I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.
Bonus if it’s multiplayer capable LAN and not online.
Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn’t matter. I don’t mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I’m not super pick and choose.
Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.
OpenTTD!!!
Also Satisfactory.
Endless Sky is great.
Minecraft, especially modpacks like that of FTB
(Java Edition of course. There’s several different launchers you can choose from after purchasing a legitimate forever copy of Minecraft, but PrismLauncher is the one I use and it’s a native Qt application.)
+1 to modded minecraft. The Create mod and its many many many addons would fit right in with OPs tastes I think. A team of modders even made a mod adding physics that allow for building planes, cars, and more. It’s pretty wild.
said mod adding physics is single-handedly making an august 2024 hotfix update the most popular minecraft version
I love sky blocks. Currently playing ATM10 To The Sky.
Satisfactory
Hundreds of hours in Linux played, can confirm it’s great. Also Coffee Stain studio just dropped the 1.2 update yesterday.
I dunno if I’d call it Linux friendly. It runs under Proton moderately well, but it feels like it’s still not quite as good as it was on Windows. And there’s no official support.
Satisfactory is fantastic on SteamDeck, since their big update (mid last year?) to get SteamDeck verified.
I’ve put hundreds of hours in on Linux and completed the game once. I’ve done almost everything there is to do in the game without issue. It’s never felt like a sub par experience.
Kerbal Space Program runs better through proton than it does either natively in windows or natively in linux.
It’s the game I have the most hours in, by a large margin.
I enjoy Xonotix once in a while. Old school shooter like Quake or Doom. You can play online or solo against computer players. Lots of weapons to nab with odd effects.
Cities: skylines
This one doesn’t even require Proton, since it’s Linux native. It’s also a very chill game.
Factorio is definitely worth a try.
Project zomboid, once build 42 finally comes out that is. Shouldn’t be more than a few more months right? Haha
That game has consumed multiple glorious years of my life. Amazing game with an amazing modding community.
X-plane runs natively on Linux, and you have countless hour of simming. While not fully single-player, Elden ring works perfectly through steam/proton, and the ordinary interaction with other players is about letting message
If you’re into strategy I can highly recommend some TBS Games (Turn Based Strategy) in no particular order:
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3, 5 and the new Olden Era
- Civilization 5 and 6
- Age of Wonders
- Battle Brothers
- Old World
- Songs of Conquest
All of them got something to do with building up and watching grow but in a more “laid back”, strategic way 😎
Construction Simulator is p chill.
CoreKeeper is a good one for multiplayer. Like Terraria x Stardew. I self hosted a server that we played for months, including at a LAN party, but I do think they use a nat hole-punch server to ease connectivity. Not sure if it was possible to direct connect via IP. It’s a big world with boss/gear progression and some mining automation.
Nothing has quite scratched the Rimworld itch for me, anything in that realm just makes me wanna play RimWorld more. But technically I have to mention Dwarf Fortress.
If you haven’t played a factory sim, Factorio is a classic. If you don’t want to have to fight buggers, you could try Dyson Sphere Program or Satisfactory instead.
Modulus is a recent factory sim with a unique twist: instead of having a fixed tech tree you work through, you’re given arbitrary 3D block configurations, and you lay down the configuration of buildings to make them. I really like the open-endedness. Some designs nicely complement others, so that the pieces you cut out to make part A can be stuck into the line that makes part B.
Btw, for Stardew, you need to eat foods that give your stamina back. Early on it’s harder to get the foods, but later you grow tons.
I’ve always been a fan of hearts if you can get 4 people together. If not, rummy or bridge? I guess it depends how offline you mean.
He said “linux friendly”. How many linux users do you know with THREE irl friends?
If you haven’t played it, Terraria. One of my all time favorite games, after all those years. Should also be really cheap on sales.
I’m trying to persuade my partner to play it with me at the moment. He seems open to it, but experiences inertia around starting a new game.
