Playing Games on Kali Linux

The corona-virus pandemic has put a wall on being social. We thought this would be a great time to learn new things on ethical hacking and cybersecurity, because we are in homes and have lots of free time.

But how much more will we learn, sometimes things are getting boring. Thinks to play games on Kali Linux ? Gaming on Linux ? 

Kali Linux is for gaming?

Some awesome games for Kali Linux

 Minecraft

Playing Minecraft in Kali Linux

sudo apt install ./Minecraft.deb

Or we can use minecraft-launcher command in terminal. Yoo! We just finished installing Minecraft on Kali Linux. Now we just need to login and enjoy (beware from Enderman).

Torcs

TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) is a pretty cool game for racing game lovers. Torcs can be played as just a standard racing game, where the player drives around the tracks trying to get first position, but an alternative usage is as a platform to develop an artificial intelligence driver that can drive itself through Torcs’s tracks.

We can develop our own AI driver (also called a robot) in C or C++. Torcs is programmed to enable pre-programmed AI drivers to race against one another.

Single-player races range from practice runs to championships, and there is a split-screen multi-player mode for up to 4 players. To set up this with multi-monitor read this.

This game supports keyboard, mouse, joystick, and steering wheel all type of inputs.

We can install this game by using following command:

sudo apt-get install torcs

This is a big download (approx half GB) so it will take a little bit time to install depending on our internet connection. After installation process is done we can play torcs by using following command:

torcs

Gnome-Chess

The game of chess is over 1300 years old and is one of the most popular board games in the world. We can easily install chess in our Kali Linux and enjoy it.
To install gnome-chess we simply use apt-get install command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-chess

After installing it we can open it by just typing gnome-chess in the terminal.

Pacman

Old is Gold. Pacman is the real king of arcade gaming. We can easily install Pacman in our Kali Linux by using following command:

sudo apt-get install pacman4console

Then to play pacman we need to enter following command:

pacman4console

Note: We can’t run pacman (pacman4console) in small terminal window. It would be better to maximize terminal before run pacman4console command.

Tetris

This makes nostalgic. This addictive puzzle game can be played in our Kali Linux’s terminal window. First we need to download it from here.

It will be downloaded on our downloads folder now to decompress it we use following commands:

cd Downloads && tar -xvf vitetris*.tar.gz

Then we go to vitetris folder by using following command:

cd vitetris*

Then we configure it by using following command:

sudo ./configure

Now we need to run make command:

sudo make

It’s time to install, so we use following command:

sudo make install

Now we can tun tetris by using following command:

./tetris

This game has 2 player mode with controller support.

There is another easy way to install Tetris game on Linux. We just need to type following command to install it:

sudo apt-get install quadrapassel

Then type quadrapassel in terminal to play it.

Quadrapassel is a clone of Tetris with GUI, but it does not have 2 player mode.

This ways we can enjoy the famous arcade game Tetris in our Kali Linux.

GNOME Games

GNOME desktop environment have a good collection of puzzle games Chess is mentioned above, but there are a lots of games like Sudoku, Tetris, Robots, Mines, 2048, Four in a row etc.

However Kali Linux moved to Xfce from GNOME but these games will work here and all other Debian based Linux distributions. The look and fell of these games will remind us the GNOME environment.

Full list of GNOME Games

1. 2048 (Clone of a popular game 2048)
2. aisleriot (Pack of 88 Solitaire card games)
3. gnome-chess (Chess game)
4. four-in-a-row (Clone of Connect Four)
5. five-or-more (Clone of popular windows game Color Lines)
6. hitori (Hitori of Linux)
7. iagno (Clone of game called Reversi)
8. gnome-klotski (Sliding block puzzle game)
9. gnome-mahjongg (Clone of Mohjongg solitaire)
10. gnome-mines (Clone of Minesweeper)
11. gnome-nibbles (Rebuild version of Nibbles)
12. quadrapassel (Tetris in Linux)
13. gnome-robots (Clone of turn-based popular game Robots)
14. gnome-sudoku (Sudoku is a number based popular puzzle)
15. lightsoff (Brainteaser)
16. gnome-taquin (two 15-puzzle games)
17. gnome-tetravex (Based of edge-maching game Tetravex)
18. swell-foop (Clone of SameGame)
19. tali (dice game close to Yahtzee/Kismet)

These games are very easy to install, we just need to use apt install command with sudo. If we want to install gnome-sudoku then we need to use following command:

sudo apt install gnome-sudoku

Like this way we can install other gnome-games using sudo apt install game-name (game names are in bold in the above list).

There was some more games in GNOME games list but they have removed these games:

• blackjack
• gbrainey
• gnome-mastermind
• gnome-pipes
• gnome-untangle

BSD Games

BSD Games is a collection of 40 retro games in terminal. This collection is good, some respected names in this list are:

• Hangman
• Robots
• Quiz
• Air traffic controller
• Hunt

To install this package we just need to run following command:

sudo apt install bsdgames

Then we can launch this game by applying games names, like hangman in terminal. We can see the full list of BSD games.

These are the best games to play on Kali Linux or other Debian based Linux distro. If we missed any game or having any issue on installing, fell free to comment on the comment section.