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