STICKY: GAMES LIST: Games That Work On The Pi

[Adam Freeman]

Hi,
New pi4 owner here, wonderful little device.

Unfortunately, after a bit of testing it would appear that not many of the games made for the OS (based on Debian) work on the pi family due to the ARM based architecture, So to answer your question (stevejones81), unfortunately no. A game has to be made to work with the hardware as well as the OS.

Having a gog and itch.io account, I have been working through the games that have linux versions hoping to get lucky.
Through a gog linux installer FTL works (one of my favourite games of all time):

https://www.gog.com/game/faster_than_light



And quite fittingly, the amazing pseudo mini console that is Pico-8 works (it has its own specific Raspi build):

https://lexaloffle.itch.io/pico-8



Apologies, I am new here and stumbled across this list and thought it helpful to add these two entries.
If these have been covered elsewhere on the forum, I hope you can forgive me, pls feel free to edit my post as you see fit.

[Moonmarch]

To see if a game from the repository can be installed on the Raspberry Pi computer. All you need to do is check the package page of the game on the Debian website. Scroll down the web page until you see the Architecture category. If you see ARMHF, that means that game can be installed on the Raspberry Pi computer. To install the game, you need to use the sudo apt install "game-package-name" command in the terminal. To uninstall the game, use the sudo apt remove "game-package-name" command in the terminal.

To find games that cannot be installed using the sudo apt install command. You would need to know how to compile software on Linux computers. There is no complete list of open source Linux games, you would have to find the games on your own. I recommend searching around the Gaming section of the Raspberry Pi forums. None of the game build guides receive stickies, even though there are topics with 10's of thousands of views. Most commercial Linux games are designed for the I386 or AMD64 computer architectures.

[ptitSeb]

Hi,
New pi4 owner here, wonderful little device.

Through a gog linux installer FTL works (one of my favourite games of all time):

You can run FTL on a Pi4 with box86 https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86. Give it a try, it's not that difficult to build it yourself, look at the README and COMPILE.md for some indications

[Kzitold]

Does ssh and telnet games count?

ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
telnet telehack.com

Edit: Alternatively, you could SSH to telehack port 6668 as "guest" if you don't have an account.

[Machai4]

I was playing rimworld on Pi and it;s working pretty smooth

[Debianking]

you forgot flightgear(apt-get) and openttd (flatpak install)

[dinchamion]

I was playing rimworld on Pi and it;s working pretty smooth

How? I've been trying to get it running, but no avail.

[shinniene]

These can work on the Pi:

Doom.
Duke Nukem 3D.
Wolfenstein 3D.
Quake III.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
Hurrican.
PiFox.

[RasPiGaming]

Has anyone else found that the Flathub version of Sonic Robo Blast 2 works well on the Pi4 (don't know about other models)? I've found it works great!

[zephirusar]

PLEASE NOTE: This list hasn't been updated in years, and is likely to be out of date. No guarantees are given as to the accuracy of any of the below information - it is kept here for historical reasons.

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Many thanks go to: PuppetHoundz.TheGreatNi

I run steam in raspian in rpi3b+ but only can play 2 or 3 games. Shadow warrior. Galcom 2, hated i make work now windows 11 on rpi3b+ , now play age of empires 2,plyable, epsxe in software render. 17fps. Dolphin emu 5fps xd. Snes emulator, Doom. Dosbox abandonwares. And more.w11 run x86 and x64 apps. Blasphemus run, but cant walk ,

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, i run counter strike 1.6 in steam 5fps. , Broforce run but exreme slow. Diablo dont run. D2 dont run. Starcraft dont run. Continue testing. I can run over edge browser more browser emulator , psx , msx.

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i make a tutorial to help install it . In nexts days

[RasPiGaming]

PLEASE NOTE: This list hasn't been updated in years, and is likely to be out of date. No guarantees are given as to the accuracy of any of the below information - it is kept here for historical reasons.

................

