Penumbra: Overture – first person adventure game

Penumbra: Overture is a first person adventure game which focuses on story, immersion and puzzles. Instead of using violence to progress the player has to use his/her wits to guide Philip on his quest to unravel the past. Played from

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ThinkTanks – tank combat game

ThinkTanks is a tank combat game designed to be a blast for the new and experienced gamer. Charge in, take aim, and take off! ThinkTanks is a tank combat game designed to be a blast for the new and experienced

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Shredder – computer chess software

Shredder is an extremely strong chess program developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen. Shredder is split into two parts. First and foremost the engine, i.e. the real chess program, which represents the real strength of the package. The second element

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Darwinia – virtual themepark

Darwinia is an action game, similar to Cannon Fodder, with graphics inspired by early arcade machines and retro Computer Graphics, such as in the movie Tron. It is a virtual themepark, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by

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DEFCON – global thermonuclear war game

DEFCON is an online, competitive, multiplayer strategy game based around the theme of global thermonuclear war. The game, inspired by the 1983 cult-classic Wargames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era. The player undertakes the

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Doom 3 – first-person shooter video game

Doom 3 is a science fiction, survival horror, first-person shooter video game with impressive graphics. Doom 3 is set in the year 2145 in a fictional Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research center on Mars. The player takes control of a

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Cold War – real time strategy action game

Cold War is a Real Time Strategy action game. The game follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow

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Northland – adventure-strategy game

Northland is an adventure-strategy game, which features well known game elements from the Cultures series as well as multiple new elements such as solving enigmas, adventures and multiple ways to solve a level. The story begins where the plot of

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Toribash – innovative fighting game

Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes. The focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game

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Ancient Empires Lux – strategy game

Ancient Empires Lux is a strategy game that lets you play as all of the great ancient civilizations. It uses the rule system of the board game Risk. From Sumeria to Egypt, India to China, Greece to Rome, Ancient Empires

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Runes of Avalon – puzzle game with a twist

Runes of Avalon is a puzzle game with a twist, match-3 mechanic that you have yet to see. Excellent music, wonderful graphics, brilliant particle effects, eight powerful spells, 105 levels in quest, two minigames, lot of variations within a quest,

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Professor Fizzwizzle – mind-expanding puzzle game

Professor Fizzwizzle is a platform based mind-expanding puzzle game. Specifically, Professor Fizzwizzle is a fun, mind-expanding puzzle game, where you take control of the diminutive genius, Professor Fizzwizzle. You must help the professor use his brains and his gadgets to

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Master Kick **AWOL**

Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen till now. It’s not just a game with stunning graphics of various playfields and players, weather visual effects, or live cheering. Master kick aims to provide

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SmallRockets BackGammon

SmallRockets BackGammon is a polished implementation of the classic board game, backgammon. The objective for a player is to move all of their checkers to their home board and then bear them off before their opponent can do so. The

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Spandex Force – puzzle, adventure, RPG game

Spandex Force is a puzzle, adventure, RPG game that lets you create your own hero to clean up the crime-infested town of Vigilance Valley. Spandex Force contains many different kinds of minigames in which you can battle common crooks or

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42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games

Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That’s one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week. It is true to say that the number of commercial games released for Linux each year

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