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This page lists games that appear suitable for Debian, but which were not packaged either because nobody had the time or because nobody heard about it yet. After processing one of these games (evaluation of license, packaging), please move the corresponding entries to the appropriate wiki page: Games/[package_name] or Games/Unsuitable.

Please keep the list alphabetically sorted!

See Games/Links if you are looking for other possible new games. Also, don't forget to check Games/WNPP.

Other games that are missing from Debian can be found in the games blend tasks and in the list of packages removed from Debian.

If you want to see the status of a bug, move your mouse over the bug number.

Aleph One

• Home page: http://source.bungie.org/

• Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1997

• License: GPLv3 (engine); data files non-distributable but free to download.

• Description: first person shooter (fps)
• Comments:
  • The current package doesn't download the game data files automatically, but I'll work on it.
  • Can not find this package. Please upload your package to mentors.debian.net.

• Debian Bug: 119911

Ancient Beast

• Home page: http://www.ancientbeast.com/

• License: AGPL; CC BY-SA 3.0 (artwork and audio)

• Licence: http://www.ancientbeast.com/#license

• GitHub: https://github.com/FreezingMoon/AncientBeast

• Description: Ancient Beast is a turn based strategy game played online against other people, featuring a wide variety of items and creatures to aquire and put to good use in order to defeat your opponents.

AstroMenace

• Home page: http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php

• Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openastromenace

• License: GPLv3; CC BY-SA 3.0 (gamedata)
• Description: 3d scrolling space shooter

• Package request on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1969757&group_id=205965&atid=995765

• Package request on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/173906

• Comments: I built it from sf.net's archives and played it, comaintainance is welcome, ask me -- PhilippeCoval

• Debian Bug: 493350 (astromenace); 696380 (astromenace-data)

• Mentors: astromenace; astromenace-data

Battles of Antargis

• Home page: http://antargis.berlios.de/

• License: GPL
• Comments:

  • FlorianLudwig 14.05.07: "bresser [AT] informatik uni-bremen de" created a debian package already. If you gonna build one please contact him to avoid doubled work. He is no dd and so I guess he needs a sponsor.

  • Are his packages online somewhere? I'd like to try them...
  • From the website: " I appreciate any helpful feedback, but please note, that this game is far from being stable or even playable." - bddebian
  • NOTE: Upstream is dead since 2008.

Berusky2

• Home page: http://anakreon.cz/en/Berusky2.htm

• Sourceforge project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/berusky2/

• License: GPL
• Description: 3D open source sequel of Berusky1 game, aimed to Linux/Windows.
• Comments: Bart Martens has already created a debian package. But he needs some help in testing.

• Debian Bug: 673187 (berusky2); 673188 (berusky2-data)

Black Shades Elite

• Home page: http://home.gna.org/blackshadeselite/

• Source Code License: GPLv2
• Media Content License: ?
• Description: First person shooter with simplistic graphics

• Debian Bug: 691415

CoreBreach

• Home page: http://corebreach.corecode.at/

• License: Source Code (GPL), 3D Engine (MIT)

• GitHub: https://github.com/core-code/CoreBreach

• Description: CoreBreach is THE brand-new futuristic "anti-gravity" racing game with combat-based gameplay.

• Comments: The game data is closed source, but there a some important data as freeware to compile the game.

Corsixth

• Home page: http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/

• License: MIT

• Download page: https://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/downloads/list

• Description: a hospital simulation game based on Theme Hospital
• Currently needs the original game media files, but these should not be difficult to reengineer.

Crystal Entity Layer

• Home page: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/CEL

• License: LGPL

• Download page: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Download

• Description: a game engine based on Crystal Space SDK
• Comments: It has been in git of Games Team.

• Debian Bug: 282666

Daimonin

• Home page: http://www.daimonin.org/

• License: GPLv2

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/daimonin/

• Description: Daimonin is a fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game) which features a large gameworld with engaging background, and is developing many fun and unique features.

