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First up, the open source racing game ‘Yorg’ has a release candidate available for testing, which includes a new track, improved multiplayer, a new camera, an improved driving model and more.
Developer Leslaw Sliwko is working on a revamp of the original Age of Fear named “Age of Fear: The Undead King GOLD”. With the original being around 7 years old, it’s a good time to modernise it a bit. Find out more on the Steam page, no release date set yet.
GOG recently released ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) with a Linux version, this rather successful roguelike is pretty engrossing and well worth a look if you mainly stick to GOG for your gaming needs.
The recent Prison Architect alpha update that brings in multiplayer is now on Linux. Initially when released back in early September it was only for Windows. You can grab it from Humble Store, GOG (I’ve personally checked, GOG have the multiplayer build for Linux) and Steam.
As for some fun Linux games on sale:
- Humble Monthly has HITMAN, Hollow Knight and 7 Days to Die as early unlocks—amazing deal.
- The Humble Overwhelmingly Positive Bundle 2 has 9 days left with some great Linux titles too.
- Total War: WARHAMMER is 75% off on Steam which is another great deal.
- Shadow of Mordor is 50% off on the Feral Store, a good chance to support Feral’s continued Linux ports directly.
- GOG also have a bunch of Linux games on sale, as well as some bundles for their 10 year celebration, which ends later tonight so act fast if you were planning to get some.
Parkitect, the theme park building game that’s currently in Early Access released Beta 11, which includes a brand new buildable ride, new statues, a new operating profit scenario goal, guests can now take photos and more. It can be found on Humble Store, GOG and Steam.
Knights of Tartarus, a rather retro looking 2D RPG that’s currently in Early Access recently added Linux support. It doesn’t have many reviews, but early thoughts from users seems positive enough. Have a look on Steam.
Varion, a local multiplayer arcade-action game is now aiming to release on November 8th with Linux support. The gameplay seems pretty amusing, with you bouncing shots off the walls of enclosed arenas to take down your opponents. From the trailer, it looks like it could get pretty manic! Find out more on their Steam page.
Jupiter Hell, the modern sci-fi roguelike from the creator of DRL (D**m, the Roguelike) that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter has released a Beta, which has Linux support! The developer has provided me with an early key, so once it hits Early Access we should have some thoughts up. They also now have a Steam page live.
Also, on the Crate and Crowbar podcast the developer of Gunpoint and Heat Signature comments on Steam Play’s Proton system. This link should take you to the exact point. The laughs the “no tux no bux” comment got says it all, I’ve never particularly liked that saying and I’ve said numerous times before how it means nothing to developers—I think they proved my point. That aside, they sound pretty positive about it.
Additionally, I had a quick chat on the Destination Linux podcast on Friday night (episode release later this week). They asked me to come back each month, so that's going to be fun.
Finally: What have you been playing this week? Tell us what you think about it! I’ve been playing a lot (understatement) of Rocket League, to the point that I even had a dream about it…
See you all tomorrow for another week of awesome Linux gaming news, plenty still to cover.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Finally: What have you been playing this week? Tell us what you think about it! I’ve been playing a lot (understatement) of Rocket League, to the point that I even had a dream about it…
Still playing Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin using Proton. Works like a charm, and it's an amazing game. Steams playtime counter says 117 hours and IIRC I've not had a single crash or issue as long as I stick to x.org and not Wayland where most Vulkan applications are currently broken for me.
I plan to start Nier: Automata but I have to wait for Debian to push out Mesa 18.2 and LLVM7 because it causes GPU hangs on Mesa 18.1 and LLVM6.
Yesterday I started playing Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War. And will continue this later on. To the discomfort of my son because I'm not allowing him to watch. To my discomfort I now have to wait until he is in bed and sleeping.
Also I used the sale on Steam to buy all DLCs for Total War: WARHAMMER. This game will be next on my list.
Besides this I'm looking enviously at my friends playing bard's tale 4 on windows while I'm still waiting for the Linux version. :-(
on the good side is, they claimed the game to be buggy and now waiting for patches.
Streets of Rogue - nearly unlocked all characters now. Very fun game, although the cop lock down mutator is annoying, I always get it when I'm trying to be pacifist. :/
Graveyard Keeper - pretty sure I'm almost at the end game of this now. Quests seem to build up a backlog, then when you finally progress one, it causes a chain-reaction of quest progression.
L4D2 - joined Sin for a stream and had a good couple of campaigns. L4D is always good fun, although it can become a bit of a timesink.
Beyond that, I've been replaying Legend of Zelda: Oracle of {Seasons,Ages} on my 3DS, and Spiderman on the PS4.
