If you have held off buying some of our bigger game ports recently, now is a great time to buy classics like Borderlands 2, XCOM, and the newly ported Bioshock Infinite.
The sale runs until the 23rd, so you have plenty of time to choose what you're going to buy.
Linux Games
Bioshock Infinite (typical, we only just picked it up at full price!)
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Civilization Beyond Earth
Civilization V
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Still one of my favourite ever strategy games, see my review here)
XCOM: Enemy Within expansion
See the special sale page on Steam here.
Have you decided to pick some up? Let us know! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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This was the first time I realized that nearly all BIG Linux games seem to come from 2K or Valve itself.
It seems it's not a great variety of publishers that supports our favorite system...
It seems it's not a great variety of publishers that supports our favorite system...
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Hmm...unfortunatly there's not much left to buy.
I have every title with a linux version, except "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" and although I bought all the story-dlc:s for "Borderlands 2", I never felt like playing longer than the main-story ending (and barely that long). So that was a bit of wasted money...
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for more mayor publishers like "Square Enix", "Deep Silver" and "Bethesda".
I have every title with a linux version, except "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" and although I bought all the story-dlc:s for "Borderlands 2", I never felt like playing longer than the main-story ending (and barely that long). So that was a bit of wasted money...
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for more mayor publishers like "Square Enix", "Deep Silver" and "Bethesda".
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I would be interested in Beyond Earth for that price, but does anybody know if they included Steam Workshop support in the Linux version. Civ 5 never got it so far.
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Already bought the BI DLCs :>
@ Eike
But 2k never ports the games in house, they always let it port by Aspyr, Feral or VP. Don't get me wrong, the ports always have a good quality so no complaints from me :)
But lets not forget about Nordic Games or Deep Silver. They are also really Linux friendly and still have some games in the making. Can't wait for The Guild 3 and Spellforce 3 ;)
@ Eike
But 2k never ports the games in house, they always let it port by Aspyr, Feral or VP. Don't get me wrong, the ports always have a good quality so no complaints from me :)
But lets not forget about Nordic Games or Deep Silver. They are also really Linux friendly and still have some games in the making. Can't wait for The Guild 3 and Spellforce 3 ;)
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Game Agent also has some sweet deals. Buy there and support porters directly: https://www.gameagent.com/linux_games
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I would be interested in Beyond Earth for that price, but does anybody know if they included Steam Workshop support in the Linux version. Civ 5 never got it so far.
It's there, but I can't vouch for it's usability.
Incidentally, you can enable mods in CivV with a little config file tomfoolery, but again, I can't vouch for it's usability.
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Scooped up BInfinite with all the DLCs. If all goes according to plan, I'll finish the main campaign right before the launch of Pillars of Eternity, then I'll have Burial at Sea to play in the future.
/rubs hands together
/rubs hands together
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Kallestofeles 20 Mar 2015
Yep, rage against Bioshock's sale... :D
But in all seriousness, I'd buy that game rather for a full price anyway given how well it behaves under eOn.
But in all seriousness, I'd buy that game rather for a full price anyway given how well it behaves under eOn.
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Already bought the BI DLCs :>
@ Eike
But 2k never ports the games in house, they always let it port by Aspyr, Feral or VP. Don't get me wrong, the ports always have a good quality so no complaints from me :)
But lets not forget about Nordic Games or Deep Silver. They are also really Linux friendly and still have some games in the making. Can't wait for The Guild 3 and Spellforce 3 ;)
Since Nordic games is doing their ports in house, it will be interesting to compare performance and quality with the outsourced ports.
I'm also curious to see if Deep Silver hires VP or one of the others to do Saints Row IV.
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XCOM: Enemy Within expasion
I can only recommend it. I bought it at full price after Enemy Unknown blew my mind last summer, just to show my support.
It's an amazing addon and adds another bunchload of cool tech and stuff.
If you have only played the original Enemy Unknown, please consider buying the expansion!
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Shutup-Fool 20 Mar 2015
XCOM: Enemy Within expasion
I can only recommend it. I bought it at full price after Enemy Unknown blew my mind last summer, just to show my support.
It's an amazing addon and adds another bunchload of cool tech and stuff.
If you have only played the original Enemy Unknown, please consider buying the expansion!
And once you finish with the expansion, download XCOM Long War!
If you already thought this game was amazing, the Long War mod will have you screaming at your screen :D
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AskQuestionsLater 20 Mar 2015
Hmm...unfortunatly there's not much left to buy.
I have every title with a linux version, except "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" and although I bought all the story-dlc:s for "Borderlands 2", I never felt like playing longer than the main-story ending (and barely that long). So that was a bit of wasted money...
If you haven't played Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, you have missed out on the best of the DLCs. The rest are mildly entertaining but TTAODK actually has an interesting story line. Only the bit in the Dwarven mines feels like a drag (and that is partly because its a run round the map three times exercise).
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Bought Spec Ops: The Line. Hopefully the port is not too far away.
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Ha bioshock run very well on laptop with gpu gt 635m I'm so suprised on low/default settings 720p between 20-40 fps
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Ohhhhhh, they did NBA2k15... they should port that one .. just for me <3<3
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I have a question. I am in the the middle of shifting my room. It will take 3-4 days. currently it's not possible to use my Linux desktop. However, I have a chromebook. So if I buy from website through chromebook (chrome OS), will it consider as a Linux sale or otherwise? I will buy Bioshock: Infinite.
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Shutup-Fool 21 Mar 2015
I have a question. I am in the the middle of shifting my room. It will take 3-4 days. currently it's not possible to use my Linux desktop. However, I have a chromebook. So if I buy from website through chromebook (chrome OS), will it consider as a Linux sale or otherwise? I will buy Bioshock: Infinite.
I don't think it matters until you actually download and play the game (though I could be wrong)
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I have a question. I am in the the middle of shifting my room. It will take 3-4 days. currently it's not possible to use my Linux desktop. However, I have a chromebook. So if I buy from website through chromebook (chrome OS), will it consider as a Linux sale or otherwise? I will buy Bioshock: Infinite.
If you play it within a week on Linux, it should be fine.
But I did something else to make sure: I changed the user agent (with a firefox plugin, but there should be a possibility for Chrome as well) to something including "Linux" on my machine at office. Now I get to see Linux games by default, so I'm confident sales default to Linux as well. (I think I got the idea from someone on GoL, not sure though.)
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I picked up Civ V at 75% off. Playing it, I couldn't get over the simple fact that I was in a position to play it on Linux at all. We've gotten used to it pretty fast, but it was only a couple-three years ago that there just weren't any games like that out natively for Linux.
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oldrocker99 26 Mar 2015
Already bought the BI DLCs :&gt;
@ Eike
But 2k never ports the games in house, they always let it port by Aspyr, Feral or VP. Don't get me wrong, the ports always have a good quality so no complaints from me :)
But lets not forget about Nordic Games or Deep Silver. They are also really Linux friendly and still have some games in the making. Can't wait for The Guild 3 and Spellforce 3 ;)
Since Nordic games is doing their ports in house, it will be interesting to compare performance and quality with the outsourced ports.
I'm also curious to see if Deep Silver hires VP or one of the others to do Saints Row IV.
Nor should we forget Paradox, which has released a pile of programs, including their flagship Europa Universalis IV (which came out for all three platforms on the same day), Crusader Kings 2, Cities in Motion 1 + 2, Mount & Blade:Warband, Knights of Pen and Paper, and DLC for all their Linux games, with more to come (Hearts of Iron 4?).
Just giving credit where credit is due.
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