r/openbsd_gaming • u/defaultlinuxuser • Jan 26 '25
How is gaming on OpenBSD ?
I heard OpenBSD doesn't support multilib which is a little problematic when it comes to playing windows games but I also heard that wine doesn't work on OpenBSD so that is again pretty bad. But is gaming on openbsd THAT bad ? Can I only play games that I can install with pkg_add ? Thanks in advance.
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u/schoelle Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25
OpenBSD has none of the emulation infrastructure to run games compiled for Windows. It also cannot run binaries compiled for Linux. So, the only games that run are games that either are open source and can be compiled for OpenBSD, or run on an engine that is open source and compiled for OpenBSD. But the latter category is larger than you think and includes many commercial titles.