I wonder how many smaller indie titles will be among those 120. That's what I mostly play these days, and what makes up the majority of my wishlist. I'm definitely the wrong demographic for a service with such a limited selection. Even GOG fails to get all the neat little gems that I have set my eyes upon right now.

I'd say for Stadia to have any chance of long term success, they have to develop a couple exclusives that appeal to the masses (or hand out plenty stuff for free like Epic does). Neither would make them any dearer to me ...

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Please continue with the Stadia news. While the service isn't for me, for multiple reasons, I find the articles still interesting. Given that Stadia uses Linux as a platform and allows playing the games from Linux systems, it is both relevant and fitting.

Though honestly, I am already looking forward to the final article announcing the impending shutdown of the thing.

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Quoting: SirLootALot2. Any the Settlers game

Oh yeah. The upcoming Settlers game would be a blast! That's the first game where I'm seriously rethinking my anti Ubisoft stance. If it came to Linux, that might win me over.

I'd also love to see Baldur's Gate 3, though who knows by when this will be out. It's also heading to Stadia, so the work is mostly done already.

Any other upcoming game I am wanting to play is likely too niche to even mention. Oh well, make #3 Yes, Your Grace.

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Quoting: EikeI'm not sure how many people will use the editor, but as an adventure player I'm sure happy seeing such Linux dedication from them.

Me too.

Although I couldn't find anything definite in a quick search, their runtime must have supported Linux for quite a while now. That the editor supports it too is just the icing on the cake :-).

Now, if only someone would make some more good P&C Adventures in the Daedalic style ...

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Even including non-native titles, I'd be hard pressed to assemble a top 5 list of 2019 video games. I guess I could list the 5 least bad, as I did buy eight 2019 releases in total, but I'd really only want to mention games that left me impressed.

So my top 2019 Linux title (#3 overall) is Jenny LeClue! I hope 2020 will be kinder ...

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Quoting: PatolaIt works on my rig absolutely perfect except for the poor performance (specially on the Rattay Tourney). And I've played it for almost 50 h so far.

Yeah. I played it start to finish, 150 hours or so, with minor issues only. Performance was poor, but so is my hardware ;-). Though as there are plenty reports of people with vastly better hardware and same poor performance, a native port would definitely be appreciated. Also, not to forget, during their Kickstarter they listed Linux as a supported platform.

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Quoting: tuubiWrong game I think. :)

Serves me right for writing stuff before I had a chance to wake up properly. I interpreted "This one ..." as a direct reply to my original post, when it was probably not.

Can't comment on Cities: Skylines, unfortunately.

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Quoting: NezchanThe question is, are these the better DLC for it? Or would I need more for a quality experience?

Space Race and Green Planet are the two big DLCs. The former adds AI "opponents", the latter terraforming. So as far as I can tell you're mostly missing out on cosmetic stuff (alternative building skins and additional background music).

On top you should be able to get the "Mysteries Resupply Pack" free on Steam, which can improve replay value a bit by adding more "story events".

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I bought Surviving Mars quite recently when it was discounted on GOG and had quite a bit of fun with it. The top tier gets you that at an even lower price, with 3 other games in addition. Seems like a pretty good deal :-).

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Quoting: fleskI'm not a .NET developer, so I'm not an authority on the subject, but I know our Microsoft teams are developing most of their applications with .NET Core deployed on Linux these days, so I assume it has most/all of the features that .NET has.

.NET Core 2 had probably about 90% of the .NET Framework features and was mostly missing Windows-centric stuff, like the user interface bits and pieces. They've implemented those on top of NET Core 3 now, but they're still Windows only. Mostly, I guess, because the .NET Framework proper will no longer see any (major) new (language) features, so .NET Core is the only path forward. But they're also going to drop "Core" and simply call the next version .NET 5. But I don't expect that to be truly cross-platform either.

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