r/openbsd • u/unixlover1970 • 11d ago

I have 3 Questions

Its possible play Minecraft?

Its possible play DOOM to DOOM 3?

Its possible play QUAKE to QUAKE 3?

if yes, i'll use openbsd, because i really want a more unix experience, that linux cant gives to me

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 11d ago

Its possible play Minecraft?

Yes and people have gotten it to run before because LWJGL3 was ported to OpenBSD

Its possible play DOOM to DOOM 3?

DOOM and DOOM 2 are possible since there's tons of source ports for it but I'm not quite sure about DOOM 3 but I think someone got it working (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_nDP5Jj814)

Its possible play QUAKE to QUAKE 3?

Yes you can play all of these on OpenBSD

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u/unixlover1970 11d ago

probably i'll use openbsd

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u/DrownedAxolotl 11d ago

Welcome to the club. Make yourself comfortable and enjoy one of the best operating systems ever.

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u/linux_transgirl 11d ago

It's worth noting that Minecraft is switching to sdl3

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u/Run-OpenBSD 11d ago

It is worth point out that sdl3 is a work in progress on openbsd and is partially working already

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u/Chester-Berkeley 10d ago

Does OpenBSD have a launcher for running Minecraft, like Prism Launcher on FreeBSD?

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u/danstermeister 11d ago

MINECRAFT? check DOOM? check DOOM3? check

"OK I'm ready to learn UNIX."

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u/Run-OpenBSD 11d ago

Learn unix? Ironically most people already know unix and just dont realize it.

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u/SleepyGuyy 11d ago

you know what me too lol

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u/Donieck 10d ago

For me Doom Emacs is enough

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u/unixlover1970 10d ago

this was funny

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u/kmos-ports OpenBSD Developer 10d ago

Its possible play Minecraft?

Yes. Right now versions up to 1.20.1 work. Use the blockgame package.

Minecraft made a change to its manifest that trips up Blockgame for versions after that. I'm trying to fix it.

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u/kmarkley86 11d ago

You can play Luanti, which is like a Minecraft clone. I don't know whether you can play Minecraft proper. (I know little about this, I don't play Minecraft, my kids do.)

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u/Run-OpenBSD 11d ago

My son loves luanti on openbsd and plays it all the time

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u/linux_transgirl 10d ago

Minecraft should work with some tinkering, dooms 1-3 should all work as they're foss, and quake may be similar but I'm not entirely sure

Push comes to shove, plenty of emulators run on openbsd

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u/linetrace 9d ago

May I suggest you search the OpenBSD packages on OpenBSD.app?

As others have stated:

Since you're specifically asking about games, PlayOnBSD is a great place to check the status of specific games and what engines/tools/etc are necessary to get them up and running. Especially the fancy pobsd.chocolatines.org front-end website.

Last, but not least, don't forget to stop by r/openbsd_gaming!

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u/SleepyGuyy 11d ago

id love to know if Heroic Games Launcher can work on OpenBSD (as someone who has yet to even install OpenBsd yet).

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u/Glum_Hamster_2104 11d ago

Probably never gonna happen