As another week comes to a close it's time to have a chat with the GOL readership about what you're all playing lately, come and let us know.
This week saw the release of the absolutely magical Spiritfarer. I can't get over how wonderful a game it is, fully deserving of all the praise it has been receiving. Taking care of spirits, while doing a little building and crafting on your fancy boat while also giving out hugs to those spirits that need it. Absolute joy.
Spiritfarer is just so lovely, we're going to need Sin to livestream it I think. Keep an eye on our Twitch Channel for that. Although, with 7 Days to Die Alpha 19 being out it's going to be difficult to tear Sin away from it.
Quite a bit of my own personal time has also been testing out NVIDIA GeForce NOW. It's another game streaming service, which recently opened up to Chromebooks / ChromeOS in the browser so it works on Linux too. You can see a video of Fortnite running here as another example. It's certainly an interesting service but I still personally much prefer Stadia technically speaking, as I find it just works much better overall but I won't deny how good NVIDA did the game access side of things by it using existing accounts for people. Over the next many years, it will be very interesting to see all these cloud services fight for users.
I've also personally continued playing Orcs Must Die! 3 on Stadia with a partner, the huge battleground battles are just so much fun it's ridiculous. Getting to launch catapults at hundreds of Orcs, while another is running around hacking away at them is quite a sight.
As a reminder of some deals going:
- Humble Headup Games Band Boost Bundle - Vambrace: Cold Soul, Dead End Job and more
- There's also a Humble Killing Floor Bundle going
- Steam 0451 sale - celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th birthday with games that reference the iconic Fahrenheit 451
- GOG Weekend Sale - save on games where you only live once
- HITMAN titles cheap on Humble Store
Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Duke Takeshi Aug 22, 2020
There is also one other thing I like about the game: the "old-style" gameplay, simple and refreshing. There are no RPG elements in this shooter, no god-mode augmentation that lets you see through walls, or suddenly become invisible. And DAMN I forgot how good hand-crafted tube levels can be. No open-world-bullshit that lets you "explore" repeatable and boring tasks along the way, just action-packed levels where after each corner a new surprising enemy or a cool physics puzzle is waiting for you.
I had forgotten about half-lifes well-earned legacy, which gave rise to the success of one of the largest companies in the gaming industry. The level design is seriously superb, even by today's standards, and I'm looking forward to yet another playthrough, plus the new Xen levels they've put in there.
Also started playing Children of Morta. Seems cool but I didn't play much so far.
ewertonurias Aug 22, 2020
2. Fall Guys (18 hours on Proton)
3. South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ (20 hours on Proton)
4. The Disney Afternoon Collection (Proton)
5. Bioshock Remastered (14 hours on Proton)
6. RuneScape.
If Proton didn't exist, I would probably be playing some native, maybe Awesomenauts (3.254 hours) or Dota 2 (35 hours).
Quoting: sourpuzI had the itch to do some old-school shooting, so I played some F.E.A.R via Lutris. I've also completed the Hearts of Stone-DLC for Witcher 3. It's a bit meh. It's an interesting story, but I kinda feel they could have done more with it.
Blood in Wine is a longer story, but I found Hearts of Stones to be still interesting.
furaxhornyx Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887Got back to dying in Dead Cells, it has been a while since last I played it and there's been huge amount of content since then.
When I am done with unlocking everything back in Wizard of Legend, I will probably go back to Dead Cells and discover the last few DLC contents (or die trying
). I only made 1 playthrough since The Bad Seed, so there's probably a lot more to discover now.Edit: just finished the demo of Domino House , and you should probably give it a try if you haven't done so yet
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And of course 7 Days to Die released A19 to stable, so that had to happen. No time for anything else!
ArtyomHavok Aug 23, 2020
Starlifter Aug 23, 2020
Pillars of Eternity II - Ever since Baldur's Gate, I have always been a huge fan of isometric RPGs and this one must be one of the best modern ones (waiting for BG III)
Fallout New Vegas (through Steam's proton) - Is there something more captivating than a post-apocalyptic RPG-shooter?
HoMM III HD HotA (through Wine) - One of my favourite games of all time and since I have never finished the campaign missions, I decided to do it now :)
Quoting: fagnerlnSome Linux games on GoG can't run anymore as it uses outdated libs, needing expertise to set the environment. As they don't support Linux in their Galaxy client (don't even allow to download). I'll never buy anything on GoG, until they support us like we deserve. Steam > GoG, f*** this DRM philosophy.
Have tried checking Lutris installers ?
Usually people try the best to keep the games working there, it might be worth a shot.
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