Are there any good MMORPG games natively run on Linux?
I’m one of the 5 poor sobs who still plays darkorbit, and someone on github made a linux native launcher available as an appimage. I don’t recommend playing it though, because aside from the community becoming smaller and smaller, the game also runs like ass even on a high end system (not because of the unofficial app, but because of the game itself), and it has this issue with it taking up more and more ram over time, and it has been like that for over a decade now. Also a lot of server issues lately. The devs don’t seem very interested in improving the game.
Not native but Palia is one that recently released and is getting a ton of love. It runs on Linux using lutris-GE-Proton8-13
Not native, but Guild Wars 2 runs great on Linux and is a whole lotta fun
Also, in my experience, proton runs most things just as well if not better than native Linux games.
Yes, I have logged more than 14000 hours in GuildWars2, mostly in WvW maps and since it started playing well on Proton I never touched Windows anymore.
(I have no life).
I don’t know about natively, but I’ve played both FFXIV and EVE Online in Linux in the past, and they ran well, but it’s been a little bit.
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Have you tired x4 foundations? It’s single player eve… And every bit just as big.
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It’s less overwhelming than eve, but I mean, what isn’t ?
You could try RuneScape 3 or OSRS don’t really play it anymore but I remember it works on Linux natively.
The OSRS client RuneLite is Linux native, open source, and Jagex (the developer) approved
I’ve played several on Ubuntu and do agree that Albion and Guild Wars 2 both play great and are a lot of fun
I have played at least Albion Online and Wakfu that run natively without any trouble, and work quite great. Lots of other run quite great using Steam compatibility layer or Lutris.
I spent a lot of time playing The Mana World when I was younger
Not sure how good it is but Ryzom is Linux native and open source. I’ll be checking it out soon
The universe is interesting, but the quality sucks. Some interesting concept, that’s all.
I mean… good chance just about any of them will work on linux, with pretty minimal effort.
I used to play WoW on linux, back in 2008/2009, without issues…
Most MMOs I play these days have their own invasive anti-cheat which makes them incompatible with tools like proton, sadly.
Edit: reading more comments, it seems my experiences and likely also taste in MMOs is uncommon.
Example?
Black desert, Mabinogi, and Phantasy Star Online 2 are some games I’ve recently run into that would run with proton if anti cheat didn’t stop them.
invasive anti-cheat
Eh, I refuse to play any of the games like that. Although, most of the gaming I do, is strictly lan based, where cheating isn’t a huge concern.
Project Gorgon!
huh, nice!
It looks a bit rough but it’s very good. Had to quit it though because it took over my life.
