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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.
Note: If you want to see the status of a bug, move your mouse over the bug number (e.g. RFP or ITP). For packaging help, check out the PlayDeb repository on GitHub to avoid double work.
On the site Open Source Game Clones are some informations about open-source reimplementations of great old games.
An upstream developer named Cheeseness has expressed support for Debian packaging of their F/OSS games.
Contents
- Aleph One
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
- Azimuth
- C-Dogs
- Chaotic Rage
- Crystal Entity Layer
- Daimonin
- DccNiTghtmare
- Dead Ascend
- Digital Paint: Paintball 2
- Domination
- ET: Legacy
- Freebloks 3D
- FreeLords
- Freesynd
- Glamour
- Haxima
- Holyspirit
- Irrlamb
- IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
- jRPG Valyria Tear
- Kernel Panic
- Liberal Crime Squad
- Lips of Suna
- ManicDigger
- Mari0
- Mega Mario
- Mystic Mine
- Nova the Squirrel
- OpenMRac
- OpenRA
- Open Xcom
- Paintown
- Penumbra Overture
- Pushover
- Puzzle Moppet
- Race Into Space
- Reaction
- Red Rogue
- Rigs of Rods
- Ryzom
- Smoking Guns
- Speed Dreams
- Stepmania
- Stunt Rally
- Stendhal
- Summoning Wars
- Terasology
- The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
- Thrive
- Thunder&Lightning
- ufo2000
- Ultrastar Deluxe
- Unvanquished
- Urban Terror
- Vassal
- VDrift
- Vega Strike
- Vertigo
- Vulture
- Warsow
- World of Padman
- Wyrmsun
- Xonotic
- Yorg
- YSoccer
- Zero-K
Aleph One
Home page: http://marathon.sourceforge.net/
License: GPLv3 (engine); data files non-distributable but free to download.
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/marathon/
- Description: first person shooter (fps)
- Comments:
- The current package doesn't download the game data files automatically, but I'll work on it.
- Please upload your package to mentors.debian.net. The package files can be found on the debian bug.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Home page: http://amnesiagame.com/#main
- License: GPLv3
Github: https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent
- Description: A survival horror adventure video game
- Comments: no free game assets available
Debian Bug: 971026
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
Home page: http://aamfp.com/
- License: GPLv3
Github: https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs
- Description: A survival horror adventure video game
- Comments: no free game assets available
Debian Bug: 971025
Azimuth
Home page: https://mdsteele.games/azimuth/
- License: GPLv3+
- Description: Azimuth is a metroidvania game, with vector graphics.
C-Dogs
Homepage: https://cxong.github.io/cdogs-sdl/
- License: GPLv2 (code), CC0/CC-BY/CC-BY-SA (assets)
- Description: classic overhead run-and-gun game, supporting up to 4 players in co-op and deathmatch modes
- Comments:
- source code and assets of the C-Dogs DOS game have been released under GPL/CC and ported to SDL.
Chaotic Rage
Home page: https://github.com/TheJosh/chaotic-rage
License: GPLv2 https://github.com/TheJosh/chaotic-rage/blob/master/LICENSE
- Description: Unusual multi-platform 3D shooter
Comments: Older versions available in this Ubuntu PPA
Debian Bug: 784590
Crystal Entity Layer
Home page: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
- License: LGPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cel/
- Description: Crystal Entity Layer (CEL) is a game entity layer based on Crystal Space. It makes it easier for game developers to create games based on Crystal Space. CEL can optionally be used together with Python or other scripting languages.
- 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
DccNiTghtmare
Home page: http://dnt.dnteam.org
- Source Code License: GPLv3
- Media Content License: GPL, CC BY and CC BY-SA
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnt/
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
Dead Ascend
Home page: https://blackgrain.dk/games/deadascend/
- License: MIT
Description: Point&click adventure where the player has to ascend a tower by solving puzzles
Digital Paint: Paintball 2
Home page: http://www.digitalpaint.org/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/paintball2/
- 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!
