After recently pushing out a pretty big update to Steam Play with Proton 4.11, Valve have now added some additional titles to their Whitelist.
What is the Whitelist? Currently, this is the list Valve have accepted to be shown as a Windows game you can install in the Linux Steam client, without enabling Steam Play on your entire library. They are also set to a specific version of Proton by Valve, to hopefully give the best experience.
The new titles added yesterday were:
- APE OUT
- CivCity: Rome
- Cube Escape: Paradox
- Cuphead
- DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Deathsmiles
- Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire
- Downwell
- DuckTales: Remastered
- Fallout
- Fallout 2
- Fieldrunners
- Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions
- Gorogoa
- Heat Signature
- iZBOT
- Katana ZERO
- Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]
- Lovers of Aether
- Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down!
- My Friend Pedro
- Otaku's Adventure
- Outlast 2
- Quell
- Quell Memento
- Quell Reflect
- Quell Zen
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Shin Samurai Jazz
- Solitaire. Dragon Light
- Space Invaders Extreme
- Synonymy
- The Messenger
They did also add some special configuration options for GRID, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon and QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity. Even though GRID and the Metal Gear game are not whitelisted yet.
Valve don't seem to have a public list anywhere I could see, but thankfully SteamDB are tracking it here, which shows the above and all others previously added. There's now about 168 titles in the whitelist.
This is likely the list Valve will use to eventually show Steam Play on the store pages for games, how they do that though we have no idea as they haven't talked about it lately. In the original Steam Play announcement, Valve simply said "whitelisted games will not be offered for purchase or marked as supported on Linux on the Store during the initial Beta period".
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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elmapul 2 Aug 2019
Again it seems to be a wide range of underlying tech. I think internal testing and subsequent whitelisting have more to do with ticking compatibility boxes than anything else.actually now that i read that, it make sense, it sounds like what i had to do to make an windows-only renpy game work: just open it as if its a project file and click on run.
Gorogoa is a Java game, for example. It's also one of the most clever puzzle games I have ever seen.
but i had to figure out it was made on renpy (quite easy once i know that renpy exists) then install it from the developers site not from the repo (the repo version is borkend and outdated, the developer explicitly said they dont support this means of distribution)
Gryxx 2 Aug 2019
Hmmm...
Guess i no longer have any excuse to not pickup first two Fallouts.
Lack of time maybe?
That's a good excuse not to play them. It is weak excuse for not buying them
lejimster 2 Aug 2019
Hnnn, I'm really tempted to pick up Cuphead, but I don't want to buy "new" games to play in Proton. In my opinion it encourages devs to be lazy and treat Linux users as second class citizens (at best). I'd rather buy games from devs that actually support Linux directly.
I understand your feeling, but the only way they're going to know you exist is if you buy the game through steam and play it through proton. That way they can see it's actually a Linux sale and you are now visible to them.
I used to work in the games industry and just developing for one platform is hard enough, it's a highly stressful environment trying to hit deadlines. In many cases doing the Linux build is because somebody in the company loves Linux and puts the extra hours (often their own time) supporting us. This was the case with iD in the past, as soon as those one or two programmers left the company the linux builds dried up.
jens 2 Aug 2019
I didn't notice that Dark Souls III is on whitelist, it's a really good game, I recommend.
As far as I remember DSIII was already white-listed for Proton 3.16
Edit: yes, see https://steamdb.info/app/891390/info/
(Reading that list makes me realize that the titles in OP are white-listed for Proton 4.2, not for the shiny new 4.11. Interesting and probably a wise approach.)
Last edited by jens on 2 Aug 2019 at 2:27 pm UTC
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