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SuperTux's homepage is at and the source-code is at It is quite good for what it is: A Super Mario clone with more updated modern graphics.

It isn't fantastic compared to many of the modern games you can get from Steam but it's open source and free. It's a fine free game and the latest version, 0.62 released May 2020, is available in all the Linux distributions repositories. Hardware Requirements Īnything capable of rendering OpenGL graphics will run SuperTux just fine. It's quite fun if you like 2D platform games. It's basically Super Mario in a slightly different setting. There's coins to collect and power-ups to be had. Some boxes are marked with question-marks and items appear when you bounce on these blocks. There's blocks you can destroy and sometimes there's hidden items in them. Gameplay's what you would expect for a Super Mario clone. It's not all that impressive compared to modern 3D fps games but it's good for a 2D sidescroller game. The graphics is fine, it is actually quite good for a game like this. That's about it when it comes to major differences between SuperTux and Super Mario.

You play Tux, the Linux mascot, instead of Mario and you're trying to rescue Penny, not a princess.

#SUPERTUX SCRIPTING REFERENCE SERIES#

SuperTux is a typical 2D platform game which is very similar to the popular Super Mario Brother series from Nintendo.

Supertux scripting reference