Lots Of Big Games Confirmed For SteamOS, Torchlight II Now Out, Payday 2, Mordor And More Coming Too
Please mind our panic while we get this all in, and we will keep updating this post!
Valve has announced a Steam sale simply titled ”STEAMOS SALE” with interesting games that are already available and games that they claim are heading over to the platform. The list seems to include some quite big titles too!
A big part of the games featured on the sale are titles that are already on Linux, such as the Aspyr ports Borderlands 2 and Civilization V and indies like Ziggurat and Kerbal Space Program, but as much as we love those games the announcement has something even bigger. Games that apparently are getting ported but have so far been unannounced.
Torchlight II is now officially available, so go check it out. It seems they waited for this big announcement to make a real splash!
Now, before I set out to list these games, I'd like to remind all of you not to blindly buy the games mentioned. I know, I know, it seems very official and all, but we haven't heard anything from some of these titles, so be careful. We are trying to reach out to everyone we know for confirmation.
However, they have massive "Coming to SteamOS" banners on the Steam homepage, so it's extremely exciting.
Okay, now that we have the disclaimers out of the way it's time to blow your minds.
The sales page promises titles such as
- Shadow of Mordor
- Payday 2
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Saints Row IV
- Company of Heroes 2
- Magicka 2
- Total War: Rome II
- The Witcher III
- GRID Autosport
- Total War: Attila
- Evolve - (listed here: http://store.steampowered.com/universe/games/)
All will be heading to SteamOS/Linux.
Shadow of Mordor is officially confirmed, and is being ported by Feral Interactive. Feral have stated to us officially that it will release “this spring”, and they have publicly announced it on twitter now too:
Payday 2 is fully official now too:
Saints Row IV, Company of Heroes 2, GRID Autosport and Total War™: ROME II are also official, and they have updated their store pages to say this:
Magicka 2 have updated their store page availability to state this:
Batman: Arkham Knight - Already has a Linux icon, possibly not a same-day release even though it has a Linux icon, as the store notes it will be released on SteamOS in the "fall" which is after the release. So, not sure why it has a Linux icon now.
The Witcher III - The only one not mentioning anything about SteamOS/Linux on their store page.
Source: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamos_sale
This is exactly the type of support and push we needed to see, and I'm extremely happy it's happening! I'm trying to remain coherent amongst this utter nuke of news.
Begin going nuts. Now where's my wallet? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Valve has announced a Steam sale simply titled ”STEAMOS SALE” with interesting games that are already available and games that they claim are heading over to the platform. The list seems to include some quite big titles too!
A big part of the games featured on the sale are titles that are already on Linux, such as the Aspyr ports Borderlands 2 and Civilization V and indies like Ziggurat and Kerbal Space Program, but as much as we love those games the announcement has something even bigger. Games that apparently are getting ported but have so far been unannounced.
Torchlight II is now officially available, so go check it out. It seems they waited for this big announcement to make a real splash!
Now, before I set out to list these games, I'd like to remind all of you not to blindly buy the games mentioned. I know, I know, it seems very official and all, but we haven't heard anything from some of these titles, so be careful. We are trying to reach out to everyone we know for confirmation.
However, they have massive "Coming to SteamOS" banners on the Steam homepage, so it's extremely exciting.
Okay, now that we have the disclaimers out of the way it's time to blow your minds.
The sales page promises titles such as
- Shadow of Mordor
- Payday 2
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Saints Row IV
- Company of Heroes 2
- Magicka 2
- Total War: Rome II
- The Witcher III
- GRID Autosport
- Total War: Attila
- Evolve - (listed here: http://store.steampowered.com/universe/games/)
All will be heading to SteamOS/Linux.
Shadow of Mordor is officially confirmed, and is being ported by Feral Interactive. Feral have stated to us officially that it will release “this spring”, and they have publicly announced it on twitter now too:
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is coming to Linux this Spring. View the trailer on YouTube: https://t.co/H3mfNsn2jN pic.twitter.com/ne2rXFNEuc
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) March 4, 2015
Payday 2 is fully official now too:
QuoteWe're also announcing that PAYDAY 2 is under development for SteamOS. It'll be released later this fall.
Saints Row IV, Company of Heroes 2, GRID Autosport and Total War™: ROME II are also official, and they have updated their store pages to say this:
Quotewill be available on SteamOS and Linux in 2015.
