Learn programming, playing with ants and spider webs ;-) Your robot ant can be programmed in many languages: OCaml, Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, Lua, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, Scheme, Vala, Prolog. Experienced programmers may also add their own favorite language.

Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games in the text adventure/interactive fiction genre. dfrotz is the dumb interface version. You get no screen control; everything is just printed to the terminal line by line. The terminal handles all the scrolling. Maybe you'd like to experience what it's like to play Adventure on a teletype. A much cooler use for compiling Frotz with the dumb interface is that it can be wrapped in CGI scripting, PHP, and the like to allow people to play games on webpages. It can also be made into a chat bot.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a fantasy, turn based tactical strategy game, with several single player campaigns, and multiplayer games (both networked and local).

Battle for control on a range of maps, using variety of units which have advantages and disadvantages against different types of attacks. Units gain experience and advance levels, and are carried over from one scenario to the next campaign.

The goal of this logic game is to open all cards in a 6x6 grid, using a number of hints as to their relative position. The game idea is attributed to Albert Einstein.

GNU Go is a program that plays the game of Go, in which players place stones on a grid to form territory or capture other stones. While it can be played directly from the terminal, rendered in ASCII characters, it is also possible to play GNU Go with 3rd party graphical interfaces or even in Emacs. It supports the standard game storage format (SGF, Smart Game Format) and inter-process communication format (GMP, Go Modem Protocol).

This package provides a userspace daemon for the Nintendo Joy-Con controllers.

Xmahjongg is a simple solitaire game. The object is to remove all Mah Jongg tiles from the playing field by taking one matching pair at a time.

ReTux is an action platformer loosely inspired by the Mario games, utilizing the art assets from the SuperTux project.

oshu! is a minimalist variant of the osu! rhythm game, which is played by pressing buttons and following along sliders as they appear on screen. Its aim is to be able to play any beatmap even on low-end hardware.

This package provides the core application, but no beatmaps. You need to download and unpack them separately.

This package provides the Fallout 2 game engine. Game data should be placed in ~/.local/share/falltergeist.

The GNU Talk Filters are programs that convert English text into stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialects. The filters are provided as a C library, so they can easily be integrated into other programs.

The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (also known as "Crawl" or DCSS for short) is a roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

This is a clone of the classic game BurgerTime. In it, you play the part of a chef who must create burgers by stepping repeatedly on the ingredients until they fall into place. And to make things more complicated, you also must avoid evil animate food items while performing this task, with nothing but your trusty pepper shaker to protect you.

In the grand tradition of Marble Madness and Super Monkey Ball, Neverball has you guide a rolling ball through dangerous territory. Balance on narrow bridges, navigate mazes, ride moving platforms, and dodge pushers and shovers to get to the goal. Race against the clock to collect coins to earn extra balls. Also included is Neverputt, which is a 3D miniature golf game.

With PokerTH you can play the Texas holdem poker game, either against computer opponents or against real players online.

Crispy Doom is a friendly fork of Chocolate Doom that provides a higher display resolution, removes the static limits of the Doom engine and offers further optional visual, tactical and physical enhancements while remaining entirely config file, savegame, netplay and demo compatible with the original.

Flare (Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) is a simple game engine built to handle a very specific kind of game: single-player 2D action RPGs.

X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult challenges.

Tetzle is a jigsaw puzzle game that uses tetrominoes for the pieces. Any image can be imported and used to create puzzles with a wide range of sizes. Games are saved automatically, and you can select between currently in progress games.

Barrage is a rather destructive action game that puts you on a shooting range with the objective to hit as many dummy targets as possible within 3 minutes. You control a gun that may either fire small or large grenades at soldiers, jeeps and tanks. The gameplay is simple but it is not that easy to get high scores.

Quadrapassel comes from the classic falling-block game, Tetris. The goal of the game is to create complete horizontal lines of blocks, which will disappear. The blocks come in seven different shapes made from four blocks each: one straight, two L-shaped, one square, and two S-shaped. The blocks fall from the top center of the screen in a random order. You rotate the blocks and move them across the screen to drop them in complete lines. You score by dropping blocks fast and completing lines. As your score gets higher, you level up and the blocks fall faster.

Speed Dreams FreeSOLID is a fork of FreeSOLID, a library for collision detection of three-dimensional objects undergoing rigid motion and deformation. It is designed to be used in interactive 3D graphics applications.

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.