GOL Asks: What have you been playing on Linux & SteamOS recently?

Dota2 (too much)
Pillars of Eternity (got to finish)
Broforce (great run 'n gun)
Got a lot of GOG.com games to finish (Witcher, Fallout1/2, etc)

I should stop buying games and play them instead.

I'm replaying Planescape Torment from GOG and as always my all time favourite Unreal World!
In the menu for later I have Serpent in the Staglands and Hard West just to make a break from RPGs :)

Minecraft, but I've been playing the for the last 5 years non stop.

Other games I have played recently :

- Shadow of Mordor. (Loving it)
- Ibb & Obb. (Co op with a friend. It is so much fun.)

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Devler and Lone in the dark ^^. Very casual games but still fun.
I have to admit tho, Im gaming mostly on windows.

Insurgency :)

First: I finally managed to register here. Don't know why my Firefox didn't let me, but with Konqueror it worked.
So, hi, everyone.

Now, what have I been playing lately?

• The Deponia trilogy. These three adventures are amazing! Some of the riddles are even challenging, the setting is beautiful (in its own way), the characters are lovable (mostly), the voice-acting is great (at least the German audio - no idea about the English translation) and the end is one of the best I've seen in games up to now. Seriously: Play it.
  
• Years after buying it, I finally took the time to have a look at Civilization 5 (+Addons). Well, that was a horrible idea. In the end it wasn't I taking my time, it was Civ 5. Never been that tired at work, but "just ... one ... more ... turn ..." every night.
  
• Yesterday I started to play the Banner Saga. A great story, beautiful art, challenging strategical battle, but still too buggy for my taste.
  
• Armello is a nice game in case one has about an hour of time to waste.
  
• Of course I've also found some time to play my all time favorite games, which are Dwarf Fortress and
  
• Kerbal Space Program.
  

In the last 4-6 weeks:
- ADOM (Ancient Domain of Mystery)
- Invisible Inc.
- Broforce
- The Long Dark
- The Escapists
- Sheltered
- Transistor
- Prison Architect
- Rimworld
- Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
- Crusader Kings II
- Europa Universalis IV
- Star Ruler 2
- 7 Days to Die
- Minecraft (modded)

Looking forward to Star Conflict, Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation & SOMA as soon my new gaming machine arrives :D

@Tchey: Ah, Factorio! Thanks for reminding me on that game! Played the demo a while ago. Awesome game :)


Last edited by Crazy Penguin on 24 Nov 2015 at 1:38 pm UTC

I'm playing:

- Alien Isolation
- Trine 3
- Timeclickers
- Insurgency
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Pillars of Eternity
- The Stanley Parable

So you see, i don't get bored ;-)

A bit of The Witcher 2 & Poly Bridge
(available native on Linux, but it crashes on AMD, so I play it with WINE) :)


Last edited by z3ntu on 24 Nov 2015 at 2:13 pm UTC

Not sure when controller support showed up for Left 4 Dead 2, but I've been playing that one. More than that, I tend to go back to older favorites during the holidays, so I've been playing Battle for Wesnoth and Rogue Legacy. :D

Knights of the Old Republic 2.
But with Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and Star wars battlefront on the PS4 not much unfortunately :(

Dominions 4 (as usual)
Empire: Total War :P
Pandora: First Contact ^_^
Defense Grid 2
Pillars of Eternity <3
Vulture for Nethack
Icewind Dale Enhanced ;)
Grim Fandango :)
Torchlight II

...and others...

I notice quite a few different games in the responses. It's a good time to be a Linux gamer...

"Revenge of the Titans" by Puppy Games, it's pretty groovy.
And "FortressCraft", a bloody time sink!
And lastly, "Shadow Warrior", it's chock full of awesome secrets (Like a HEAVY METAL DEVIL BUNNY)

The Stanley Parable
Grow Home
Antichamber
Fallout 3 (wine)

Assault Android Cactus
GALAX-Z
Interstellaria
PA:TITANS <-- (omg so good)
Not A Hero
Pulsar: Lost Colony

and some TF2
some XCOM (OMG cannot wait for XCOM2!!)

others

also probably about to get back into Natural Selection 2. (since i'm better at it than Unvanquished)

Playing Thea: The Awakening as well.

PA:TITANS <-- (omg so good)

Have to agree. I've an ever growing library of games but I only want to play Titans. :D

Well according to steam:

Men of War: Assault Squad (Got from humbly bundly works well through WINE) - Spent two hours in the game so far.

Cities: Skylines - I accidentally sunk 26 hours into this one! Kinda ashamed of my self for wasting so much time instead of working in my spare time but meh I can take a break from time to time :-P I actually am glad this game works so well on my system even though I have a relatively weak GPU (GTX 650) which is below the minimum spec but the best thing about city builders is they mainly need a powerful CPU and lots and lots of RAM. And that's cool because prior to steam coming to Linux this system was built with development purposes in mind which also require a powerful CPU and lots of RAM.. so yup this game runs nicely, typically now using around 7GB of ram and 4 out of 8 cores, either way it's barely scratched the surface of my system :-). But due to my total play hours so far I have banned myself from playing this game for a while :-P.

I've also been playing DiRT Showdown with a total playtime of 13.8 hours, but 1 hours in last two weeks.

Then there's the other game I've banned myself from: Tropico 5, 48 hours on record... Thankfully 0 hours in last two weeks thanks to my ban :-P.

Played some of alien isolation, sunk 4 hours into it so far, but been playing other games also so not yet finished it..

Hack N' Slash, this game is actually quite cool contrary to popular belief I actually really enjoyed this one!

I have 6 hours on Secret of the Magic crystal.. BUT don't worry! I didn't actually play this one, it got given to me by humble bundle as a "surprise" for paying more than the average. Suffice to say I left it running to sell the trading cards. It is now un-installed and removed.

Think that's about it for "recent" games. :-). Total play time for last two weeks is: 27.9 hours. You can guess which city builder stole those hours from me :-P.

I have a GTX 660 and can run A:I maxed out in 1920×1200 at a good framerate. I have disabled a few things though (chromatic, blur, these kinds of things) and the game runs always > 60 FPS.

It’s a really good port.

Good to know, thanks Stan. Guess I have no excuses then...



....other than being really scared. :D