I’d like to get back into playing video games, but I don’t want to have to sign up for an online service like Steam or Ubisoft Connect.

I love technical sandbox games like Scrap Mechanic, especially if they have a “creative mode” that allows me to just make stuff.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Oh, I haven’t played them for a long time, but if you have a gamepad and like twin-stick abstract minimalist shooters, I remember having fun with Kenta Cho’s games, and all are packaged in current Debian-family Linux distros. They use 3d textureless graphics, will run on any system out there that can do 3d.

    • gunroar

    • rrootage

    • tumiki-fighters

    • torus-trooper

    • titanion

    • mu-cade

    • noiz2sa

    https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

    I don’t see people often mentioning those, so maybe give them a bit more visibility.

    Just wanted to stick something a bit more action-oriented in.

    Tyrion is an old DOS shmup that was open-sourced ages back and is also in Debian-family distros as opentyrian.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_(video_game)

    I’d still play that.

    Another old DOS game that was open-sourced is Star Control 2, in Debian-family Linux distros as uqm for Ur-Quan Masters.

    That’s old, but I think still fun.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters