It was a massive year for Linux gaming, so here's a look at who won and a big congratulations to all who did!
Note: These are just the top charts, there were plenty more entries in each category.
I wasn't honestly sure who was going to win this, as there's some pretty hot competition there! Well done to 0 A.D. who do put in a lot of effort to make a professional project.
The lead Deus Ex: Mankind Divided had is quite amazing, but not surprising. It does look absolutely gorgeous and I am personally a big fan of it!
Another Feral Interactive ported title here and again not very surprising. I completed it during a livestream and the overall story was pretty amazing. Even if the end was a little on the odd side.
This one I am genuinely surprised by, as I honestly thought it would turn out completely differently. I was fully expecting one of the survival games to take the crown, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the results here. Massive competition in this category, so well done to all who made the top!
When it comes to free games and their updates, it's pretty hard to compete against something from Valve like Dota 2 which had a massive overhaul. I'm still scared to boot the game up and waste an entire day yelling at people, or being yelled at.
Some people may feel this is a little unfair, but Life is Strange episode one is a free game and it is very good, even if it is but a taster of what's to come in later episodes.
It looks like the most anticipated game will arrive soon!
I'm surprised here, since the game was released in a rather unstable state and still to this day has a number of issues. Not my personal choice for the winner, but the people have spoken!
I absolutely love the mellow tunes in Life is Strange and I've been guilty of sticking the soundtrack on myself for some background noise, really great stuff.
Ever the hot topic of discussion. Talk of Wine always heats up our comments sections when it's mentioned. You have to marvel at it though, as it's really quite amazing. It's the project that enabled me to stay on Linux as much as possible in my early days and kept me going. Now I run this website, so it's my own personal choice too.
Quite easily my most played released on Linux from last year. I have over 49 hours in Rocket League now, so I won't even try to debate this one. A fantastic game and seriously fun to play with friends and the wider community!
Okay, I won't argue against this one. I'm slowly making my way through The Following myself and I'm finding it to be truly fun. Lots of zombie smashing, an buggy that has a bunch of upgrade options and plenty of open-world to explore. Loving it myself!
Speaks for itself. I hope to see more surprises this year.
Not really surprising is it? The amount of games Feral Interactive have ported to Linux is quite amazing. They are already teasing their next release too, so 2017 is going to be fun.
Come chat in the comments about how last year went and how you think this year will go! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Note: These are just the top charts, there were plenty more entries in each category.
I wasn't honestly sure who was going to win this, as there's some pretty hot competition there! Well done to 0 A.D. who do put in a lot of effort to make a professional project.
The lead Deus Ex: Mankind Divided had is quite amazing, but not surprising. It does look absolutely gorgeous and I am personally a big fan of it!
Another Feral Interactive ported title here and again not very surprising. I completed it during a livestream and the overall story was pretty amazing. Even if the end was a little on the odd side.
This one I am genuinely surprised by, as I honestly thought it would turn out completely differently. I was fully expecting one of the survival games to take the crown, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the results here. Massive competition in this category, so well done to all who made the top!
When it comes to free games and their updates, it's pretty hard to compete against something from Valve like Dota 2 which had a massive overhaul. I'm still scared to boot the game up and waste an entire day yelling at people, or being yelled at.
Some people may feel this is a little unfair, but Life is Strange episode one is a free game and it is very good, even if it is but a taster of what's to come in later episodes.
It looks like the most anticipated game will arrive soon!
I'm surprised here, since the game was released in a rather unstable state and still to this day has a number of issues. Not my personal choice for the winner, but the people have spoken!
I absolutely love the mellow tunes in Life is Strange and I've been guilty of sticking the soundtrack on myself for some background noise, really great stuff.
Ever the hot topic of discussion. Talk of Wine always heats up our comments sections when it's mentioned. You have to marvel at it though, as it's really quite amazing. It's the project that enabled me to stay on Linux as much as possible in my early days and kept me going. Now I run this website, so it's my own personal choice too.
Quite easily my most played released on Linux from last year. I have over 49 hours in Rocket League now, so I won't even try to debate this one. A fantastic game and seriously fun to play with friends and the wider community!
Okay, I won't argue against this one. I'm slowly making my way through The Following myself and I'm finding it to be truly fun. Lots of zombie smashing, an buggy that has a bunch of upgrade options and plenty of open-world to explore. Loving it myself!
Speaks for itself. I hope to see more surprises this year.
Not really surprising is it? The amount of games Feral Interactive have ported to Linux is quite amazing. They are already teasing their next release too, so 2017 is going to be fun.
Come chat in the comments about how last year went and how you think this year will go! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I didn't vote for most of these winners, but wow, the margin of victory for some of them is amazing! Well done to all the games/companies involved!
Liam, could you add the total number of voters to the article? Also if there's massive differences in the nuber of voters per category, perhaps include per-category totals too?
Liam, could you add the total number of voters to the article? Also if there's massive differences in the nuber of voters per category, perhaps include per-category totals too?
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Quoting: Xpanderi still can't understand how is War Thunder best free game released in 2016? wasnt it released for linux back in 2014 even?From 21st December 2016 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/war-thunder-officially-released-with-a-huge-update-and-a-sale-on-premium-accounts.8775
It was actually in Beta.
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Quoting: dubigrasuEqually surprised and disappointed that Valley isn't anywhere among the winners.
Probably for most people the game went well bellow the radar, although it was mentioned here few times.
Do yourself a favor and try it, is been a while since I was so surprised by a game.
