You can now enter a time capsule back to the year 1997 and from there into a post-nuclear retro-future on #OpenBSD with fallout1-ce in ports. You need the assets from Fallout 1 to play though.
https://pobsd.chocolatines.org/2206518674
Thanks to @izder456 for the hard work and persistence!
#PlayOnBSD
I stumble through the beginning of Terraria and went down into the mines to bring you the gem that is gaming on OpenBSD in 2026! Replay here:
Now streaming Terria 1.4.5.5 from OpenBSD at:
Straw poll for my #PlayOnBSD game stream for today (22:00 UTC). Which game should I stream from OpenBSD? (https://spectra.video/w/bWdML9RsTHLwirYUNffAWS)
Farming, ranching and frontier simulator "Cattle Country" runs great on #OpenBSD with an update to FNA to 26.02 and a tiny library aptly named "SDL_BleepBloop".
Desktop streaming on #OpenBSD using VAAPI is quite performant. I've recorded myself playing Northgard in 1440p, using fauxstream. The hardware encoding quality on this generation of Radeon GPUs (RX 6700 XT in my case) is known to be of poor quality, so there is noticeable loss of detail when panning over the map, but it seems to be quite smooth otherwise and audio/video stay in sync.
https://spectra.video/w/1smqEby9CkshEQWAthSty9
@armani Looks awesome! #PlayOnBSD
public Brotato test stream with my current OpenBSD setup in 26 minutes (16:00 EST, 22:00 UTC).
It is finished. :flan_guy2: #Quake2 #QuakeII #Q2 #QII #PlayOnBSD
@AFresh1 @BoydStephenSmithJr The Steam client is closed source, but you can get your downloads on #OpenBSD with steamctl from ports.
https://openbsd.app/?search=steamctl¤t=on
That breaks occasionally when Steam's API changes. Better to buy on GOG, itch.io, or Zoom-Platform which allow for direct downloads.
Best way to browse which commercial games can run on OpenBSD is here:
https://pobsd.chocolatines.org/
(Courtesy of @hukadan )
It would be great to see our games run on OpenBSD, but - as of yet - there are no BSD users on our team. If anyone's interested in looking into that to make it happen, you're more than welcome to come aboard.
Just finished neat little puzzle game Woodworm on #OpenBSD. 🐛
Retro horror roguelike dungeon crawler "House of Necrosis" runs on OpenBSD with out port of #godotengine3. #PlayOnBSD
https://gts.chocolatines.org/@pobsd/statuses/01KE8W2X3KMDE4T9HBPGPN70TE
It's been a long time since I've seen a new #PlayOnBSD game based on #XNA, but here is a nice one:
https://bootdiskrevolution.itch.io/spellatro
... and it's free! On #OpenBSD, you can use #IndieRunner to launch it...
So, gonna #AskFedi, specifically those #FreeBSD users who #PlayOnBSD...
Has anyone had an issue with Yamagi #Quake II (yquake2) launching with sounds and everything, but no window or game video of any kind showing up? Been having this issue since 14.3 and now with 15.0. I've already played around with the "+set vid_renderer" options and no dice.
Thank in advance! :flan_gamer:
@hukadan Can't find your bot to follow from bsd.network, but I added a lot of new games to the database in the last days.
Heads up #OpenBSD gamers and enthusiasts: I removed openbsd-games.json from the OpenBSD-Games-Database.
https://github.com/playonbsd/OpenBSD-Games-Database
The reason is that with no linebreaks, commits end up growing the repo massively.
There is still openbsd-games-formatted.json which has the same content, but formatted with the line breaks which makes commits a lot smaller in size.
From now on, @pobsd should toot each time a game gets added to the PlayOnBSD database. Now, I have to wait the next game to see if it works. #OpenBSD #PlayOnBSD
Bazzite and CachyOS were sitting on the front page on HN this morning, so I thought I'd add one more gaming focused OS. :flan_peek:
