Well now, it's been quite some time since I asked a direct question to my readers. Here we are once again, as I open up the floor to you.
What have you been playing on Linux lately and what do you think about it?
Personally, I've been testing out Sudden Strike 4 which releases with day-1 Linux support tomorrow. I'm going to be livestreaming a preview of it in about 10 minutes on our Twitch channel. So far, so good and I will have more thorough thoughts on it at release! Remember to keep an eye on the sidebar, as it list the next livestream and this page where you can see our schedule.
I also decided to dive in at the deep end with The Long Dark story mode, but I have to say so far it seems quite disappointing. The story feels a little boring and some of the mechanics have been annoying me quite a lot. I've lost a few campfires that I desperately needed trying to go to the pause menu quickly, but instead it just stops making my campfire — annoying. I will have more thoughts to share when I've finished the first episode, the sandbox mode is great though.
Also, a shout out to the Putt-Putt games, as my son recently completed Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo in an hour, with very little help. He loves it, so if you have kids and they might like short adventure games I highly recommend the series. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
What have you been playing on Linux lately and what do you think about it?
Personally, I've been testing out Sudden Strike 4 which releases with day-1 Linux support tomorrow. I'm going to be livestreaming a preview of it in about 10 minutes on our Twitch channel. So far, so good and I will have more thorough thoughts on it at release! Remember to keep an eye on the sidebar, as it list the next livestream and this page where you can see our schedule.
I also decided to dive in at the deep end with The Long Dark story mode, but I have to say so far it seems quite disappointing. The story feels a little boring and some of the mechanics have been annoying me quite a lot. I've lost a few campfires that I desperately needed trying to go to the pause menu quickly, but instead it just stops making my campfire — annoying. I will have more thoughts to share when I've finished the first episode, the sandbox mode is great though.
Also, a shout out to the Putt-Putt games, as my son recently completed Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo in an hour, with very little help. He loves it, so if you have kids and they might like short adventure games I highly recommend the series. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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stretch611 Aug 11, 2017
Rimworld
Factorio
Dungeon Warfare
I bought Dawn of War 2, Portal 1 & 2, and Ballistic Tanks during the Steam Summer Sale and I have yet to try them out.
I was playing Darkest Dungeons but I get a SEGFAULT error in the game that has not gone away even with a few updates. Not sure If I need to restart the game, but I really don't want to regrind the little progress I have.
Factorio
Dungeon Warfare
I bought Dawn of War 2, Portal 1 & 2, and Ballistic Tanks during the Steam Summer Sale and I have yet to try them out.
I was playing Darkest Dungeons but I get a SEGFAULT error in the game that has not gone away even with a few updates. Not sure If I need to restart the game, but I really don't want to regrind the little progress I have.
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AcidMonkey Aug 11, 2017
Hotline Miami
Mr Shifty
Wonderboy: The Dragon Trap
Hand of Fate
Rogue Stormers (Coop)
That is my main rotation atm, trying to finish a few others as well I got on steam sale, once I've done that going to hook into Deus Ex, Hard West and Mad Max.
Mr Shifty
Wonderboy: The Dragon Trap
Hand of Fate
Rogue Stormers (Coop)
That is my main rotation atm, trying to finish a few others as well I got on steam sale, once I've done that going to hook into Deus Ex, Hard West and Mad Max.
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Stellaris
Great fun in multiplayer mode with a friend. But we still get roasted by the AI. It's quite a complex game one has to learn before succeeding. But we keep getting better and better.
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
I completely missed this remake of the original from 1992. Both the original and the remake are part of my all time favorite games. According to the steam reviews the Remake had a rough and buggy start but the version I am playing now (4 years after release) is fantastic.
RoA is a very slow paced RPG series with a focus on the pen&paper part of role playing. Every action in the game is decided by a dice roll comparing the result to your skills. The world feels very alive even though many events are only described in a textbox. For example it was quite fun to read that while trying to sleep at an inn a bard out on the street was singing off tune to impress a lady. My dwarf left the room, shortly afterwards my party heard a bang and my dwarf came back, went to bed and kept the party from sleeping due to snoring. Such little stories make the game so charming.
The successor Realms of Arkania: Star Trail left Early Access yesterday and the reviews are much better than those at the start of it's predecessor.
Great fun in multiplayer mode with a friend. But we still get roasted by the AI. It's quite a complex game one has to learn before succeeding. But we keep getting better and better.
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
I completely missed this remake of the original from 1992. Both the original and the remake are part of my all time favorite games. According to the steam reviews the Remake had a rough and buggy start but the version I am playing now (4 years after release) is fantastic.
