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Tiny Crate – crate-chucking action puzzler

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tiny Crate is a cute little precision platformer with puzzle elements! It’s released into the public domain.

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Input Remapper – change the behaviour of input devices

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Utilities

Input Remapper is an easy to use tool for Linux to change the behaviour of your input devices.

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MMapper – play MUME

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

MMapper is a graphical mapping tool that enhances the MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth) experience.

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Game Tools

TwintailLauncher – multi-platform launcher

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Twintaillauncher is a multi-platform launcher that brings mod support, quality-of-life improvements, and advanced features to a variety of anime-styled games.

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lsfg-vk – Lossless Scaling Frame Generation

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This project attempts to bring one of its most commonly used features, Lossless Scaling Frame Generation, to Linux users.

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Puzzle Games

EmojiClu – graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

EmojiClu is a graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle, built with GTK. It’s a logical deduction style puzzle, similar to Suduko.

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Warble

6 Ways to Play Wordle on your Linux PC

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Wordle is a popular word puzzle game where players try to guess a hidden word within six attempts. We showcase open source Wordle clones.

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Game Tools

Hurry Curry! – multiplayer co-op cooking game

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hurry Curry! is a cooperative multiplayer game. You work at a restaurant accepting orders, cooking various dishes and serving meals.

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Shooter Games

Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Help gamers improve and share their knowledge.

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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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Gaming

X Minecraft Launcher – modern Minecraft launcher

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

X Minecraft Launcher is a feature-rich Minecraft launcher to manage resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods, and shader packs.

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Warble

muttum – guess a word in few attempts

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

With muttum, pick a dictionary and try to find the random word.

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Arcade Games

Asteroid Shooter – time-bound survival asteroid shooter

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Asteroid Shooter is a local 2-player spaceship asteroid survival game. Each game round lasts 120 seconds.

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Pro gaming

DOS Browser – lightweight browser designed for retro computing enthusiasts

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DOS Browser is a browser with built-in acceleration for DOS/Win9x games.

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Shooter Games

Space Nerds – cooperative multiplayer starship simulator

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Space Nerds In Space allows you to man the various bridge controls of a starship. You can play Space Nerds In Space alone or with friends

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Game Tools

EmptyEpsilon – spaceship bridge simulator game

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It’s fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.

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Gamer Utilities

Cosmic Expansion – space 2D shooter game

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Cosmic Expansion is a 2D space shooter where you take on the role of a seasoned space pilot tasked with destroying waves of enemy spaceships.

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Chess

Ghost – xboard compatible chess engine

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine. It offers multi-core support, singular Extensions, and more.

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Game Tools

ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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