Since I learned about UnReal World on this website, I haven't played much else any more. Sure, sometimes I dug out Dwarf Fortress, Kerbal Space Program, and of course Deponia: Doomsday, but those were just short distractions from my new addiction: surviving in the unforgiving wilderness of the UnReal World.
Seriously, UnReal World has a similar 'Just one more turn' feeling as Civilization, just that in URW there aren't turns, but tasks to complete, yet sure enough every 'I'll just fell one more tree' will be followed by a 'Oh, wait, there was a noise coming from my trap, I'll check that out', which in turn will be followed by 'I'll also quickly skin the trapped animal', what leads to 'I should start tanning the skin and cook the meat', and so forth.

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Wait, weren't the Obsidian developers cautious about any new Linux releases? I remember something about it not being worthwhile and such....

Anyhow, if that game really gets released for Linux, I'll definitely buy it.

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I'm still waiting for the radeonsi driver to meet the requirements of that game...

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That Canonical took this step makes me quite happy. The proprietary AMD drivers are a huge PITA imho, while the open source drivers just work (if you have the required firmware files, but they are installed by default on almost any distribution, Debian being the most notable exception). Performance is not up to par, but it's not very far off any more, with some cards and workloads the open source drivers actually outperform their proprietary counterpart.
Also, Intel tends to get a lot of praise for their open source Linux drivers. Feature-wise the open source AMD drivers are quite similar, what I'd consider a big plus point regarding the suitability of the AMD open source drivers for everyday usage.

The main drawback of the open source drivers is currently OpenCL, where important features such as image support are still missing, so if one is using OpenCL applications, one might have bad luck getting them to work with the open source AMD drivers.

Quoting: GuestI guess I'm screwed. Most of the games on my machine don't run without the driver. I love Grid Autosport and it didn't run at all with the open source drivers. Btw, I didn't buy a machine with AMD Graphics Card on purpose. My laptop's HD failed and I started using Ubuntu on an external HD while I got that one fixed(I remembered Linux could do that from the days I tried it and abandoned it because it wouldn't run my games and Adobe software). After that I fell in love with Ubuntu and decided to keep it but gaming has been unnecessarily painful. Good thing I installed windows on that external HD :/

GRID doesn't run with Mesa 11.1.x, but afaik it runs pretty well with 11.2, which should be released in a few days.

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Quoting: fleskOff the top of my head; Age of Empires II. Might go for something else once I've thought a bit about it though. Maybe Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, or A Hat in Time, though that one's not even released yet.

You might be interested in the OpenAge project. Maybe we'll soon be able to play an AoE II clone natively.

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Quoting: GuestGosh.. I would love to see Rome Total War 2 as promised way back 2013, Star Citizen, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Skyrim and any of the Men of War series. But I guess we all know that's never going to happen.
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I thought Kingdom Come: Deliverance had a planned Linux version right from the beginning?

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Regarding not yet released titles, I'd love to see No Man's Sky on Linux. Alternatively, a nice PS4 remote play client would be awesome, as my girlfriend tends to occupy the TV...

Already released Windows games that I'd like to see on Linux would be for instance The Whispered World, Undertale (which should be in development already), and SimplePlanes.

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I agree with QuanTuM, you should definitely give the trilogy a chance. The setting is absolutely hilarious, and the characters are amiable, even Rufus. Trust me, the dialogues will likely make you laugh so hard, you're going to cry.
Also, the soundtrack is awesome. Poki speaks/sings the narrator himself, I think also in the English version of the game, and the lyrics are epic. Don't look them up on Youtube, you'd suffer massive spoilers, as they summarize the chapters of the game.

Edit:
@stan: It's part of the game's humour that it's illogical. In order to progress, one has to think like Rufus. It's always a good idea to blow stuff up, set things on fire, and totally neglect the safety of other characters (and of course also of Rufus - in part 3 it'll get clear why).

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I have never had luck with the Linux version of TerraTech. The payload terminals simply don't work - they only present empty lists, no parts available - maybe the GoG testers experienced the same?

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I also consider the OUYA story a bad excuse.
At least they were honest enough to confess that they didn't have enough resources to finish a well tested Linux build until the release date.

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