• Debian Bug: 638808

Dawn

• Home page: https://github.com/frusen/Dawn

• Source Code License: GPLv3
• Media Content License: GPLv3
• Description: Dawn is a 2D RPG set in a fantasy world. Able to choose a race, class and alignment to create a unique player experience. Gain experience through quests or slaying monsters, in order to level up and gain new skills, spells and more!

• Debian Bug: 691416

DccNiTghtmare

• Home page: http://dnt.dnteam.org

• Source Code License: GPLv3
• Media Content License: GPL, CC BY and CC BY-SA

• Description: DccNiTghtmare (aka DNT) is a project to make a Free (as in free speech) 3D single player RPG in a satirical post-apocalyptical world.

• Debian Bug: 610875

Domination

• Home page: http://domination.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPLv2

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/domination/

• Description: Domination is a board game that is a bit like the well known game Risk

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup [DCSS]

• Home page: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/

• License: GPLv2
• Description: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest to rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

• Debian repo (unofficial): http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads

Dwarf Fortress

• Home page: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

• License: Non-free. Unmodified binary can be redistributed.

• Download page: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

• Description: A game focusing on the creation and survival of a Dwarfish settlement
• Comments: Was originally a Windows only game, the Linux release is fairly recent.
  • Development is ongoing. Currently playable but listed as Alpha.
  • Full name is: Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress

Ecksdee

• Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecksdee/

• License: GPL
• Description: futuristic racing game
• Comments:

  • FlorianLudwig: I guess it would require a newer version of Crystalspace in debian

  • Which version do we need? There is already a crystalspace package in Sid.

  • NOTE: Upstream is dead since 2006/2010.

ET: Legacy

• Home page: http://www.etlegacy.com/

• License: GPLv3; gamedata (non-free)

• Licence issues: http://www.etlegacy.com/projects/etlegacy/wiki/A_short_introduction_to_the_current_status_quo_of_this_Wolfenstein_Enemy_Territory_thing

• Description: ET: Legacy is based on the source code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released under the GPLv3 license. The main goal of this project is to fix bugs, remove old dependencies and make it playable on all major operating systems while still remaining compatible with the ET 2.60b version and as many of its mods as possible....
• Comments: Perhaps we can put a package into contrib, with an auto-downloader for the non-free gamedata inside.

• Skript for the non-free gamedata: http://debianer.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/etlegacy-unter-linux-spielen/

• See also: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Unsuitable#Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory_.5BJun_2007.5D

ezQuake

• Home page: http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL for the engine and unclear for the data materials

• Download page: http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/build/

• Description: a modern Quakeworld engine

• Comments: A package is mostly ready BUT there is copyright infractions in the current release. Upstream fixed these issues on the CVS: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1630211&group_id=117445&atid=678559.

FAR Colony

• Home page: https://code.google.com/p/farcolony/

• License: GPLv3
• Description: FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century. It has 2 phases: a Colonization Phase, where the player must make the colony viable in 365 days max, and a Sandbox Play.
• Comments: This project is in ALPHA STAGE so not fully playable yet!

Force: Leashed

• Home page: http://www.kepuli.com/force_leashed/

• License: GPL

• Engine: DarkPlaces (GPL) - http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/

• Description: Force: Leashed is a free first person gravity fiddler. To advance, you need to guide rockets to their targets using spherical potential fields. And no, it's not like Portal. That much.
• Comments: Sources can be found in the linux package.

• Debian Bug: 694639

FreeLords

• Home page: http://freelords.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPLv2

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freelords/

• Description: Free reimplementation of the Warlords II game
• Comments: Upstream is in flux. They want to move to Java. I have packaged LordsAWar on svn which uses the Freelords code as a base - bddebian

FreeOrion

• Home page: http://www.freeorion.org

• Source Code License: GPLv2
• Media Content License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

• Description: FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game.

• Debian Bug: 593339

FreeRA

• Home page: http://www.freera.org

• License: GPL

• Download page: http://www.freera.org

• Description: Free engine to play the "Command & Conquer: Red Alert" game from Westwood under Linux.

• Comments:
  • Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib.

  • Superseded by http://sourceforge.net/projects/openredalert/ ?

