Oddly enough, the LEGO games seem to also be discounted on Steam right now and at slightly better prices at that.

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Quoting: theghostMaybe I am too blind to see it but where do I see the Steam-Play label in the shop of supported games?
Suppose I want a list of all officially supported steam-play games how can I get this?
I can't see any Steam-Play label as written here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9439-QHKN-1308&l=english#which
And this list incomplete: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

You can add it yourself for now if you're using GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey/etc. by using this script. It's quite handy.

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Quoting: PhlebiacFrom the article: "Ubisoft has been able to accurately port one of its most advanced titles from Windows and DX11 across to Linux and Vulkan." Would be nice to see them attempt to recoup some of that development cost by actually making it available outside of streaming.

Please don't forget the part that comes before, it completely changes the meaning:

Quoting: Eurogamer.netwe still have no idea if the Odyssey demo is using the system spec shared with developers working on the Yeti platform. If it is, all we can really take away from this is that Ubisoft has been able to accurately port one of its most advanced titles from Windows and DX11 across to Linux and Vulkan

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Quoting: 1xokCan you play it with children or is it too complicated for that? The little dragons should please children very well.

And adults! I'll admit that I'm mostly drawn to it because of those little critters, enough that I'll actually be purchasing it. I've never really been interested in card games but if I can have a furry little winged wolf-bear cheering me on whilst playing, that's good enough for me :D

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Quoting: ArehandoroI wonder why it's easier to whitelist Star Wars - Dark Forces rather than using Dropbox like the GOG version. Good to see so many games whitelisted though :D

Because using DosBox requires a separate Linux depot, a custom DosBox setup and testing of the whole thing whereas using Proton just requires it to be tested, verified to work and then setting which version of Proton it was verified to work with; no changes need to be made to the game files / distribution.

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Quoting: NaibLEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™


wait what! I have it on the Wii (I have most :) ). I have zero issue with rebuying as they are great and the kids love them BUT Lego Incredible is giving me issues so I am reluctant

If you're interested, "LEGO Batman: The Videogame" works flawlessly for me in Proton (and has a "Gold" rating on ProtonDB due to it requiring the "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%" launch command). Most of the LEGO games should work (with that command, most likely), except for "LEGO The Incredibles" and "LEGO DC Super-Villains" which require too much fiddling for comfort.

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Quoting: NezchanAm I imagining things or did Jamestown and Reckless Disregard for Gravity already have Linux ports around someplace? Humble, maybe? I'm absolutely certain I've played the latter on Linux at least (and been terrible at it).

Jamestown at least had a Linux port but, if I remember correctly, it hasn't been updated since its Humble launch and isn't on Steam.

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I think the main issue here isn't that the game won't launch with a Linux version, but that it was dropped completely. If Snapshot Games had come out and said that they just couldn't finish it in time or had misjudged their budget for it, that they had a number of specific issues (and welcomed help from the community) on Linux and would be looking at it after launch or after initial sales had reached a certain threshold or that they were waiting on Unity to fix a number of issues, then it would at least made sense and thought I wouldn't be happy about it - obviously - I would understand and they could have kept my money. Had they asked the community for help before this statement, that would have been even better (and would at least remove the distribution argument) and might even produced solutions for the issues they were having.
The way this was handled was just terrible; it's a "thanks for your money, promotion and feedback, but we don't want to deal with you anymore". At least they offer refunds, though again, that wouldn't even had been necessary with better handling (for me at least). I was pretty hyped for the game and now I don't even think I'd pick it up if it worked flawlessly in Proton.

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Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: GuestThey should have planned for this from the moment they launched their kickstarter campaign, in other words they just promised linux suport as a PR stunt to sucker money out of us lot because they know we pay well on average, and then they go back on their word with a bunch of bs excuses later on? This is not ok, this should not be tolerated.

If that were the reason, then why releasing two backer builds for Linux?
For all we know they might just want to save work load, and we just might not be important to them, because of our small numbers. Therefore we might have lost importance because of the XBox version, even without any ominous anti-Linux payment from Microsoft.
It's not nice behaviour, I don't like it, so I'll take the refund and go.

That's quite likely the reason, but since a Linux version was part of what they promised in their campaign that just doesn't work as an excuse at all. A part of the money they received was supposed to be earmarked for Linux support and doing the research to make sure they wouldn't get themselves in trouble, by for example depending too much on Direct3D features.

I've also requested a refund and I too find the behaviour despicable.

I feel a bit like I have to sit down with Snapshot Games and explain them that the money was for food, not drugs/alcohol (harsh comparison, I know, but that's how it feels to me).

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I'm both saddened and angry at this news. Their reasons sound like either poor excuses or bad planning. In any case, I've requested a refund for my Fig contributions as this is straight up not what they promised to use the funding for.

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