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News - Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX
By Sakuretsu, 11 Jul 2025 at 3:14 pm UTC

Hell yeah!
May Vulkan support spread even more!

News - MR FARMBOY is like Stardew Valley but with automation and optimization
By Nagezahn, 11 Jul 2025 at 3:09 pm UTC

Tried the demo. It wasn't what I expected. The "automation" part thus far is hiring people to do work for you, but they work completely autonomously without any means to control then. There are farmers to replant crops you previously planted, marking a tile with the respective crop until you replant it with something else, and gatherers who pick up the harvest. I haven't seen any "optimisation" part so far. Maybe apart from "plant crops close to each other and plant the crops with the best yield". In its current state, I can't really see where it's going. What I like most about automation and optimisation are the puzzles you can set for yourself and then solve in hopefully interesting and smart or even brainfucky ways, and that's not what this game is at this point.

News - Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1
By _Mars, 11 Jul 2025 at 1:34 pm UTC

Doubt it would ever happen but it would be awesome if Valve paid both of them to make it Open Source (as far as legally possible) and maintain it. Then framegen (and maybe even some of the other upscaler options) could officially be integrated into gamescope.

Again, doubt it would happen. But it would be a nice addition I've seen plenty people ask about. Linux in general seems to lack some of those niche/more advanced features you can get on Windows. And unless AMD starts porting those features to Linux, Valve would probably be in the best position to push for feature parity themselves.

News - Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1
By Stella, 11 Jul 2025 at 1:28 pm UTC

Next step - official Linux support directly from the developer??

News - Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1
By tfk, 11 Jul 2025 at 11:19 am UTC

Aww...they are working together to make it work even better for us. emoji

News - Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX
By Eike, 11 Jul 2025 at 10:00 am UTC

Linux changing the Windows world. :)

News - Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX
By Stella, 11 Jul 2025 at 9:20 am UTC

Now we just need 3DMark and the hardware benchmarking/stress testing suite would be virtually complete on Linux!

News - Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations
By mi1stormilst, 11 Jul 2025 at 7:27 am UTC

Well this is good news, but my faith is shaken and will not be spending more than $20.00 on it someday.

News - First-person horror platformer Blessed Burden adds Linux and Steam Deck support
By D34VA_, 11 Jul 2025 at 6:43 am UTC

It's like a blend of Amid Evil and Ultrakill.

News - Chilled dino ranching game Paleo Pines is crowdfunding for a big free update
By emphy, 11 Jul 2025 at 5:33 am UTC

<sigh>

Yet another game where native linux support is steam exclusive.

News - Blue Archive from NEXON arrives on Steam and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
By Cookies, 11 Jul 2025 at 3:27 am UTC

I'm also stuck in "unpacking game resources..."
I got it working now.
If you or anyone still has this issue, it's because of the long installation folder path like using a secondary drive or perhaps the SD card on the SteamDeck. I only tried it on PC.
I had it installed on my secondary SSD and I just moved it to the default OS drive steam folder and it started working without any issue. Proton checkbox is unchecked in settings, it's using whatever proton version steam chose by itself.

News - A selection of upcoming games I'm excited to see release
By RFSharpe, 11 Jul 2025 at 12:39 am UTC

There are several games that are on my "Buy Upon Release" List. At the top of this list is Moonsigil Atlas. I was accepted for the play test and have found the game play very enjoyable. The game mechanics are unique and clever. The features that have been added since the demo was released in May are very impressive. I would highly recommend downloading the demo to anyone.

News - Inspired by the movie Aliens, tactical roguelike Xenopurge heads to Steam on July 11
By scaine, 10 Jul 2025 at 9:35 pm UTC

Thank you, @cybolic for liking my comment, today (Thur 10th July), reminding me that this is out tomorrow!! Woohoo! Happy Friday when it comes around, all!

News - A selection of upcoming games I'm excited to see release
By scaine, 10 Jul 2025 at 9:34 pm UTC

Some crackers on that list @R Daneel Olivaw, but quite a few are "Coming Soon", not necessarily this year, sadly!!

Also... that's your wishlist? I'm far looser with my Wishlist, which now has coming up on 100 entries! I have to do a quarterly clear down, cos I add so many games that don't appear to move at all!

News - Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations
By TheRiddick, 10 Jul 2025 at 8:27 pm UTC

Might restart my playthrough soon, didn't get far anyway, just turned in amulet then got distracted.

News - Steam now has a UI scaling slider and accessibility menu on desktop
By Joom, 10 Jul 2025 at 6:34 pm UTC

Well, it's about time. Steam has had issues rendering on HiDPI monitors for a while now, and launching it with a scaling override variable has been the only fix for years. Glad to see there's finally a GUI option for it.

News - Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations
By ElectricPrism, 10 Jul 2025 at 6:32 pm UTC

I never played Oblivion, but I recently found this animated cartoon comedy series by Matthew McCleskey that I enjoy a lot ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=-D9iQ68k2d4 )

News - Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck - sign up the Playtest
By Woodlandor, 10 Jul 2025 at 6:12 pm UTC

“Purple Library Guy has died of dysentery.”

News - Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more
By STiAT, 10 Jul 2025 at 5:23 pm UTC

Interesting that so few people have issues with the installer. Maybe it's just the gnome version suffering issues, but I get thrown in there, and it flickers / turns off and on screens all through the installation process (on a nvidia 3070Ti and a amd ryzen mini-pc which I use for game streaming).

Otherwise it's a really cool distribution and actually made me like atomic distributions. Except the download size of 1gb every day.

Though, I really switched to the cosmic main image to make sure I am not running the risk of actually having a too stable system. Didn't work, it's still stable and does not give me many problems.

Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2025 at 4:53 pm UTC

If the older titles are available to purchase for sure, but I haven't found BF2 for sale as I believe they shut the older games down on the master servers.

News - NonSteamLaunchers adds real-time Steam shortcuts and teases upcoming Steam integration
By Creepio, 10 Jul 2025 at 4:52 pm UTC

I do appreciate the efforts they're making here. While, I dream of a day when we're not forced to use other people's crappy launchers, this is a good band-aid to the problem on Steam Deck.

News - Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck - sign up the Playtest
By Purple Library Guy, 10 Jul 2025 at 2:57 pm UTC

OK, it's the "Roguelite" part I'm wondering about. How many times are we expecting to die in the process of setting up a farm?

News - Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations
By R Daneel Olivaw, 10 Jul 2025 at 2:16 pm UTC

The difficulty settings should help a ton with people getting too bored about halfway through. That's where you start to steamroll combat in anything but the highest setting, but the highest setting just becomes a slog. So hopefully these new changes can help with that.

Just whatever you do, stay away from the weapon enchanting table ... it breaks the game and renders all combat nonexistant, like it doesn't even exist. So if you do start enchanting weapons, the game just turns into a walking sim / questing / narrative game.

News - A selection of upcoming games I'm excited to see release
By R Daneel Olivaw, 10 Jul 2025 at 2:08 pm UTC

oh man, are you going to force me to go through and trim/cull/reorder my wishlist? Yes I think that's a great idea!

okay, after quite a bit of time, I'm back. Removed a bunch of stuff that either no longer looked interesting or hasn't had any updates in forever (like years time). Here's my wishlist (in no order) (I wish there were an easier way to list/link to this?):

  • KUU - interface looks crazy cool, and just something fresh and different - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3442050/KUU/ - Atmospheric, Sci-fi, Story Rich, RPG, Narrative

  • DERELIKT (what's with all caps sheesh) - just like you posted, looks awesome! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810510/DERELIKT/ - Adventure, Action, Retro, Action-Adventure

  • The Expanse Osiris Reborn - OMG YES gives me those Mass Effect vibes. Plus Owlcat is awesome - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3727390/The_Expanse_Osiris_Reborn/ - Action. RPG, Action RPG, Choices Matter

  • Quartet - my next obsession on the Deck - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307960/Quartet/ - RPG, JRPG, Pixel Graphics, 2D, Retro, Indie

  • Solasta II - absolutely fantastic party / turn based crpg, can't wait - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2975950/Solasta_II/ - Adventure, RPG, Strategy, Party-Based RPG

  • REPLACED - super cool looking retropunk pixely scifi goodness - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1663850/REPLACED/ - Pixel Graphics, Action, 2D Platformer, 2.5D

  • Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy - it's w40k, it's owlcat, it's crpg, just get into my veins - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3710600/Warhammer_40000_Dark_Heresy/ - Warhammer 40K, Adventure, CRPG, Action

  • Chained Echoes Ashes of Elrant - DLC to one of my all time fav Deck games - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350260/Chained_Echoes_Ashes_of_Elrant/ - RPG, Indie, Pixel Graphics, Turn-Based, JRPG

  • DEFICIT - looks like a super cool fps immersive sim, we shall see - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/DEFICIT/ - Action, Immersive Sim, Shooter, Atmospheric

  • Outer Worlds 2 - it's just more world class goodness from Obsidian - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449110/The_Outer_Worlds_2/ - RPG, Action RPG, Exploration, Open World

  • Garbage Country - for whatever reason reminds me of one of my all time fav games Interstate 76 - but more chill? - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/GARBAGE_COUNTRY/ - Atmospheric, Exploration, Driving, Adventure

  • Warhammer 40k Mechanicus II - it's w40k, it's a turn based rpg, just gonna mainline it - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2532480/Warhammer_40000_Mechanicus_II/ - Strategy, Action, RPG, Turn-Based Strategy

  • Greedfall II - love the change they made to turn based combat for this one - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1997660/GreedFall_II_The_Dying_World/ - RPG, Story Rich, Adventure, Fantasy, Action

  • Swordhaven Iron Conspiracy - just looks / feels like a world class CRPG - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2108180/Swordhaven_Iron_Conspiracy/ - CRPG, Adventure, Isometric

  • Archaelund - this is the one with the super cool concept of exploration in fps like skyrim, but then battles in isometric party turn based like bg3, love that concept. Let's see if they can pull it off - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082970/Archaelund/ - RPG, Adventure ,Party-Based RPG


News - First-person horror platformer Blessed Burden adds Linux and Steam Deck support
By CatKiller, 10 Jul 2025 at 2:03 pm UTC

They've not filled in the minimum requirements for their Linux build, which implies lack of testing. They could easily have just forgotten to fill in the box on Steamworks. Either way, the upshot is that they haven't said on the store page "we've tested it on this machine and it worked great."

The game isn't my bag, but I wish them luck.

News - Try the big demo update for Dicey Bugs, a turn-based deckbuilder where you control both sides
By eggrole, 10 Jul 2025 at 1:04 pm UTC

This looks like an almost 1-to-1 copy of Dicefolk, which I thought was a pretty decent game. It is more puzzle than deck/dice builder IMHO.

News - Chilled dino ranching game Paleo Pines is crowdfunding for a big free update
By pb, 10 Jul 2025 at 12:40 pm UTC

Weird but ok. How do you sign a deal where the publisher gets most of the fruits of your work? It's even worse than a 9-5 job.

Unless maybe the publisher is entitled to a bigger share up to a certain threshold (to quickly recoup their costs) and the threshold still hasn't been met? Would be nice to know the full story, but it will probably never happen.

News - Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations
By ScottCarammell, 10 Jul 2025 at 12:23 pm UTC

Wow, it might actually be playable someday!