Freesynd

• Home page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL

• Download page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/

• Description: Free engine to play the "Syndicate" game from Bullfrog under Linux. The first level is already roughly playable.

• Comments: Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib. It actually includes the game media files in the 0.1 download tarball, but as the license status is unclear, they'll need to be removed and repackaged as .dfsg.tar.gz. Support for the syndicate game files could be added to Games/GameDataPackager.

Glamour

• Home page: http://ocastudios.com/videogame/glamour

• License: Public Domain

• Download page: http://launchpad.net/glamour

• Description: A game for girls age 8 to 12. You play with a princess on her sweet sixteen and you have to walk around the town to talk to other princesses and check out what they will wear at the ball. This way you can go to the stores and find an original look to earn the most glamour points at the dance.

Goblin Camp

• Home page: http://www.goblincamp.com/

• License: GPLv3
• Description: Goblin Camp is a roguelike citybuilder, inspired by Anno 1404, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper.

• Debian Bug: 691417

Haxima

• Home page: http://myweb.cableone.net/gmcnutt/nazghul.html

• License: GPLv2
• Description: A game based on Nazghul engine with Ultima V-like gameplay and graphics.

• Debian Bug: 691418

Holyspirit

• Home page: http://www.holyspirit.fr/index.php?lang=_en

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lechemindeladam/

• License: GPLv2
• Description: Holyspirit is a 2D isometric hack'n'slash game (action-rpg). You play a Holyspirit, which is an old corrupted soul who's been enlisted in God's army. You must redeem the country from the evil who's been unleashed against the living ones.

Iris2

• Home Page: http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Main_Page

• License: GPL-2
• Description: Iris2 is a highly customizable cross-platform open-source 3D client for playing the MMORPG "Ultima Online" (tm) on Freeshards.
• Comments: Uses the Ogre3D engine and Lugre, a middleware to use the Lua scripting language.

Irrlamb

• Home page: http://code.google.com/p/irrlamb/

• License: GPLv3 (engine); CC-BY-SA 3.0 (content)

• GitHub: https://github.com/jazztickets/irrlamb

• Description: 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.
• Packages: Look at a getdeb.net-Mirror.
  • A preliminary irrlamb package is in the svn and irrlicht, the main dependency is ready to be uploaded thanks to Christoph Egger.

Jammer The Gardener

• Home page: http://jammers.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL

• Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jammers/

• Description: Live the life of a aspiring gardener. A 3D comic game for kids.

• Packages: Ubuntu package available: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jammers/jammer-thegardener_1.0_i386.deb

• Debian Bug: 480389; needs 282666 (CELstart)

Jose Chess

• Home page: http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jose-chess/

• Description: jose is a graphical Chess tool.You can store chess games in a database.You can view and edit games (including variations and comments).You can play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. Features 3D board view.

• Debian Bug: 702696

jRPG Valyria Tear

• Home page: http://valyriatear.blogspot.in/

• License: GPLv2; CC

• Screenshots: http://valyriatear.blogspot.in/p/what-is-this.html

• Description: Valyria Tear is an attempt at creating a free (as meant in the Gnu Public License) J-RPG game.

Kernel Panic

• Home page: http://springrts.com/wiki/Kernel_Panic

• License: GPL, Public Domain, 2 maps are non-free.
• Description: SpringRTS mod.
• Comments: Official package in Ubuntu Natty.

• Debian Bug: 554153

Liberal Crime Squad

• Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/

• License: GPLv2
• Description: A satirical console-based political role-playing/strategy game in which you recruit a team of Elite Liberal radicals and try to save the United States from a descent into Arch-Conservatism. Gameplay based loosely on the classic 1983 RPG Oubliette.

• Debian Bug: 533051

Lips of Suna

• Home page: http://lipsofsuna.org/

• Source Code License: LGPLv3
• Media Content License: CC BY-SA 3.0
• Description: A tongue-in-cheek dungeon crawl game that takes place in the chaotic dungeons of Suna.