Many thanks go to: PuppetHoundz.TheGreatNi

I run steam in raspian in rpi3b+ but only can play 2 or 3 games. Shadow warrior. Galcom 2, hated i make work now windows 11 on rpi3b+ , now play age of empires 2,plyable, epsxe in software render. 17fps. Dolphin emu 5fps xd. Snes emulator, Doom. Dosbox abandonwares. And more.w11 run x86 and x64 apps. Blasphemus run, but cant walk ,

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😝

, i run counter strike 1.6 in steam 5fps. , Broforce run but exreme slow. Diablo dont run. D2 dont run. Starcraft dont run. Continue testing. I can run over edge browser more browser emulator , psx , msx.

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i make a tutorial to help install it . In nexts days

If you're going to play Steam on the RPi, the best option would be the Pi4, the Pi3B+ you won't get as much out of. Do you run it all in Windows 11? If you use Linux you can use Box86 and 64 to run Steam (I haven't ran Steam through Box86 yet because I use a 64-bit OS so it's hard to get the needed libs, but I've used Box64 a bit and it works great!) and other game centers at higher FPS.

EDIT: Read more through your post, saw how you at first ran them in Linux. There are 2 reasons why some might not work:
1. If you're using Raspbian 32-bit, 64-bit games won't run.
2. Some games might use syscalls or libs that haven't yet been implemented in box86.

[symbios25]

Windows 11 are awfull slow in Rpi3B+,and in RPi4 you need at least the 4GB ram model to make it somehow decent
you need to boot from usb from a fast flash drive or an ssd,the memory card speed is a joke
i had 40mb/s max read speed from the microsd in Rpi4 and now i have 200mb/s from a fast flash drive
use twister os it has box86 pre-installed
my self i have ported a few games to work in Raspbian like smoking guns,urban terror
anyone knows how to make Assault cube work without problems in Raspberry Pi ??

[RasPiGaming]

Some more games I've gotten working...
SuperTuxKart (needs some configuration)
Minetest (works decently)
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (no config needed)
Sonic 3D Blast DX (needs Box86 and Wine for installation, afterwards works through a Sega Genesis emu)
Just thought I should add these.

[AkulaMD]

Some more games I've gotten working...
SuperTuxKart (needs some configuration)
Minetest (works decently)
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (no config needed)
Sonic 3D Blast DX (needs Box86 and Wine for installation, afterwards works through a Sega Genesis emu)
Just thought I should add these.

Would be nice if @Botspot could incorporate it into his Pi-Apps.

[RasPiGaming]

Some more games I've gotten working...
SuperTuxKart (needs some configuration)
Minetest (works decently)
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (no config needed)
Sonic 3D Blast DX (needs Box86 and Wine for installation, afterwards works through a Sega Genesis emu)
Just thought I should add these.

Would be nice if @Botspot could incorporate it into his Pi-Apps.

Which one? You can easily get them on Flathub. Except for S3D DX, that's more complicated.

[RasPiGaming]

Shovel Knight runs decently with Box86. Occasionally lags, but most of the time full speed.

[AkulaMD]

Shovel Knight runs decently with Box86. Occasionally lags, but most of the time full speed.

May i know what is the speed/frequency of your test RPi4 running at?

[RasPiGaming]

Shovel Knight runs decently with Box86. Occasionally lags, but most of the time full speed.

May i know what is the speed/frequency of your test RPi4 running at?

1.8Ghz CPU, 550Mhz GPU

[openbsd98324]

A little example of gaming with the Raspberry PI RPI3 and RPI4.

The games like 0ad, supertuxkart,... are running perfectly on raspberry pi RPI4 4GB.
I use retropie. "https://gitlab.com/openbsd98324/raspber ... 400.img.gz"

I had to custom the config.txt to make it work perfectly. more infos available.

Have Fun with PI !
James

[RasPiGaming]

A little example of gaming with the Raspberry PI RPI3 and RPI4.

The games like 0ad, supertuxkart,... are running perfectly on raspberry pi RPI4 4GB.
I use retropie. "https://gitlab.com/openbsd98324/raspber ... 400.img.gz"

I had to custom the config.txt to make it work perfectly. more infos available.

Have Fun with PI !
James

I tried Super Tux Kart, but for some reason only the wheels of the cars appear, the driver and the car itself are invisible. How did you get it working completely?