Y8 Games: A Website and Desktop App for Linux Gamers
At the end of last year, we explored three interesting, fun, and free "websites for playing games on Linux": Yandex Games, 1001 Games, and Open Games. These are undoubtedly ideal alternatives for playing graphically impressive FPS games, as well as many other game categories and levels of quality. And since there are many more similar websites where we can play online on Linux, provided we have a good internet connection and a moderately powerful computer, today we'll explore another one called Y8 Games.
So why have we chosen Y8 Games to explore and introduce to passionate Linux gamers? Well, among the many reasons we'll mention, one particularly noteworthy one is that, unlike other online gaming portals, Y8 Games offers a useful desktop app for Linux in AppImage format . This allows us to enjoy games without needing to open an additional tab in our preferred web browser, saving us hardware resources and increasing the selection and compatibility of the games we can play.
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But before we begin this interesting and useful post about the "Y8 Games" website and desktop app , which offers a vast catalog of online games of different technologies, quality levels, and styles, we recommend exploring the previous related Gaming post :
Y8 Games: A gaming website with a desktop App for Linux
What is Y8 Games?
According to its creators on their own website , this fun and entertaining website geared towards the enjoyment of 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 use its Desktop App in AppImage format and enjoy its huge catalog of online video games on our favorite and current GNU/Linux Distro, we only need to follow these steps to reach its Download section and proceed to obtain 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 short, the online gaming portal "Y8 Games," accessible through your preferred browser or its excellent and useful desktop app, offers a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a vast, comprehensive, and ever-growing collection of online games . These games are primarily organized by category (style), age, and gender. It's worth checking out and trying it out on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution to see how useful and fun it is for you, or for others, like your young children or friends. If you know of any other similar gaming websites, please mention them in the comments so we can explore them in the future, especially if they are compatible with Linux or offer a Linux desktop app.
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