We all know the classics, Mine Craft, Rust, Stardew Valley, etc. What are some one’s you see people less aware of are self hostable?
I’ve been thinking about hosting a Quake II server, lately.
EDIT: Or Unreal Tournament. Both were my jam back in the day.
We’ve spent last few months playing Enshrouded. The dedicated server is a resource hog tho, even on an empty server it’d use a ton of CPU time. Still lots of fun with a few friends exploring and building stuff
Final Fantasy XI is still a beautiful game and is self hostable, but as with most MMORPGs, you need lots of people to get the full experience. Luckily if you’re hosting your own, you can always mod settings to make yourself lvl 99, turn off enemy AI, teleport anywhere, or whatever.
Palworld and Terraria, particularly with Tmodloader, are fun options.
I’m amenable to luanti with voxelibre.
Though I don’t like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you’d hear about in a drug commercial. “Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death”
Oh this one here will keep you from having a seizure everyday, but you’ll shit your pants every 30 minutes. So the choice is, do you want to roll around on the ground looking like you’re trying out a weird pop-lock break dance, trying to eat your tongue, or do you just want to crap your pants on a regular basis. You pick.
I ran a 7 days to die server for a few years, fun to do missions with a lot of friends, and build bases and stuff.
Factorio
Absolutely the best.
It was a load of fun.
My two most popular public game servers are Necesse and Rimworld Together. Neither have many public servers.
Bit old, but pretty much everything Source Engine is self-hostable isn’t it? Most of them even come with a pre-configured SRCDS (SouRCe Dedicated Server) you can download and run right from the steam launcher.
I know I ran a GarrysMod server for quite a while; piling a shit ton of mods on it. Plus any source game you’ve got installed, Garrys Mod can and will use the resources/assets from.
Could try hosting a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). I tried to host an Evennia server last year but could never get it to work properly. Wasn’t a big deal though cause it’s not like I had any friends who wanted to play, lol.
I set up a BBS with legend of the Red Dragon! Only runs locally right now but pretty cool to see running.
Haven’t heard Red Dragon referenced in a very long time. Loved that game.
Every now and then I will jump back into whatever flavor of MUD seems interesting for a few weeks. They’re so much fun but like you say, nobody plays them.
I set up roller coaster tycoon 2 using the OpenRCT2 docker container , pretty cool.
Starseige tribes? Trackmania?
Trackmania can be self hosted? I’d love a friends-only score board and custom track rotations
Veloren has been a blast on my family’s self hosted system.
This looks intriguing! How does it compare to Minecraft?
To add my own two cents into this mix.
RuneScape classic with the fan made OepnRSC
And Final Fantasy XI … kiinnddaa. Not sure if that one’s feature complete yet or ever will be. But there’s a fan server effort for it like RuneScape.
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