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[ShuangXi]

Most games on the list of free games seem to be for windows.

Any recommendation for Linux games?  I'm currently installing UFO: Alien Invasion  which looks awesome.

I prefer in depth games that you can take slow (non-real time).

Also, prefer games that aren't required to connect to internet (MMO) and don't need too much graphical power.

[Trif]

You have to try Battle for Wesnoth. It's a fantasy turn-based strategy game with a simple set of rules, but with a lot of depth to it.

And you also made me think of NetHack.

[mongrol]

Run Ubuntu Software Center and look in there. Linux games are mostly packaged up and supplied with the distro's package manager. Desura (www.desura.com) also has a good selection of modern indie titles. Also check out www.lgdb.org

Here's one to get you started.

Battle for Wesnoth.

[Trapezohedron]

Cataclysm.

[Anvilfolk]

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup!

[Starver]

Although it is graphically-inclined, the Vulture's/Whatever Tooth/Claw/whatever-the-latest-is spinoff of Nethack (and the like) look and run nice on my Linuxes.

And what's the one with the (alien) robot penguin against the (native, but rogue) rampaging robots?  (Although I've found performance problems with it trying to do software emulation of hardware graphics functions, on a system improperly configured from the start.  There are some switches to make the display system expect to do software-only graphics accelerations, though, if you can't solve the other issue.)  Ah, just remembered, it's "FreeDroidRPG".  (Not to be entirely confused with plain old "FreeDroid", the direct "Paradroid" clone.)

Other than the above (and a game I forget the name of that pits you against planets and their gravity-wells in order to try and shoot the opposition, which I've spent many an hour making pretty patterns with), most of the 'games' I play on Linux are ones of my own design, in a severe "pre-Alpha" prototype stage.  Been a while since I've even tried DF's Linux version, actually, I now realise...