Magicka 2 have updated their store page availability to state this:
QuoteAvailable: May 26th, 2015 (Linux: Fall 2015)
Batman: Arkham Knight - Already has a Linux icon, possibly not a same-day release even though it has a Linux icon, as the store notes it will be released on SteamOS in the "fall" which is after the release. So, not sure why it has a Linux icon now.
The Witcher III - The only one not mentioning anything about SteamOS/Linux on their store page.
Source: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamos_sale
This is exactly the type of support and push we needed to see, and I'm extremely happy it's happening! I'm trying to remain coherent amongst this utter nuke of news.
Begin going nuts. Now where's my wallet? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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oldrocker99 Mar 5, 2015
The eON wrapper for The Witcher 2 was terrible when first released, but, to give credit where credit's due, VP did work pretty diligently to improve it, and, apparently, the new beta is a winner. I will find out when I get a new, working motherboard Real Soon Now.
I'm not too worried about the prospects for a Linux version of The Wild Hunt; RedPROJEKT is the owner of GOG.com, and they are trying hard to support Linux, so I have a (wan) hope that we may yet see a Linux version; perhaps with a good eON wrapper, but playable nonetheless.
With a game with this much anticipation, it is to RP's benefit to make it cross-platform, so I maintain a wan hope.
I'm not too worried about the prospects for a Linux version of The Wild Hunt; RedPROJEKT is the owner of GOG.com, and they are trying hard to support Linux, so I have a (wan) hope that we may yet see a Linux version; perhaps with a good eON wrapper, but playable nonetheless.
With a game with this much anticipation, it is to RP's benefit to make it cross-platform, so I maintain a wan hope.
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Quoting: abelthorneQuoting: MaelraneCan you, in any way, bring evidence for this claim? I mean, I'm a happy AMD user. On Linux I use the open source drivers with mesa and can play 96 of my 99 Linux-Games in Steam just fine. Some run better than on Windows, others slightly worse, but 96 of them are absolutely playable.Well, first I'm not talking about Mesa but Catalyst. I too prefer using Mesa because it generally works better (the only problem being that some games don't work at all with Mesa and I don't think 96/99 games is acceptable: all games should work).
Catalyst doesn't integrate well with X, it randomly crashes in some games, it's a mess.
QuoteBut the drivers suck on Windows? I know they had problems, like 10 years ago, but today? Sorry, this sounds like an old myth to me, people keep spreading and spreading.AMD cards have generally less performances than nVidia ones on equivalent hardware, they still occasionally have issues with some games that need to be addressed by new drivers. Sorry, I can't be more specific, I don't keep a list of issues when I see them around, I see some two or three times per year. I remember issues with Brink in 2010/2011, though, because they happened to me and they pretty much killed the game.
Believe me, I'd be more than happy to say that AMD make good drivers and it's a joy to use their cards on Linux, as I own one (and was pretty specific in buying an AMD card with my new PC 5 years ago), but in the recent monthes I've really been tempted to ditch it and buy a nVidia card. And when you know that I bought an AMD card because I was really mad at nVidia for some of their commercial attitude and swore to never buy something from them again, that's a thing.
Well, at least one of the games I can't play is made by community devs and they simply don't seem to care at all. Like every linux-user I know has some issues with the game.
Another one is Dead Island... this doesn't compile shaders for me since the last update.
But thanks for the heads up!
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Quoting: CybaCowboyA new age is upon us, and the penguin will rise...
Quoting: NickNuclearIt is beginning!But... It's not available for Linux-based operating systems yet!
Just bought Saints Row IV GOTC for $8.
You realize your money doesn't go to the Linux developer/porter if you buy the Microsoft Windows version, right?
Seeing as Valve is advertising it as "Coming to SteamOS" I think the money probably does go to the porters (at least if you don't play it on windows). Don't quote me on that, it's just a hunch.
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For TW3 port I could think on CDPR moving their Engine (maybe next-gen) to Vulkan, and within that TW3 could come as port.
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i'm just speechless.. and i had to register just to post this pic:
srsly.. what the f..k? i've never been expecting something AWESOME as this...
srsly.. what the f..k? i've never been expecting something AWESOME as this...
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Added Evolve to the list, as listed here: http://store.steampowered.com/universe/games/
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