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[GlyphGryph]

I've pretty much played the hell out of Wesnoth, and Freeciv is so terrible it's not even funny, and I'm taking a break from Bay12 games.

So I'm wondering what other good free games are available on Linux (or play under Wine, I suppose)

[Jake]

Warzone 2100 is pretty cool, and FreeCol is fun if you can tolerate the fact it's apparently written in Java.

[Mephisto]

If UFO: AI has been updated recently, I would recommend it. A previous update caused firing my team's weapons to inexplicably crash the game and I haven't bothered updating.

[Eduren]

Nexuiz, Hedgewars, SpringRTS, Savage 2.

If you aren't necessarily looking for free games, Heroes of Newerth has a native linux client.

[Sowelu]

Hedgewars, yes.

Stay away from LinCity.

Uh...hm.  Quake?  1?

[ILikePie]

If you're into older games, dosbox and bsnes are both great.

[GlyphGryph]

Trying out a few of the games mentioned now.
Warzone, and then Hedgewars if I have time today.

I'm totally in the mood for civ right now though, I really wish freeciv wasn't so damn terribly.

and man, Savage 2 is on Linux? I doubt I could ever get it to play on my computer, though. I need a new computer.

[Nonsapient]

Freeciv isn't necessarily terrible, just fucking hard if you don't follow one of the 2 strategies developed by the community.

That puts me off though;  I don't want to play a game where I mostly just get a choice of how closely I put my towns to one another, and thus the route the rest of my game will take.

[GlyphGryph]

The mechanics are illogical, the AI is terribly stupid and can only win by blatantly cheating (but is remarkably easy to manipulate), the interface ranges from mediocre to god-awful. The help is useless for understanding how the game actually works (In fact, I read the entire manual and still couldn't make heads or tails of how combat actually worked). In fact, I can not think of a single thing that the game did particularly well. I guess the interlinking in the civopedia was pretty good, but thats kind of standard.

It is a terrible game.

[Sowelu]

TUX RACER!

...As I mentioned in another should-have-been-unrelated thread, all open-source games are terrible.  terrible.

EDIT:  Oh right!  I forgot.  The only good open-source games, and classic Linux ones anyway:  Nethack, and probably Angband etc.

[Aklyon]

Roguelikes in general.

[GlyphGryph]

Wesnoth is open source and not terrible. As are Penumbra and Aquaria.

I DO need to play some more roguelikes... my favorite so far is still ZAPM, though.

[ChairmanPoo]

egoboo too.

Of course, there are also windows games that run fairly decent on wine. Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday goes a bit sluggish, but does work (as long as your screen is the correct size). Age of Wonders Shadow Magic runs but lags bad. Starcraft's mouse pointer lags horribly. Frozen synapse's mouse lags a bit too but it's playable

I've found that Dwarf Fortress runs better in it's linux incarnation than in windows (or at least than in windows XP)

[Muz]

Anything that you can play with a MU* client

I've found that Dwarf Fortress runs better in it's linux incarnation than in windows (or at least than in windows XP)

I've found that everything (except flash games) run better in linux than windows. Especially if you have Windows Vista. I log into ubuntu just to play facebook games because they run so much faster.

[Aklyon]

like RetroMUD.
or HellMOO.
or Medievia.