Are there any good MMORPG games natively run on Linux?
Stop caring about native. It seriously just doesn’t matter anymore.
XIV Launcher is the easiest way to get FF XIV running, plus it can link to your phone to almost automatically handle OTP (no typing it in, your phone just sends the code over your local network), but you could also just install the trial inside Steam, should work fine.
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I got banned two times for playing on Linux with FFXIV
Again not natively unfortunately, but Guild Wars 2 runs pretty well, even on the steam deck!
The base game is free to play, so no problem in testing it.
I don’t know about natively, but I’ve played both FFXIV and EVE Online in Linux in the past, and they ran well, but it’s been a little bit.
Ah EVE. The game that I always think I would absolutely love, but everytime I give it a go I end up not knowing what to do and then loosing whatever new ship I just bought.
You really need to join a group that knows what they’re doing.
Have you tired x4 foundations? It’s single player eve… And every bit just as big.
I actually own it. I will admit though that it seemed pretty overwhelming and I never gave it a full try. I really should though.
It’s less overwhelming than eve, but I mean, what isn’t ?
Project gorgon as others have said is the first native game that comes to mind. Guild wars 2 runs great on proton and that’s my recommendation. FF14 is great if you don’t mind the subscription and can get through the vanilla campaign, which is a massive slog and a major setback in the quality of the game IMO. Guild wars 2 is a similar situation in that it’s a slog for the personal story, but after that it picks up and that’s only like 40% of the vanilla campaign as opposed to the whole vanilla campaign of FF14. The FF14 fanboys don’t want to talk about the vanilla campaign and for good reason, it sucks, it’s just not fun. The game doesn’t get good until heavensward.
Don’t know about natively, but I have gotten OSRS and WoW to run on different distros at different times. I haven’t tried any recently though. Should try to see if I can get SWTOR to run since I am playing it so much right now. I know there was an MMORPG made for Linux, but from what I can recall it was not very good and is pretty dead. Unfortunately I can’t recall the name at the moment.
OSRS is native when using Runelite. Unfortunately, Jagex is soon making its launcher the only way to sign in and they refuse to make a version for Linux. Heard it works fine through wine though.
WoW still runs great under Wine.
Not really a mmorpg, but you really should try Baldur’s gate 3, runs great on linux
Love that game so much, I waited for it for 20 years and it exceeds my dreams!
Funny enough the DirectX version is stable on Proton but there are still a few crashes in Vulkan mode.
Not native, but Guild Wars 2 runs great on Linux and is a whole lotta fun
Also, in my experience, proton runs most things just as well if not better than native Linux games.
Yes, I have logged more than 14000 hours in GuildWars2, mostly in WvW maps and since it started playing well on Proton I never touched Windows anymore.
(I have no life).
How about Runescape
The OSRS client RuneLite is Linux native, open source, and Jagex (the developer) approved
I’ve played several on Ubuntu and do agree that Albion and Guild Wars 2 both play great and are a lot of fun
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Project Gorgon!
It looks a bit rough but it’s very good. Had to quit it though because it took over my life.
huh, nice!
Not native but Palia is one that recently released and is getting a ton of love. It runs on Linux using lutris-GE-Proton8-13
I’m one of the 5 poor sobs who still plays darkorbit, and someone on github made a linux native launcher available as an appimage. I don’t recommend playing it though, because aside from the community becoming smaller and smaller, the game also runs like ass even on a high end system (not because of the unofficial app, but because of the game itself), and it has this issue with it taking up more and more ram over time, and it has been like that for over a decade now. Also a lot of server issues lately. The devs don’t seem very interested in improving the game.
I mean… good chance just about any of them will work on linux, with pretty minimal effort.
I used to play WoW on linux, back in 2008/2009, without issues…
Most MMOs I play these days have their own invasive anti-cheat which makes them incompatible with tools like proton, sadly.
Edit: reading more comments, it seems my experiences and likely also taste in MMOs is uncommon.
invasive anti-cheat
Eh, I refuse to play any of the games like that. Although, most of the gaming I do, is strictly lan based, where cheating isn’t a huge concern.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/761890/Albion_Online/
Can’t really recommend it though, but it seems to be pretty popular.
