Many of the most popular GPL'd (and commerical) game engines can be compiled on Linux such as all of the Quake / Doom engines made by ID. This has lead to a strong influx of high-quality GPL'd game titles being released on this platform. Linux is also run behind the scenes on many of the popular consoles such as the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast which has resulted in underground game development scenes attempting to run their creations on these platforms by bypassing the standard bootup sequences. Though this practice is generally not supported by the hardware creator and considered illegal.

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Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift

Oculus Headset

The Rift is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Whether you’re stepping into your favorite game, watching an immersive VR movie, jumping to a...

HTC Vive

HTC Vive

HTC Headset

Vive is brought to you by HTC and Valve. Uniting passion, talent, and innovation, Vive delivers on the promise of VR with best-in-class technology and...

Valve Index

Valve Index

Valve Headset

Experience high fidelity virtual reality with the Valve Index VR Kit. Visual, audio, and ergonomic technologies were pushed in order to create the best-in-class...

Oculus DK1

Oculus DK1

Oculus Headset

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that lets players step inside their favorite games and virtual worlds.

Oculus DK2

Oculus DK2

Oculus Headset

DK2 is the latest development kit for the Rift that allows developers to build amazing games and experiences.

HTC Vive Developer Edition

HTC Vive Developer Edition

HTC Headset

Imagine standing on the bridge of a starship rocketing across the galaxy, or strolling through the streets of ancient Rome, or shrinking down to subatomic...

Meta DK1

Meta DK1

Meta Company Headset

The Meta 1 Developer Kit brings superhero tech to life. Experience a room full of interactive 3D holograms. The first computing device that gives you...

Oculus Touch

Oculus Touch

Oculus Controller

We’ve created Oculus Touch, a new pair of tracked controllers that let you take your VR games and experiences further than ever before.

Steam Controller

Steam Controller

Valve Controller

Experience a new level of precise control for your favorite games. The Steam Controller lets you play your entire collection of Steam games on your TV—even...

OSVR

OSVR

Razer Headset

Razer is part of the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) ecosystem, a new standard in VR gaming to push the VR gaming experience forward and supporting...

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Blender

Blender

3D Graphics

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline — modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering...

Axis Game Factory's AGFPRO v3

Axis Game Factory's AGFPRO v3

Heightmap or Terrain Generator

A comprehensive toolset designed to provide game developers and enthusiasts with a powerful and rapid level creation, terrain/vegetation editing, lighting...

Wing IDE 5

Wing IDE 5

IDE

Wing IDE is an integrated development environment that makes programming in Python fast and easy. Wing IDE delivers many powerful features for editing...

Harfang 3D

Harfang 3D

VR

Harfang is a high-end package to create 3D or 2D applications. It provides a comprehensive API, including physics, VR, pathfinding, audio, video. Harfang...

Hybrid Core Engine

Hybrid Core Engine

VR

ENG: Hybrid Core Engine was born from the fusion between FPS Creator (by The Game Creators, now free) and FireXshader 2 (an addon graphic mod developed...

Houdini

Houdini

VR

Houdini is a procedural-based 3D animation, VFX and game development software package. Houdini lets artists create more and work more efficiently.

OVERDOSE

OVERDOSE

VR

OVERDOSE. is a VR app That Makes your phone cardboard into an HTC VIVE or an Oculus Rift. Simply connecting it by Downloading the PC and mobile app and...

Spine

Spine

VR

Spine is an animation tool that focuses specifically on 2D animation for games. Spine aims to have an efficient, streamlined workflow, both for creating...

JanusVR

JanusVR

VR

JanusVR combines the power of the internet with the potential of virtual reality. Websites become immersive spaces linked by portals, where users can...

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Unity

Unity

Commercial licence

Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens...

BooBoo

BooBoo

MIT licence

BooBoo is a fun new programming language with a powerful game API.

Wedge

Wedge

MIT licence

Wedge is a JRPG engine that utilises Shim and TGUI to create a full suite of components for developing games. There is a map editor but this engine does...

GameMaker Studio 2

GameMaker Studio 2

Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio 2 is the latest and greatest incarnation of GameMaker! It has everything you need to take your idea from a concept to a finished game...

Blitz MAX

Blitz MAX

Commercial licence

Create 2D Games for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It features the BlitzMax compiler, core BlitzMax modules, Max2D graphics module, IDE, debugger, sample...

Unreal Engine 5

Unreal Engine 5

Commercial licence

The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool, Unreal Engine 5 will be available in preview in early 2021, and in full release late...