RoA is a very slow paced RPG series with a focus on the pen&paper part of role playing. Every action in the game is decided by a dice roll comparing the result to your skills. The world feels very alive even though many events are only described in a textbox. For example it was quite fun to read that while trying to sleep at an inn a bard out on the street was singing off tune to impress a lady. My dwarf left the room, shortly afterwards my party heard a bang and my dwarf came back, went to bed and kept the party from sleeping due to snoring. Such little stories make the game so charming.
The successor Realms of Arkania: Star Trail left Early Access yesterday and the reviews are much better than those at the start of it's predecessor.
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lucifertdark Aug 11, 2017
Dungeon Warfare has most of my attention at the moment, Full Throttle Remastered would but I'm stuck at the exact same spot that made me give up playing the original, I finished the main part of Hitman & I've dabbled a little in a few other games, I haven't really had the time or the energy to play much recently, dealing with some health issues, I'll pop a note in the Forum when I know for definite what it is, the doctor is pretty sure what it is but wants more tests to make absolute certain.
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Duke Takeshi Aug 11, 2017
I recently played a lot of HITMAN, finishing all the levels on a standard difficulty. Then I started them all over again to get all the achievements and it's incredibly fun to play a map over and over again to check out new ways to assassinate a target. I bought the game in the steam summer sale and even managed to eliminate the last elusive target with silent assassin rating, which got me a last-minute terminus suit ;). I hope that there will be a season two and that it will be ported to linux as well. The port is just great - Feral simply rules!
After that I started playing Total War: Warhammer smashing my foes with the power of the mighty empire! It's extremely fun to play and the mods are awesome. Again thanks to Feral, another great port! I never had any problems playing it.
After that I started playing Total War: Warhammer smashing my foes with the power of the mighty empire! It's extremely fun to play and the mods are awesome. Again thanks to Feral, another great port! I never had any problems playing it.
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Pompesdesky Aug 11, 2017
Payday 2 is the game I play the most regularily, it's my go to FPS to play with my Windows mates. Still very fun game.
I'm also playing Tomb Raider from time to time, I haven't finished it yet but it's really a nice game.
I stopped playing Dirt Rally 'cause I had to give up the wheel to the kids who play ETS2 quite a lot :D
Last edited by Pompesdesky on 11 August 2017 at 8:42 am UTC
I'm also playing Tomb Raider from time to time, I haven't finished it yet but it's really a nice game.
I stopped playing Dirt Rally 'cause I had to give up the wheel to the kids who play ETS2 quite a lot :D
Last edited by Pompesdesky on 11 August 2017 at 8:42 am UTC
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On the desktop I recently played also a lot Full Throttle Remastered. What a great game, and also a great port! Though most of the fun is bringing back memories I guess ;) Nevertheless, I love adventure games, be it the Sierra Quest series or Lucas Arts adventures or anything else, since I started playing video games.
Played also some Pyre, the art style is great, and I love the soundtrack. It's a lot of reading though, and the rites are mostly pretty short. Haven't completed it yet.
From our weekly gaming evening, I recently played Little Racers STREET, where we Linux gamers had some problems. E.g. if you don't buy a car (and haven't bought one already), before joining the multiplayer lobby you have to choose a stock car. In this screen no input is recognized anymore and you have to kill the game. If you buy a car, you can select it and join the lobby. I also had some problems with the controlls, e.g. the handbreak was stuck again and again. Nevertheless, this game is a lot of fun. We were up to 8 players and it was hilarious!
We also played some FlatOut 2 (I was using gog's wine wrapped Linux version), and it works so good with the SC-Controller software and the Steam Controller. Love it! Especially SC-Controller is pretty awesome. It feels more easy to configure the Steam Controller with this software than from the Steam Client itself. Just tab out, apply new settings, done. Also switching profiles seems much easier and more direct than through Steam. Cool to have this piece of software on Linux!
As I got a HTC Vive during the summer sale I played with that a lot. Unfortunately the Linux support is still beta and I had several problems getting it up and running on Linux. Meanwhile, after some patches in the Steam beta client, Steam VR home beta and a special beta nVidia driver, it kinda works. I was surprised that The Lab isn't available on Steam VR for Linux. But Munch VR worked. Nevertheless for most games I switched to Windows.
So I played The Lab of course, Valve's showcase for VR. And it's awesome! There is a lot to discover, even easter eggs! You can visit nice places, play an archery game, or a space shooter where your ship is one of the Vive controllers, pretty cool. You can explore the solar system, play a slingshot game with those portal cores (like Wheatley is) and even see the first room where Valve was experimenting with VR (this is an easter egg). And there is still more.
