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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!

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[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

The most addictive game is "getting more games". Follow Wario64's discord, check prices at isthereanydeal, get the Epic freebies, mix and match bundles at Fanatical.

[–] SinkingLotus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux

What distro?

Do you know what graphics card you're using?

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fedora and intel iris graphics.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Red Alert 2 works on Linux if you're willing to jump through hoops

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Good to know

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

At the moment I just picked up thronefall, and really enjoy it. It's great if you like tower defense and city building games, but don't have too much time on your hands to get invested into longer games. The progression system feels good and adds a lot of replayability. It runs perfectly on Linux as well right out of the box!

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

osu! is a free and open source rhythm game. Its pretty much the best pc rhyrhm game.

[–] Kualk@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

World of Tanks Blitz.

You either would like it or not. Requires brain to play. Think Call of Duty only fast reflexes and low latency make no difference. Each game is around 10 minutes or less.

It is totally possible to play and enjoy for free, if willing to accumulate cash prior to getting tank at next level.

Free to play.

You will have to use proton. It works with it.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

These are my favorite games:

Hyper Light Drifter

Dark souls 3

Hades

Nier Automata

Control

Everspace

Hollow Knight

BioShock

Bastion

Transistor

Saints Row 3

[–] unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Osrs and WoW both run on Linux if you want something addictive lol. Bottles seems to work best for battle.net stuff.

[–] iPhoneX@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[–] chepycou@rcsocial.net 1 points 7 months ago
[–] mlsw@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago
[–] nihar@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

Project zomboid

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Vintage Story

Basically MInecraft for grown ups, also Native Linux available.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

AAAAXY. It's a really nerdy game where you are in a non-euclidian (escherian) space. I've already poured more than 30 hours into this game. It's available on Linux as a Flatpak (recommended if you don't know which to choose), an AppImage, or a native binary. https://divverent.github.io/aaaaxy (ps. it's open-source)

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