DXX-Rebirth
Legitimate copies of the games are required to play, either bought from
Further info can be found on the DXX-Rebirth Website (innoextract is needed for extraction).
DXX-Rebirth is a source port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines so you won’t need DOSBox to play the games. Additionally, it offers OpenGL graphics and effects, advanced Multiplayer, many improvements and new features.
yay -S d1x-rebirth d2x-rebirth innoextract
Copy the Descent 1 game files:
# single user
cp descent.(hog|pig) ~/.d1x-rebirth/
# system-wide
cp descent.(hog|pig) /usr/share/d1x-rebirth/
Copy the Descent 2 game files:
# single user
cp *.(ham|hog|pig|s11|s22) ~/.d2x-rebirth/
# system-wide
cp *.(ham|hog|pig|s11|s22) /usr/share/d2x-rebirth/