I played a lot of FreeCiv and had a lot of fun with it. Not sure if it’s still dev/maintained

They do, but it’s a very small part of their total financing (less than 1% I think), and they don’t have government appointed staff or anything like that.

Are you trying the original or Enhanced Edition? I’ve had no issues playing the EE versions of Infinity Engine games on Ubuntu

This 100%. The only games I’ve managed to finish in the past ten years are on Switch or a portable system.

You beat the materia keeper without using materia!?

I loved Ogre Battle 64. To date, I can’t remember playing anything else quite like it.

I can get behind the CC vs CT take. I finished CT first circa 1998 but found it pretty boring (I have a better appreciation for it now). CC was a lot more enjoyable to me–combat had a lot going on, and the music is an unmitigated masterpiece.

Putting DQ7 on here is almost a bit spicy, but I think it’s one of the best representations of the series in terms of scope, pacing, gameplay, and storytelling. It’s absolutely slow, but that was sort of the point.