It's been a little while since we had a community-chat post to round-up what you've all been gaming on Linux lately, so let's have a chat shall we.
We're all a bit spoilt for choice thanks to the likes of native Linux games, Steam Play Proton, cloud game streaming, lots of great emulators and more that you can all do right on Linux. This often makes choosing a game to play rather difficult doesn't it? It does for me.
I end up quite often going back to what I see as comfort games, those that you can just repeat over and over and you know them well, like a gaming comfort blanket with the likes of XCOM 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Streets of Rogue and others but there's a new one in my own personal list: Ziggurat 2 which released into Early Access with Linux support in late October.
Milkstone Studios seem to have crafted an absolutely magical first-person dungeon crawler, that I can quite easily see myself putting hundreds of hours into. There's something so supremely satisfying about running around a room waving a wand or a staff around, unleashing powering magics on somewhat freaky enemies (like those damn running carrots). When you get into the boss battles, it really gets your blood flowing too.
Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately? Let us know what you've newly discovered, what you keep going back to and more.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mohandevir Nov 9, 2020
Started to date an old friend of mine again... World of Tanks. I keep having an on and off relationship with this game. 
With Lutris and Proton 5.13 (instead of the supplied Lutris preset) it rocks!
With Lutris and Proton 5.13 (instead of the supplied Lutris preset) it rocks!
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tl;dr: Dishonored + 2 Story DLC (The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches), No Mans Sky, Dishonored 2
A little background: I have a PC in home that I recently upgraded (Ryzen 7 3800 + 1070ti + 32gb) after many many years so I am working through my backlog. Next on my list was Dishonored 2, sequel to a near perfect game I played soon after it was released in 2012. But I decided to first replay original game.
I also have work issued laptop (i7 9750H + 1660 + 32gb) that I use for coding and I am taking with me when traveling. It uses Ubuntu for work and separate disk with Windows for afternoons etc. Few months ago windows got broken and it is stuck in after windows update bsod boot loop which I did not had time to fix.
Last week I had to drop everything and pack and travel across my country for personal reason. I had some movies and tvshows downloaded for offline netflix so that was cool but then I thought: oh no! a week break from Dishonored ?!?! So I thought: wait a minute! Steam can now play windows games! And now the best part: I copied files from windows to ubuntu, steam discovered them and did not had to download anything!! It was just ~200mb for runtime layer and vulkan shaders compilation and just like that it was working! Full HD, graphics to the max and 130fps+!! I also copied no mans sky from windows and it also worked! During that week I did finish Dishonored and 2 story DLC (both for the first time - and I must say: one of the best story DLCs for a game!!) and started Dishonored 2. There were some issue in the beginning but disabling vsync fixed them all. Everything was detected! 144hz display, even binding to "mouse button 5" worked perfectly. Performance is bit worse than in first game but it is playable - but world is so much more detailed and living!. And I mean hardcore save-scumming load-on-fail-or-spotted trying-to-break-level-geometry-with-teleport playable. No single crash! First part has occasional (once every hour ?) freeze mostly in Menu but other than that it is perfect :) What A Time To Be Alive :D Gaming on Linux :D
A little background: I have a PC in home that I recently upgraded (Ryzen 7 3800 + 1070ti + 32gb) after many many years so I am working through my backlog. Next on my list was Dishonored 2, sequel to a near perfect game I played soon after it was released in 2012. But I decided to first replay original game.
I also have work issued laptop (i7 9750H + 1660 + 32gb) that I use for coding and I am taking with me when traveling. It uses Ubuntu for work and separate disk with Windows for afternoons etc. Few months ago windows got broken and it is stuck in after windows update bsod boot loop which I did not had time to fix.
