It's Sunday and another week has flown by, in part thanks to all the wonderful limited-time demos that have been available for a few days during the Steam Game Festival.
Thanks to the Steam festival, the choice of gaming available has been tougher than ever. Do you jump through your vast backlog of titles or wet your taste-buds with one of the demos? Choices, choices. Here's a reminder of some recent interesting new releases for Linux:
- Alwa's Legacy
- ATOM RPG Trudograd
- Attentat 1942
- Burning Knight
- Megaquarium: Freshwater Frenzy
- Poly Bridge 2
- Resolutiion
- shapez.io
Admittedly, my own time has been spread across a great many titles. Although, thanks to Titanfall 2 now working well on Linux with Steam Play Proton I will admit to having the need to go and play a lot more. Apart from that, I've also been feeling the ARPG call from Last Epoch, now that it's up to date and working very nicely, a proper gem in the rough and could be quite big once fully released. So many skills to master, loot coming out of everything you can fashion into a pocket and so many different types of enemies. Last Epoch is really one that action RPG fans need to take a look into.
Over to you in the comments section: what have you been playing recently?
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Insurgency (Source) mainly, but also Snake Pass (thx Houtworm) a nice game with unusual controls that works without any problem so far with Proton 5.0-9! 
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I am currently playing through Buldur's Gate Enhanced Edition.
Even though I had the original, I never got to finish it, being a much bigger JRPG player.
I've got two "Tales of" games to finish on Proton, namely Zestiria and Berseria, but I just had a sudden urge to play something more deep and complex, and also less action-oriented.
I already went through big troubles and lost much money in resurrection costs, damn those games were quite harsh.
Last edited by omer666 on 21 June 2020 at 2:05 pm UTC
Even though I had the original, I never got to finish it, being a much bigger JRPG player.
I've got two "Tales of" games to finish on Proton, namely Zestiria and Berseria, but I just had a sudden urge to play something more deep and complex, and also less action-oriented.
I already went through big troubles and lost much money in resurrection costs, damn those games were quite harsh.
Last edited by omer666 on 21 June 2020 at 2:05 pm UTC
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I have been playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulatorusing this script to run multiplayer via proton. It is awesome!
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Total War Warhammer 2 and some decent free renpy porn games that I've found on itch.io
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OG SWAT RV@Linux Jun 21, 2020
X4 the most.
Elite Dangerous, runs great with Proton.
and the demo Everspace 2 runs great with Proton-5.9-GE-2-MF and the launch option: -dx11
Elite Dangerous, runs great with Proton.
and the demo Everspace 2 runs great with Proton-5.9-GE-2-MF and the launch option: -dx11
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Demos mostly. :D
* ASYLUM Demo
Just touched shortly, I fear not being able to move freely is not my thing anymore. :-(
* Slender Threads Demo
Nice light horror, put on wish list
* Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask
Dark horror, lots of myterious talking, little actual game in the demo. So disturbing that I had to fetch a blanket. Supported it on Kickstarter (third backing ever). It gave me some Last Crown vibes - anybody can relate to this?
* The Last Cube Demo
(At first I was confounding this one with Parabox - too many games this weekend. :) )
Nice look and feel, unsure about the puzzling. Following the game.
* DRAG Demo
Nice one but I'm just too bad at racing.
* art of rally Demo
Nope.
* Nine Noir Lives Demo
Need to play more of it, not too much into this cat thing ATM.
* Patrick's Parabox Demo
Well, when the recursive boxes came, I was captivated. Put on follow list.
* Whateverland: Prologue
Did not really get into it, will take a look later.
* The Long Gate Demo
Nice presentation, but found it a bit too fiddly to try my solutions. And in the end... OR, NOT and AND...? Hm.
* The House of Da Vinci
My go to game at the moment (yes, fell for Proton whitelisted)
* ASYLUM Demo
Just touched shortly, I fear not being able to move freely is not my thing anymore. :-(
* Slender Threads Demo
Nice light horror, put on wish list
* Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask
Dark horror, lots of myterious talking, little actual game in the demo. So disturbing that I had to fetch a blanket. Supported it on Kickstarter (third backing ever). It gave me some Last Crown vibes - anybody can relate to this?
