What are some games you’ve found solely because of linux?

I’ve been using primarily Linux on my desktop since IIRC 1998 and eliminated dual-boot in a year or so after that. So pretty much every game I still play outside of a few emulated ones has been from using Linux.

But there were older games that I probably wouldn’t have played if I hadn’t been on Linux; years back, the selection was a lot more limited. Today, virtually every game on Windows works on Linux.

• Quake and Quake II had very early Linux support; John Carmack took time away from working on id Software games to work on Linux 3d video drivers, which were pretty much nonexistent at that point, so I was playing a game that he wrote using video drivers that he helped write.

• bzFlag is a graphically-simple 3D multiplayer tank shooter.

• Linley Henzell, the author of Linley’s Dungeon Crawl (which later became Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup), wrote some simple games kind of in the Gravity Wars genre, but much earlier: Lacewing and Overgod.

• Pingus, an open-source Lemmings clone.

• Lincity-NG. A city-builder that focuses on transportation of goods and sustainability. The original version of this was graphically about on par with a color version of the original Sim City.

• Night Hawk, a Paradroid clone.

• ToME 2. ASCII roguelike. This is very different from ToME 3, which eventually went up on Steam (and is quite popular in its own right, though it never drew me in as much as ToME 2).