• Debian Bug: 691419

ManaPlus

• Home page: http://manaplus.evolonline.org/

• License: GPL

• Description: ManaPlus is free opensource 2D MMORPG client for Evol Online, The mana world and similar servers.

• Debian Bug: 627141

Maniadrive

• Home page: http://maniadrive.raydium.org/

• License: GPL (code&art); CC 2.0 (music) [license can be found on the linux binary package]

• Description: A free clone of Trackmania.
• Comment: Two dependencies are automatically downloaded from configure script:

  • ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/opende/

  • PHP (library; v5)

  • See: Maniadrive FAQ

ManicDigger

• Home page: http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/

• License: Public Domain

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/manicdigger/

• Description: Manic Digger is a public domain 3d block-building game similar to Minecraft.

M.A.R.S.

• Home page: http://mars-game.sourceforge.net

• License: GPLv3

• Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mars-core/+archive/ppa

• Description: This is a first attempt to create a game in OpenGL with SFML. It is a game for two players, flying with ships in a two-dimensional space setting, governed by the laws of gravity.

Mari0

• Home page: http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

• License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
• Description: A complete from scratch recreation of Super Mario Bros. with a focus on perfectly imitating the feel the 1985 classic gave us. Then give Mario a portal gun, add puzzle game mechanics from Portal and there you go. And if that wasn't crazy enough, play 4-player coop, with everyone having their own Portal gun!

• Comments: Needs the LOVE 2D game engine: http://love2d.org/

• TODO: Check the source files in the the source archive.

Mega Mario

• Home page: http://mmario.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPLv2.1
• Description: Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone.

Memonix

• Home page: http://www.viewizard.com/games.php

• License: GPL-3

• Download page: http://www.viewizard.com/download.php

• Description: Brain teasers, puzzle and memory games for kids in one pack!
• Comments: Good image and music. Easy to build and play.

MTP-Target

• Home page: http://www.mtp-target.org

• License: GNU GPL

• Download page: http://mtptarget.free.fr/download.php

• Description: The best pinguin rolls down a ramp game ever

• Comments: only client is opensource. Fork of older version with server is here: http://code.google.com/p/tux-target/

Mystic Mine

• Home page: http://www.koonsolo.com/mysticmine/

• License: MIT

• GitHub: https://github.com/koonsolo/MysticMine

• Description: A mining game
• Comments: This source code release not includes music and sounds.

NAEV

• Home page: http://code.google.com/p/naev

• License: GNU GPLv3 Code, GPLv2/3, CC-By (and -SA) 3, PD Media.

• Download page: http://code.google.com/p/naev/downloads/list

• Description: 2D space shooter influenced by Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity.

• Debian Bug: 523834

No Gravity

• Home page: http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/

• License: GPL (source code and data)

• Download page: http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/download.html

• Description: Polished 3D space shooter
• Comments: This game used to be commercial, but was freed under the GPL in 2006. Thus, it's complete and polished. Integrating would require some work on the buildsystem. Right now the download tarballs lack Makefiles.
  • CVS has configure and make files. Game is actually kind of fun. I may work on it. - bddebian

Open World Soccer

• Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openworldsoccer/

• License: GPL
• Description: Open World Soccer is a funny, easy to play and nice looking football game. It wants to take the inheritance of great games of the past, like Sensible Soccer, Kick Off and others.

• Debian Bug: 576138

OpenAstroMenace

• See AstroMenace

OpenLieroX

• Home page: http://www.openlierox.net/

• License: LGPL

• Download page: http://www.openlierox.net/downloads/

• Description: A fun realtime worms clone with multiplayer support
• Comments: Upstream releases Ubuntu packages themselves.

• Debian Bug: 445850

OpenMortal

• Home page: http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmortal/

• Description: Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat.
• Comments: This package is work-in-progress by the Debian Games Team. Hopefully it'll be uploaded, soon.
  • Already in games svn
  • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: Unknown license issues with graphics and other content.
  • NOTE: Upstream dead since 2010.

• Debian Bug: 248751 (closed due inactivity)

OpenMW

• Home page: https://openmw.org/

• License: GPLv3

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~openmw/+archive/openmw

• Description: OpenMW is an attempt to reimplement the popular role playing game Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game.
• Comments: You must own Morrowind to use OpenMW.

