There I am, in bed about to fall asleep when my phone lights up as I forgot to put it on silent. Thankfully so, as it turns out Valve just expanded the Steam Play whitelist and that's always a bit exciting.
What is the whitelist? These are titles that Valve are confident enough that work out of the box with no additional configuration required. You don't need to turn any extra options on, they should just be click and play like any other Linux game on Steam.
The list has some interesting titles in it as seen on SteamDB, here's the full list of new titles sorted in alphabetical order for easy viewing:
- 12 Labours of Hercules VII: Fleecing the Fleece (Platinum Edition)
- A Raven Monologue
- AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
- Acid Nimbus
- Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
- Bullet Candy
- DARK SOULS™ III
- Dungeon of the Endless™
- Endless Road
- Final DOOM
- FlatOut 2
- Glass Masquerade
- Hags Castle
- I’m not a Monster
- Jamestown
- LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game
- Nidhogg
- Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast
- PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
- Pathfinder Adventures
- Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid
- Poker Night at the Inventory
- Primordia
- SEPTEMBER 1999
- STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces
- STEINS;GATE
- Samorost 2
- South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
- Star Explorers
- Starless Night
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- The House of Da Vinci
- The Room
- Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
- Wuppo
- Year Walk
- Zoombinis
Some rather varied titles available there, on top of all the titles previously added. Good to see Valve reasonably quickly add more, as things do progress forward with projects like DXVK (which forms part of Steam Play) quite quickly.
I'm assuming they won't be adding anything on the store to indicate Steam Play, until they've done a some more rounds on adding to the whitelist. They want it to make an impact of course, so the bigger they can do this the better it's going to be.
Will you be checking out any of the newer titles added? The LEGO game is tempting, since my son would probably absolutely love it and there's simply no sign of any LEGO game of that sort making its way to Linux officially through a proper port so this is the next best thing.
Also, if you missed them, be sure to check out our previous interviews about Steam Play. I spoke to the creator of DXVK, Subset Games (FTL, Into the Breach), Ethan Lee (game porter) and more.
Hat tip to mphuZ on Twitter.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
DoctorJunglist Nov 14, 2018
Maybe that's an Nvidia-specific issue?
0 Likes
I've seen reports from AMD users as well, so no. Not sure if there's a pattern, even high-end hardware seems to be affected.
0 Likes
Huh, that's the second whitelist in a row without a single game of interest for me. Bad luck of the draw i suppose, still I would have hoped that Valve would prioritize: aaa-titles, games with "large crtical acclaim" and games from big studios that have neglected linux in the past.
0 Likes
uhh finally Flatout 2 whitelisted. A game that has been working perfectly in wine since 2008 :D
4 Likes, Who?
Quoting: YoRHa-2BQuoting: BrisseThat is awesome that Dark Souls III made the list [...], but to be honest, there's a performance issue that sometimes causes the framerate to take a big dip after loading screens and as far as I know it's not been fixedHas anyone actually tried using newest Proton with an older DXVK version to check what's actually causing that regression?
I personally can't reproduce the problem at all, the game runs at a nice 60 FPS at all times.
I'm with NVIDIA and don't have such issue (but 410 series driver). The only thing that may not work in the future, is my gamepad if I keep dying that much...
0 Likes
Quoting: HoriI hope that Dark Souls 1 and 2 will also be ported/whitelisted in the future.Dark Souls 1 Remastered has major game engine bugs and is basically unfixable, so probably not.
2 Likes, Who?
Quoting: Xpanderuhh finally Flatout 2 whitelisted. A game that has been working perfectly in wine since 2008 :D
But the multiplayer servers are down :(
0 Likes
The reason I've a virtual machine setup is because of Dark Souls III. It's a fantastic game, highly recommend it now that it can be played without any of the hassle I had to go through. ^_^
0 Likes
legluondunet Nov 14, 2018
Quoting: GuestDark Souls 1 Remastered has major game engine bugs and is basically unfixable, so probably not.
And what about Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition? I mean yes its no longer for Sale because of the Remaster but many still own it.
"Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition" works great on Proton but can not be whitelisted because of this issue: cinematics do not play.
A lot of games could be whitelisted on Steamplay if only Wine/Proton could play cinematics in WMV format.
An issue is opened on Proton github for Windows Media Player implementation:
Add .wmv file playback support to Proton. #1464
Last edited by legluondunet on 14 November 2018 at 11:58 am UTC
2 Likes, Who?
rustybroomhandle Nov 14, 2018
Jamestown is such an odd one on this list. I just tried the native version I have on my system and it still seems to run just fine. I guess it's a case where the native port happened for a bundle, but the dev has no interest in supporting the port.
0 Likes
Stupendous Man Nov 14, 2018
Seems I have little excuse not to try South Park The Stick of Truth now. I've been wanting to for a long time, but the lack of a Linux port has held me back.
Oh, and Lego - you can never go wrong with Lego!
Oh, and Lego - you can never go wrong with Lego!
1 Likes, Who?
wvstolzing Nov 14, 2018
Quoting: Stupendous ManOh, and Lego - you can never go wrong with Lego!
You do if you step on one.
10 Likes, Who?
Dungeon of the Endless, yay! One of my essential games to run through wine, now officially supported by valve. Hope the other games by the studio (Endless Legend and Endless Space 1 and 2 ) also make it eventually.
Also excited about steins;gate, lack of Linux support has held me back from buying and playing so hopefully this might be one of the first proton games where I count as a Linux sale (so far I have only played games I already owned, mostly from before I switched to Linux full time).
Also excited about steins;gate, lack of Linux support has held me back from buying and playing so hopefully this might be one of the first proton games where I count as a Linux sale (so far I have only played games I already owned, mostly from before I switched to Linux full time).
0 Likes
Quoting: chui2chQuoting: mylkawhy not shadow of the tomb raider and hitman 2 ?
also batman origin,styx, flame and the flood and prey
I hope they do not add shadow of the tomb raider and hitman 2. Games we may get ports of should not be purchased using steam play imo.
The full version of Hitman II has Denuvo so is unlikely to work via Proton at the moment. Best to wait for a port.
1 Likes, Who?
Why do people insist on Denuvo not working on Wine? It's true that some recent-ish games don't run, but pretty much all Denuvo games that came out in the past couple of months work just fine.
8 Likes, Who?
Quoting: YoRHa-2BWhy do people insist on Denuvo not working on Wine? It's true that some recent-ish games don't run, but pretty much all Denuvo games that came out in the past couple of months work just fine.
Hitman II has a new version of Denuvo and whilst the training mission works, I'm not willing to shell out just yet to see if the main campaign works!
1 Likes, Who?
That's a valid stance, but "unlikely to work" is just not correct.
4 Likes, Who?
Quoting: kuhpunktQuoting: Xpanderuhh finally Flatout 2 whitelisted. A game that has been working perfectly in wine since 2008 :D
But the multiplayer servers are down :(
there were "fake" gamespy servers that work, you needed to point your hosts file from gamespy master server to the otherone, duckduckgo will probably give you answers!
0 Likes
Quoting: CybolicQuoting: NezchanAm I imagining things or did Jamestown and Reckless Disregard for Gravity already have Linux ports around someplace? Humble, maybe? I'm absolutely certain I've played the latter on Linux at least (and been terrible at it).Jamestown at least had a Linux port but, if I remember correctly, it hasn't been updated since its Humble launch and isn't on Steam.
The Jamestown linux version also requires the editing of a cfg file and the insertion of a steam api 32 bit file. So while it does work it requires some messing about to get it up and running.
1 Likes, Who?
Quoting: kuhpunktQuoting: Xpanderuhh finally Flatout 2 whitelisted. A game that has been working perfectly in wine since 2008 :D
But the multiplayer servers are down :(
I have the GOG version. You can play offline multiplayer with no problem. Awhile back I was able to edit some of the cfg files and play online for a bit with some 3rd party server that some GOG forums members had.
0 Likes
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me