GOG offers Battle Chasers only for Windos+Mac, so you need WINE+DXVK run the game. It needs some additional video codecs to play videos (I installed the one from here [http://www.cccp-project.net/](http://www.cccp-project.net/)), but maybe with a proper Gstreamer with -ugly and -bad plugins it should works. If I recall correcly I also installed Xact using winetricks.
Kingdom Come runs only using DXVK and copying d3dcompiler_46.dll and d3dcompiler_47.dll from "bin/Win64" to "bin/Win64Shared" (or viceversa, can't recall). Performance is good, but not stellar, I played very few minutes.
Shadow Tactics is native, I still haven't tried it.
What I'm playing this weekend? I'll kill all the remaining Nazis of Wolfenstein: The new order! ;)
Last edited by ziabice on 7 Oct 2018 at 12:27 pm UTC
The laughs the “no tux no bux” comment got says it all, I’ve never particularly liked that saying and I’ve said numerous times before how it means nothing to developers—I think they proved my point.It might not mean anything to developers, but it sure means a lot to me.
BTW, [The Interwebs do not forget!](https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/609044137128513536) ;)
buckysrevenge 7 Oct 2018
I also just started playing Rumu, which recently released a Linux version. It's fun so far and runs great, although it has some problems detecting the buttons on the Steam Controller properly.
I've always made jokes about the saying, i guess the winky face there wasn't clear enough ;)The laughs the “no tux no bux” comment got says it all, I’ve never particularly liked that saying and I’ve said numerous times before how it means nothing to developers—I think they proved my point.It might not mean anything to developers, but it sure means a lot to me.
BTW, The Interwebs do not forget! ;)
I get the saying and I understand it means something to us, my point was it needed to be clearer and not sound as silly.
I played a lot of Overwatch and I like it.
I'm a little ashamed.
As for what I've been playing it's been "Vigilantes" all the way. Originally, I intended to wait but then I decided to give "Pathfinder" some extra bug-fixing time, so after I finished "Tesla Effect" I dove right in.
Very nice and quite addictive, as you build up a team and fight crime in the big city. You develop your "lair" for various bonuses and homemade equipment and then go out on raids and surveilliance missions in your hunt for the "Big Bosses".
Last edited by Feist on 7 Oct 2018 at 3:12 pm UTC
There was a winky face at the end of my comment as well.I've always made jokes about the saying, i guess the winky face there wasn't clear enough ;)The laughs the “no tux no bux” comment got says it all, I’ve never particularly liked that saying and I’ve said numerous times before how it means nothing to developers—I think they proved my point.It might not mean anything to developers, but it sure means a lot to me.
BTW, [The Interwebs do not forget!](https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/609044137128513536) ;)
You have bested me sir. I shall now commit seppuku.There was a winky face at the end of my comment as well.I've always made jokes about the saying, i guess the winky face there wasn't clear enough ;)The laughs the “no tux no bux” comment got says it all, I’ve never particularly liked that saying and I’ve said numerous times before how it means nothing to developers—I think they proved my point.It might not mean anything to developers, but it sure means a lot to me.
BTW, The Interwebs do not forget! ;)
What with that and some of the improvements that have been made since I last played, and I'm really enjoying it. And I'm still not sure why. :)
I wish the Steam Controller would work with it, though. In the last update, the release notes say that it was fixed on Linux. But it just plain doesn't work.
Been trying out Shadow Warrior 2 as well since it was given out free by GOG.com, mind you I've been dual booting to play it and probably going to try it under wine at some point, from what I can gather it uses DX11 so will probably need to use DXVK on top of that. It's already a very demanding game under windows 10 so interested to find out how it will run under latest WineI don't know what your specs are, but I was surprised at how well it runs here. I haven't checked the framerate (it'll only annoy me), but it's perfectly playable. Of course, I don't dual-boot, so I've nothing to compare with. But with DXVK, I can't imagine there's a huge performance hit.
Still, you can certainly see places where it's not finished. Like, there's Happiness, but all it does is start from zirp when you first start a colony or conquer a world, and then go up 1 per turn until it reaches standard level, and until it gets to 5 the world won't do certain things. So there's no such thing as problems that make worlds unhappy or changes to productivity from happiness levels or, for the most part, techs to improve happiness, or anything. So thus far, Happiness is basically a stub, and there are other things like that.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 7 Oct 2018 at 4:31 pm UTC
buenaventura 7 Oct 2018
Otherwise I've played alot of Overwatch and Magic the Gathering Arena (wine both of them - altho the latter apparently the devs might be bringing to linux in the end!).
Micromegas 7 Oct 2018
MacGyver88 8 Oct 2018
I have also been testing Steam Link again and it has improved a lot! Works very well even over WiFi. Last time I used it was over a year ago and it was a total mess back then.
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