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Favorite Linux Open Source Games for Phone Form Factor? (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 1 year ago by bmmlb to c/[email protected]

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I have a pinephone currently running postmarketos.

I mostly use it for music, browsing, and as my rss feed reader, however, I'd like to do some light gaming on it, where light means fun games like tux racer.

I'm only looking at open source games that work well on a phone form factor with touch input.

Any suggestions are welcome!

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[–] pkrasicki 2 points 1 year ago

You can play Quake 1 (quakespasm) on a gamepad. Doom (prboom) also works, but I never figured out how to setup gamepad controls properly. I think SuperTux 2 also works with a gamepad.

OpenTTD works, but requires a mouse and it probably runs too slow on original PinePhone. Hedgewars also requires a mouse, but I think it was smooth.

Super Tux Kart is too slow on original PinePhone. Minetest was also too slow I think.

Gnome's 2048 is ok and works on a touchsreen.

You could try OpenMW and see if it works (it probalby requires a gamepad or a keyboard though).

Mindustry might work and there is a high chance it has touch support, but I doubt it has an arm build for GNU/Linux (probably only for android), so you might need to compile it yourself.