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Category: Games

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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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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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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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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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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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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Millennium – low-code modding framework

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Millennium is a low-code modding framework to create, manage and use themes/plugins for the desktop Steam Client.

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Chess

zurichess – UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

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Chess

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

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