Gaming on OpenBSD

Author: Solène

Date: 05 June 2020

Tags: openbsd gaming

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While no one would expect this, there are huge efforts from a small team to

bring more games into OpenBSD. In fact, now some commercial games works

natively now, thanks to Mono or Java. There are no wine or linux emulation

layer in OpenBSD.

Here is a small list of most well known games that run on OpenBSD:

+ Northguard (RTS)

+ Darksburg (RTS)

+ Dead Cells (Side scroller action game)

+ Stardew Valley (Farming / Roguelike)

+ Slay The Spire (Card / Roguelike)

+ Axiom Verge (Side scroller, metroidvania)

+ Crosscode (top view twin stick shooter)

+ Terraria (Side scroller action game with craft)

+ Ion Fury (FPS)

+ Doom 3 (FPS)

+ Minecraft (Sandbox - not working using latest version)

+ Tales Of Maj'Eyal (Roguelike with lot of things in it - open source and free)

I would also like to feature the recently made compatible games from

Zachtronics developer, those are ingenious puzzles games requiring efficiency.

There are games involving Assembly code, pseudo code, molecules etc...

- Opus Magnum

- Exapunks

- Molek-Syntez

Finally, there are good RPG running thanks to devoted developer spending their

free time working on game engine reimplementation:

- Elder Scroll III: Morrowind (openmw engine)

- Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (gemrb engine)

- Planescape: Torment (gemrb engine)

There is a Peertube (opensource decentralized Youtube alternative) channel

where I started publishing gaming videos recorded from OpenBSD. Now there are

also videos from others people that are published. [OpenBSD Gaming

channel](https://videos.pair2jeux.tube/video-channels/openbsd_gaming)

The full list of running games is available in the [Shopping guide

webpage](https://playonbsd.com/shopping_guide/) including information how they

run, on which store you can buy them and if they are compatible.

Big thanks to thfr@ who works hard to keep the shopping guide up to date and

who made most of this possible. Many thanks to all the other people in the

OpenBSD Gaming community :)

All these efforts are important for software conservation over time.