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
ET: Legacy
Home page: http://www.etlegacy.com/
- License: GPLv3; gamedata (non-free)
License issues: The engine is not completely free at the present time because it requires assets in etmain to be usable. Those are still covered by the original EULA. See http://dev.etlegacy.com/issues/900
- 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: The game engine itself can be built on Debian systems. Preliminary work is available at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/etlegacy.git. The non-free game assets can be downloaded with game-data-packager. However as long as the engine requires assets from etmain/* (not the pak{0,1,2].pk3 files), even the engine cannot be packaged for Debian.
Freebloks 3D
Home page: http://www.saschahlusiak.de/freebloks-3d/
- License: GPL-2
- Description: Blokus clone
- Comments: The game is written in C++, uses OpenGL
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
Freesynd
Home page: http://freesynd.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesynd/
Description: ?FreeSynd is a cross-platform, GPLed reimplementation of the classic Bullfrog game, Syndicate.
Comments: Requires original game media files, so will need to go into contrib. The game actually includes the original music files which were converted to a modern ogg format. These files together with all other game media should be packaged with Games/GameDataPackager.
Note that the game engine is not on par with the original game yet and that there was little to none feedback from the developers, when I showed interest in packaging the game in July 2013. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20130727182608.0b8dfb10290e497301b14b0d%40mail.ru&forum_name=freesynd-devel
Glamour
Home page: http://ocastudios.com/videogame/glamour
- License: Public Domain
Download page: http://launchpad.net/glamour
- Description: You are 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.
Debian Bug: 740904
Haxima
Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nazghul/
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nazghul/
- 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.
Comment: Needs SFML 2.x at the least. - BarrydeFreese
Irrlamb
Home page: https://github.com/jazztickets/irrlamb
- License: GPLv3 (engine); CC-BY-SA 3.0 (content)
- 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.
IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
Home page: https://attnam.com/
Github: https://github.com/Attnam/ivan
- License: GPL-2+
Screenshots: https://attnam.com/albums/Screenshots
- Description: graphical roguelike game
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: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lipsofsuna/
- Source Code License: LGPLv3
- Media Content License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lipsofsuna/
- Description: A tongue-in-cheek dungeon crawl game that takes place in the chaotic dungeons of Suna.
Debian Bug: 691419
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.
Mari0
Home page: https://stabyourself.net/mari0/
License: MIT License (need a proper check)
- 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.
- DONE: The graphics are modified from the original Nintendo gfx set. Advise this is not packaged.
Mega Mario
Home page: http://mmario.sourceforge.net/
- License: GPLv2.1
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmario/
- Description: Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone.
Mystic Mine
Home page: https://github.com/koonsolo/MysticMine
- License: MIT
- Description: A mining game
- Comments: This source code release not includes music and sounds.
Nova the Squirrel
- License: GPLv3+
- Description: NES platformer game
OpenMRac
Home page: https://www.franticware.com/openmrac
- License: BSD
Description: 3D split-screen racing game. The ?GitHub repository contains tags to facilitate package versioning. Game resources are contained in a separate repository OpenMRac-data which contains matching tags.
Debian Bug: 1017986
OpenRA
Home page: https://www.openra.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.
Open Xcom
Home page: http://openxcom.org/
- License: GPL
Description: ?OpenXcom is an open-source clone of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO Defense in USA), licensed under the GPL and written in C++ / SDL. It was originally founded by ?SupSuper in February 2009, and has since grown into a small development team surrounded by a very supporting community.
Comments: You must own vanilla version of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense to use ?OpenXcom. It is not compatible with other games in the X-COM series. So this engine shound go into contrib.
Debian Bug: 794470
Paintown
Home page: http://paintown.org/
- License: BSD
- 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
Pushover
Home page: https://pushover.github.io/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: Pushover is a fun puzzle game originally published by Ocean in 1992. In this game you control an ant that can walk along platforms that are connected with ladders. On those platforms are dominos that need to fall according to some rules.
Puzzle Moppet
Home page: http://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/
- License: 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
Race Into Space
Home page: http://www.raceintospace.org/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/raceintospace/
- Decription: Race Into Space a free software version of the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner, originally developed by Strategic Visions and published by Interplay in 1993 and 1994 as Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space.
