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PayPalRise to Ruins [Steam, Official Site, itch.io], the rather excellent indie godlike village simulator is a favourite of mine and here's some information on how it's doing on Linux.
In terms of lifetime sales for the title on Steam, the developer shared these numbers:
- Windows: 90.36%
- Mac: 7.17%
- Linux: 2.47%
When we break it down a bit further, taking a look at just December 2017 for example, we get these numbers:
- Windows: 92.7%
- Mac: 5.45%
- Linux: 1.85%
While obviously small, the numbers are in-line with what we've seen a few times, it's also much higher than the currently reported Linux market share on the Steam Hardware Survey. This is a similar situation as seen with games like Maia, Helium Rain and Deep Sixed in regards to a higher share of Linux sales than developers might have expected.
What's interesting, is that the developer also shared the percentages per-platform of actual players who loaded it up during December, where Linux accounted for approximately 5.12%. The developer actually did a big release in December too, which can likely account for the extra attention, even so that's a healthy amount of Linux gamers remaining interested (which is good!).
As for their current thoughts on supporting Linux:
Still pretty much the same as before honestly. I mean, the blunt harsh truth is the 2-3% of sales really doesn't make much of a difference. But I still think we should be supporting the platform anyway, and it's not like it's that much extra work now a days to do it.
And, like I said before, if everyone supported Linux more people would switch over.
If you want to grab a copy, head over to Steam or itch.io.
Thank you to the developer Raymond Doerr for speaking to me! If you wish to have a chat about Linux sales of your games, email in any time or catch us on Twitter.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Well , we're talking on a game Linux sale numbers and then when i talk about feeding Windows instead of Linux , then making sad faces in the message while one simply does not care ; suddenly you call it a zealous move.
Zealous is despising the guy just because in your opinion he does not care.
I have been a Linux user for 10 years, and for two years now more or less I don't dual boot. But I'm not on the "exclusively DRM free" side, even if I know it should matter to me. But when some guys caring about DRM free talk to me as if I was a criminal, well, it doesn't motivate me at all. Same thing applies here. I think that to defend our ideas we should talk to people respectfully, especially when they are at least partly on our side (Linux side in this case)
Well , we're talking on a game Linux sale numbers and then when i talk about feeding Windows instead of Linux , then making sad faces in the message while one simply does not care ; suddenly you call it a zealous move.
Zealous is despising the guy just because in your opinion he does not care.
I have been a Linux user for 10 years, and for two years now more or less I don't dual boot. But I'm not on the "exclusively DRM free" side, even if I know it should matter to me. But when some guys caring about DRM free talk to me as if I was a criminal, well, it doesn't motivate me at all. Same thing applies here. I think that to defend our ideas we should talk to people respectfully, especially when they are at least partly on our side (Linux side in this case)
Sure , i was a bit harsh on that and not everybody needs to care. I got a little furious because he sounded like cares but turns out he is not. Then what is the point of making sadfaces about it? That is an equal move to buying a Windows only game then screaming on Steam forums like " Port it to Linux. ". Why should dev even care? You already bought it despite it is not on Linux , he made his sale.
I agree with you , that kind of attitude + GOG praising even Cdpr , Gog don't care about Linux made me some kind of cold about Drm free stuff.
Anyway , i apologize from everyone whom i offended. I was trying to explain " that is not a caring attitude at all , if you are upset or worried about it " but it gone into a different way.
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