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Status of the most played games on steam
Code Artisan May 23, 2016
Not very useful nor interesting but i have made a python program to retrieve the status of the 99 (currently) most played games on Steam.

Only 37 of them do support linux (37%)
9 in the top 15 (60%).
5 in the top 5 (100%).

The status of 4 games is unknow because they don't have any page on the steam store:
- Football Manager 2014
- Football Manager 2015
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer
- TERA

From what i have read on the steam forums, Once a new Football Manager is released, the previous version is removed from
the store to force people to buy the new one.

Current Players | Peak Today |                                    Game Name |      Status
--------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------- | -----------
        573,453 |    965,269 |                                       Dota 2 |   SUPPORTED
        447,116 |    568,692 |             Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |   SUPPORTED
         62,463 |     65,014 |                        Football Manager 2016 |   SUPPORTED
         60,372 |     68,998 |                        ARK: Survival Evolved |   SUPPORTED
         54,022 |     69,929 |                   Sid Meier's Civilization V |   SUPPORTED
         53,138 |     72,353 |                                    Fallout 4 | UNSUPPORTED
         45,681 |     57,580 |                              Team Fortress 2 |   SUPPORTED
         43,589 |     46,414 |                                Rocket League | UNSUPPORTED
         34,959 |     40,229 |                                       Arma 3 | UNSUPPORTED
         34,008 |     39,676 |                                         Rust |   SUPPORTED
         33,184 |     42,935 |                                  Garry's Mod |   SUPPORTED
         30,195 |     34,746 |                                     Warframe | UNSUPPORTED
         29,931 |     40,176 |                                    Stellaris |   SUPPORTED
         29,214 |     36,168 |                  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | UNSUPPORTED
         26,738 |     33,445 |                               DARK SOULS III | UNSUPPORTED
         25,626 |     32,816 |                Tree of Savior (English Ver.) | UNSUPPORTED
         21,851 |     33,069 |                           Grand Theft Auto V | UNSUPPORTED
         19,386 |     26,445 |                                     Terraria |   SUPPORTED
         18,070 |     21,872 |                               Counter-Strike |   SUPPORTED
         17,581 |     24,172 |                                         DOOM | UNSUPPORTED
         16,634 |     19,871 |                     The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | UNSUPPORTED
         15,271 |     23,478 |                                     Unturned |   SUPPORTED
         14,361 |     15,320 |                               Clicker Heroes | UNSUPPORTED
         13,653 |     14,065 |                        Football Manager 2015 |      UNKNOW
         13,486 |     15,109 |                                        SMITE | UNSUPPORTED
         12,852 |     14,823 |                                  War Thunder |   SUPPORTED
         12,689 |     16,951 |                       Euro Truck Simulator 2 |   SUPPORTED
         12,317 |     13,987 |                       H1Z1: King of the Kill | UNSUPPORTED
         12,203 |     14,571 |                  Call of Duty: Black Ops III | UNSUPPORTED
         10,943 |     11,113 |                                Knight Online | UNSUPPORTED
         10,494 |     12,292 |         Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition | UNSUPPORTED
         10,121 |     11,797 |                        Europa Universalis IV |   SUPPORTED
         10,059 |     12,659 |                               Stardew Valley | UNSUPPORTED
          9,317 |     11,151 |               Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege | UNSUPPORTED
          8,991 |     10,772 |                       Counter-Strike: Source |   SUPPORTED
          8,704 |     10,046 |                    Tom Clancy's The Division | UNSUPPORTED
          7,971 |     11,205 |                                Left 4 Dead 2 |   SUPPORTED
          7,965 |      9,690 |                       Mount & Blade: Warband |   SUPPORTED
          7,758 |      9,567 |                                     PAYDAY 2 |   SUPPORTED
          7,646 |      9,424 |                                Borderlands 2 |   SUPPORTED
          7,600 |     10,392 |              FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster | UNSUPPORTED
          7,099 |      8,309 |                                Path of Exile | UNSUPPORTED
          6,842 |      7,832 |                                         DayZ | UNSUPPORTED
          6,520 |      8,118 |                                     Factorio |   SUPPORTED
          6,479 |      7,016 |                          Company of Heroes 2 |   SUPPORTED
