Open Source Lua Games for Linux

The Battle for Wesnoth is a Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures.

Official continuation of the famous Blobby Volley 1.x arcade game.

GEDKeeper program is developed for work with personal genealogical database. The program is designed for extremely simple and intuitive interface. The program is very easy to install on the computer, fully supports the GEDCOM format, has no restrictions on the number of persons and generations, allows you to generate pedigrees, building several tree species, as well as print and save their images, provides fast navigation, filtering, searching and adding multimedia materials. In addition there is an output of geographic data on Google maps (© Google). The aim of the program is as quick and effective means of conducting personal genealogical database. We invite native speakers to improve the translation of the program on the Crowdin platform: https://crowdin.com/project/gedkeeper Project is published on GitHub, url: https://github.com/Serg-Norseman/GEDKeeper

An open source NES Emulator for Windows and Unix that features solid emulation accuracy and state of the art tools for power users. FCEUX's source code is now hosted at https://github.com/TASVideos/fceux/ win32 autobuilds @ https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromus/fceux/build/artifacts

Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.

Open Source implementation of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets from ALTAR interactive.

2D isometric MMORPG using the SDL framework. Daimonin offers a free public server at https://www.daimonin.org . A Unity client is also in active development.

FreedroidRPG is an original isometric 3D role playing game taking place in the future, on Earth. It features action and dialogs. FreedroidClassic is a 2D arcade game similar to Paradroid. =========================================== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! FreedroidRPG is migrating !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Latest versions of Git repositories are on https://codeberg.org/freedroid/ - Binary files are hosted on http://ftp.osuosl.og/pub/freedroid ===========================================

UFO2000 is a turn based tactical squad simulation game with multiplayer support. It is heavily inspired by the famous X-COM: UFO Defense game and can load graphics resources and maps from it providing X-COM look and feel with multiplayer experience.

Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine, capable of playing against human or computer opponents, network or local. It can be used to build RTS games similar to C&C, WC2, AOE, and Tzar and runs under Linux, BSD, MacOS and Win

Goal of this project is a freeware game similar to the PSX game "Kula World" / "Roll Away". It is designed platform independent, written in C++ and using the following libraries: OpenGL, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), libjpeg, LUA, GLSL-Shader.

Worldforge provides clients, servers, tools and protocol to allow for anyone to create and host their own virtual and online world.

INSTEAD was designed to interpret the games that are the mix of visual novels, text quests and classical 90'ss quests.

Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock and Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not! Hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams, and, most of all, countless hairy puzzles usually block your direct way to the Oxyd stones ...

A game engine for running Origin's 'Ultima 6' and 'Ultima Worlds of Adventure' games on modern operating systems.

Lips of Suna is a tongue-in-cheek action RPG. It's an open world game that focuses on action heavy and versatile gameplay, dynamically changing game world and ease of customization and modding.

As a continuation of the EDGE Project, hyper3DGE gives the end-user more power from the most advanced alternative DOOM engine - combined with portability to most systems, including game consoles.

JVGS is an open source platform game that is not like the others. It is build on simple line structures loaded from svg files, giving the whole game a "sketched" and minimalistic look. Levels can be made with simple xml and lua files.

Spawned from the Doom Engine, EDGE advances into the future with easy development and expansion as a cornerstone, making use of advancing technology and supporting a variety of platforms, this adds a new dimension to 3D gaming. As of April 2011, 3DGE has officially superseded the original EDGE engine. See http://edge2.sf.net for more information.

"Blinkensisters - Hunt for The Lost Pixels" is a Jump'n'Run game for nearly all recent operating systems. It's fun to play and you can make your own levels with a simple text editor. Also, you can download add-ons from within the game engine.

A relatively easy to win but feature rich fantasy roguelike game with a highly interactive world. Avanor was once a great land, but now it is an isolated valley kingdom under serious threat. You, as the hero must save Avanor, or dominate it.

Dungeon Digger is a 3D RTS game based on Dungeon Keeper.

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge is a first-person action shooter game that combines time travel to take the player through the jurassic period, camelot period, and into the future chasing down Morgana.

IrrRPG Builder is an simple tool to create RPG games. Check IrrRPG Builder 2.0w, our updated WebGL version, at: https://github.com/andresjesse/irbw

This tool generates bitmaps from system fonts which can be converted for use in Doom engines supporting zdoom-style "font lumps" by using a utility like "imagetool".