* The Last Cube Demo
(At first I was confounding this one with Parabox - too many games this weekend. :) )
Nice look and feel, unsure about the puzzling. Following the game.
* DRAG Demo
Nice one but I'm just too bad at racing.
* art of rally Demo
Nope.
* Nine Noir Lives Demo
Need to play more of it, not too much into this cat thing ATM.
* Patrick's Parabox Demo
Well, when the recursive boxes came, I was captivated. Put on follow list.
* Whateverland: Prologue
Did not really get into it, will take a look later.
* The Long Gate Demo
Nice presentation, but found it a bit too fiddly to try my solutions. And in the end... OR, NOT and AND...? Hm.
* The House of Da Vinci
My go to game at the moment (yes, fell for Proton whitelisted)
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Night in the Woods - finally got around to it after having it forever. Great art, good story, went in a completely different direction than expected at the end but not in a bad way. It dragged a little at some parts, but nothing too bad.
Estranged Act 1/2 - I did these back to back and it was a nice ride. It's hard to believe these were a one man+ show - the first feels and plays more dated for obvious reasons and isn't bad, but part 2 looks great and performs perfectly. Both are pretty short and easily worth going through.
Other than that, the usual TF2/Underlords timewasting and FF14 - the latter starting to worry me since AFAIK the old launcher is going away this upcoming patch and no progress has been made fixing the new one in WINE.
Estranged Act 1/2 - I did these back to back and it was a nice ride. It's hard to believe these were a one man+ show - the first feels and plays more dated for obvious reasons and isn't bad, but part 2 looks great and performs perfectly. Both are pretty short and easily worth going through.
Other than that, the usual TF2/Underlords timewasting and FF14 - the latter starting to worry me since AFAIK the old launcher is going away this upcoming patch and no progress has been made fixing the new one in WINE.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Cities: Skylines. I've completed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Painkiller Hell & Damnation recently.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 21, 2020
Blair Witch on my Windows 10 machine.
On my Linux machine, Epic store version of Metro Exodus via Lutris.
On my Linux machine, Epic store version of Metro Exodus via Lutris.
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A lot of The King of Fighters 2002 online with RedGGPO and Overcooked! 2
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Kohan Immortal Soverigns and Kohan Arihman;s Gift.
Funnily enough they sttuter like crazy on Windows but work great on Linux with wine
Funnily enough they sttuter like crazy on Windows but work great on Linux with wine
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The Messenger with Proton-GE. A nice Ninja Gaiden-like game with humorous dialogues. Bosses can be tough though, I'm stuck at the Devil boss.
I also have downloaded a bunch of new demos on Steam, played none yet.
I also have downloaded a bunch of new demos on Steam, played none yet.
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X the most.
Do you get graphics corruption when you minimize the game?
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Finished Detroit: Become Human and started a second playthrough. It works pretty good on NVIDIA, has some stutters in open areas (not related to shader compilation because it uses Vulkan natively, must be something else in Wine) but otherwise okay. Great interactive story with fantastic visuals and interesting characters!
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PublicNuisance Jun 21, 2020
I just finished Saints Row IV. It was pretty good, the port had performance issues but the game itself was fun. Just started a horror visual novel called "The Letter" last night. Enjoying ikt so far.
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I finally finished KOTOR 2 last night, so I feel like I'm at a bit of a loose end now. Those two have occupied pretty much all of my spare time for the last six weeks. Not that I don't have plenty of unfinished/ongoing games to play; I'll just have to see what sparks my interest next.
I had another look at Morrowind after the latest OpenMW release, only to realise it's three years since I last touched it, and I'd completely forgotten how to play.
So there's a better-than-even chance I'll start another playthrough of that.
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I had another look at Morrowind after the latest OpenMW release, only to realise it's three years since I last touched it, and I'd completely forgotten how to play.
So there's a better-than-even chance I'll start another playthrough of that.Last edited by Dunc on 21 June 2020 at 4:14 pm UTC
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Finally finishing Pillars of Eternity. Switched to "Easy", this is clearly not my genre.
With the release of OpenMW 0.46, started my second playthrough of TES III: Morrowind with just about 7 mods. It looks gorgeous!
With the release of OpenMW 0.46, started my second playthrough of TES III: Morrowind with just about 7 mods. It looks gorgeous!
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