          6,442 |      6,966 |                The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |   SUPPORTED
          6,406 |      7,941 |                                        Trove | UNSUPPORTED
          6,329 |      8,138 |                                    Robocraft |   SUPPORTED
          6,260 |      7,576 |                             Cities: Skylines |   SUPPORTED
          6,251 |      7,518 |                Age of Empires II: HD Edition | UNSUPPORTED
          6,163 |      7,992 |                                       XCOM 2 |   SUPPORTED
          6,042 |      7,194 |                            Heroes & Generals | UNSUPPORTED
          5,982 |      7,159 |                            Total War: ATTILA |   SUPPORTED
          5,776 |      6,889 |           Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition | UNSUPPORTED
          5,612 |      6,681 |                                   Brawlhalla | UNSUPPORTED
          5,537 |      7,198 |                                7 Days to Die |   SUPPORTED
          5,302 |      5,471 |                         AdVenture Capitalist |   SUPPORTED
          5,257 |      6,133 |            FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn | UNSUPPORTED
          5,123 |      6,954 |                                         TERA |      UNKNOW
          4,998 |      5,216 |                        Football Manager 2014 |      UNKNOW
          4,934 |      5,459 |                  Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead | UNSUPPORTED
          4,730 |      7,823 |                        Don't Starve Together |   SUPPORTED
          4,500 |      4,883 |                               Youtubers Life | UNSUPPORTED
          4,472 |      5,264 |                            Empire: Total War |   SUPPORTED
          4,381 |      5,175 |                         Farming Simulator 15 | UNSUPPORTED
          4,356 |      5,282 |                            Crusader Kings II |   SUPPORTED
          4,345 |      5,301 |                              Space Engineers | UNSUPPORTED
          4,246 |      4,999 |                          Total War: SHOGUN 2 | UNSUPPORTED
          4,194 |      5,788 |                                   Battleborn | UNSUPPORTED
          4,090 |      5,507 |                            Shakes and Fidget | UNSUPPORTED
          4,002 |      4,634 |                              Elite Dangerous | UNSUPPORTED
          3,993 |      5,466 |                                 PlanetSide 2 | UNSUPPORTED
          3,973 |      4,739 |                              Darkest Dungeon |   SUPPORTED
          3,973 |      5,193 |                         Kerbal Space Program |   SUPPORTED
          3,945 |      4,517 |                           Marvel Heroes 2016 | UNSUPPORTED
          3,912 |      4,375 |                                  Magic Duels | UNSUPPORTED
          3,862 |      4,678 |                                      Warface | UNSUPPORTED
          3,861 |      4,501 |                                   Dirty Bomb | UNSUPPORTED
          3,651 |      4,435 |                       Medieval II: Total War |   SUPPORTED
          3,647 |      4,636 |                Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies | UNSUPPORTED
          3,630 |      5,000 |                                     NBA 2K16 | UNSUPPORTED
          3,589 |      3,977 |                           H1Z1: Just Survive | UNSUPPORTED
          3,309 |      3,981 |                                    Grim Dawn | UNSUPPORTED
          3,309 |      4,534 |     Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer |      UNKNOW
          3,212 |      3,922 |         METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN | UNSUPPORTED
          3,088 |      3,510 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer | UNSUPPORTED
          3,069 |      4,123 |                           Fallout: New Vegas | UNSUPPORTED
          3,043 |      3,684 |                                   The Forest | UNSUPPORTED
          2,948 |      3,761 |                 Empyrion - Galactic Survival | UNSUPPORTED
          2,898 |      3,475 |     DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin | UNSUPPORTED
          2,821 |      3,038 |                    Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 | UNSUPPORTED
          2,806 |      3,596 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer | UNSUPPORTED
          2,773 |      3,340 |             Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 myClub | UNSUPPORTED
          2,692 |      3,820 |                                    Undertale | UNSUPPORTED
          2,684 |      3,095 |  Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition | UNSUPPORTED
          2,656 |      3,577 |                   Galactic Civilizations III | UNSUPPORTED
          2,631 |      3,149 |                                  Dying Light |   SUPPORTED
          2,615 |      3,195 |                     American Truck Simulator |   SUPPORTED
          2,546 |      3,027 |                           EVGA PrecisionX 16 | UNSUPPORTED

