Title: Gaming on OpenBSD | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 05 June 2020 | |
Tags: openbsd gaming | |
Description: | |
While no one would expect this, there are huge efforts from a small | |
team to | |
bring more games into OpenBSD. In fact, now some commercial games works | |
natively now, thanks to Mono or Java. There are no wine or linux | |
emulation | |
layer in OpenBSD. | |
Here is a small list of most well known games that run on OpenBSD: | |
+ Northguard (RTS) | |
+ Darksburg (RTS) | |
+ Dead Cells (Side scroller action game) | |
+ Stardew Valley (Farming / Roguelike) | |
+ Slay The Spire (Card / Roguelike) | |
+ Axiom Verge (Side scroller, metroidvania) | |
+ Crosscode (top view twin stick shooter) | |
+ Terraria (Side scroller action game with craft) | |
+ Ion Fury (FPS) | |
+ Doom 3 (FPS) | |
+ Minecraft (Sandbox - not working using latest version) | |
+ Tales Of Maj'Eyal (Roguelike with lot of things in it - open source | |
and free) | |
I would also like to feature the recently made compatible games from | |
Zachtronics developer, those are ingenious puzzles games requiring | |
efficiency. | |
There are games involving Assembly code, pseudo code, molecules etc... | |
- Opus Magnum | |
- Exapunks | |
- Molek-Syntez | |
Finally, there are good RPG running thanks to devoted developer | |
spending their | |
free time working on game engine reimplementation: | |
- Elder Scroll III: Morrowind (openmw engine) | |
- Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (gemrb engine) | |
- Planescape: Torment (gemrb engine) | |
There is a Peertube (opensource decentralized Youtube alternative) | |
channel | |
where I started publishing gaming videos recorded from OpenBSD. Now | |
there are | |
also videos from others people that are published. [OpenBSD Gaming | |
channel](https://videos.pair2jeux.tube/video-channels/openbsd_gaming) | |
The full list of running games is available in the [Shopping guide | |
webpage](https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/) including information | |
how they | |
run, on which store you can buy them and if they are compatible. | |
Big thanks to thfr@ who works hard to keep the shopping guide up to | |
date and | |
who made most of this possible. Many thanks to all the other people in | |
the | |
OpenBSD Gaming community :) | |
All these efforts are important for software conservation over time. |