OpenRA

• Home page: http://openra.res0l.net/

• License: GPLv3

• Description: OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

• Comments: Is there a connection between FreeRA and OpenRA or is that the same engine?

Pacifi3d

• Home page: http://pacifi3d.retrogames.com/pacifi3d/index.html

• Licence: Open Source

• Download page: http://pacifi3d.retrogames.com/pacifi3d/index.html

• Description: A proof-of-concept pacman emulator that replaces the original pacman sprites and tiles with OpenGL 3D graphics.
• Comments: Source is GPL but requires "Puckman" MAME rom images to work. - bddebian
  • Dead upstream, last release was in 2005

Paintball

• Home page: http://www.digitalpaint.org/

• Licence: GPL
• Description: With its high-value team objectives, limited range projectiles, and intense maneuvering, Paintball 2 offers a very unique experience that will appeal to both hardcore and novice players. It only takes one shot to eliminate somebody, but the fast-paced, arcade-style movement from Quake 2 allows for quick dodging, insane jumps, and breakneck speeds. Best of all, the game is completely free, and it's a small download, so just try it out!

Paintown

• Home page: http://paintown.org/

• Licence: BSD

• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~rafkind/+archive/paintown

• Description: Paintown is a free and open source 2-d fighting game.

Penumbra Overture

• Home page: http://www.penumbragame.com/

• License: GPLv3

• Download page: http://github.com/FrictionalGames

• Description: An episodic first person horror game.
• Comments: Was released as part of the recent Humble Indie Bundle.

  • See Games/PenumbraOverture for a beginning look at licensing and packaging. Everything is good for main but nvidia cg SDK. --showard

Project Football

• Home page: http://www.ikarogames.com/projectfootball/

• Licence: GPL2

• Download page: http://www.ikarogames.com/projectfootball/

• Description: Project Football is a football (soccer) manager game.
• Comments: ready, looking for a sponsor.

• Debian Bug: 589435

Puzzle Moppet

• Home page: http://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/

• Licence: Source Code (WTFPLv2); Assets (freeware)
• Description: Puzzle Moppet is a serenely peaceful yet devilishly challenging 3D puzzle game.

• Comments: There are a community release with fully open source assets: https://bitbucket.org/Knitter/puzzlemoppet

• Debian Bug: 694701

Reaction

• Home page: http://rq3.com/

• Licence: GPL
• Licence: Reaction is available freely and the content is licensed under the Creative Commons.

• Engine: ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/

• Description: Reaction (formerly called Reaction Quake III) started out life as a total conversion mod for Quake III Arena but has since morphed into a standalone game built atop the open-source Quake 3 engine code-base in the form of ioquake3.

• Build instructions: http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/node/2787

• Debian Bug: 694645

Red Rogue

• Home page: http://redrogue.net/

• Licence: GPLv3
• Description: A computer game, a side-scrolling roguelike-like

Rigs of Rods

• Home page: http://www.rigsofrods.com

• License: GPLv3

• Download page: http://download.rigsofrods.com/

• Description: open source vehicle simulator based on soft-body physics.

• Debian Bug: 692438

Ryzom

• Home page: http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom

• License: code - AGPLv3, art CC-BY-SA

• Download page: http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/Getting_Source

• Description: massively multiplayer online role-playing game

• Comments: replace NeL package http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nel

Smoking Guns

• Home page: http://www.smokin-guns.org/

• License: GPLv2

• Engine: ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/

• Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smokinguns/

• Description: Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.

• Debian repo (unofficial): http://forum.smokin-guns.org/viewtopic.php?p=24468#p24468

• Debian Bug: 694640

Speed Dreams

• Home page: http://speed-dreams.org/

• License: GPL
• Description: Speed Dreams is a 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game.
• Comments: TORCS-Fork

• Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~speed-dreams/+archive/ppa

• Debian Bug: 599884

Spring:1944

• Home page: http://spring1944.net/

• License: GPL
• Description: A WWII themed game with four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain), period-accurate units and strengths. Realism comes second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play.

