JRPGs
        Rhythm games

        • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Ahh, yea. Fighting like SF or MK is a tough one for sure.

          Although some might be web-based and not necessarily native to Linux, Itch.io does have a large pool of jRPGs, and the RPGMaker communities have a lot of hidden gems, as well. Might be worth a shot, but there will obviously be some less-than-interesting ones along the way, too. They can’t all be zingers.

          There’s one fairly big rhythm game for Linux that I can’t for the life of me remember. I’ll try to find it and link, but I think it was posted on Lemmy not too long ago. There’s also Clone Hero that might be of interest if you have guitar controllers.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I mean, I get not having a particular loved series in the genre or having older games, but I don’t know about being underrepresented as a whole. There’s a lot of stuff on Steam.

          Like, okay, take fighting games.

          Assuming that this list is indeed a complete list of Switch fighting games:

          https://www.nintendolife.com/games/browse?system=nintendo-switch&genre=fighting

          Then there are 75 fighting games for the Switch.

          There are 2,230 games tagged with “Fighting” on Steam.

          EDIT: In fairness, some of the stuff tagged as “Fighting” on Steam extends beyond what I’d call the fighting game genre, includes stuff like beat-em-ups, but that’s still only partially offsetting the numbers there.