u/fhritp15

First many thanks to all at r/Fedora you gave valuable feedback for the arcade mode of this game.

The closed beta key is for Distro Fighter: WARS. You claim a fighter (a Linux distro), pick its desktop and packages, train it, and enter it into a fight circuit that runs around the clock on a fast game clock, the way a Football Manager season does.

Would like feedback espeically on Fedora Atomic (Silverblue) regarding balance since unlike all the other 29 distros, 3 immutable distros' packages are frozen every season (3 months). As such there are buffs in place such as fight rollbacks and also no damage to condition when caught by the Rot during salvage runs but less than a handful of players are on the immutables.

Training sessions keep running while you are away, even with the game closed. Salvage runs depart on a real schedule (cron jobs) whether you are watching or not. Your fighter defends its ranking while you sleep, and you come back to the results, the pay, and whatever the night's fights did to your record. There are 400+ achievements, from your first training session up to ladders like 1,000 career knockouts. Free, no monetization.

Playable right now in any browser: distrofighter.com/wars?beta=fedora-reddit-2026 (the mode is in closed beta, this link is this sub's door, and entering through it earns you an achievement on arrival: THE SIDE DOOR). The arcade mode is always open to everyone.

WARS mode runs a public stats page of the whole circuit if you like numbers: distrofighter.com/wars-stats

I would love feedback, I read everything.

The game is Distro Fighter: WARS. You claim a fighter (a Linux distro), pick its desktop and packages, train it, and enter it into a fight circuit that runs around the clock on a fast game clock, the way a Football Manager season does.

The incremental part: training sessions keep running while you are away, even with the game closed. Salvage runs depart on a real schedule whether you are watching or not. Your fighter defends its ranking while you sleep, and you come back to the results, the pay, and whatever the night's fights did to your record. There are 400+ achievements, from your first training session up to ladders like 1,000 career knockouts.

Playable right now in any browser: https://distrofighter.com/wars?beta=incremental-2026 (the mode is in closed beta, this link is this sub's door, and entering through it earns you an achievement on arrival: THE SIDE DOOR). The arcade mode at https://distrofighter.com is open to everyone. Free, no monetization.

AI disclosure: The game idea is one I had for over 15 years. However, without AI, I would not have had the time to return to this project. AI has been used for the monotonous tasks, database query optimization, and troubleshooting bugs that really kept me in the past from having the time to work on this project.

It runs a public stats page of the whole circuit if you like numbers: https://distrofighter.com/wars-stats

I would love feedback, I read everything. <3

Rain came suddenly, like a blessing. Then it stopped 5 mins later. :-) We need more.

https://distrofighter.com/stats

Take a look at distrofighter.com | https://distrofighter.com/distros