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.
DARK SOULS™ III
STEINS;GATE
Mega Man Legacy Collection
Final DOOM
'LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™'
i know that those lego games are good , but i'm not a big fan of the art direction, and starwars i'm more into the games than the movies, may give it an try anyway due to the gameplay.
"PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+" not so excited but i shall give it an try.
FlatOut 2 (is also avaliable on gog, they had an "native" version for years, i think its just an wine wrapper, but at least there is an penguin logo, in any case it will count as an linux sale, and that is what matter)
Quoting: mylkaQuoting: 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.
why not? try hitman 2. you can play the tutorial for free. for me it works better, than hitman 1 (actually you all should install it, to show IOI that we want linux) https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/
i mean i get it. you want support feral, but we all want more market share for linux
it is the same with life is strange 2.
why wait, if you can advertise this game now for linux? (it is bad luck for feral, that they already started to port it)
i thinik it is for the best for linux, if you can say "i play TR and hitman NOW" and not "maybe i can play this titles in 1-3 years and if not i have to use proton anyways"
play AAA titles immediately, with good performance at the same time as windows. that helps the linux image
I already let Feral know on twitter that i wanted Hitman2. I also wish listed it on Steam. This lets IOI know that I want it on Linux with out downloading it. Valve stated in the announcement for proton that "Our goal for this work is to let Linux Steam users enjoy easy access to a larger back catalog." I appreciate what Valve is doing with proton, and I also understand that we need more desktop users to increase the amount of games on Linux. I personally will be waiting for ports, and if ports do not happen then I will be waiting until they are extremely discounted.
Arehandoro Nov 14, 2018
Everything else is just a bonus.
Last edited by Beamboom on 14 November 2018 at 6:21 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 Nov 14, 2018
It would help increase Linux gaming's mindshare among Steam users, and show them that the barrier to switching isn't as great as it was once upon a time (or when they last tried it 5 years ago). It might get picked up by the mainstream gaming press too, in a way that some of the big sales do at the moment.
It's probably important to pick the right time to do something like this, they'd need more of the big games in the whitelist to really have an impact, so I don't think it's there yet. But soon, maybe, depending on how things keep developing.
Quoting: BeamboomThere's just one title I wait for on Google Play: Fallout 4.
Everything else is just a bonus.
What`s a Google Play?
Quoting: ArehandoroI wonder why it's easier to whitelist Star Wars - Dark Forces rather than using Dropbox like the GOG version. Good to see so many games whitelisted though :DBecause using DosBox requires a separate Linux depot, a custom DosBox setup and testing of the whole thing whereas using Proton just requires it to be tested, verified to work and then setting which version of Proton it was verified to work with; no changes need to be made to the game files / distribution.
Quoting: legluondunetQuoting: 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
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