Stepmania

• Home page: http://www.stepmania.com/

• License: MIT

• Description: StepMania is a free dance and rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and "dance pad" support, and an editor for creating your own steps.

• Debian Bug: 200715

Stunt Rally

• Home page: http://code.google.com/p/vdrift-ogre/

• License: GPLv3

• Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stuntrally/

• Description: Stunt Rally is a racing game with Track Editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.

• Debian Bug: 694967

Stendhal

• Home page: http://stendhalgame.org/

• License: GPLv2
• Description: Stendhal is a fun friendly and completely free multiplayer online adventure game with an old school feel.

• Debian Bug: 691420

Summoning Wars

• Home page: http://sumwars.org/

• License: GPLv3
• Description: Summoning Wars is an open source role-playing game, featuring both a single-player and a multiplayer mode for about 2 to 8 players.

• Debian Bug: 597857

Tales Of Maj'Eyal [ToMe]

• Home page: http://te4.org/

• License: GPLv3
• Description: Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.

Terasology

• Home page: http://blog.movingblocks.net/blockmania/

• License: Apache
• Description: Terasology is a game that pays ample tribute to Minecraft in initial look and origin, but stakes out its own niche by adopting the NPC-helper and caretaker feel from such games as Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, while striving for added depth and sophistication.

• Debian Bug: 702695

The Dark Mod

• Home page: http://www.thedarkmod.com/

• License: GPLv3; CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (gamedata)

• License: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/svn/darkmod_src/trunk/LICENSE.txt

• Description: THE DARK MOD is a total conversion for Doom 3, turning it into a dark and moody stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. More like a professional game release than a mod, it includes creative new gameplay features, dozens of unique AI, and a complete set of custom art assets, allowing players and mappers alike to enjoy missions in a gothic steampunk universe. The Dark Mod was officially released on October 17th, 2009.
• Comments: There are some work left, before they release a standalone release of this game.

The Legend of Edgar

• Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/legendofedgar/

• Source Code License: GPLv2
• Media Content License: ?
• Description: The Legend of Edgar is a platform game, not unlike those found on the Amiga and SNES. Edgar must battle his way across the world, solving puzzles and defeating powerful enemies to achieve his quest.

• Debian Bug: 653813

Thunder & Lightning

• Home page: http://tnlgame.net/

• License: GPL

• Download page: http://tnlgame.net/content/view/37/57/

• Description: futuristic action flight simulator and real-time strategy game
• Comments: I've tried to build this but it requires the Io programming language. There is an ITP for Io but last I checked it was not complete.

• Debian Bug: 691423

TurtleArena

• Home page: https://code.google.com/p/turtlearena/

• License: Turtle Arena source code is licensed under a modified version of the GNU GPLv3 (or at your option, any later version), the license is also used by Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Doom 3.

• Engine: Spearmint (GPLv3) - http://code.google.com/p/ioq3ztm/

• Description: Turtle Arena is a free and open source cross-platform third-person action game using a modified version of the Spearmint engine, which is based on ioquake3.

• Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~zturtleman/+archive/turtlearena-stable

• Debian Bug: 694704

ufo2000

• see /ufo2000

UFO: Alien Invasion

• Home page: http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL and Creative Commons

• Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157793

• Description: Strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment.
• Comments: A 3D remake of the classic turn based strategy game called UFO (Terror from the deep, Enemy unknown). Game engine is based on the GPL version of quake2.
  • This package is already being worked on. Their sources tarball contains a debian folder.

  • Point of contact is Yann Dirson < dirson@debian.org > or < dino@phidev.org >

• Debian Bug: 244582

Ultrastar Deluxe

• Home page: http://ultrastardx.sourceforge.net/

• Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastardx/

• Support forum: http://forum.ultrastardeluxe.org/

• License: GPL
• Description: The best free Singstar clone for your PC

• Comments: It can be probably compiled with Free Pascal and Lazarus, already in Debian.

