The state of Linux gaming

The list of Open Source games in the article mentions some of the best known examples, those that have achieved a good degree of popularity. However, I've found a lot of Open Source games that look *really* good, and that nobody seems to know about:

- A group called "Parallel Realities" made three high-quality cross-platform games: "Project: Starfighter", a free-roaming space shoot-em-up with a story; "Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid", a huge and excellent platforming game, and "Blob and Conquer", a 3D platformer set in the same universe as Metal Blob Solid. They keep coming out with new games as well, and everything they produce looks great.

- Another good platformer: "Alex4", designed to look like an old minimal-color Game Boy games.

- In the same spirit as Crack Attack, "Angry Drunken Dwarves", an action/puzzle "drop things in a field and clear them based on some simple mechanic" game.

- "Balazar Brothers", an impressive 3D puzzle game

- "Bloboats", a side-scrolling action game with fun physics.

- "bzflag", (fairly well-known, an exception in this list); a 3D multiplayer action game, driving around in tanks and trying to blow each other up.

- Several great shoot-em-ups with many nice mechanics, variations, and difficulties: Chromium B.S.U., Critical Mass, Overgod, Mu-Cade, Kobo Deluxe, Trip on the Funny Boat, Solarwolf, rRootage, Rockdodger, Torus Trooper, Titanion, Powermanga, and Tumiki Fighters.

- "Which Way is Up", and "Holotz's Castle", both puzzle/platform games.

- "Trackballs", roughly similar to Marble Madness but with more unusual environment features.

- "Raincat", a game much like the old "Incredible Machine" rube-goldberg games, where you place strange items to help keep a cat safe and dry. Early state of development, has relatively few levels but many fun mechanics, and still very fun to play.

- "Qonk" and "20000 Light-Years Into Space", both fast tower-defense or simple strategy games.

- "Pydance" and "Stepmania", both variations on DDR dance-pad games.

- "Neverball" and "Neverputt", 3D puzzle/platform/action games based on rolling a sphere around a world and trying to reach the goal without falling off. Combines physics, precision, and (for Neverball) reaction-time.

- "Pathological", an action/puzzle game.

- "Hex-a-hop", a very challenging take-as-much-time-as-you-want puzzle game.

- "Magicor", a platform/puzzle game based on sliding blocks of ice around to put out fires. (Despite what it sounds like, no similarity to sokoban.)

- "Endgame: Singularity", a simulation/tech-tree game about the sentient AI trying to learn and grow while not getting discovered by humans.

- "Freedroid", an action/arcade game: take over or destroy successively more powerful roving robots on a derelict ship.

- "Freedroid RPG", a single-player role-playing dungeon-dive (non-roguelike) game with nice graphics.

- "Hedgewars", a multiplayer online version of Worms: blow up your fellow hedgehogs with comical and overpowered weapons.

- "Zaz", a graphically impressive action/puzzle game based on grabbing and throwing colored spheres with the mouse; unusually non-rectangular for the genre, very curvy.