Early this morning Valve officially rolled out a big update to the Steam Play whitelist, which indicates Windows games that work well with Steam Play's Proton.
Having titles in the whitelist, also means you don't need to go into Steam's settings and tick any extra boxes as they will just show up for everyone with the ability to install and play on Linux.
Sending out a Twitter post to announced it, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais announced "Just pushed a Steam Play whitelist update to reflect current testing results" with a link to SteamDB which helps track it all down.
The list is reasonably long, some notable titles include:
- Castle Crashers
- The Witness
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
- Overcooked
- Guacamelee! 2
It's going to be interesting to see how Valve eventually show support for Steam Play directly on Steam store pages, that's the next step that I'm looking forward to.
A pretty exciting start to a weekend wouldn't you say?
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hardpenguin Oct 6, 2018
One of the most notable titles on the list is Spelunky :) And Stick Fight The Game as well!
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One of the most notable titles on the list is Spelunky :) And Stick Fight The Game as well!I was going to say "Commander Keen" instead..but that would make me feel really old..
..oh too late..darn it!
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I was little bit skeptical last weeks, as it was looking like in September after making Steam Play official for all Steam Linux clients, Valve was not putting a lot of work in Proton, it was outdated while comparing to DXVK and while comparing to Wine.
Now Proton uses almost newest DXVK, Wine I guess was not updated yet, but Whitelisting takes place, which makes me happy.
Hope Valve pushes forward Steam Play each day, each week, each month. It's good to be Linux gamer this year.
Now Proton uses almost newest DXVK, Wine I guess was not updated yet, but Whitelisting takes place, which makes me happy.
Hope Valve pushes forward Steam Play each day, each week, each month. It's good to be Linux gamer this year.
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I was little bit sceptical last weeks, as it was looking like in September after making Steam Play official for all Steam Linux clients, Valve was not putting a lot of work in Proton, it was outdated while comparing to DXVK and while comparing to Wine.
Jumping to the latest versions is not necessarily helpful to what Proton is trying to achieve. They obviously want their list of whitelisted games to run without problems on a wide variety of installations. Updates must be done with care in order to make sure that they don't break anything. This will probably become harder and harder with a growing list of games.
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appetrosyan Oct 6, 2018
How exactly are the games being whitelisted? I imagine the game has to be thoroughly tested by Valve, it has to not have any significant bugs related to proton (let's face it, some games are plain buggy, and their Wine versions can actually be more stable).
I'm just hyped. This is the way forward. We need to build marketshare and momentum, and this is the best way. Sure, we'll be getting fewer SDL ports, but considering they essentially do the same thing, and cost a lot more to maintain, it's a big win.
I'm just hyped. This is the way forward. We need to build marketshare and momentum, and this is the best way. Sure, we'll be getting fewer SDL ports, but considering they essentially do the same thing, and cost a lot more to maintain, it's a big win.
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Here's an alphabetized and less cluttered list of the games added to the whitelist:
I recommend Puzzle Agent, has some fun surreal humor to it.
AdVenture Communist
AFTERGRINDER
Bejeweled® 3
Castle Crashers®
Cat Goes Fishing
Coffee Shop Tycoon
Coloring Pixels
Commander Keen
Everyday Shooter
Fieldrunners 2
Guacamelee! 2
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
HeXen: Beyond Heretic
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Mugsters
Overcooked
Puzzle Agent
Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock
Sam & Max 102: Situation: Comedy
Sam & Max 103: The Mole
Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Sam & Max 105: Reality 2.0
Sam & Max 106: Bright Side of the Moon
Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa
Sam & Max 202: Moai Better Blues
Sam & Max 203: Night of the Raving Dead
Sam & Max 204: Chariots of the Dogs
Sam & Max 205: What's New Beelzebub?
Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
Sam & Max 302: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
Sam & Max 303: They Stole Max's Brain!
