Version: 1.4
Web: https://supertuxkart.net
As its name suggests SuperTuxKart (STK) is a kart racing game. What makes it superadorable is that its characters are mascots of various open source projects. Besides Tux, there’s Gnu, Puffy from OpenBSD, Suzanne from Blender, Wilbur from GIMP, Xue from Xfce, and several others. The game is available in the repos of virtually all desktop distros, and you can fetch it using the default graphical package manager. To ensure you have the latest version of the game, it’s best to grab the compressed tarball from its website. You can then uncompress it using the file manager or with the tar -xf command. Then switch to the extracted folder and run the run_game.sh script.
STK started as a fork of TuxKart, which came out over two decades ago. Both games have a similar gameplay, but STK has some variations, such as the cans of nitro, as well as a story mode. In STK, Gnu is captured by the game’s villain, Nolok, who then challenges Tux to free Gnu.