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Gaming on OpenBSD

Written by Solène, on 05 June 2020.
Tags: #openbsd #gaming

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While no one would expect this, there are huge efforts from a small team to bring more games into OpenBSD. In fact, now some commercial games works natively now, thanks to Mono or Java. There are no wine or linux emulation layer in OpenBSD.

Here is a small list of most well known games that run on OpenBSD:

  • Northguard (RTS)
  • Darksburg (RTS)
  • Dead Cells (Side scroller action game)
  • Stardew Valley (Farming / Roguelike)
  • Slay The Spire (Card / Roguelike)
  • Axiom Verge (Side scroller, metroidvania)
  • Crosscode (top view twin stick shooter)
  • Terraria (Side scroller action game with craft)
  • Ion Fury (FPS)
  • Doom 3 (FPS)
  • Minecraft (Sandbox - not working using latest version)
  • Tales Of Maj’Eyal (Roguelike with lot of things in it - open source and free)

I would also like to feature the recently made compatible games from Zachtronics developer, those are ingenious puzzles games requiring efficiency. There are games involving Assembly code, pseudo code, molecules etc…

  • Opus Magnum
  • Exapunks
  • Molek-Syntez

Finally, there are good RPG running thanks to devoted developer spending their free time working on game engine reimplementation:

  • Elder Scroll III: Morrowind (openmw engine)
  • Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 (gemrb engine)
  • Planescape: Torment (gemrb engine)

There is a Peertube (opensource decentralized Youtube alternative) channel where I started publishing gaming videos recorded from OpenBSD. Now there are also videos from others people that are published. OpenBSD Gaming channel

The full list of running games is available in the Shopping guide webpage including information how they run, on which store you can buy them and if they are compatible.

Big thanks to thfr@ who works hard to keep the shopping guide up to date and who made most of this possible. Many thanks to all the other people in the OpenBSD Gaming community :)

All these efforts are important for software conservation over time.