LAN (local area network) games

[mujtablue@programming.dev]

Can you name them from your memory please?

[mujtablue@programming.dev]

Thank you so much!

[tolstoy@lemmy.world]

This list is the way to go.
My last Lan party was about 17 years back but there is one golden rule, which is still more important than anything else: pick a game no one has played or one that everybody is familiar with! The biggest fun killers are unbalanced teams and matches.
Despite that, we liked the first flat out game which now should be wreckfest and strangely enough a soccer mod for CS:S back then.

[iceblade02@lemmy.world]

Planetary Annihilation, Warcraft 3 (at least pre-reforged if you can get a hold of an old copy), Unreal Tournament, Killing Floor, Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2), OpenTTD, Simutrans, Settlers: Heritage of Kings, some of the older Wolfenstien games, Battle for Wesnoth, Warzone 2100, Teeworlds, Widelands

[johndclay@sh.itjust.works]

Oh yeah, I remember now. It wasn't registering the IP. But yeah there should be a way, I was just having technical issues with it.

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

Farcry 1 and 2 have Lan support.

[khanzarate@lemmy.world]

You do need to forward the port in some routers.

Or connect via Ethernet cable and avoid the router, if possible.

But yeah, once any initial little hiccups are done, its actually very smooth, opening Minecraft takes longer.

Also that can turn on cheats in a world where cheats are disabled.

[encryptkeeper@lemmy.world]

SWAT 4 - $4.99

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

Diablo and Diablo 2 (not Resurrected)

I think Diablo 2 even came with an extra disc specifically so you could give it to your friend to play via LAN. Then these fuckers removed the option in Resurrected even though they promised they wouldn't.

StarCraft and the old Warcraft games work via LAN as well.

Quake, Doom, Unreal (Tournament), Half Life

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

Oh, I'll add on to this one that Rainbow Six 1 and 3 have been some of the best co-op games I've ever played, and both have LAN. The second game isn't readily available for sale anymore. Even that first game involved editing a lot of level config files in order to circumvent bugs, but it was a great time.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

StarCraft you could use the same disk to “spawn install” to play with your friends. I think they could only play as Terran though.

[hydration9806@lemmy.ml]

Stardew Valley!

[blastboomstrice@mander.xyz]

• SuperTuxKart (open source super mario cart alternative)
• Luanti (open source minecraft alternative)

[matriks404@lemmy.world]

Original Diablo or Diablo 2 (not sure about the latter though, haven't played it yet, lol)

[matriks404@lemmy.world]

The problem with that is when you have some computer on the LAN that is running Windows, it doesn't always work and who the fuck knows why.

[skunkworkz@lemmy.world]

And R.E.P.O.

[drathro@dormi.zone]

The older Tribes titles if you're into classic arena shooters. Tribes 2 had some maps and modes that were more Battlefield-esque too. The old Age of series were excellent LAN games as well (empires/mythology). These are PC titles and I'm not sure of your target platform.

[usrtrv@sh.itjust.works]

Warcraft 2/3, Starcraft, Halo 1, Command and Conquer 1/2/3. Red Alert 1/2. Battlefield 1942, 1943, 2, Vietnam, 2142. Joint Ops. Doom 1,2, Quake 1/2,3, Unreal Tournament 1/2004. Farcry 1/2, Crysis 1, Burnout, Half-Life 1/2, Couterstrike 1.6/Source/GO. TeamFortress 1/2. Worms Armageddon. Soldat 1/2. Armegetron. Any Source Mods. Minecraft. Age of Empires 1/2/3. Age of Mythology. Neverwinter Nights. GTA 2. OpenTTD, Factorio, Terraria, ARMA 1/2/3. Left 4 Dead 1/2. Killing Floor 1. Call of Duty 1/2/4. Viscera Cleanup Detail, Magicka 1. etc etc

[octobob@lemmy.ml]

Well I'm not sure exactly where this may fall, but I play a very wide library of games over LAN on my KVM. Emulators from the NES era all the way up to PS3 and nintendo switch. I also can play my whole steam library, all from a convenient launcher called EmulationStation (desktop edition)

The KVM is connected to my Linux PC over its own individual Ethernet wire to the living room TV. It works great and can do 4K and has zero latency problems (at least none that I can notice)

[mufinmcflufin@lemmy.world]

Worth mentioning that some of these earlier titles were built for IPX networking, which is no longer supported by modern operated systems. I get the impression OP is asking for games with LAN gaming supporting to get recommendations, so I feel it's important to make sure they or others checking lists like this one understand they may need to go through some hoops to get some of these titles to work with a modern machine.