Desura adds free adventure games!

By Liam Dawe - 13 Jan 2012 at 5:59 pm UTC

Desura one of our favourite clients to get games for Linux has added a couple of free downloadable adventure games.

The games all use ScummVM;

QuoteScummVM allows you to play many of the old adventure games on modern system and systems where they were never released.

http://www.desura.com/games/beneath-a-steel-sky
http://www.desura.com/games/dragon-history
http://www.desura.com/games/drscula-the-vampire-strikes-back
http://www.desura.com/games/flight-of-the-amazon-queen
http://www.desura.com/games/lure-of-the-temptress
http://www.desura.com/games/teenagent Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

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Hamish 13 Jan 2012

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It should be noted that some of these titles had already made their way to distro repositories (at least on Fedora) but this is probably a better fit I think. :)

Still, is Desura slowly also going to become the GoG of Linux?

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Liam Dawe 13 Jan 2012

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I installed Beneath a Steel Sky from Ubuntu's software centre before as well. But hey the more Desura has the better especially that one it's brill.

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