• Debian Bug: 487216

Unvanquished

• Home page: http://www.unvanquished.net/

• License: GPLv3 (?)

• License: https://github.com/Unvanquished/Unvanquished/blob/master/COPYING.txt

• Description: Alien vs. Human Shooter

• Comments: Inspired by Tremulous, uses the Daemon engine (OpenWolf fork).

• Debian repo (unofficial): http://www.moreofthesa.me.uk/unv.xhtml

• Debian Bug: 694703

Urban Terror

• Home page: http://www.urbanterror.info/

• Download page: http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/

• License: GPLv2 (ioquake3) / freeware (data)
• Description: free multiplayer first person shooter (fps)

• Packages for Ubuntu: http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27329-ubuntu-games-repository-urban-terror/

• Comments:
  • Main packaging problem seems to be that data is rather large.
  • Idea: Maybe provide only the game updater on non-free.

• Debian Bug: 468325

VDrift

• Home page: http://www.vdrift.net/

• License: GPLv2

• GitHub: https://www.github.com/VDrift/vdrift/

• Description: VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. The driving physics engine was recently re-written from scratch but was inspired and owes much to the Vamos physics engine.

• Debian Bug: 694966

Vega Strike

• Home page: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL
• Description: 3D action-space-sim allowing player to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.

• Debian Bug: 691424

Vertigo

• Home page: http://www.vertigo-game.com/

• License: GPLv3

• Download page: https://github.com/amireh/Vertigo

• Description: Vertigo is an arcade game that puts your reflexes to a test.

• Comments: The game is written in C++, and built with Ogre3D, BulletPhysics, and OpenAL.

Vulture

• Home page: http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture

• Source Code and Media Content License: Nethack GPL

• Description: Vulture in an isometric graphical interface for NetHack, Slash'EM and UnNetHack.

• Debian Bug: 691425

Warsow

• Home page: http://www.warsow.net/

• Licence: GPL
• Description: fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS)
• Reminder: The last Warsow release was in Debian Squeeze but the maintainer was not responding for a Wheezy release. Now, the maintainer prepare a release for Debian Jessie.

World of Padman

• Home page: http://worldofpadman.com

• License: GPL for the source code, non-free license for game data (see below)

• Download page: http://worldofpadman.com

• Description: Polished, complete, comic-style first-person shooter
• Comments:
  • The game engine and source code are free software (GPLed), but the license for the game data doesn't permit commercial use, so the game could go into contrib with the game data into non-free
  • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: Already in games team SVN.

• Debian Bug: 481286

Wormsofprey

• Home page: http://www.wormsofprey.org

• License: GPL2 + some non-free parts

• Download page: http://www.wormsofprey.org/download.html

• Description: Worms like multiplayer, realtime game
• Comments:
  • 2008-09-29 - bdefreese: And upstream hasn't seemed active since 2006.
  • 2008-11-28 - eddyp: the package hasn't been touched in a while, hasn't been uploaded and has been moved into the attic by goneri in r4300

• Debian Bug: 353545 (closed due inactivity)

Xmris

• Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmris/

• License: GPL (since v4.05)
• Description: Mr Is is a version of the Mr Do video arcade game for the X Window System. Mr Ed is an editor with which you can create your own gardens.
• Comments: Seems to be available on OpenBSD, Mandrake and SuSE already. Author moved upstream to sourceforge recently.
• NOTE: Upstream is dead since 2009.

Xonotic

• Home page: http://www.xonotic.org/

• License: GPL v2

• Engine: DarkPlaces (GPL) - http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/

• Description: Xonotic is a free and fast-paced first person shooter for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It combines addictive, arena-style gameplay with rapid movement and a wide array of weapons.
• Comments: Nexuiz-Fork

• xonotic-autobuild.deb: http://fernmannblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/aktuellen-autobuild-von-xonotic-uber-die-paketverwaltung-installieren/

• Debian Bug: 646377

Yoda Soccer

• Home page: http://yodasoccer.sourceforge.net/

• License: GPL
• Description: A game with the gameplay and the style of Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) or Kick Off

• Debian Bug: 691426