Sam & Max 304: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
Sam & Max 305: The City That Dares Not Sleep
Spelunky
Stick Fight: The Game
The Witness
VirtuaCreature
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Zen of SudokuI recommend Puzzle Agent, has some fun surreal humor to it.
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Sir_Diealot Oct 6, 2018
So that's a whooping 41 titles now, 1/3 of which is Sam & Max. How many of those don't run in stock WINE? How many of those are platinum or Gold on https://appdb.winehq.org/ anyway?
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So that's a whooping 41 titles now, 1/3 of which is Sam & Max. How many of those don't run in stock WINE? How many of those are platinum or Gold on https://appdb.winehq.org/ anyway?
I don't think this is the question. Proton is not doing wonders that WINE isn't (with Valve's help lately, to be fair). Proton is just doing the wonder at a (user's) finger tip and with customer care.
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So that's a whooping 41 titles now, 1/3 of which is Sam & Max. How many of those don't run in stock WINE? How many of those are platinum or Gold on https://appdb.winehq.org/ anyway?I think you're missing the point. The point is that people don't have to deal with wine not that the games didn't run in wine before.
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Hmm - Spelunky, Castle Crashers and The Witness all stand out for me. But I don't have much time for Johnathan Blow after his various ill-informed/biased comments on Linux. Not interested in supporting that guy, especially not priced at £30.
Might buy the first two though, or at least stick them on a wishlist. They're both around the tenner mark, so might be worth it for a slow-game day.
Might buy the first two though, or at least stick them on a wishlist. They're both around the tenner mark, so might be worth it for a slow-game day.
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Any idea why they would whitelist The Old Blood but not The New Order? Aren't they the same engine?
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The super-cool Ethan Lee replied to an issue on the Proton issue tracker, maybe Valve has finally hired him! :)
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Hey, Puzzle Agent is whitelisted! That's a great game and pretty funny too, you all should play it.
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so...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing
and they are going with steamdb list instead?
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing
and they are going with steamdb list instead?
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so...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing
and they are going with steamdb list instead?
SteamDB just displays a change Valve has been doing to their whitelist.
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Avehicle7887 Oct 6, 2018
I remember the first time playing Spelunky in Wine (1.6.2), it was on Linux Mint with Mesa 10.0 using an Intel GPU with OpenGL 1.4 max, on a laptop with the sticker "Designed for Windows XP". Good memories :D
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What i wonder, and i suppose i am not alone, is to what degree they use the unofficial compatibility list in their work.I think they don't use it at all.
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so...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing
and they are going with steamdb list instead?
spcr's front page doesn't reflect that any of these games have been added to the official whitelist right now, so I imagine pointing people there to find out what's been added to the official whitelist would be kind of pointless.
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Very nice! Unfortunaty, there's not any title that I am keeping an eye out for yet. Still, I guess it's only a matter of time and there's no hurry at present for more games than I currently have lined up in my library.
Speaking of which..."SHADOW WARRIOR 2" is currently free on GOG, if you log in to your account there. I would have much prefered to have it on steam and test it out with Proton but it's still a very nice thing from GOG.
Speaking of which..."SHADOW WARRIOR 2" is currently free on GOG, if you log in to your account there. I would have much prefered to have it on steam and test it out with Proton but it's still a very nice thing from GOG.
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Duke Takeshi Oct 6, 2018
I like the fact valve is putting a lot of resources into expanding the whitelist.
In that way we have some kind of "official" support for some windows-only titles. But the great thing about proton is that a lot of games even work great with proton if they are not on the whitelist.
I am currently playing the witcher 3 and it works like a charm. I even figured out how to use my witcher 2 save from the native linux version of the game and import it in witcher 3 before starting a new game ^_^
In that way we have some kind of "official" support for some windows-only titles. But the great thing about proton is that a lot of games even work great with proton if they are not on the whitelist.
I am currently playing the witcher 3 and it works like a charm. I even figured out how to use my witcher 2 save from the native linux version of the game and import it in witcher 3 before starting a new game ^_^
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