Ew, not like Fortnite, I mean like indie launchers
Dunno if anyone already said it, but Devotion is always a favorite of mine to share. Beautifully well done story for anyone into horror games.
What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?
Submitted 2 days ago by Katana314@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Had to buy it there too, still pissed about it getting dropped from absolutely everywhere. Glad the studio is doing OK (at least I believe Nine Sols sold quite well)
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Racing simulator that launched in the early 2000s and is still going. There have been some rough times but overall the feeling of admiration is hard to deny for the 3 (mostly 2 now) devs. A couple years ago they updated it to create and allow mods and this year they released a public test for new graphical updates. I don’t even play often anymore but I still check for updates almost daily :)
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Phantasy Star Online, especially with private servers
For Linux: github.com/zeroz41/pso_wine/tree/master/pso/pc#re…
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
There are a substantial number of non-commercial FOSS games that aren’t on Steam.
Many—though not all—of them are packaged in Linux distros.
Luanti, basically a FOSS Minecraft clone, is one example; that’s in Debian.
A number of older games occur to me that aren’t either in Linux distros or on Steam. They aren’t necessarily the top FOSS games, but people may not be aware of them, if they rely on looking in distro packages or Steam to find things.
Linley Henzell, the guy who did Linley’s Dungeon Crawl, which later became the well-known roguelike Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, had a couple of open-source games that he wrote way back. Overgod looks like it’s been packaged and is in Debian. Lacewing is in Fedora, but not in Debian.
There’s a genre of games based on Paradroid. One of the first games I played on Linux was in this genre—NightHawk. It used to be in Red Hat Linux, but it looks like at some point, it fell out of the package repository, as it doesn’t appear to be in present Fedora, and it’s not in present Debian either today. Not on Steam, either.
I can’t find any videos of anyone playing NightHawk on YouTube.
Abuse is a DOS-era action platformer, heavy on jumpscares, that was open-source and had some of the data files (the ones for the shareware version) put into the public domain. Could use the full game’s datafiles too, if you got ahold of them. I think that that used to be packaged and in Red Hat Linux at one point, but it’s not in Fedora or Debian these days, and it’s not on Steam.
Surprisingly, while Empire—a very early game in the genre—is in Debian, xconq is not, and doesn’t look like it’s in Fedora either. Neither are on Steam. You may have played later hex-based strategy wargames in the genre, like Battle for Wesnoth.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think most people know, but Luanti is more of a minecraft type voxel engine with a game launcher at this point.
From there you can play several variations of voxel type games and manage them.
I say that because if people think its just Minetest with a new name, that isn’t quite accurate.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve been playing a lot of Gyakuten Live. It likely can’t be officially monetized because it infringes upon “Love Live School Idols” as well as stealing a few assets from the Ace Attorney games. But, the game has quite an impressive amount of production value, with many emotive character faces, a full custom soundtrack, numerous cinematics between cases, and a lot of artwork to help visualize the scenarios. It centers around what seem like relatively innocuous cases, like a missing treasure, or fraudulent tickets, but (aside from the intro case) tends to dive into some complex character emotions as the motive behind each incident.
The other game that made me think of posting this is Hytale, which looks to basically be an indie, non-Microsoft, pro-modding version of Minecraft.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Seconding HyTale!
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Holy shit. As a fan of both Love Live and Ace Attorney I never realized how much I wanted something like this. Unfortunately I don’t have any recs to give, so all I can offer are my thanks and an upvote.
missingno@fedia.io 2 days ago
Panel Attack is a FOSS clone of Panel de Pon with rollback netcode and modding support.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I know this one! As I love Tetris Attack, its so nice to have this as an Open Source project. Never thought that anyone in the world would recommend this (not because its bad or so, but because usually nobody knows.) But I never played it much beyond testing, to be honest. It’s been a long time… 5 years or so. I guess its improved a lot since then. But weirdly, they have no link to the source code on their website: github.com/panel-attack/panel-game
DPEWGF@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
2xko by riot games. Not indie but it is a free fighting game through the riot launcher. Sadly, riot been fumbling with it but I hope they give it a few years of love & development. I genuinely love it.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
If you can put up with the (unending) bugs and performance issues, there really isn’t something that hits white like Star Citizen for me. A friend bought it for me but I would happily pay the minimum $45 when it finally releases in a stable and reliable playable state.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
If they could just get the base systems down and do a big push on bug fixing instead of adding flashy events and more ships it would make such a difference.
xspurnx@leminal.space 1 day ago
YARG - Yet Another Rhythm Game. Like Guitar Hero/Rock Band (way better than Clone Hero) - open source. Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys, Vocals.
I think it’s still being worked on, but some Devs have been hired for the next big rhythm game - if I understood correctly - so the development has slowed some.
You can get quite a lot of songs for free with it, there are some real bangers and it’s tons of fun (or go sail the high seas and get what feels like infinite songs, including those from the popular plastic instrument games). Also runs really well on my potato laptop…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Hyperburner’s a fun arcade flight game (though the iOS version is the definitive version).
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hyperburner is that moment in a SciFi film where an escaping ship, travelling entirely too fast, has to navigate an insane exit.
Great game description, wish they could all be described that succinctly.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I recently got into a Toontown rougelike ( rougelite? ) fan game called Toontown Grindworks. It’s available for free on Itch. Ypu run from floor to floor climbing the corporate tower, fighting cogs ( basically businesspeople robots ), avoiding traps, and collecting gear and new gag tracks ( weapons/upgrades ). All to get to the final boss of the tower. I’ve only had a single run where I got to the final boss, but failed there because I got really unlucky.
There is also the current demo of Plants vs Zombies Universe, which jas a fair bit of content that can last a while if you don’t speed through it. The game is basically devs wanting to create a PvZ fan game where it’s basically content from all the games rolled into a single PvZ title. Meaning you get the exclusive PvZ Online plants/worlds/zombies, exclusive PvZ2/2C plants/worlds/zombies, etcetera. All while being a bit more balanced as of now to create a genuinely challenging game.
I was gonna say development is on indefinite hiatus, but it seems a 1.2 update was released about a week ago! Sadly, unless you already have the link, you need to access their discord for the download, from either google drive or mega, if that would sway anyone away from it. That, or I’m sure they have a QQ group set up, but I ain’t creating an account just for this game.
Other than those, the only other games I could recommend are pokemon fangames or well known open source games like Mindustry ( has a steam version, but that’s only for supporting the devs and getting steam workshop content, if you even care ) or SuperTuxKart. That, and a few furry visual novels on Itch that aren’t completed yet that I like.
vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Artix Entertainment has their own game launcher. Not all of the games are exclusive to it though, as Adventure Quest 3D links to the steam version. Surprisingly, the original Adventure Quest (and by extension WarpForce) still receive updates.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Sauerbraten is always worth a mention for me. It’s a quake style open source shooter with built-in mapping tools. Definitely a little dated but the game still feels more responsive and fun than a lot of other games today. I think I would really enjoy tinkering with it if I was still a teenager.