Last week I had to drop everything and pack and travel across my country for personal reason. I had some movies and tvshows downloaded for offline netflix so that was cool but then I thought: oh no! a week break from Dishonored ?!?! So I thought: wait a minute! Steam can now play windows games! And now the best part: I copied files from windows to ubuntu, steam discovered them and did not had to download anything!! It was just ~200mb for runtime layer and vulkan shaders compilation and just like that it was working! Full HD, graphics to the max and 130fps+!! I also copied no mans sky from windows and it also worked! During that week I did finish Dishonored and 2 story DLC (both for the first time - and I must say: one of the best story DLCs for a game!!) and started Dishonored 2. There were some issue in the beginning but disabling vsync fixed them all. Everything was detected! 144hz display, even binding to "mouse button 5" worked perfectly. Performance is bit worse than in first game but it is playable - but world is so much more detailed and living!. And I mean hardcore save-scumming load-on-fail-or-spotted trying-to-break-level-geometry-with-teleport playable. No single crash! First part has occasional (once every hour ?) freeze mostly in Menu but other than that it is perfect :) What A Time To Be Alive :D Gaming on Linux :D
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Mostly Minecraft with mods and Northgard which r both native. I also started playing Age Of Empires Definite edition but I game on a Windows VM with KVM/Qemu/LookingGlass so not 100% sure if that counts.
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Vasya Sovari Nov 9, 2020
Currently enjoying Rise of the Tomb Raider, having just finished the Batman series.
Also rotating between Children of Morta, RUINER and Hollow Knight - the latter of which has *utterly miserable* native performance. Deeply tempted to buy Dead Cells, though I'd usually wait for a 50% sale (yes, I am that cheap)
Also rotating between Children of Morta, RUINER and Hollow Knight - the latter of which has *utterly miserable* native performance. Deeply tempted to buy Dead Cells, though I'd usually wait for a 50% sale (yes, I am that cheap)
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Vasya Sovari Nov 9, 2020
Quoting: orsontl;dr: Dishonored + 2 Story DLC (The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches), No Mans Sky, Dishonored 2
I loved Dishonored, and the DLCs are epic. No Man's Sky I love in theory but find it a...m.....a.....z.....i.....n......g....l....y s.......l........o.............w to play in practice. I've racked up a good 30+ hours and still have only the most basic of stuff sorted.
Dishonored 2 will likely be played after RotTR
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Still playing Project Zomboid; I tend to sink to it for a while and it have great Linux support as always :)
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tuxisagamer Nov 10, 2020
Just beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider for the second time.
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Anders1232 Nov 11, 2020
I'm still playing Total War Warhammer 2. Just hitted 750 hrs on it last week. Playing as Tomb Kings now. I'm also playing Divinity: Original Sin Enchanced Edition and I'm loving it. Already got Divinity: Original Sin 2 and and teamed up with friends to do a 4-player coop on it.
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One sad thing I must add is that I'm using proton to play Total War Warhammer 2, since the GNU/Linux version of it is outdated, doesn't even have the warden & the paunch DLC.
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Edit:
One sad thing I must add is that I'm using proton to play Total War Warhammer 2, since the GNU/Linux version of it is outdated, doesn't even have the warden & the paunch DLC.
Last edited by Anders1232 on 11 November 2020 at 12:26 pm UTC
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Quoting: Anders1232I'm still playing Total War Warhammer 2. Just hitted 750 hrs on it last week. Playing as Tomb Kings now. I'm also playing Divinity: Original Sin Enchanced Edition and I'm loving it. Already got Divinity: Original Sin 2 and and teamed up with friends to do a 4-player coop on it.The Tomb Kings are my favourite faction in TW: Warhammer 2 (together with Lizardmens). What I didn't like in the TW: Warhammer 1 and 2 was the diplomacy. When the enemy faction is travelling in your territory and you declare a war on them, you are the bad one. If this is done by the AI it is considered fine. And the opinion on you always going down is also not very nice. I can understand this in the factions that hate each other, but if this is actually your ally, it's strange.
Quoting: Anders1232Edit:I didn't know the Feral didn't ported it yet. I'm surprised, they usually follow very quickly after release. Does this means, they have some issues? Their radar is also pretty empty :-(
One sad thing I must add is that I'm using proton to play Total War Warhammer 2, since the GNU/Linux version of it is outdated, doesn't even have the warden & the paunch DLC.
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Anders1232 Nov 12, 2020
Quoting: ZlopezWhen the enemy faction is travelling in your territory and you declare a war on them, you are the bad one.
I didn't realised that. AFAIK declaring war on a faction which relations are bad doesn't reduce your reliability.
Quoting: ZlopezI didn't know the Feral didn't ported it yet. I'm surprised, they usually follow very quickly after release.I agree, on the other DLCs they taken one or 2 weeks to do the port. Hope they're doing ok.
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