Since we were asked a lot about this, we reached out to porting studio Feral Interactive to see if they had any plans to update their Linux ports for the Steam Deck.
Feral have ported a number of titles to Linux in the past including Alien Isolation, XCOM & XCOM 2, Total War: WARHAMMER I & II, Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, HITMAN, the Tomb Raider series, Life is Strange & Before the Storm & Life is Strange 2, Dirt Rally and the list goes on. They also have a port of Total War: WARHAMMER III upcoming in "Early Spring".
After waiting quite a while, they replied today with an official statement about Steam Deck support:
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.Our most recent Linux titles are officially supported on Ubuntu only, and we do not currently have any plans to update games for further compatibility with Steam Deck or its operating system, SteamOS 3.0. If players encounter issues with Feral's native Linux versions of games on Steam Deck, we recommend playing them via Proton.
Quoting: elmapulQuoting: Alm888Rest assured, I have more than I will ever be able to finish. All Linux native. Most on GOG, some on itch.io or Humble. Had not to "pirate" a game in a long time (sinse 2012 at least). Oh, and I have exactly 0 (zero) "Feral games" on my Steal library because… I have no Steam library.
its not about the ammount of games, but the time you spend playing then, its worth?
there are tons of free games for android that, while they are free, they dont worth our time.
time is the most important thing in life, money? you can won on lotery and get rich and never need to worry about it again, but time? you cant recover that, and you only realize when its too late.
yes, i'm talking about myself.
Of course you're right that games should be worth one's time.
But I sure still have more native Linux games totally worth my time than I have actual time to play.
Four big CRPGs alone that are still unplayed, 4 * 50 hours at least, which amounts to many months for me, four new WadjetEye Games ports, four unplayed Zachtronic games, ...
Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm not even sure it's worth running ported games any more if they're just going to drop support anyway.
I think it depends on who's doing the port. Almost all of Ethan Lee's ports are still supported and being updated to run on Steam Deck.
Last edited by Curupira on 25 February 2022 at 5:47 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestI think it depends on who's doing the port. Almost all of Ethan Lee's ports are still supported and being updated to run on Steam Deck.
Ethan did a lot because he cares deeply for our hobby. You can't ask for that level of commitment from a porting house like Feral or Aspire.
The time of contracted ports is probably over. Proton dominates and if our marketshare grows, we may see transition to inhouse ports and hopefully a lot of games that are built upon Vulkan or even multi-platform to the core. Or not. What counts is that games run well and everyone trying Linux can find something to enjoy.
Last edited by const on 25 February 2022 at 5:26 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestJust FYI, I wasn't part of that quote!Sorry about that. I've now rectified my comment.
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