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Let’s start with the most important one, native Linux games, first.

Terminal Games (games you can play in the Linux terminal).

Browser Games (games that you can play online using your web browse).

Windows games in Linux (Windows games played in Linux with Wine or other software).

Native Linux Games (games officially available for Linux).

If I have to categorize, I’ll divide the games on Linux into four categories: But, there are workarounds (ways) to play a huge list of games and I’ll be mentioning how to do that.

Not just limited to the userbase, but not all games work perfectly on Linux. The reason, in my opinion, is that Linux has less than 2% of desktop market share and the numbers are demotivating enough for most game developers to avoid working on the Linux version of their games. However, you should not expect a native Linux support for the latest and greatest games – which are typically available for Windows. What I meant here is that you can get plenty of popular games on Linux such as Counter Strike, Shadow Of Mordor, etc. Yes, you can play games on Linux and no, you cannot play ‘all the games’ in Linux.Ĭonfused? Don’t be. And remember, it’s not just gaming on Ubuntu I am talking about here. This is the reason you only see a few articles in the Linux games section of It’s FOSS.īecause I have been asked questions about playing games on Linux several times and I wanted to come up with a Linux gaming guide that could answer all those questions. I prefer to play games on my PS4 and I haven’t dived into the PC games available or even mobile games (no candy crush request sent to anyone in my friend list). I am not a PC gamer or rather I should say, I am not a desktop Linux gamer.

How do you get more information about gaming on Linux?īut before I do that, let me make a confession.

Some of the potential questions that I’m going to address here are: In this article, I am going to answer most of the Linux gaming questions that a beginner may have. Considering that, the question about playing games on Linux seem genuine. In fact, some people even wonder if they can listen to music or watch movies on Linux. At least, by some hardcore gamers using another platform to play games. After all, gaming on Linux is often termed as a distant possibility. This is one of the most frequently asked questions by users who are thinking about switching to Linux.