Another look at some absolutely nuts Linux games in the Steam Summer Sale

alright you're forgiven

Who says you need to be rich to afford great games eh? So many sales each year it's easy to snap up a bargain. What has eaten away at your wallet this week?

A few years ago we wouldn't even have dreamt about such games on Linux :D

Looking at that Valve collection makes me want another Half Life and another Left 4 Dead.

I picked up Salt & Sanctuary and Hollow Knight, among others. Really getting into metroidvania, about 15 years late.

S&S is the best game I've played on Linux. It might be the best game I've played, period. And I didn't care for Dark Souls.

I picked Valve Complete Pack for 17,99 almost 3 years ago.
I start to think that Steam Sales aren't worth my attention anymore...


P.S. There is no a single new game from Valve in pack from 2017.


Last edited by wojtek88 on 1 July 2017 at 6:41 am UTC

I picked up Salt & Sanctuary and Hollow Knight, among others. Really getting into metroidvania, about 15 years late.

S&S is the best game I've played on Linux. It might be the best game I've played, period. And I didn't care for Dark Souls.

I love metroidvanias, when I was a kid I played a lot Vampire Killer on the MSX, that was the precursor of Castlevania. I was thinking on which of both games play. Hollow Knight or Salt & Sanctuary, the second seemed different for the RPG mechanics...

But finally I bought Darkest dungeon and I'm enjoying it a lot. I think the clue is to be conservative, play without high risks and the all is more relaxed, easy to win, collect stuff, and arrive at town almost without stress (I'm in my first 10 hours). This way I find it more relaxing.

By the way, I have an Intel T430u laptop with Intel HD 4000 graphics and I'm tired on lots of games saying (like Darkest dungeon): "Intel Integrated not supported".... but it works perfect. Also it says 1080p minimum, and plays perfect at 1366x768. Right now I'm playing it with a monitor at bigger resolution, but I started with the laptop screen with no problem at all. Why they don't say: "Not tested with Intel integrated cards"... instead of "Not supported".


Last edited by xavi on 1 July 2017 at 8:19 am UTC

I picked up Salt & Sanctuary and Hollow Knight, among others. Really getting into metroidvania, about 15 years late.

S&S is the best game I've played on Linux. It might be the best game I've played, period. And I didn't care for Dark Souls.

I love metroidvanias, when I was a kid I played a lot Vampire Killer on the MSX, that was the precursor of Castlevania. I was thinking on which of both games play. Hollow Knight or Salt & Sanctuary, the second seemed different for the RPG mechanics...

But finally I bought Darkest dungeon and I'm enjoying it a lot. I think the clue is to be conservative, play without high risks and the all is more relaxed, easy to win, collect stuff, and arrive at town almost without stress (I'm in my first 10 hours). This way I find it more relaxing.

By the way, I have an Intel T430u laptop with Intel HD 4000 graphics and I'm tired on lots of games saying (like Darkest dungeon): "Intel Integrated not supported".... but it works perfect. Also it says 1080p minimum, and plays perfect at 1366x768. Right now I'm playing it with a monitor at bigger resolution, but I started with the laptop screen with no problem at all. Why they don't say: "Not tested with Intel integrated cards"... instead of "Not supported".

Not supported is not meaning it won't run on Intel Hd. It is simply saying : When you try to run it on Intel Hd and cannot achieve that ; don't expect any help or patch from us.

Great indie or small games you may not have heard about:

-90% Outland
-85% Door Kickers
-75% Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
-75% Convoy
-70% I Am The Hero
-25% Alwa's Awakening (My current favorite game for this year)

Wow Maia looked really cool - that's one passed under my radar. I don't buy EA by principle, but added to my wishlist!

-75% Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!. It is niche, but I've bought it, playing it now and quite enjoy it.

-25% Alwa's Awakening (My current favorite game for this year)

I've been very interested in Shovel Knight 20% off, it seems to never go much on sale, and it's still quite an expensive title, but it's tempting. I want a game to play with my SNES controller!

Would Alwas Awakening be playable with SNES controller? I might look at that instead. Is the game very hard? Except for the price, the thing that puts me off Shovel Knight is difficulty - I have little patience for very hard games (like "I wanna be the guy" - I got quite far, but in the end tired of redoing stuff).

I thought, "Maybe I should get XCOM 2 someday," only to see I already own it!

I've been very interested in Shovel Knight 20% off, it seems to never go much on sale, and it's still quite an expensive title, but it's tempting. I want a game to play with my SNES controller!

It's been lower in price plenty of times: https://steamdb.info/app/250760/

I love metroidvanias, when I was a kid I played a lot Vampire Killer on the MSX, that was the precursor of Castlevania.

Cool, someone who had MSX,too! Where are you from? Not too many people had one here in Germany...

Interestingly, I wasn't into Metroidvania even back then. I stopped Vampire Killer after some minutes, but loved e.g. Metal Gear or Maze of Galious.

I love metroidvanias, when I was a kid I played a lot Vampire Killer on the MSX, that was the precursor of Castlevania.

Cool, someone who had MSX,too! Where are you from? Not too many people had one here in Germany...

Interestingly, I wasn't into Metroidvania even back then. I stopped Vampire Killer after some minutes, but loved e.g. Metal Gear or Maze of Galious.

Hello, I'm from Barcelona. I have an MSX, MSX2 and MSX2+ (a group of 50 people imported them from japan). I also still have my Atari 2600 console.

That games were amazing, like all the Konami games of the era, specially for MSX2.

Games nowadays are two much kill-people oriented. There's one game called La Mulana that is supposed to be inspired on Maze of Galious and you find MSX cartridges on the game... but they made a new version and all the MSX stuff were removed... reading this I never player it.

There's a Maze of Galious remake, I played years ago and was so good: http://www.braingames.getput.com/mog/
Linux version, of course: http://www.braingames.getput.com/mog/
I remember being all the summer trying to find the door on one of the top corners of the castle. Nowadays we have not that patience.