       TOTAL:    99
   SUPPORTED:    37
 UNSUPPORTED:    58
      UNKNOW:     4


The source code (Needs the BeautifulSoup library https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json
import sys

def eprint(*args, **kwargs):
    print("[STDERR]", *args, file=sys.stderr, **kwargs)

# Scrape steam's stats
eprint("Scraping steam's stats page...")
html = urlopen("http://store.steampowered.com/stats/")
bs = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), "html.parser")
topGamesTr = bs.findAll("tr", class_="player_count_row")

# Table columns
topGames = [["Current Players"],
            ["Peak Today"],
            ["Game Name"],
            ["Status"]]

total            = len(topGamesTr)
totalSupported   = 0
totalUnsupported = 0
totalUnknow      = 0

# Fetch games information to fill table columns
for i, gameTr in enumerate(topGamesTr):
    eprint("Processing game", i, "on", total, "...")
    # Current Players
    topGames[0].append(gameTr.contents[1].contents[1].contents[0])
    # Peak Today
    topGames[1].append(gameTr.contents[3].contents[1].contents[0])
    # Game Name
    topGames[2].append(gameTr.contents[7].contents[1].get_text())
    # Game store address
    url = gameTr.contents[7].contents[1].get("href")    
    # Has the game a store page ?
    if url.startswith("http://store.steampowered.com/app/"):        
        # Retrieves game's information from the steam store (JSON)
        url = url.replace("app/", "api/appdetails?appids=")[:-1]
        js = json.loads(urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8'))      
        for d in js:           
            # Is linux supported ?
            if js[d]["data"]["platforms"]["linux"]:
                totalSupported += 1
                status = "SUPPORTED"
            else:
                totalUnsupported += 1
                status = "UNSUPPORTED"
    else:
        totalUnknow += 1
        status = "UNKNOW"                      
    topGames[3].append(status)

# Format of table is column major
#  [(header1|row1|row2),
#   (header2|row1|row2),
#   ...]       
def printTable (table):
    columnAmount = len(table)
    columnsWidth = [0] * columnAmount
    rowAmount    = len(table[0])    
    # grab columns width and print the headers
    for i in range(columnAmount):
        columnsWidth[i] = max([len(x) for x in table[i]])
        print("{0:>{1}}".format(table[i][0],columnsWidth[i]),end="")
        if i+1<columnAmount:
            print(" | ", end="")
    print("") 
    # print separation row
    for i in range(columnAmount):
        print("-" * columnsWidth[i], end="")
        if i+1<columnAmount:
            print(" | ", end="")
    print("")   
    # print elements rows
    for i in range(1, rowAmount):
        for j in range(columnAmount):
            print("{0:>{1}}".format(table[j][i],columnsWidth[j]),end="")
            if j + 1 < columnAmount:
                print(" | ", end="")
        print("")

eprint("")
printTable(topGames)
print("")
print("{:>12}: {:>5}".format("TOTAL", total))
print("{:>12}: {:>5}".format("SUPPORTED", totalSupported))
print("{:>12}: {:>5}".format("UNSUPPORTED", totalUnsupported))
print("{:>12}: {:>5}".format("UNKNOW", totalUnknow))
Naizugai May 23, 2016
ARMA 3 runs on Linux.
chriskringel84 May 24, 2016
This list is really neat! Thanks!

Interesting would also be the list sorted among user reviews. Like: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&category1=998&page=1 or https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/ (which you can sort using Wilson score)

The Top 20 doesn't look too bad. But I'm really missing "One Finger Death Punch". It's an XNA game, which could be quite easily ported. And would be great for a SteamOS couch session. The devs sadly haven't been really freaked out about doing a Linux port or let Ethan Lee do it. They seem a bit uninterested about it. (which is fine in itself of course). Maybe they're just not that much informed that it's not that difficult to port XNA via new versions of FNA nowadays.

And I'm looking forward to the "Stardew Valley" port. And "Dishonored" would be something I wish for.
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