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What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?

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It's the weekend and the sun is out, so naturally many of us will be staring at a bright screen playing the latest and greatest Linux games.

I tend to go through phases of being attached to specific games for a few weeks before utterly burning myself out on them, currently Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has managed to hook me back in. It's not exactly the newest game, but it still has such fluid and fun gameplay that there's still really nothing else like it in the shooter scene.

HITMAN is also tempted me back once more, since I've never actually gone through the Patient Zero bonus campaign. With HITMAN 2 being announced, I feel like I need to get my practice down in case Feral Interactive say they're porting it to Linux again (they sadly haven't—yet). It would be odd if they didn't, since HITMAN seemed to be quite a popular game with Linux gamers.

Caves of Qud has also been amusing me lately, such a great story maker. I won't tell you how many times I've died…

So many games, so little time. Choosing what to play does become a real issue, with an insane amount of great quality games on Linux—there's truly never been a better time for us.

What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?

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ragsu 14 Jul 2018
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CS:GO mostly. Even though it is not that much fun playing alone, but I wanna be the king of the game ofc ;)
I might also torture myself with XCOM:WotC iron man mode until I get mad.
Janne 14 Jul 2018
Neverwinter Nights. The Linux scaling bug is fixed, now I'm going through the official campaigns again for the first time in ten years. It's fun - the game really holds up quite well.
Jarno 14 Jul 2018
Planned to play Rust whole weekend but it crashes all the time.
tumocs 14 Jul 2018
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Warhammer40K: Gladius - Relics of War.
It's brilliant fun. Sending waves after waves of your own men equipped with flashlights until the kill limits of necron warriors are reached.
PinballWizard 14 Jul 2018
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Dead Cells; normally not a style of game that would interest me but it's a genre-bending triumph. I'm also playing Into the Breach periodically throughout the day; I can't wait for the actual native Linux build.
bubexel 14 Jul 2018
This morning playing Tibia, maybe some wolfenstein II on wine this afternoon. Tomorrow at morning i should work on Rise of Titans, almost 100% we will release it this week ;P and tomorrow late i will play on fallout 4 VR.. sadly not on linux :(


Last edited by bubexel on 14 Jul 2018 at 11:22 am UTC
Erwhann 14 Jul 2018
Well, Desparados was just released on Linux so it's a great occasion to retry to finish the game. I'll take a pinch of Mother Russia Bleed too for more frantic action.
WorMzy 14 Jul 2018
I'm playing Eternal Darkness using the Dolphin emulator. I don't have much time for anything else on Linux right now. :(
deathxxx 14 Jul 2018
I play SORR Remake v5. Very good challenge survival game.
https://youtu.be/H1KU8qk4ncY
FerroTiC 14 Jul 2018
For couple of weeks, I've been indulging myself by playing Overload.
It is modern successor to Descent games from the 90', in Unity engine and Linux native on GOG and Steam.

The start was a bit underwhelming, and old-school principle of six-degrees of freedom shooting in mining shafts in a modern engine. But once you re-learn the basic movement system, weapons and enemies, the game becomes really fun. The difficulty spikes are enough to keep you on your toes every level, weapons can be upgraded, there are some new enemies and the gauntlets/boss fights are excellent.

Performance is decent, not the best, graphics are good.
bolokanar 14 Jul 2018
Decided to give Ballistic another go, but that game is just not my type of shooter. So deleted it after playing a couple of matches.

It's kinda disappoiting what we have available for play.


Last edited by bolokanar on 14 Jul 2018 at 12:22 pm UTC
jens 14 Jul 2018
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Nothing, time for summer vacation ;)
Feist 14 Jul 2018
Nothing. It´s just *too-bloody-warm* for gaming, I had hoped that by now I would at least have played through PoE2 but I´ve only played it for about 15 hours since it was released. Looking at the weather forecast there is no gaming in sight for my foreseeable future. :'(:(
YourPalMark 14 Jul 2018
Certainly not "latest and greatest", I'm playing the classics: Cube 2 Sauerbraten and Smokin' Guns!
Micromegas 14 Jul 2018
I like this kind of article because there is always something new to discover in the comments.

Although I am a diligent reader of GOL, "The Dwarves" and "Rise of Titans" were new to me! Wishlisted instantly.

I have so many games to play but since I'm a strategy game fan most of them require some working brain to play them - ideal for weekends when you are not exhausted from work. But the sun is just too inviting and we had nice rain the last days so it's all green and not too hot.

Stellaris, Pillars of Eternity, Age of Wonders III, Shadow Tactics... have to wait. So I'm probably playing again during the week on evenings some Slay the Spire and Euro Truck Simulator 2 where you can perfectly listen to some podcasts or music while playing and not thinking too hard. :D
Kallestofeles 14 Jul 2018
Playing around with a lawn-mower during that silly heatwave. :/
DarkVantage 14 Jul 2018
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Trying to finish XCOM:WoTC even though I'm feeling a little burnt out on XCOM. Maybe start SteamWorld Dig 2. I looooved SteamWorld Heist.
SuperKey 14 Jul 2018
I plan on playing Dead Cells-now that I have found a workaround for the steam controller and Insurgency.
Botonoski 14 Jul 2018
Gonna finish Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Already binged The First Encounter, just so happy that I finally figured out how to get the source code for the game to compile.
Rooster 14 Jul 2018
I'll ask a slightly different question.. Anyone interested in playing some co-op game? I have Divinity OS laying in my GOG library, but to other suggestions as well.

Pulsar: Lost Colony would be also great.


Last edited by Rooster on 14 Jul 2018 at 3:17 pm UTC
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