- Comments: The game depends on physpf 2.1, which has not been release yet. We need to wait for upstream to release and for the package to be in Debian
Debian Bug: 748321
Reaction
Home page: http://rq3.com/
- License: GPL
- License: 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/
- License: GPLv3
- Description: A computer game, a side-scrolling roguelike-like
Rigs of Rods
Home page: https://www.rigsofrods.org/
- License: GPLv3
?GitHub: https://github.com/RigsOfRods
- Description: open source vehicle simulator based on soft-body physics.
Debian Bug: 692438
Ryzom
Home page: http://www.ryzomcore.com/
Download page: https://bitbucket.org/ryzom/ryzomcore
- Description: massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Smoking Guns
Home page: http://www.smokin-guns.org/
- License: GPLv2
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smokinguns/
Engine: ioquake3 - http://ioquake3.org/
- 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: https://www.speed-dreams.net/
- License: GPL
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams/
- Description: Speed Dreams is a 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game.
- Comments: TORCS-Fork
Launchpad PPA (2.0.0 - 2012): https://launchpad.net/~speed-dreams/+archive/ppa
Launchpad PPA (2.2.2 - 2021): https://launchpad.net/~xtradeb/+archive/ubuntu/play/+packages?field.name_filter=speed-dreams&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=
Debian Bug: 599884
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.
- Comments: Songs are under CC-NC license so not redistributable in Debian
Debian Bug: 200715
Stunt Rally
Home page: https://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/
- License: GPLv3
- 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
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 Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
Home page: https://secretchronicles.org/
- License: GPL-3.0
Source Code: https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC
- Description: The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M. (TSC) is a two-dimensional sidecrolling platform game based on OpenGL and SDL. The game features a rich set of levels plus an advanced level editor that allows you to create your own levels. TSC is a fork of the SMC project, whose development has stalled.
Thrive
Home page: https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
- License: GPLv3+
Source Code: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games
- Description: Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life. From the lowly tidepools of your home planet, you will rise to cosmic dominance. At every step, powerful creation tools and deep simulation mechanics will aid your species’ development.
Thunder&Lightning
Home page: http://tnlgame.net/
- Source Code License: GPLv3?
Description: Thunder&Lightning is a futuristic action flight simulator and realtime strategy game that takes place in a large 3D environment.
Comments: Needs IOLang and probably update to libsigc++-2.0 since 1.2 is scheduled for removal. - BarrydeFreese
ufo2000
see /ufo2000
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 + BSD + CC-BY-SA
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/
- License: GPLv2 (ioquake3); gamedata (freeware)
- Description: free multiplayer first person shooter (fps)
Ubuntu Games Repository: http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27329-ubuntu-games-repository-urban-terror/
- Comments: Version 4.1 of the game works with Debian's ioquake3 engine, 4.2 does not. For more information see
Debian Bug: 468325
Vassal
Home page: http://www.vassalengine.org/
- License: LGPL-2.1
- Description: Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Play live on the Internet or by email.
- Comments: uses Java 11 and maven.
VDrift
Home page: http://www.vdrift.net/
- License: GPLv2
- 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/
- License: 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 prepares a new 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
Wyrmsun
Home page: http://andrettin.github.io/
- License: GPL v2
Engine: wyrmgus (Stratagus fork, GPL) - https://github.com/Andrettin/Wyrmgus
- Description: A strategy game which features elements of mythology, history and fiction.
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
Debian Bug: 646377
- Preliminary packaging available at
- We are looking for a dedicated maintainer.
Yorg
Home page: https://www.ya2.it/pages/yorg.html
Source code: https://github.com/cflavio/yorg
- License: GPL-3 (source code), CC-BY-SA (art assets)
- Description: racing game in 3rd-person perspective with multiplayer (online/split screen) support
Needs Panda3D engine packaged first (597172
YSoccer
Home page: http://ysoccer.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
Zero-K
Homepage: http://zero-k.info
- License: GPL-2
- Description: Real Time Strategy Game
See also thread on https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2017/10/msg00000.html