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Hephaestus is a freeware computer role-playing game construction kit (often called an "RPG maker"). A map editor is included, and scripting is done in the Java programming language. Hephaestus is written in Java, and therefore runs on every platform.

You've wanted to make your own computer role-playing game all your life. Hephaestus 2 makes it easier than ever to make any adventure you can imagine. Use your own art and sounds, or use the standard libraries. Make "static" maps with the map editor, or create your maps entirely with code - even making mazes and dungeons that are different every time you play. There's never been a better time to start writing your own CRPG!

New in version 2.02: Hephaestus 2 now includes the post-holocaust horror adventure, Umbra! After the Great Old Ones return to reclaim the Earth, the few survivors cower in towns hidden in the wilderness, or have given themselves over to madness and worship of inhuman gods. You start out alone and helpless, but can rise to strike back, and perhaps return Earth to humanity!

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

Heretic is a first person shooter with a fantasy theme, based on the Doom engine. This port runs with either X, SDL or the GGI library, the RPM's run with X and SVGALIB and include the shareware levels. Using OpenGL now there are many nice gfx-effects in the game.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: a hardware accelerated OpenGL driver under Linux

This is a port to Linux of the Windows game Majesty. Majesty for Linux contains both the full Majesty game, and the expansion pack, The Northern Expansion.

Majesty is a Real Time Strategy game with a difference. Instead of controling your forces directly, you have to ask them, and if they think it's a good idea, or if you pay them enough, then they will do it. Otherwise, they'll tell you just what you can do with your orders!

Majesty runs on x86 PC and Apple PPC hardware running Linux.

License: commercial (US $37.00)

Power up your mana and help Corvus find find the cure to a plague of epic dimensions -- and save the worlds of D'sparil before it's too late! A high-powered and mystical three-dimensional environment will enthrall you, with spectacular sound and visual effects, non-stop action and adventure. Prepare to be ensnared in the visual feast that is the worlds of D'sparil.

License: commercial (US$29.95)

This is a server-only port of Raven Software's Quake2-engine-based game Heretic II. This server requires the full Windows version of Heretic II in order to run.
There isalso a Linux-client from Loki.

License: unknown

Hero of Allacrost is a single player 2D role-playing game that shares similar appearance and gameplay as classic console RPGs. In Hero of Allacrost, the player will explore rich environments, solve challenging dungeon puzzles, and fight strategic battles in an active-time based system. The game is free open-source software and is available across several platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.

License: free