That is one heck of a milestone isn't it? 500 Linux compatible games are now on Steam which is a pretty great number to point anyone at. No longer will people keep stating "but Linux has no games", but sadly they will say Linux has very little AAA games which is true, but this will be a gradual build up of course.
I keep saying this, but I still never thought we would make it to a day like this. We have XCOM, Civilization and many more still to come with some surprise announcements later this year I've no doubt.
Once the Steam Machines/SteamOS are released, and if they are successful we should see the number rise even quicker.
So, how long before we hit 1000? End of the year maybe, who knows!
I will go get my party hat now...are you celebrating this milestone? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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hardpenguin Jun 6, 2014
HURR DURR NO BATTLEFIELD COD LOL STARCRAFT
Thank you :)
Thank you :)
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Quoting: kalinI have 130 of them and keep buying :)I got 230 of them and keep buying :)
Quoting: kalin500 for me498 games I see and some of linux games not available in Russia. So I couldn't see them.
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While I am happy as Linux user / gamer a bit, I am still unsure if all the things happening really help us as gamers.
Issue #1: Because of engines such as Unity which allow somewhat easy game production on Linux, we face a lot of games which look graphically simple but require a extremely beefy maching. "Best" examples for this are games like Paranautical Activities, Sir you are being hunted, etc.
Something which looks worse than Games like UT2kX or Half-life2 and needs a quadcore CPU with a GeForce X40 to run fluently, will not find it's way to my PC.
Issue #2: The huge amount of beta, greenlight, early access games makes it nearly impossible to monitor all games. So for me as a gamer I have a lot of games to choose from for a small amount of money but the few "pearls" are hard to find and will be even harder to find in future.
Issue #1: Because of engines such as Unity which allow somewhat easy game production on Linux, we face a lot of games which look graphically simple but require a extremely beefy maching. "Best" examples for this are games like Paranautical Activities, Sir you are being hunted, etc.
Something which looks worse than Games like UT2kX or Half-life2 and needs a quadcore CPU with a GeForce X40 to run fluently, will not find it's way to my PC.
Issue #2: The huge amount of beta, greenlight, early access games makes it nearly impossible to monitor all games. So for me as a gamer I have a lot of games to choose from for a small amount of money but the few "pearls" are hard to find and will be even harder to find in future.
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A dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????
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Quoting: Ajay KumarA dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????
How about some games having both single and multiplayer? ;-)
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A game can have both singe player and multiplayer modes. Take Portal 2, for example.
It's good to see so many games on Linux now.:D
It's good to see so many games on Linux now.:D
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I think we are at last at that level where we can start to count actually good games on Linux not total :)
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oldrocker99 Jun 6, 2014
I had named 2013 The Year Of Linux Gaming, but it certainly looks like I jumped the gun a bit!
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Until we have the big 5(battlefield, Lol, WoW,Cod, UT4) we will not see any improvement in market share
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