LGDB - Linux game database

Take your time and let the story unfold...

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The goal of a simulation games is to virtually reproduce a part of the real world as closely as possible.

The main goal of economy or tycoon games is to maximize the profit of your business.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The game is played online by lots of people who control an avatar in a persistent virtual world.

Control ships, boats or submarines, anything that floats on water.

Drive cars, trucks or motorbikes.

Usually played in first person perspective. the gameplay is slow compared to most first person shooters, often cooperative and mission centered. Other characters from the players team can be human or computer controlled, in the second case the player usually can take control directly or indirectly (through commands).

The game tells a story. The player usually follows the storyline completing missions in a linear or self chosen order.

A place to test and try and investigate.

This game is designed to be played by 2 players.

This game is designed to be played by lots of players.

This game is playable online.

This game is controlled by a steering wheel.

The computer controls characters that replace human players in the game.

The code base for these games is generally closed course and the game is usually released under a proprietary license.

In contrast to a Science-fiction theme a futuristic theme doesn't focus so much on the science part, it just focuses on looking cool and uses some futuristic elements, plasma guns, laser guns, a rough idea of the future. It's a common theme for first person shooters.

Compared to a futuristic theme a science fiction theme focuses on the technology side of a conception of a future. What resources will be used, what would the social structure be? where did evolution develop? This theme is mostly used in simulation or strategy games.

Playing is free but for small amounts of money improvements and/or upgrades can be bought.

A monthly/yearly fee is required to play this game.

This game is in the Debian repositories. The different versions of Debian (stable, testing, unstable and experimental) usually contain different versions of the game or some might not contain the game at all. To display Debian specific package information click on the link at the bottom of the each game page.

This game is in the Packman repositories. The Packman repository has a large and recent collection of game and other packages for openSUSE.

This project is in a generally early development stage but some parts are released and playable and because of the promising nature of the project it is listed here.