It's been quite a while since we had a community chat post for Linux gaming, so let's get it going again: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?
There's so many games releasing all the time, along with cloud gaming very much being a thing that you can game across all sorts of Linux devices now. New isn't always better though of course and I often go back to the comfort of a few "safety" games that I know I will enjoy. Lately, that's been a likely unhealthy amount of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
With the latest Operation named Broken Fang, it pulled in the a Retakes game mode and I have to say, I have been enjoying that massively. It's much quicker to get through, with the T side planting the bomb as soon as a round starts. Smaller levels along with picking your loadout from cards, it really has mixed up how to play CS:GO for the better. The Wingman mode is also a huge amount of fun with quick 2v2 rounds. Well worth looking into if you've not played either modes.
Apart from that, I can't get away without mentioning Valheim, the singleplayer and co-op Viking survival game. It's simply brilliant. I've been happily playing it alone, as I'm just constantly discovering new things and it's a real joy while now and then hopping into the community-run GamingOnLinux servers (info in our Discord) to see what amazing creations people have done with the building tools.
Over to you in the comments: what's been pulling you in lately and are you enjoying it? Give over your latest recommendation to fellow readers.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Besides that, I also played the 2016 released "Particle Fleet: Emergence", play time 229 hours according to Steam (lies! ;). One can filter for user created maps with high rating, there are so good maps..
junibegood Feb 14, 2021
Quoting: junibegoodI'm now starting a full rerun of the three Witcher games. The first one hasn't aged really well...
Played that again in December. Don't agree that it didn't age well. It's a bit ... odd. But if you accept that the game mechanics are the way they are, it still holds up quite well. Especially considering it was basically an indie game.
DefaultX-od Feb 14, 2021
Quoting: benkeJust bought Baltic and Black Sea DLCs so I am back to ETS2 :-)I've had the Italian, French, and Scandinavian DLCs for a while and never really played them. But at the moment (for reasons we needn't go into) I need something not-too-demanding that can be paused at a moment's notice. ETS2 is perfect.
Quoting: EhvisI started a full run a few months ago, but ended up going straight to TW2 because I have fond memories of it and no patience. But the first one hasn't aged as badly as I thought it would.Quoting: junibegoodI'm now starting a full rerun of the three Witcher games. The first one hasn't aged really well...
Played that again in December. Don't agree that it didn't age well. It's a bit ... odd. But if you accept that the game mechanics are the way they are, it still holds up quite well. Especially considering it was basically an indie game.
(And I still haven't finished my re-run through TW2. I don't think I've ever finished it on PC. Let's be honest... that final chapter gets a bit tedious.)
DarkVantage Feb 14, 2021
When Control gets to be too intense, I take a break with The Room series. Awesome puzzles!
I've also kicked off a new playthrough of Divinity: Original Sin 2, this time with Beast as my main. I'm almost done with Fort Joy.
And just for something different I picked up Frostpunk in the Lunar New Year sale yesterday. Only played for a couple of hours though.
As far as native games go I also played a bit of Superhot which I got in a bundle some time ago but hadn't played yet. It's pretty fun for an hour or so - very interesting mechanic (time is frozen unless you are moving), but quite frustrating when you can't figure out how to beat a level.
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