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For those of you who were trapped in a small dark room during the late 1980's and 1990's, or otherwise similarly deprived, Populous is a series of games developed by Bullfrog Productions which created the god-sim genre.

The premise is that you (the player) and your opponent (AI or human) are gods or equivalent deities, and you battle each other using your powers - such as the summoning of natural disasters and the ability to coax the will of your followers - in order to destroy the followers of the opponent. The winner is the god with remaining followers.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: ClanLib 0.7

This is a rebuild of the (westwood) red alert game engine (based on FreeCNC). It is a real time strategy game. To play the game with this engine you need the original game (mix files). The only game supported is red alert 1 ;)

License: free

Additional System Requirements: libSDL, orignal mix files

The FreeSCI project is an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system.
FreeSCI can run SCI0 games.

License: free

This is a port of the Freespace 2 code that was released by Volition Inc in April 2002. From the project web page at Icculus.org:

There is still a lot of work to do, but both the demo and full game run great. If you don't already own the full game, you may have a hard time finding it for sale, as copies of the game are pretty scarce these days. Be sure to apply the 1.2 patch for the full version, if you have not already.

If you don't have the full game, you can download a demo version from the Volition page listed below.

There is much enthusiastic work going on at the Freespaec Source Code Project, including a Babylon 5 total conversion. Their code incorporates the icculus linux SDL/OpenAL code, and compiles under linux.

The Freespace 2 code has also been adapted to work with the Freespace 1 data files, so if you own Freespace: The Great War and/or Silent Threat, you can play it using the linux client at http://icculus.org/~ravage/freespace/

License: free

Additional System Requirements: For multi & network, it's best to use the Source Code Project... ;) Especially when version 3.6.10 comes out (soon, perhaps in a few weeks - October '07?) Go to http://www.hard-light.net/forums, make a user account, and look in the forums for Turey's FreeSpace Open Installer... it gets the entire game + FSPort (FS1 + ST ported to FS2) for you! (And that's not all!) If you search for member jr2, and look in his sig, you will find a link to a Walkthough... although I doubt you'll need one. ;) Also there you will find links to alternative Installers.

The original Syndicate introduction:

As the world's multinational corporations grew, their profits began to rival those of small countries. Soon they owned small countries and corporate influence was felt at the highest level of world government. Smaller corporations were swallowed up like plankton in the wake of three behemoth mega-corporations, one U.S.-based, one Europe-based and one based in the Far East. These became the only effective world government, unelected, undemocratic, but controlling the lives of the people through commerce.

Then the European corporation perfected the CHIP. Inserted in the neck, the CHIP stimulated the brain stem to alter your every perception of the outside world. Better than any drug, the CHIP gave hope to millions by numbing their senses to the misery and squalor around them. One CHIP would convince users that the sun shone and the birds sang even as they walked through the constant acid rain drizzle. Another that they were glamorous or handsome - they'd look in the mirror and see a different face - while the rest of the world would see them as they really were.

The CHIP was a technological revolution and sold countless units with the slogan "Why change your world when you can change your mind". It also left the user open to auto-suggestion and gave the corporations the perfect tool for manipulating the populace.

Like any new and potent drug, control of the CHIP meant control of the people. Soon the corporations were at war among themselves, desperate to monopolize CHIP manufacture. But the corporations' thirst for power left them open to infiltration.

With money earned through pirating CHIP technology, crime Syndicates bribed and murdered their way into corporation boardrooms. It wasn't long before the Syndicates became the controlling force all over the globe, with a finger in the pie of every transaction, criminal or otherwise, worldwide.

And in the crime Syndicates of tomorrow those in control don't need uzis for back up. Teams of custom-built cyborg agents hunt down rivals and traitors, and spread the influence of the Syndicates across the globe.

The first level of FreeSynd is now playable and most sounds working.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: 128 MB of RAM, a fairly fast OpenGL graphics card (shader support not necessary, antialiasing support recommended)