There’s MUDs like Carrion Fields and Lost Souls.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - roguelike
Luanti (previously known as Minetest) - voxel builder
lichess - chess
isn’t Dark and Darker delisted from steam per some bullshit settlement?
It was but it’s back
Beyond All Reason. Outstanding RTS thats independant and free. Not F2P but actually free.
That reminds me a lot of Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation
Exceptional multiplayer Tetris.
Escape from Tarkov
And I don’t know why they are not on steam
Last information is that they are moving to Steam for their 1.0 launch.
Minecraft java edition, but that feels like cheating
There are a lot of cool free games playable on your browser made for game jams on itch.io
I got “a short hike” and “tunic” from there, among other games
Wargus
DevilutionX
Doom2
ScummVM
OpenMW
Daggerfall Unity
UnCiv
Beyond All Reason. It’s an rts game I’ve been playing recently and is fairly good. Focus more in large scale spectacle of 8v8 multi-player than micro balance.
It is also free and open source
Unciv is a civilization clone for mobile platforms and its great if those games are your thing
Just recently figured out Aux1 key is sprint, so VoxeLibre on Luanti has been much more playable for me to the point I can recommend it. Though Luanti in general is something I would suggest because they have some great games. I personally finished a short little puzzle like game called Eyeballs and it was pretty good.
Also, because I am very biased towards this game, Pokemon Uranium. Have to include it in my list of the best of the best. Same with Sonic Robo Blast 2 w/ the reveries mod.
Though if all of those don’t catch your fancy, there’s the still very WIP game open source SuperTux Advance is a lot of fun and in my opinion so much better than standard SuperTux. I absolutely approve it and list it as one of the best currently in its current incomplete state.
The only one with current popularity I know of is Escape from Tarkov. And most others from the past are now on Steam or other big stores (Toribash, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress).
Unless VNs are your thing. There’s loads of awesome VNs on Itch.io. Though, I wouldn’t say that itch.io is not a big name. It appears more in conversation about games than GOG does.
Old school RuneScape
True, but you have to play via standard client as far as I know, which sucks in my opinion. RuneLite is much, much better.
I wanna say it gives you the option to use RuneLite… But I’ve never done it through Steam so I can’t say for sure.
I haven’t played it in a long time, but I always enjoyed Super Tux Kart. It reminded me more of the Moorhuhn / Crazy Chicken Kart games than Mario Kart. In general, before Steam Proton made Gaming on Linux almost free of any hassle, I spent more time with free and open source games like Nethack or Battle for Wesnoth that are available in many Linux package managers.
I wish STK was on Steam :(
With everything going on behind the scenes with development and add-ons, 100% can vouch for SuperTuxKart. On my desktop I have way too many add-ons for extra tracks and karts that it’s not even funny.
I wouldn’t call it one of the “best games” anymore… maybe not ever, but “Escape from Tarkov”.
While I’m digging my own grave here let me also mention “Star Citizen”.
I sure hope my grandkids will get to play star citizen
