Humble Choice for January 2024 is a pretty damn good selection of games, so here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
This is the monthly bundle that you can subscribe to allowing you to claim all of the games included each month with a fresh set, and it also gives you a Humble Store discount (bigger discount up to 20% if you stay subscribed to it for longer). Below I will note each game you can get included plus the Steam Deck rating, any ProtonDB rating if there is one and each is a Steam link if you need more info first.
What's included to claim:
Marvel's Midnight Suns - Deck Verified / ProtonDB Gold
+ the Midnight Suns - Doctor Strange Defenders Skin DLC
Two Point Campus - Deck Verified / Native Linux
Aragami 2 - Deck Verified / ProtonDB Platinum
Roguebook - Deck Playable / Native Linux
OTXO - Deck Verified / ProtonDB Platinum
Hell Pie - Deck Verified / ProtonDB Platinum
Twin Mirror - Deck Verified / ProtonDB Platinum
The Red Lantern - Deck Unsupported / ProtonDB Bronze
That is probably one of the better selections recently!
Check out Humble Choice here.
Quoting: Expalphalog*except for using "Glorious Eggroll" - I still have absolutely no idea what that is, how to get it, or how to use it.Glorious Eggroll is a maintainer of a custom proton fork, he is using Valve's Proton and applies updates, patches and fixes. It can be installed additionally to Valve's Proton and then be selected manually when clicking on Properties, Compatibility and then check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatiblity tool".
An easy way to install Proton-GE (GE for the initials, since Proton 8 it's called GE-Proton even) is to use a program called ProtonUp-QT.
There are many videos on youtube how to get this done, here's the one from Liam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6doaQNnHR60
Imho Proton Experimental is the best choice in general, as it's officially supported by Valve and reported issues should be based on their versions. GE-Proton is suited best, when specific fixes are needed, e.g. video playback with the media foundation codecs. Valve cannot include these codecs and transcoding the videos takes time.
Last edited by Corben on 15 January 2024 at 1:10 pm UTC
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