The Humble Store Fall Sale is live, some great Linux games going cheap

I wonder how the Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX11 mode) behaves under DXVK. The protondb page for it doesn't contain much in the way of a clue (I mean, it says 'borked', but the person could have tried to run it in DX12 mode, maybe?)

While grateful for the official OpenGL Linux port, I have to say that performance-wise it lags far behind the native windoze version.... (Oh, and it's a great game.)


Last edited by walther von stolzing on 15 November 2018 at 7:23 pm UTC

Worth noting, the next Steam sale is also this month.

Uh-oh. :S:

Right now, Surviving Mars is having a free weekend on Steam, and 30-40% off, depending on what DLC bundle you buy, if you want to keep it. (There seems to be a few Paradox titles on sale, actually: CKII's at 75% off, for example.)

I'm still a bit wary of the replay value in Haemimont's games to buy it outright, but I'll definitely give it a try. Maybe I'll like it too much to resist. It has happened before. Damn you, Steam!

I noticed that Pathfinder: Kingmaker Explorer Edition is on sale...

Initially many people mentioned it had a bunch of bugs. Does anyone have this? Is that still true? Does the linux version work well?

I noticed that Pathfinder: Kingmaker Explorer Edition is on sale...

Initially many people mentioned it had a bunch of bugs. Does anyone have this? Is that still true? Does the linux version work well?

It's something I'm actually also planning to buy, so I'm interested in feedback too.

Distance is on sale too (it's DRM-free in the Humble Store and not available on GOG).

GamingOnLinux is even featured on the game page :)


Gotta give it to steamplay. Just this summer I had to install windows to run DooM, Dark Souls and Homeworld Remastered. Now, I don't need squat, it all flipping works, as if there was a native port. Sure it loads more slowly, but the last time I booted into Windows was this August.

And now, I'm not even sifting through the list to find good native ports, I'm just looking for games I like, and checking Linux compatibility later (if ever, 'case most of 'em just work).

Now we need a decent video editor and some official driver front-ends, and we'd be on Windows parity in terms of games.

Warning, Distance is 32-bit for some reason. Also, it doesn't detect screen resolution properly. But at least it's working.

I'll try contacting developers about it.


Last edited by Shmerl on 15 November 2018 at 11:27 pm UTC

Quite annoying the game is basically broken on the native resolution.

I wonder how the Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX11 mode) behaves under DXVK. The protondb page for it doesn't contain much in the way of a clue (I mean, it says 'borked', but the person could have tried to run it in DX12 mode, maybe?)

Works great... no issues.

OK, I was able to work around the issue with Distance. I was changing the wrong file. Instead of changing standard Unity location:

$HOME/.config/unity3d/Refract/Distance/prefs

you should change:

$HOME/.config/refract/Distance/Settings/GraphicsSettings.xml

And after that it works fine.

Thanks for the notice! Took This war of mine & Deux Ex Mankind!

I notice that the Humble store now shows prices in Australian dollars. I wonder when Steam will?

Decided to load up my Humble games Wishlist, and of the 69 titles wishlisted, I have needed to remove 11 of them due to purchase in the last few months. Good to keep one's housekeeping up to date ;)

Thinking to get Observer (in the Dystopian bundle) and Conarium (in the store sale). After I have bought 1 more game, I'll own 1.5k titles on Steam.

EDIT: Just noticed that Turok is incorrectly listed on Humble store as Windows only (recently ported to Linux).


Last edited by g000h on 16 November 2018 at 2:48 am UTC

Decided to load up my Humble games Wishlist, and of the 69 titles wishlisted, I have needed to remove 11 of them due to purchase in the last few months. Good to keep one's housekeeping up to date ;)

I hope you bought them outside of Humble... It is pretty sad if a wishlist does not automatically remove games that you buy from a store.

Thinking to get Observer (in the Dystopian bundle) and Conarium (in the store sale). After I have bought 1 more game, I'll own 1.5k titles on Steam.

I thought know that I am bad... I have 403 titles on Steam (343 linux) I realize that there are people with more, but I know that with 400+ that I am a rare addict. Of course it seems like I have only played about 10% of them, and it feels like I only play 5 or 6 regularly. (Reality is that I actually have played about 20%, but it has been over the years since steam first came to linux.)

I can barely imagine what insignificant portion you have played... (Or how did you get so wealthy to afford them all and have the time to play them :D )

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Last edited by stretch611 on 16 November 2018 at 2:53 am UTC

I noticed that Pathfinder: Kingmaker Explorer Edition is on sale...

Initially many people mentioned it had a bunch of bugs. Does anyone have this? Is that still true? Does the linux version work well?

It's something I'm actually also planning to buy, so I'm interested in feedback too.

I just finished looking at a bunch of the reviews on Steam...
It seems that a lot of people love the game; but the bugs are quite extensive. Many reviewers have 75 or more hours in the game too, so I believe that they are credible reports. There is a 1.1 patch coming out next week (in their beta branch now) but multiple reviews mention regular hot fixes and the bug complaints even include reviews made today.

I am still interested in the game, but I think I will wait a little while longer while they stabilize it.

Plus... interesting how big updates happen right around steam sales.

I can barely imagine what insignificant portion you have played... (Or how did you get so wealthy to afford them all and have the time to play them :D )

Slightly joking - My "game" is online bargain hunting (as well as picking up freebies). But, more recently I have slowed down. My favourite recent FREE pick-up was Shadow Warrior 2 - It was zero cost on GOG (for a couple of days) and adamhm put together a nice WINE script to get this Windows title easily running on Linux.

GamingOnLinux is even featured on the game page

Pretty sure that just means you clicked a GoL affiliate link at some point.

Slightly joking - My "game" is online bargain hunting (as well as picking up freebies).

Same "problem" here. :-p

I wonder how the Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX11 mode) behaves under DXVK. The protondb page for it doesn't contain much in the way of a clue (I mean, it says 'borked', but the person could have tried to run it in DX12 mode, maybe?)

Works great... no issues.

Great -- and how about performance? How does it compare to the native opengl on Linux?

Right now, Surviving Mars is having a free weekend on Steam, and 30-40% off, depending on what DLC bundle you buy, if you want to keep it.

cool, I always wanted to try this, but the price was a bit steep for me and reading reviews didn't help. could be, that couple of days playing is enough. this of course means, that I have to dig up the time :)

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