Abandoned Linux classic games

Sid Meier's Colonization is Civilization’s scrappy, historically charged cousin. You start with a tiny ship and a dream: exploit the New World before the other European powers do. Grow crops, trade with natives, rebel against your king—just your average day in the 1600s. It's both a love letter to history and a spreadsheet with cannons. Slightly more complex than Civ, and with a revolutionary war baked in, it’s a colonial sandbox where tobacco and taxes can win you freedom.

Templars, assassins, and a clueless American tourist named George. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a 2D point-and-click masterpiece with more intrigue than a Vatican basement. Originally released in the ‘90s and remastered for modern systems, it's a blend of murder mystery, historical nonsense, and delightfully dry humor. If you're into puzzles that don’t hold your hand and French journalists who outwit everyone, this is your jam.

Rogue is the 1984 DOS version of one of the most influential dungeon-crawling role-playing games ever created. Players explore procedurally generated dungeons, fight monsters, collect equipment, and search for the Amulet of Yendor. Every new game creates a different dungeon, making exploration unpredictable and ensuring that memorizing one perfect route is impossible. The famous permadeath system means that when a character dies, the adventure is over rather than conveniently reloading a save. That can sound cruel, and it is, but it also gives every decision real weight. Rogue's simple ASCII presentation leaves much to the imagination, yet its systems are remarkably deep. It established ideas that would influence generations of RPGs and roguelikes. Before graphical monsters looked terrifying, the letter “D” on a screen could already ruin your evening.