How to play games in Termux - Part 1

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July 01, 2020 March 18, 2022

Termux is a app which is popular for testing and experimenting the linux features on android and this app now provides various tools and packages so that your termux experience can be better and one of the packages are the gamess...That's right games you can play and have fun in termux.

So let's get started.
Here I will provide you 10 games which can be played in termux.

Note:

Before you install these games you need to have direction keys(left,rigth,up and down)so for that purpose just enter the below command and exit and reopen the termux and the keys will be added.

Command:

mkdir $HOME/.termux/ ;echo "extra-keys = [['F1','F2','F3','F4','F5','F6','F7'],['ESC','/','-','HOME','UP','END','PGUP'],['TAB','CTRL','ALT','LEFT','DOWN','RIGHT','PGDOWN']]" >> $HOME/.termux/termux.properties && termux-reload-settings && sleep 1 && logout

Games:

Play PAC-MAN game in termux:

Pac man is a maze arcade game and it is a very popular game, To install this you have to download the package by using the command given below and one dowside of this game is that most of the users might find it difficult to play and if you think you are a pro gamer you can try this game.

Installation size:152 kb

Command to install:

pkg install pacman4conole

Run command:

pacman

Screenshot:

Play Tetris game in termux:

Tetris is a most popular arcade game and it is a tile matching puzzzle game,This game can be played by everyone in the termux, you can install this game by using the command below.

Installation size: 471 kb

Command to install:

pkg install vitetris

Run command:

tetris

Screenshot:

Play Snake game in termux:

Snake game was popular game among users who had the nokia phones and the same snake game can now be played in termux.The interesting thing is that game is highly customizable, you can change the speed and control of the game.

Installation size: 90 kb

Command to install:

pkg install nsnake

Run command:

nsnake

Note:
If you get screen resize error,go to settings and change the display to small size,after that go to termux and just type nsnake command and resize the screen to small by using two fingers.

Screenshot:

Play Greed game in termux:

Greed is a stratergy game in which you have to erase as many numbers as possible, @ symbol will the location, you can't overlap on the previous location.

Press P to find out all the possible moves.

Press Q and then y to quit the game.

Press ? from your keyboard to read all the details about the game.

Installation size: 70 kb

Command to install:

pkg install greed

Run command:

greed

Screenshot:

Play Moon-Buggy game on termux:

Moon-Buggy game is similar to dinosaur game which is being played when your chrome is offline but instead of dinosaur you have a buggy which you have to guide in its path.

To play this game you have to use Space bar in your keyboard.

The unique feature of this game is that you can view the world wide score of the top players and if you score better you can also add name in the list.

Installation size: 131 kb

Command to install:

pkg install moon-buggy

Run command:

moon-buggy

Screenshot:

Play Sudoku game in termux:

Sudoku game is game for passing the time and applying the knowledge to solve the puzzzle.

Sudoku is a logic based game where we have to put unique numbers in the 9X9 grid and should not have same number in any row or column.

Installation size: 7 kb

Command to install:

pkg install nudoku && apt install nudoku

Run command:

nudoku

Screenshot:

Play nInvaders game in termux:

nInvaders is a terminal based version of space invaders action game.In this game you can shoot the bullets with Space bar in your keyboard and move in x-axis that is left to right or right to left direction. Note that this game is not working properly in termux but you can try this game if you want.

Installation size: 90 kb

Command to install:

pkg install nInvaders

Run command:

nInvaders

Screenshot:

Play 2048 game in termux:

2048 is tile sliding puzzle game in which you have to combine line version of this game is wriiten in c language so in order to play this game you have to install clang package.

This game is not available inside the termux so we have to download it from the github.

Just copy and paste the command to play the game 2048.

Installation size: 100 MB

Command to install:

pkg install git -y && pkg install wget -y && pkg install clang -y && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mevdschee/2048.c/master/2048.c && sleep 2 && gcc -o 2048 2048.c

Run command:

./2048

Screenshot:

Play Nethack game in termux:

Nethack is a action packed single player dungeon exploration game.

You can fight and collect and eat the items and can do lots of stuff in this game so make sure to try it.

Installaton size: 7466 kb or 7.4 MB

Command to install:

pkg install nethack

Run command:

nethack

Screenshot:

Play Hangman game in termux:

Hangman is a word guessing game in which you have to guess the word which the program has chosen from the text file in the same repository and the words will be be the most command words used in english language and if you didnt guess it right a new part of hangman will be drawn and if you guess it correct word the man will be saved from hanging.