Y8 Games: A Website and Desktop App for Linux Gamers
Late last year, we explored 3 interesting, fun, and free «websites to play on Linux», called Yandex Games, 1001 Games and Open Games. Which are, without a doubt, an ideal alternative both for playing FPS games with very good graphic quality and many other categories of games and quality. And since there are many more similar websites with which we can play online on Linux, if we have a good Internet connection and a moderately powerful computer, today we will explore another similar one whose name is Y8 Games.
And why have we selected Y8 Games to explore it and make it known to passionate Gamers about Linux? Well, among many reasons that we will already mention, one that stands out is that, unlike other online Gaming Portals, «Y8 Games" offers a useful Desktop App for Linux in AppImage format, which will allow us to enjoy them, without having to open an additional tab in our favorite web browser. Saving us hardware resources and increasing the offer and compatibility of the games that we can use.
Websites to play on Linux: good quality FPS games
But, before starting this interesting and useful publication on the “Y8 Games” website and desktop app which offers an immense catalog of online games of different technologies, quality levels and style, we recommend you explore the previous Gaming related post:
Y8 Games: A gaming website with a desktop App for Linux
What is Y8 Games?
According to its creators about their own site, this fun and entertaining website aimed at enjoying online video games is described as follows:
Y8 Games is a website that offers free online games and puzzles since 2006. Furthermore, we are a game publisher and game developer. And also, we established ourselves as a video game platform that includes a social network of 30 million players, which continues to increase. Which includes videos to watch such as cartoons, gameplays and game tutorials. Our catalog increases daily, since new games are published every hour. Finally, we have a long history, we have been recording the social phenomenon of free browser games, because games are an important artistic medium and can explain what people were like in different eras.
Other relevant or notable things about this site is that it has multilingual support for many languages, including Spanish. And since it works like a social network, it offers the advantage of registering to be able to interact with other video gamers and even with other video game creators.
How to download and use your Desktop App in AppImage format?
To make use of your Desktop App in AppImage format and enjoy its enormous catalog of online video games on our favorite and current Distro GNU/Linux, we will only have to carry out the following steps to reach its Download section and proceed to have it and use it:
- Visit the Y8 Games website
- Press on the Categories option, located on the top panel.
- In the Download Section we must click on the Y8 Browser Download button.
- Next, we must give execute permission to the AppImage file Discharged.
- And once executed from the explorer, we can explore its catalog of GNU/Linux games and enjoy all of them without major problems. As shown below:
Summary
In summary, the online gaming portal «Y8 Games» both from everyone's favorite browser and from its great and useful Desktop App, it offers us an excellent opportunity to enjoy a great, and very complete and growing collection of online games. Which are mainly distributed by categories (styles), age and sex. Therefore, it is worth knowing it and trying it from our favorite GNU/Linux Distro to see how much of it is useful and fun for us. Or, to others, like our small children or young friends. And if you know of any other similar gaming website, we invite you to mention it via comments to explore it in the next opportunity, especially if it is compatible with Linux or offers a Desktop App for Linux.
Lastly, remember visit our «homepage» in Spanish. Or, in any other language (just by adding 2 letters to the end of our current URL, for example: ar, de, en, fr, ja, pt and ru, among many others) to find out more current content. Additionally, we invite you to join our Official Telegram channel to read and share more news, guides and tutorials from our website. And also, the next Alternative Telegram channel to learn more about the Linuxverse in general.