I was talking to Linus and others at Intel's Open Source Technology Summit last week, and it occured to me that I have completely lost touch with what's available for commercial games that run native on Linux. The last native game that I bought / played was Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. That was a long time ago.

I know that OilRush has recently become available, and I think a few other Unigen based games are coming soon-ish.

What else is there?

More importantly, what else is there that I can add to an automated test suite for my driver? The easily scriptable timedemo feature of the old Quake3 engine games was the best.

The few that most readily come to mind besides OilRush are Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Heroes of Newerth, and And Yet It Moves.

Our friend 'W' has a few other suggestions.

Comment by Kayden Tue Mar 15 13:27:47 2011
There are rumors that Unity3D are working on some Linux support, tsk tsk! If/when that comes, a ton of Unity games could join the test/benchmarking ranks.
Comment by Aras Pranckevicius Thu May 5 11:36:44 2011
As far as I'm aware, Unity is heavily dependent on C#, so that will be interesting...
Comment by IanRomanick Fri May 6 16:30:33 2011
Unity's engine itself is C/C++. Game scripting is C# (or any .NET language) via Mono on all platforms we support (including Windows). It works on Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, 360, PS3 and Wii, so no reason it shouldn't be working on Linux ;)
Comment by Aras Pranckevicius Sat May 7 01:19:24 2011