Valley was superb. I'm pretty sure I added it an entrant, but given the competition, it maybe just didn't stand out in any one particular area strongly enough to make the listings? It's a shame, because as a whole, it's a fantastic game. I'll be replaying it in the near future - especially now that the latest patch lets you skip the cut-scenes.
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Quoting: scaineQuoting: dubigrasuEqually surprised and disappointed that Valley isn't anywhere among the winners.
Probably for most people the game went well bellow the radar, although it was mentioned here few times.
Do yourself a favor and try it, is been a while since I was so surprised by a game.
Valley was superb. I'm pretty sure I added it an entrant, but given the competition, it maybe just didn't stand out in any one particular area strongly enough to make the listings? It's a shame, because as a whole, it's a fantastic game. I'll be replaying it in the near future - especially now that the latest patch lets you skip the cut-scenes.
It is superb indeed, and the freedom feeling that you get while playing it is unmatched by any other game that I played (at least recently). Sometimes I fire it up and just run and jump around giving life to everything and enjoying the rush. Game exploration at its best.
Is also the game that restored my faith in the Unity engine, because it doesn't look at all like the usual "Unity graphics" we often see, and instead the landscapes/graphics/soundtrack (remember the level when you learn how to skip across the water?) are just amazing.
Even Jim Sterling the sob that he is was mesmerized by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W3NkTTFOos
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Quoting: boltronicsFeral Interactive's done well this year and I agree that much of our love for them is related to their positive interactions with the community. Having said that, I personally feel that some of their releases could use a bit more testing at times (I'm still suffering the 0byte DoW2 download bug every time I open Steam). More importantly, I'm often put off by the sheer number of titles they release that claim to only work on Nvidia, and the (usually completely pointless) warnings that have to be clicked past on many of their games when running on AMD drivers - drivers that more often than not work flawlessly. It detracts from the overall experience. Do they really have to show them every. single. time?
A stable Mesa release should appear this year with OpenGL shader caching, at which point I sincerely hope Feral switches off all such warnings and updates their game requirement pages. I'll be watching to see if this happens and factoring Feral's reaction (or lack thereof) to such releases when voting on Favourite Linux game porter of 2017.
Hello, have you got in touch with Feral Support about the download issue? If not, please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to look into it, but it may be an issue with Steam and therefore out of our control.
We've had feedback about the warnings, so based on that we've added an option to hide the warnings forever in newer versions of our game launcher. This new game launcher may make it into some of our older games.
We do update the specs for games if we've tested and confirmed that performance is up to our standards (e.g. XCOM 2 recently gained AMD support
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I add my well done to Feral (I voted for) and the others have not demerited! I would have likje to be able to vote for more than one candidate in some (all?) series.
I really enjoyed Xcom2 this year (as the first opus in its time), Rimworld and I still play Civ V from aspyr from time to time. Since one or two months, I really enjoy Everspace (Idea-tag for Feral to port? ;) ) that definitely bury Star citizen and all "star" promising stuff, and Ghost of A Tale but I have to boot on windows for that..., and I would insta-fund or pledge for their port on gnu/linux (let's say 60€)
Like many here, I would love to see a port of skyrim, doom, TheWitcher3, etc. And IRL I wait for Civ VI, Yooka-Laylee that announces to be fun and Total War:Warhammer when all dlc and stuffs will calm down on an honest price.
Votes show me that I should give a try to Valley, Life is strange and DeusEx. I yet bought DeusEx and played it 1h max. Not captivated (the gameplay), Bad start? I will give him a second chance later.
I really enjoyed Xcom2 this year (as the first opus in its time), Rimworld and I still play Civ V from aspyr from time to time. Since one or two months, I really enjoy Everspace (Idea-tag for Feral to port? ;) ) that definitely bury Star citizen and all "star" promising stuff, and Ghost of A Tale but I have to boot on windows for that..., and I would insta-fund or pledge for their port on gnu/linux (let's say 60€)
Like many here, I would love to see a port of skyrim, doom, TheWitcher3, etc. And IRL I wait for Civ VI, Yooka-Laylee that announces to be fun and Total War:Warhammer when all dlc and stuffs will calm down on an honest price.
Votes show me that I should give a try to Valley, Life is strange and DeusEx. I yet bought DeusEx and played it 1h max. Not captivated (the gameplay), Bad start? I will give him a second chance later.
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oldrocker99 Jan 30, 2017
I get the 0 byte W: DoW download bug every time I open Steam, too. It's not the biggest problem in the world, though. Overfall also does the same thing.
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Last edited by oldrocker99 on 30 January 2017 at 4:28 pm UTC
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no_information_here Jan 30, 2017
Well done Feral on taking the dev award, earned through hard work! I did vote for Ethan Lee, though :-)
Lots of very deserving games, projects, and devs in the lists. It was a great year for Linux gaming and we all came out winners.
Lots of very deserving games, projects, and devs in the lists. It was a great year for Linux gaming and we all came out winners.
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Quoting: oldrocker99I get the 0 byte W: DoW download bug every time I open Steam, too.
I just realised that I had four "updates" of 0 bytes yesterday. If this is what is meant here, then it's not just Feral games. I'll have to check later to see if keep coming back.
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Quoting: EhvisI get plenty of games that do a similar thing, people get really freaked out over such tiny things. Would love to have so little on my plate to worry about a random zero byte update in a Steam list...Quoting: oldrocker99I get the 0 byte W: DoW download bug every time I open Steam, too.
I just realised that I had four "updates" of 0 bytes yesterday. If this is what is meant here, then it's not just Feral games. I'll have to check later to see if keep coming back.
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