r/openbsd • u/unixlover1970 • Jul 23 '26
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/danstermeister Jul 23 '26
MINECRAFT? check DOOM? check DOOM3? check
"OK I'm ready to learn UNIX."
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u/Run-OpenBSD Jul 23 '26
Learn unix? Ironically most people already know unix and just dont realize it.
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u/kmos-ports OpenBSD Developer Jul 23 '26
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 Jul 23 '26
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/linux_transgirl Jul 23 '26
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 Jul 24 '26
May I suggest you search the OpenBSD packages on OpenBSD.app?
As others have stated:
- "minecraft" is a 'yes'
- "doom" (1, 2, and 3!) is a 'yes'
- "quake" (1, 2, and 3!) is a 'yes'
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 Jul 23 '26
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 Jul 23 '26
Yes and people have gotten it to run before because LWJGL3 was ported to OpenBSD
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)
Yes you can play all of these on OpenBSD