WDCEngine

WDCEngine

GPL licence

WDCEngine is a open source 2D engine which allow user to create their own game

Custom

Custom

Commercial licence

The engine used to build this game was a once-off creation, designed explicitly to run this particular title. This is not a _real_ game engine, this is...

Unreal Engine 4

Unreal Engine 4

Commercial licence

The most world-class game engine to date, Unreal Engine 4 gives you the power to do more than ever before. Bring your creative visions to life directly...

GameMaker Studio

GameMaker Studio

Commercial licence

GameMaker Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record...

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Quake Sandbox

Quake Sandbox

First Person Shooter

Beautiful open-source cross-platform sandbox on MiTech engine with addons support.

Raiding.Zone

Raiding.Zone

Party Based

Multiplayer Dungeon raiding inspired by World of Warcraft and Warframe.

Night Poetry

Night Poetry

Roguelike

Night Poetry is a story-driven rogue-lite RPG with an existential and subjective narrative! Face waves of enemies, collect XP, and experience your evolution...

Fate of the Galaxy

Fate of the Galaxy

Futuristic Sim

Fate of the Galaxy (FotG) is a single and multi-player total conversion using the FS2 Open Engine set in the Star Wars universe. The game is in development...

Setting Sun

Setting Sun

Roguelike

Setting sun is an upcoming Co-op Roguelite Dungeon Crawler. It's set in a universe during the Japanese Edo period where Yokai roam the world freely. The...

Half-Life Beyond

Half-Life Beyond

First Person Shooter

Fight to survive the horrors from the world beyond, in this Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-person shooter set in the Half-Life universe.

Doki Doki Literature Club End Game

Doki Doki Literature Club End Game

Visual Novel

Taking inspiration from Doki Doki Literature Club, we decided to create a mod. However, "Doki Doki End Game" didn't turn out as well as we hoped since...

Ballz

Ballz

Arcade

Ballz was made for the SizeHack 2000 game programming competition. You bounce the ballz into the portals to proceed. It has 16 levels and has been updated...

Eternal Mist

Eternal Mist

Real Time Tactics

Eternal Mist is a real-time tactics game with some RPG elements. Explore a post-apocalyptic fantasy world in which a deadly mist has engulfed almost the...

Carnivores 2

Carnivores 2

First Person Shooter

Carnivores 2 is a first person hunting game. You can hunt 9 species of extinct dinosaurs such as the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus Rex. including 6 weapons...

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Portal: The Second Slice
Portal

Portal: The Second Slice

Puzzle

Portal: The Second Slice is a mod that aims to remake concepts from the lost “core hub” era/version of portal 2 in portal 1 and extending on them.

Cemetery [Multiplayer Map]
Doom III

Cemetery [Multiplayer Map]

First Person Shooter

Doom 3 multiplayer map. Created on October 2012, updated June 2024.

Sven Co-op
Half-Life

Sven Co-op

First Person Shooter

Play Half-Life with friends! Players fight computer-controlled monsters through the original Half-Life storyline or hundreds of available co-operative...

=== INSANIMATCH ===
Half-Life

=== INSANIMATCH ===

First Person Shooter

"I forgot what this game is about." -EcoFunTimes

Carnivores2: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
Carnivores 2

Carnivores2: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn

First Person Shooter

This mod is inspired by "Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter HD", with new weapons, dinosaurs and maps.

BRUTAL HEXEN
Hexen

BRUTAL HEXEN

Role Playing

Greetings Brutalists... This is the continuation of Sergeant Mark IV's Brutal Hexen mod. Well, after been seemingly abandoned for a few years, we have...

D3 Tweaks
Descent 3

D3 Tweaks

First Person Shooter

This is a collection of weapon / ship / robot balance tweaks that I personally enjoy playing with on Ace difficulty. In the readme there's a more detailed...

Half-Rats: Redridge
Half-Life

Half-Rats: Redridge

First Person Shooter

August, 1999. You're a fresh college grad passing the time in your parents' rural retreat before the tourist season picks up and your first job as "Junior...

Quarry-town mod
Half-Life

Quarry-town mod

First Person Shooter

My first working mod for half-life! (One level is kind of broken but it can be fixed by reading file description)

Insurgency Weapons RTX
Garry's Mod

Insurgency Weapons RTX

First Person Shooter

In Garry's Mod, where mods are a must, Insurgency weapons gather no dust. With PBR textures, they shine so bright, RTX Remix makes them a glorious sight...

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