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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Quoting: scaineFortresscraft evolved or http://store.steampowered.com/app/254200 on steam. I love openworld and I love building. Fortresscraft really suits both. At first it might seem a bit blocky, but once you get the hang of it... It's advanced automation and still 3D first-person. And the maker (single guy) is always live streaming his work and his 2 cats.Quoting: ArdjeFCE for instance is at 1250 hoursSuspect the answer might be obvious but... what's FCE?
My most played games are probably mad-max, ark: survival, SR 3, planet explorer and this beauty. And sometimes TIS-100.
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Well it was certainly a nice surprise to see SuperTuxKart in second place as best update of 2016. We do get positive feedback now and then but rarely comparing releases, at least in a positive direction. :)
The upcoming release this year (unless something drastic happens) should also be a good one, with various improvements including some for performance. Do note that they will mostly help lower-end hardware, and with higher-end graphics cards the improvements may not be noticeable. Also we just got an improved camera which should be smoother with lower and highly variable framerate.
Anyway this is GamingOnLinux and not SuperTuxKartOnLinux, so more details can be found on our blog, forums and we're active on IRC as well. Congratulations to all the winners. :)
The upcoming release this year (unless something drastic happens) should also be a good one, with various improvements including some for performance. Do note that they will mostly help lower-end hardware, and with higher-end graphics cards the improvements may not be noticeable. Also we just got an improved camera which should be smoother with lower and highly variable framerate.
Anyway this is GamingOnLinux and not SuperTuxKartOnLinux, so more details can be found on our blog, forums and we're active on IRC as well. Congratulations to all the winners. :)
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Quoting: ArdjeQuoting: scaineFortresscraft evolved or http://store.steampowered.com/app/254200 on steam. I love openworld and I love building. Fortresscraft really suits both. At first it might seem a bit blocky, but once you get the hang of it... It's advanced automation and still 3D first-person. And the maker (single guy) is always live streaming his work and his 2 cats.Quoting: ArdjeFCE for instance is at 1250 hoursSuspect the answer might be obvious but... what's FCE?
My most played games are probably mad-max, ark: survival, SR 3, planet explorer and this beauty. And sometimes TIS-100.
The depth of FCE (thanks!) actually ended up putting me off! I sank in about 20 hours or so, experimenting with various maps and methods. The fact that the combustion engines don't work below a certain point was really infuriating, the cold caverns killed me too quickly, finding Lithium took, literally, hours. So it's a bit of a learning curve.
After getting to know it a bit better, doing proper research for suit heaters and so on, fighting off a few waves successfully, building the giant spider robot, having working lines for coal, iron, bronze, tin, lithium, gold... I thought I was doing okay. I was chuffed. Then I looked at some videos online and realised that I was only about 1% into the game (if that!). The complexity and depth is absolutely astonishing, but I just don't have that kind of time to kill. In the end, I had to draw a line under it and move on. Amazing game though.
I might give Factorio a go when it launches, but from the sounds of it, it's the same game, but in 2D...
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Quoting: boltronicsI wasn't looking for a debate. You're hassling. It seems you don't even recognize that you're doing it.
We're done here.
Well, I thought I was engaging, not hassling, personally. However, to be clear, my sincerest apologies - it wasn't my intention to get on your case. It seems I've overreacted to your comments to Liam.
As I said, we're all humans typing these comments and a lot is lost in the written word. Sorry again.
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Quoting: scaineThe depth of FCE (thanks!) actually ended up putting me off! I sank in about 20 hours or so, experimenting with various maps and methods. The fact that the combustion engines don't work below a certain point was really infuriating, the cold caverns killed me too quickly, finding Lithium took, literally, hours. So it's a bit of a learning curve.I think 20 hours was for me the tipping point. I got to know it, and then I started to see how thinks should be.
But especially the forums were helpful.
To be clear: I have done away with combustion engines, or just 3 just for show. Anything else is solar and geothermal. The base game gets updated regularly (as the developer gets mostly payed by patreon and not by selling dlc) with new things.
And it's perfectly fine to take leave of this game until you have thought things out. One of the best things I did was automate creation of mass storage crate, as I now have about 1.3M items.
I don't know when you stopped, but mass storage got an improvement, allowing for 6 block high storage from a single crate, so 150 items per crate instead of 25.
I balance out my itches with ark: survival, but that's mostly ark: extinction, and now try to get your stuff back within 5 minutes that's near that big carnivore (else your stuff will expire, and you can create that again).
About 95% of my tamed animals gets killed :-(.
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PSA: New graphs are live, same data, but built using my new code and muuuuuch prettier.
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Another PSA: The graphs should now not have massive space around them on mobile screen sizes :)
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Quoting: Guestthis is a popularity contest and a shit form of analysis. I've played most of the games in the audio category, and none of them have SHIT on Devil Daggers for audio. you're comparing the second greatest game ever made to cinematic garbage.
How can it be anything else? If 95% never played a game, I can't win a category no matter how good it is at it.
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Quoting: Guestthis is a popularity contest and a shit form of analysis. I've played most of the games in the audio category, and none of them have SHIT on Devil Daggers for audio. you're comparing the second greatest game ever made to cinematic garbage.Whut.
I love Devil Daggers and it has good audio, but let's not overstate it. It's not the best audio.
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