Surprisingly, Valve are running an event that is not trying to get you to buy new games. To be fair though, it's not the first time. The Steam Spring Cleaning 2020 event is now live.
Running from now until May 28, the idea is to get you to play through your existing games and clear out your backlog. This links in with their recent Play Next feature to suggest games to you, which graduated from Steam Labs to appear on the Steam Store and as a shelf in your Steam Library. It also pulls in Remote Play Together, for games to share online with friends.
Sadly, a downside is that for Linux gamers it might pull in games from your Library that can't be played (even with the Proton compatibility tool). Testing this myself, it turned out to be the case for me suggesting a few that were completely unplayable. Thankfully with three options each time, you might not get stuck when building up your Spring Cleaning badge. It does, however, highlight that Play Next needs to take into account titles you've set to Ignore on Steam.
Find the event over here.
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If it tries to force you to play something you don't want to, you can still use the steam_appid.txt trick.
*edit*Hm, didn't work for me though.
*edit2* Ah, starting from command line. Actually reading stuff is helpful so many times...!
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*edit2* Ah, starting from command line. Actually reading stuff is helpful so many times...!
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I only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.
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I love these events. At least one of the games sticks and I keep it installed. If nothing else it helps remind me what's in my library. This time it's Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Tales of Zestiria. Tales is a lot more complex than I had anticipated.
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I only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1
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Thanks. I'll give it a read.I only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1
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Interesting. One of the games it wanted me to play was Serious Sam. Both the First Encounter and the Second in different rooms.
Turns out it doesn't count either if you play them using Fusion.
Turns out it doesn't count either if you play them using Fusion.
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hoolaparara 
May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
Well good start here, the first 3 games it recommended were 2 I had finished, Bioshock Remastered having of course finished the unremastered version, then Shadow Warrior where I finished the Humble DRM-free version. And the final game was a proton borked (although somehow it gets bronze on protondb) game Hitman: Absolution.
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So apparently even if the game quits without showing up at all it counts. Fascinating 4th set of games it gave me, the original half life version of Counterstrike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat. DOD & CS had no servers to play on with <500ms pings and the 4 CS servers I tried had passwords.
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What a blow out,3 games I tried didn't work with proton, 2 games were multiplayer with no players (let ballistic overkill spend 15 minutes looking for a game). One bright side was it reminded me I hadn't checked whether the recently free Aegis Defenders works in proton.
Last edited by hoolaparara on 24 May 2020 at 3:12 am UTC
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So apparently even if the game quits without showing up at all it counts. Fascinating 4th set of games it gave me, the original half life version of Counterstrike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat. DOD & CS had no servers to play on with <500ms pings and the 4 CS servers I tried had passwords.
Add2:
What a blow out,3 games I tried didn't work with proton, 2 games were multiplayer with no players (let ballistic overkill spend 15 minutes looking for a game). One bright side was it reminded me I hadn't checked whether the recently free Aegis Defenders works in proton.
Last edited by hoolaparara on 24 May 2020 at 3:12 am UTC
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I love these events.
TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
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Interesting. One of the games it wanted me to play was Serious Sam. Both the First Encounter and the Second in different rooms.
Turns out it doesn't count either if you play them using Fusion.
Fusion is a bit of a weird solution. I had the opposite though. In the section for playing one of the first three games you bought, it triggered with the new game "Filament", which is obviously new. The system is a bit buggy.
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I love these events.
TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
In my case, it gave me an excuse to re-install Outland, which I'd been meaning to take another run at.
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Useful for what? It's a rather vague criticism. What aspect of gaming and the entertainment industry isn't useless. That idea to could extrapolated until we arrive at Nihilism. So, what expectation for usefulness from the did you have in the first place?I love these events.
TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
To clarify, I find these events fun because they prompt users to install games in their library that have seen little or no play time. An interesting aspect is the arbitrary categories they choose to group games in. Their AI that chooses the titles based on user interests as it applies to that category.
The other reason I like this event is because it's about playing what has already been purchased, not pushing people to spend more money in the store.
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TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
I guess the next is something for everybody, though...
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/linux-games-confirmed-for-the-steam-game-festival
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Useful for what?I love these events.
TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
Well, it's mainly useful for people who have lost control over their game collection...
... which, of course, is the majority of Steam users. :D
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Useful for what? It's a rather vague criticism. What aspect of gaming and the entertainment industry isn't useless. That idea to could extrapolated until we arrive at Nihilism. So, what expectation for usefulness from the did you have in the first place?I love these events.
TBH to me they seem often to be absolutely useless. But if it is fun for people, why not.
To clarify, I find these events fun because they prompt users to install games in their library that have seen little or no play time. An interesting aspect is the arbitrary categories they choose to group games in. Their AI that chooses the titles based on user interests as it applies to that category.
The other reason I like this event is because it's about playing what has already been purchased, not pushing people to spend more money in the store.
OK, to be more precise - it is useless for me. It is not fun for me, nor do I get something for it. If it is fun for others, it is useful for them.
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