LAN (local area network) games
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So does Java Minecraft
I didn't see a way to set it up on Java without running a local server. Is there? I prefer Java, but it seemed like a lot of hours of work to get a server set up.
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Factorio doesn't give a fuck and will let you play with up to 254 other people on the same server. Most survival crafting games have LAN, as a matter of fact. Somehow this is the only genre that will hold developers accountable on a regular basis and make them hurt for not having LAN and player-controlled servers. Not all of them will, but most will offer LAN.
All of Larian's recent RPG efforts have LAN and direct IP connections: Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate 3.
Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the entire Borderlands series (outside of the GOTY edition of Borderlands 1) support LAN, surprisingly, if you want to get your loot game on.
Is Recharge RC the same as the upcoming Unreal engine racing game Recharge? If they don't have the same lineage, they've at least got similar inspirations.
Warside is an upcoming turn-based strategy game inspired by (or ripping off wholesale?) Advance Wars, and it's got LAN in its features list.
Streets of Rogue is an all-timer in the co-op roguelike department, and it too supports LAN.
A game that I download and install on a regular basis in the freeware realm is Armagetron. It's the light cycles from Tron but in an open source LAN game. It doesn't exactly have a ton of depth, but it's good fun for about an hour every couple of years.
Thank you! this is the RechargeRC I was pointing at.
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I didn't see a way to set it up on Java without running a local server. Is there? I prefer Java, but it seemed like a lot of hours of work to get a server set up.
Yeah you play single player, pause, and hit "open to lan"
Then someone else can connect to lan by typing in the IP. I think it autodetects a lan connection that's already open, too, but it's been a bit since I've used it.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
Lethal Company is another example.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
Co-Optimus is a great resource for this.
Here's their database with a filter showing all PC games that support LAN play:
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
Most multiplayer PC games before 2010ish.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
Anything with a server software you can host can be played on LAN (okay probably not some things because they're being weird but in general this is true).
That means counter strike, Minecraft, supertuxkart, xonotic, enshrouded, pal world, etc
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I didn't see a way to set it up on Java without running a local server. Is there? I prefer Java, but it seemed like a lot of hours of work to get a server set up.
Escape, open to lan. autodetected by other Minecraft clients on the network and works modded without issues. You can enable cheats (or not) by default every time you open it again.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
I self host satisfactory. It's going swimmingly.
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Most multiplayer PC games before 2010ish.
Can you name them from your memory please?
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Co-Optimus is a great resource for this.
Here's their database with a filter showing all PC games that support LAN play:
Thank you so much!
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Co-Optimus is a great resource for this.
Here's their database with a filter showing all PC games that support LAN play:
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. -
Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
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
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Yeah you play single player, pause, and hit "open to lan"
Then someone else can connect to lan by typing in the IP. I think it autodetects a lan connection that's already open, too, but it's been a bit since I've used it.
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.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
Farcry 1 and 2 have Lan support.
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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.
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.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. I know of are:
- BombSquad
- Juicy Realm
- Rusted Warfare
- Mindustry
- UFO99
- Krafteers
- Mini Militia
- ReCharge RC
Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.
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
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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.
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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
StarCraft you could use the same disk to “spawn install” to play with your friends. I think they could only play as Terran though.
