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.
Gorogoa is a Java game, for example. It's also one of the most clever puzzle games I have ever seen.
Quoting: rustybroomhandleAgain 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.
That's an interesting point of view! Maybe you're right.
Because I've always wondered why the lists are dominated by all these "insignificant" titles when there's so many bigger titles that could have been declared "all good".
Dribbleondo 1 Aug, 2019
Quoting: Maweki Sam&Max hit the road? Are they really Proton-ing ScummVM instead of just using the native binary? That's amazingly stupid.Valve can't really make changes to the files provided by the developer. And the developer (apparently) doesn't want to provide Linux binaries.
So, this is the only way this can be done.
Another way would be to make something completely separate from Steam Play that handles console games, and could load the launcher provided by the devs and just load the rom directly with its assigned core. This way they could bring quite a lot of games on Linux natively, AND they could implement this for Windows also, so that it would be much easier for devs/publishers to publish old games on Steam, since they could just upload the old rom and that's it.
The problem is that I'm not entirely sure if it's legal to do this as a third party, or if it is legal at all from some consoles.
Last edited by Hori on 1 August 2019 at 9:52 am UTC
Quoting: fagnerlnI didn't notice that Dark Souls III is on whitelist, it's a really good game, I recommend.It is not just good, it is amazing. Praise the Sun!
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