Quoting: ArnvidrThe first one was brilliant.

Totally agree, one of my fav games over the last years.

Unfortunately... (personal opinion rant)

Spoiler, click me

the sequel is more of a resource management/transport tycoon-ish game rather than a tiny puzzler like the first game. They should have called this one "Train Valley Tycoon" instead as it's a completely different game and can hardly be called a sequel.
I try to stay away from strong words like 'hate' but... I really loved the first game and strongly dislike the sequel. /rant

Anyway... the devs are cool. Definitely worth trying both games and make up your own mind!
Think of Train Valley 1 as a railway building puzzler, and Train Valley 2 as a simplified tycoon-esque resource transportation game.

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Quoting: SadLLet me quickly jump into this conversation just to add that it looks like it is possible to play a game with proton even if there is a native port. At least that's what people report in some reddit posts (/r/linux_gaming) link. People mention that you can download a windows version of a game through SteamCMD and then use the proton_run script to run it using proton.

I installed a game with Native2Proton, worked like a charm. I compared it to the Linux native version which I also had installed at the same time. It was just some small indie game but still.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80question on mesa performance and mad max i have a 4gb rx 550 being used on friend windows build ... he gets about 55/60 fps at 1080p med on windows 10.

:O

RX 550, 60 fps in Mad Max, 1080p, medium??
Dude, I find that somewhat hard to believe... but I'll take your word for it. Accepting those numbers as correct, I'd say the performance will be fine in Linux with Mesa (although there isn't much actual performance to begin with in this little runt of a card. :P)

The RX 550 is about as powerful as a handful of pocket lint. Comparable to the pathetic GTX 1030. Very low end cards, to call them 'gaming cards' would be extremely generous... but hey, if it runs, it runs, right?

I have a low profile RX 550 myself in a tiny HP machine so I'm allowed to sh*t on this card.

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Not to be confused with Wizball either.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI think you missed what might be the closest comparison, in looks at least: Helium Rain. Also Linux native.

Quoting: silentprocyonThere's also...

• The X series from Egosoft (SP, trade/combat), which are available natively for Linux (minus the first one).


• EVE online (MP, trade/combat), which I've heard works very well in Wine; one of the devs had even released a native launcher that runs a Wine-wrapped version of the game

Thanks guys, great additions. Quite a nice list even without touching on strategy/4X games... :)
Looks like we aren't exactly without games in this area, awesome indeed! (Still sucks that Limit Theory didn't make it tho...)

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Very sad to hear it. :(
The game looks looked highly promising and interesting. Always high risk involved when doing everything on your own, thankful that we don't have more projects crumble like this.

What alternatives do we have then?
I thought up a few, super simple description below. Tried to include all the big ones and hopefully only listed 'good' games...
All of these should be available on Steam, possibly on other places too.

Linux native
Everspace, SP rogue-lite explore/combat
Overload, SP/MP combat (from the makers of Descent)
Endless Sky, 2D SP trade/combat (free to play)
Strike Suit Zero, SP combat
Astrokill, Early Access, SP combat
Drifter, Early Access, SP explore/trade procedural open world (dead?)
Avorion, Early Access, SP/MP explore/trade/combat

Windows titles
No Man's Sky, SP/MP explore/craft/survival procedural open world (Proton OK)
Elite Dangerous, SP/MP MMO trade/combat (does not work in Linux)
Star Citizen, SP/MP MMO trade/combat (most likely not working in Linux)

Maybe GoL could make a space shooty game article, in honor of a fallen project? :)

edit: forgot to mention Star Citizen which isn't available on Steam.

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Observer is a very cool game. Rutger flippin' Hauer baby! :D

The game is a bit difficult to describe but think something like an artistic sci-fi detective game with horror elements. Scary at times without relying on stupid jump scares a.k.a. Hollywood bullshit "horror".
I don't want to call it a walking simulator, because it isn't one... but the gameplay isn't exactly full speed action. It's not entirely relaxed either because the eerie atmosphere is ubiquitous to every area of the game, while not being overpowering or extreme.
Can also note that gameplay is fairly linear.

Do note that there are plenty of bugs still... the negative mouse acceleration is seemingly impossible to disable and if you have mouse sensitivity issues, you're probably out of luck.
Observer was released for PS4/XBone and can naturally be played great with a controller. I would argue that mouse/keyboard has no real advantage due to the slow paced gameplay and overall game design.

Many complaints have been about motion sickness, that can be alleviated via ini file changes.
Widescreen other than 16:9 can be enabled via hex editing the binary executable. Check out the Steam forums, I'm often around. ;)

Oh, one more thing. Take your friggin' synchrozine!
The graphical distorsions are by design, but they will increase until the game is unplayable if you don't take it. It's literally the first thing you learn as you start out, but so many ppl missed it and complain about "broken graphics". :S:
Your hacked human body is full of questionable implants that help your police work, but it's a dark future...

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Not interested in a key. :)
Just commenting to say the game looks cool, different and steampunky-funky.

Good luck peeps!

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Quoting: Spud13ycouldn't even get it to launch

Too bad, you're missing out on a seriously sweet game.

I know it may not help you but I run Doom (2016) via Lutris, it installed and played flawlessly first try. Debian sid, KDE, nVidia. I used the install script from Lutris webpage. :)
(Didn't try Steam Play since Lutris worked perfectly.)

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Vincere posted an update yesterday, yet another dev struggling with getting Linux version working. I'm not a fan of this trend, it shouldn't be that difficult... but it seems to be quite a challenge. :(

QuoteVincere [developer]
Having trouble getting a Linux build to work properly, trying to port to Linux is one of my many hats I'm wearing, and I wish it was going better/easier, but there's been some shader errors and other problems that I'm slowly working through as I try to patch other parts of the game as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/503620/discussions/0/1354868867732208775/

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