The only game I have ever played is FIFA on a PS4. Now I have a gaming laptop but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux. Appreciate your help in advance!
Addictive? Factorio.
Minecraft is super fun and addictive, and works great on Linux.
Rimworld, it is your ant colony and it will take over your life
Go with a classic: Minecraft Java. Bonus - use the prism launcher for mod packs. Vanilla MC is kinda boring (at least once you see all the bonkers stuff mods can add, just like Skyrim XD )
FTL
My Foss game list:
- Veloren
- Minetest
- Super Tux Kart
- Super Tux
- Mindustry
There are tons more but I’m not a heavy gamer.
Mindustry is so damn good.
Stardew Valley is a very relaxing and fun game where you start a farm in a small town. It has also has optional multiplayer. I found it very addictive.
Less relaxing if you know that it has actual goals. There’s no actual repercussions if you fail, you just don’t get patted on the back as much. If you have that perfectionistic, completionist attitude, there’s still a tiny bit of stress. I wish the game had 0 expectations, but it’s still mostly relaxing.
Hard to say without some indication of what sort of thing you’d like. Are you looking for something to just power trip and blow off steam, are you looking for strategy games that make you think, narrative experiences, dexterity/reaction time challenges etc etc etc? But knowing absolutely nothing here’s 3 good games:
Stardew Valley has native Linux support. It’s a game about farming. There’s not really any consequences for doing things slowly so take your time and enjoy the game.
factorio is a strategy game essentially about optimizing supply lines. Programmer types tend to find it extremely addicting.
Baulder’s gate 3 is a Turn based RPG based on Dungeon’s and Dragons. It may be a little difficult for beginners especially if you haven’t played DnD but it is also one of the best games to have come out recently having swept all the award shows for both it’s great story telling and run mechanics.
If there’s anyone in your life who really likes gaming asking them for games you can play together or that they can watch/guide you through would be a great idea.
I guess you don’t really know what kind of games you like?
Some good ones to try would be Skyrim or The Witcher 3 or Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 for open world RPGs, Road Rampage or any Need For Speed game for arcade racing, Mini Metro for a casual puzzle game, Stardew Valley for a casual farming/life sim, Bioshock 1, 2, and 3 for a first person shooter, the recent Tomb Raider games for third person adventure, Dishonored 1 and 2 for stealth, Civilisation V (or any other) for turn based strategy.
Well, really just go find super popular games and give then a go. Easiest is to get them on Steam and they should just work on Linux and refund them if they don’t, though you can still play non-Steam games and you can check on protondb.com if others have had success (Proton is Steam’s wine-based tool for playing Windows games on Linux).
This is such a short, sweet game, runs on everything: Portal. Even my mom likes it!
I am not a gamer but even I enjoyed portal.
Rain World
Thats a very bad recommendation for a first time gamer.
The game tries to be very immersve so there are nearly no tooltips and no ingame written tutorialization.
That means you have to be very game literate (know a lot of gaming specific tropes and conventions to understans whats toing on and what to do).
