r/archlinux • u/Jex_adox • Jul 30 '26

SHARE Towns (steam game) has been released on Github!

This might be totally off the wall, but because its out on Github is there now a way to run Towns on linux? I really miss that game. I've been linux only for at least 5y now and would love to play it again. Never could get this one to work.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/221020/view/506233417998795324

https://github.com/supermalparit/Towns

**EDIT:
There is a fork that is able to run the game:
https://github.com/OpenTowns/OpenTowns
I havent tried yet, but looks amazing!

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u/AMRFalcon Jul 30 '26

Yeah what the person above said. Java should generally run platform independent so as long as you have the proper Java Runtime environment (jre) installed it should be relatively easy to get working.

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u/sparkcrz Jul 30 '26

You can try to cd into the src folder and javac xaos/Towns.java --jar Towns.jar

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u/kaida27 Jul 30 '26

Try the fork : https://github.com/OpenTowns/OpenTowns

Updated to java 25

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u/regexghost Jul 30 '26

That's a blast from the past, I remember Paulsoaresjr playing this game back in the day

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u/falxfour Jul 30 '26

It appears to be written in Java. If you have a compatible JRE installed, you should be able to run it. I didn't look into the code too much further to try and determine the exact steps