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Steam CDR Recap

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With closed the Steam for Linux beta on the cusp of release, now seems like a good time to do a recap of the games that look like they will be making an appearance first.

As I'm sure most of our readers are aware, Marlamin.com maintains a Steam Content Description Record mirror which has a special page that displays items which have Linux included in their "validoslist" value. Currently there are 48 CDRs that meet this criterion, 40 of which are distinct games (there are some betas, DLC items, etc.), and two of which don't have descriptions:

      Amnesia: The Dark Descent
      And Yet It Moves
      Aquaria
      Braid
      Cave Story+
      Cogs
      Crusader Kings II (plus beta)
      Cubemen
      Darwinia
      DEFCON
      Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
      Dungeons of Dredmor
      Dynamite Jack
      Eversion
      Frozen Synapse
      Galcon Fusion
      Harvest: Massive Encounter
      Killing Floor (plus Community Weapon Pack and Chickenator Pack DLC)
      Limbo
      Multiwinia
      Osmos
      Penumbra: Black Plague
      Penumbra: Overture
      Penumbra: Requiem
      Psychonauts
      Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
      Rochard
      Serious Sam 3: BFE
      Solar 2
      Space Pirates and Zombies
      SpaceChem
      Steel Storm
      Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
      Team Fortress 2 (plus beta)
      The Book of Unwritten Tales
      Trine 2
      Uplink
      VVVVVV
      Waveform
      World of Goo (plus demo)

      ValveTestApp221020 (belongs to a "SMP Dev comp" CDR subscription)
      ValveTestApp223070 (appears to be related to Defender's Quest, but belongs to a CDR subscription titled "Torchlight 2 Editor Retail")

In addition to these, we have the Steam Linux Beta subscription, which (as also confirmed by a post on Croteam's Facebook page) contains the following:

      Team Fortress 2 (plus beta)
      Multiplayer OB Linux Binaries
      Portal
      Steam for Linux
      Serious Sam 3: BFE (plus Jewel of the Nile DLC and two additional CDRs that appear to be related)

The official Steam for Linux community hub also now has a "Limited Beta" sub-forum (this has happened within the last 24 hours - previously there was a "beta user test" sub-forum which hung around for a day or two), which only people with beta access can post in. For anybody who would like to try to get beta access, but hasn't completed the Linux survey form provided by Valve, I'd suggest doing that now :)

Some Links For Anybody Who Can't Handle That Wall Of Text
Marlamin Linux "validoslist" search: http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os
Steam Linux Beta CDR subscription: http://marlamin.com/cdr/single.php?type=sub&id=16549
Croteam Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=470472302976255&id=191676850855803
Official Limited Beta sub-forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/
Valve Linux Survey: http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php


Edit: Just recently, I spotted a comment from one of Valve's developers talking about the beta participation notification process:
QuoteYou will be getting an email indicating acceptance into the limited beta and instructions on getting started.
We are currently in the process of choosing the participants. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience
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Hamish Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 6067, member: 122"

      Penumbra: Black Plague
      Penumbra: Overture
      Penumbra: Requiem

Sad that they do not have most of these games on the Linux Desura. Of course they did not give out Desura keys for the HIB release of Amnesia even though that one is available on the service, so in general Frictional does not seem very inclined to Desura unfortunately.

Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 6067, member: 122"

      Psychonauts


I hope they have done some more bug fixing work on this before they declare the port ready for the big time.
Cheeseness Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 6068, member: 6"Sad that they do not have most of these games on the Linux Desura. Of course they did not give out Desura keys for the HIB release of Amnesia even though that one is available on the service, so in general Frictional does not seem very inclined to Desura unfortunately.

It seems that many devs have been shying away from Desura for assorted reasons.

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 6068, member: 6"I hope they have done some more bug fixing work on this before they declare the port ready for the big time.

Fingers crossed. Hopefully that's included in icculus' [URL='https://twitter.com/icculus/status/263302735632416770']recent tweet[/URL] about prepping Linux games for Steam keeping him busy.
Anon Nov 3, 2012
Sorry to disappoint, but Valve223070 is almost certainly the demo of Defender's Quest - just look at the install script there.
Liam Dawe Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "Anon, post: 6071"Sorry to disappoint, but Valve223070 is almost certainly the demo of Defender's Quest - just look at the install script there.

Hah yeah you missed that one cheese :P
Cheeseness Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6072, member: 1"Hah yeah you missed that one cheese :p

*shrug*
It belongs to a sub that's called "[URL='http://cdr.thebronasium.com/app/subs/223070']Torchlight 2 Editor Retail[/URL]", so I imagine there's some mistake there somewhere.
Anon Nov 3, 2012
Hm, I missed that then. But it being part of the sub is a new thing, definitely just had the install script a week ago. Hopefully TL2 is coming to Linux though.
Liam Dawe Nov 3, 2012
There is no Hopefully TF2 is coming to Linux it's all there in the CDR's.
Kame Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6075, member: 1"There is no Hopefully TF2 is coming to Linux it's all there in the CDR's.


T*L*2
As in TorchLight 2 not Team Fortress 2 :p

But yes I also hope TL2 comes to Linux
Liam Dawe Nov 3, 2012
Oh haha oooops
Hamish Nov 3, 2012
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 6069, member: 122"Fingers crossed. Hopefully that's included in icculus' [URL='https://twitter.com/icculus/status/263302735632416770']recent tweet[/URL] about prepping Linux games for Steam keeping him busy.


Well, we know for a fact he is prepping Postal 2 for RWS, but he did seem to be implying that he was working on several different titles, so here is hoping. :D
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