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A Look At What Linux Games We Will See In 2015 And Beyond

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Linux Gaming is dead they said, Linux Gaming is pointless they said...ah whatever. Here’s a look at what’s to come for us in 2015 and beyond.

It's pretty hard to keep up with everything that's going on for us, but here's a quick look at what we could see soon.

Confirmed Games

Adventure Games
Firewatch
Paradise Lost: First Contact
Outcast 1.1
SteamWorld Heist

Action Games
Darksiders
Darksiders II
Ray's The Dead
Skullgirls

FPS Games
Bioshock Infinite
Half Life 3 /troll
Homefront: The Revolution
Insurgency
Killing Floor 2
Serious Sam 4 (No official site for it yet)
Storm United
SUPERHOT

Platformers
Broforce
Chasm
Giana Sisters
Heart Forth, Alicia
Hot Tin Roof
Infinifactory
Mighty No. 9
Night in the Woods
Noct
Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty
Red Goddess

Racing
Project Cars
Carmageddon: Reincarnation

RPG Games
Divinity: Original Sin
Pillars Of Eternity
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
The Banner Saga
Torment: Tides of Numenera

Strategy Games
Age of Wonders III
At The Gates
Banished
Cities: Skylines
Clockwork Empires
Parkitect
Scrolls
Space Pirates And Zombies 2

Sandbox Games
Terraria
X Rebirth

Sports
Out of the Park Baseball 16

Unconfirmed, but highly likely (or confirmed and for some reason not quite as solid)
Company of Heroes 2
Outlast
Shadow Warrior
Sunless Sea - The developers have experimental builds for Linux, but it depends how the Windows version sells (from my email chat with them)
Torchlight II

Then there’s the two ports teased from Feral Interactive, we can’t let them be left out just because we don’t know what they are.

We imagine Aspyr Media are also working on new bigger ports, but they have only just released their latest game, so it may be a few months until we see anything.

This isn't a complete list of course, as we can easily forget with the sheer amount of games heading our way, and wow what a list!

We have GDC next month, and we are expecting a few announcements too. While we don't have anything solid, with Valve's big presence with Steam Machines we are expecting at least some more Linux games, otherwise it we fear it may be a little lacklustre for Valve to only show off older existing games for Linux.

What did we miss that you’re excited about for Linux? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ky0 16 Feb 2015
I know this is not really the place for this but I still don't get why porting the game to MacOS is easier than porting it to Linux >:(

Also thank you for the information about Sunless Sea, I'll wait until it's officially on Steam :)
edqe 16 Feb 2015
A disappointment to see that OOTP wasn't accepted to the list. The company has been supporting Linux for a long time and they are making one of the best manager games available, OOTP16 will be released in March.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/newsletters/nl0154/
Liam Dawe 16 Feb 2015
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A disappointment to see that OOTP wasn't accepted to the list. The company has been supporting Linux for a long time and they are making one of the best manager games available, OOTP16 will be released in March.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/newsletters/nl0154/
Nothing to do with acceptance, just an oversight! Added.
Interzeroid 16 Feb 2015
I know this is not really the place for this but I still don't get why porting the game to MacOS is easier than porting it to Linux >:(

Also thank you for the information about Sunless Sea, I'll wait until it's officially on Steam :)
Because Mac OS X market is bigger, then Linux. And there are no horrible words for bissness, such as open-source and othes. And Mac OS X has standarts. And Linux doesn`t have them. When you port game on Mac OS X, it is Mac OS X. When you port on Linux, it is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, OpenSUSE and hundreds others distro, and every distro has their own problems. Game works good on Ubuntu, has glitches on Kubuntu and crashes on OpenSUSE.
I hope, Steam OS will change this.
Keizgon 17 Feb 2015
Would like to mention these promising titles that might have slipped under the radar:

C-Wars
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1054244612/c-wars-roguelike-pixel-art-pc-game

Hive Jump
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/graphitelab/hive-jump-0

Hollow Knight (Windows release is set for mid 2015, not sure when Mac/Linux official date is)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11662585/hollow-knight

Midora (summer of 2015)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1867607597/midora-0

RIVE (By Two Tribes who made Toki Tori / EDGE)
http://www.twotribes.com/press/rive/sheet.php?p=rive

Timespinner (2015 of Nov)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarraygames/timespinner

Edit: Wow, head's going to explode from all these games. 2015 is the year I may have lost my wallet.
Ari El Uno 17 Feb 2015
I want to add Blitzkrieg 3.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blitzkrieg-3-RTS-Is-Getting-a-Linux-Release-468722.shtml
edqe 17 Feb 2015
Nothing to do with acceptance, just an oversight! Added.
Ah great, thanks! The list looks pretty impressive already.

[Hearts of Iron IV](https://www.paradoxplaza.com/hearts-of-iron-iv) is going to be released this year.
STiAT 17 Feb 2015
Pillars Of Eternity (bought, kickstarter)
Torment: Tides of Numenera (bought, kickstarter)
Banished (waiting for linux release to buy)
Cities: Skylines (waiting for release to buy)
Torchlight II (have it, if not pay-again on linux, I already bought it)
Project Cars (waiting for release to buy)
Carmageddon: Reincarnation (waiting for release to buy)

=> you forgot Witcher 3 /troll :(.

Wasn't Kingdom Come set for a 2015 release?
flesk 17 Feb 2015
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Confirmation on Hiveswap (the Homestuck adventure game) in a pdf in this zip file, set for a cross-platform spring release for the first chapter: http://hiveswap.com/press/hiveswap-press-kit01.zip EDIT: Found a write-up of the press release: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/02/homestuck-inspired-hiveswap-game-debuts-first-screenshots/ /EDIT

Another point-and-click adventure game, Technobabylon from Wadjet Eye Games is due out early 2015: http://www.technocratgames.com/Games/TB.html

Puzzle game A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, coming this month: http://agoodsnowman.com/. According to the developer it should be out in a couple of weeks, and here's Linux confirmed: http://agoodsnowman.com/press/
FredO 18 Feb 2015
That RPG list alone should keep me going for the rest of the year. I never thought I'd say it, but Linux is getting too many games to keep up with. What a nice sort of problem to have :)
nitroflow 18 Feb 2015
Everyone seems to have missed [Ghost of a Tale](http://ghostofatale.com) which is aiming for Autumn release.
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