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Category: Games

Linux Chess Apps

Obsidian Chess Studio – chess analysis platform

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Obsidian Chess Studio is a modern chess analysis application designed for players who want to study games, explore positions.

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Game Tools

Dolm – Lights Out like puzzle game

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Dolm is a Lights Out-style puzzle game written in the OCaml language.

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Utility Software

Quizbite – small GNOME app to create and play quizzes

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quizbite is a small GNOME application for creating, managing, and playing quizzes.

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Game Tools

Plutonic – suika-like / spuntika-like game

April 26, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Plutonic is a physics-based puzzle game where players launch planets into a gravity field and try to combine them.

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Video-Emulators

Missingno – Game Boy emulator and debugger

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Missingno is a Game Boy emulator and debugger written in Rust.

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Game Tools

Puzzled – GNOME desktop application for solving daily tile-placement puzzles

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Puzzled is a GNOME desktop application for solving daily tile-placement puzzles inspired by Puzzle a Day.

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Arcade Games

Phantom Overload – atmospheric first person shooter game

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Phantom Overload is an atmospheric first person shooter built with Godot for Linux and Windows.

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Video Games

Xjump – reimplementation of the classic Xjump game

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Xjump is an arcade platform game where you keep climbing while the tower beneath you collapses.

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Card Games

Solitaire – play patience games

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Solitaire is a lightweight GNOME application that provides a simple implementation of classic solitaire card games for the Linux desktop.

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Sports Games

NetStats Baseball – simulation of Major League Baseball

March 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

NSB is a simulation of Major League Baseball. It is a client/server application written in C.

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Shooter Games

Tower Oops! – tower building game

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Tower Oops! is a modern GTK4 port of the classic “Crazy Towers”, rewritten in Rust.

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Games

t-story – falling block puzzle game

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Games

t-story is a falling block puzzle game using using Godot Engine 4.5.1+.

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Gaming Chat

Blue Nebula – fork of Red Eclipse 1

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Blue Nebula is a fast-paced arena shooter project derived from the Red Eclipse 1.x series.

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Game Engines

DOORS – pixel art logic game

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms Games

DOORS is a pixel art logic game that’s written in the JavaScript.

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Blightmud – terminal client designed for playing Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) games

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Blightmud provides a fast and flexible text interface that allows players to connect to MUD servers and interact with game worlds.

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Game Engines

Vassal – game engine

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. It’s written in Java.

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Chess

BBP Pairings – Swiss-system chess tournament engine

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Games

BBP Pairings is an engine for pairing players in a Swiss-system chess tournament.

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Game Engines

Jump ‘n Bump – family fun

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Jump ‘n Bump is a game for the whole family. You play cute fluffy little bunnies and hop on each other’s heads.

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Game Tools

Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Open Gamepad UI is a game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 designed with a gamepad native experience in mind.

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Shooter Games

Dealve – find game deals

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Dealve simplifies finding the best game deals across Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Epic Games, and more.

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