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Open Surge, a fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games, available to install in Ubuntu Software easily via Snap package.

Open Surge is also a game creation system that lets you unleash your creativity! It’s free, open-source, and written from the ground up in C language, using the Allegro game programming library.

You can play the using a keyboard or a joystick.

  • Arrows: Move
  • Space: Jump
  • Enter: Pause
  • Esc: Quit
  • Left Ctrl: Switch character
  • Equals: Take snapshot
  • F12: Open the editor

And the game features:

  • A base game called Surge the Rabbit
  • A built-in level editor
  • Ready to use items, scripts, and more
  • Free to use game assets under Creative Commons licenses
  • See more in Github source page.

Install Open Surge in Ubuntu:

Open Surge has been made available as Snap package (runs in sandbox), Ubuntu 18.04 and higher users can easily install it from Ubuntu Software or App Center:

For choice, you may press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, run the command below instead to install the game package:

After installation, either search for and launch it from overview screen (or start menu depends on your desktop environment):

Or run snap run opensurge command to start game from terminal.

Uninstall Open Surge:

To uninstall the game, either use Ubuntu Software (App Center) or run command below in terminal:

snap remove --purge opensurge