Games
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Games
Card games come installed in your new Kubuntu by default. KDE Games includes an incredible array of board and logic games, as well as arcade and strategy games. Fun and educational games for kids are also included.
See the KDE Games website to see screenshots of games and even play some online. All of the KDE Games are available in the repositories, a couple of clicks away.
Games such as those offered through Steam and Humble Bundles can be installed and played in Kubuntu as well. Please see Steam page for instructions.
Arcade
- KBounce: is a single player puzzle arcade game.
- KBreakout: Destroy as many bricks as possible without losing the ball.
- KDiamond: is a single player puzzle game; build lines of three similar diamonds.
- KGoldrunner: Hundreds of levels of maze, hunting pieces of gold, with enemies in hot pursuit.
- KLines: Inspired by Color Lines, simple and addictive. Online demo version of this game available.
- Kolf: Miniature golf game with 2D top-down view. Courses are dynamic, and up to 10 people can play at once in competition. Kolf comes equipped with a variety of playgrounds and tutorial courses.
- Kollision: A simple ball dodging game
- KSame: is a simple, yet challenging color matching game modeled after !SameGame. Clear board filled with multicolored marbles.
- KSpaceduel: Each of two players controls a satellite spaceship orbiting the sun, in order to eliminate the opponent’s spacecraft.
Board
- Bovo: is a Gomoku (from Japanese 五目並べ - lit. "five points") like game for two players, where the opponents alternate in placing their respective pictogram on the game board. (Also known as Connect Five, Five in a row, X and O, Naughts and Crosses)
- KBattleship: Ships are placed on a board (the sea). Players try to hit each others ships in turns without knowing where they are placed. The first player to destroy all ships wins the game.
- KMahjongg: in this game the tiles are scrambled and staked on top of each other to resemble a certain shape. The player then is expected to remove all the tiles off the game board by locating each tile’s matching pair.
- KReversi: is a simple one-player strategy game played against the computer. If a player's piece is captured by an opposing player, that piece is turned over to reveal the color of that player. A winner is declared when one player has more pieces of her own color on the board and there are no more possible moves.
- KShisen: is a solitaire-like game played using the standard set of Mahjongg tiles. Unlike Mahjongg however, KShisen has only one layer of scrambled tiles.
- KFourInLine: Game for two players based on Connect-Four. Build up a row of four pieces using different strategies.
Card
- KPat: (aka KPatience) is a relaxing card-sorting game, installed by default. To win, a player arranges a single deck of cards in certain order amongst each other. Included are Aces Up, Forty & Eight, Freecell, Golf, Grandfather, Grandfather's Clock, Gypsy, Klondike, Mod3, Simple Simon, Spider, and Yukon. Alternate card decks and themes are available, and statistics; pre-installed.
- lsKat: Lieutnant Skat (from German "Offiziersskat") is a fun and engaging card game for two players, where the second player is either live opponent, or built-in artificial intelligence. You can also play and test an online demo version of this game.
Dice
- Kiriki: is an addictive and fun dice game for KDE, designed to be played by as many as six players. Participants have to collect points by rolling five dice for up to three times per single turn.
- KJumpingcube: Conquer all squares on a board either by occupying an empty square or conquering your opponent's. A maxed out square will distribute its points around it, causing empty squares to be occupied. Watch out for chain reactions!
Logic
- Katomic: is both fun and educational game built around molecular geometry. It employs simplistic two-dimensional looks at different chemical elements. You can also play an online demo version of this game.
- KBlackbox: is a game of hide and seek played on a grid of boxes where the computer has hidden several balls.
- KMines: is the classic Minesweeper game. The idea is to uncover all the squares without blowing up any mines. When a mine is blown up, the game is over.
- KNetwalk: is a single player logic game. Construct the network, connecting all the terminals to the server in the fewest turns possible.
- KSquares: is a fun and exciting game for desktop environment. The game is modeled after the well-known pen and paper based game of Dots and Boxes.
- KSudoku: is a logic-based symbol placement puzzle. The player has to fill a grid so that each column, row as well as each square block on the game field contains only one instance of each symbol.
- Picmi: is a single player logic-based puzzle game. The goal is to color cells according to numbers given at the side of the board in order to uncover a hidden pattern or picture.
Strategy
- Konquest: is the KDE version of Gnu-Lactic Konquest. Players conquer other planets by sending ships to them. The goal is to build an interstellar empire and ultimately conquer all other player's planets.
- KsirK: is a computerized version of a well known strategy board game. KsirK is a multi-player network-playable game with an AI. The goal of the game is to conquer the world by attacking your neighbors with your armies.
Toy
- KTuberling: a simple constructor game suitable for children and adults alike. The idea of the game is based around a once popular doll making concept.
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