I also played SuperHot VR, another so cool experience. It's like playing Matrix. A perfect game for VR! It feels so good, when you defeat an enemy, he throws his weapon towards you, you catch it, turn around and shoot the next red guy. Due to the slow time this is feeling really good in VR.
Then I also played some The Solus Project. I had to do some ini-tweaks, but now it runs pretty good, and the immersion is... you completely get sucked into this world. After a few minutes, you completely lose your orientation irl. Probably mostly due to teleporting through the VR world, and that's so cool. Haven't advanced a lot in the story yet, as I had first to figure out how this game really works. It has some survival elements, so you have to eat, drink, sleep and take care about your body temperature. Especially how to sleep took me a while to figure out, as you have a big data pad in one hand (which is one of the VR controllers), and I didn't realize I could point with the other controller on this data pad to do some actions (like selecting the sleep mode). But now I'm in a cave, and the atmosphere is so intensive... though I know this is an exploration game mostly where you probably don't die from something attacking you, it's still scary down there ^^
And I played Portal: Stories VR. Haha, another really really great VR experience. A must play if you get a VR headset. A bit short though, but it's for free and just awesome. I hope there will be more levels, maybe even as a paid version.
VR on Linux is just at the beginning, there is a lot of work to do for Valve and the developers, and I hope it works out. VR is so awesome, and I don't want to dualboot.
This all sounds like I would have played a lot, but this was all over a time period of several weeks or even months ;)
Played also some Pyre, the art style is great, and I love the soundtrack. It's a lot of reading though, and the rites are mostly pretty short. Haven't completed it yet.
From our weekly gaming evening, I recently played Little Racers STREET, where we Linux gamers had some problems. E.g. if you don't buy a car (and haven't bought one already), before joining the multiplayer lobby you have to choose a stock car. In this screen no input is recognized anymore and you have to kill the game. If you buy a car, you can select it and join the lobby. I also had some problems with the controlls, e.g. the handbreak was stuck again and again. Nevertheless, this game is a lot of fun. We were up to 8 players and it was hilarious!
We also played some FlatOut 2 (I was using gog's wine wrapped Linux version), and it works so good with the SC-Controller software and the Steam Controller. Love it! Especially SC-Controller is pretty awesome. It feels more easy to configure the Steam Controller with this software than from the Steam Client itself. Just tab out, apply new settings, done. Also switching profiles seems much easier and more direct than through Steam. Cool to have this piece of software on Linux!
As I got a HTC Vive during the summer sale I played with that a lot. Unfortunately the Linux support is still beta and I had several problems getting it up and running on Linux. Meanwhile, after some patches in the Steam beta client, Steam VR home beta and a special beta nVidia driver, it kinda works. I was surprised that The Lab isn't available on Steam VR for Linux. But Munch VR worked. Nevertheless for most games I switched to Windows.
So I played The Lab of course, Valve's showcase for VR. And it's awesome! There is a lot to discover, even easter eggs! You can visit nice places, play an archery game, or a space shooter where your ship is one of the Vive controllers, pretty cool. You can explore the solar system, play a slingshot game with those portal cores (like Wheatley is) and even see the first room where Valve was experimenting with VR (this is an easter egg). And there is still more.
I also played SuperHot VR, another so cool experience. It's like playing Matrix. A perfect game for VR! It feels so good, when you defeat an enemy, he throws his weapon towards you, you catch it, turn around and shoot the next red guy. Due to the slow time this is feeling really good in VR.
Then I also played some The Solus Project. I had to do some ini-tweaks, but now it runs pretty good, and the immersion is... you completely get sucked into this world. After a few minutes, you completely lose your orientation irl. Probably mostly due to teleporting through the VR world, and that's so cool. Haven't advanced a lot in the story yet, as I had first to figure out how this game really works. It has some survival elements, so you have to eat, drink, sleep and take care about your body temperature. Especially how to sleep took me a while to figure out, as you have a big data pad in one hand (which is one of the VR controllers), and I didn't realize I could point with the other controller on this data pad to do some actions (like selecting the sleep mode). But now I'm in a cave, and the atmosphere is so intensive... though I know this is an exploration game mostly where you probably don't die from something attacking you, it's still scary down there ^^
And I played Portal: Stories VR. Haha, another really really great VR experience. A must play if you get a VR headset. A bit short though, but it's for free and just awesome. I hope there will be more levels, maybe even as a paid version.
VR on Linux is just at the beginning, there is a lot of work to do for Valve and the developers, and I hope it works out. VR is so awesome, and I don't want to dualboot.
This all sounds like I would have played a lot, but this was all over a time period of several weeks or even months ;)
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Schattenspiegel Aug 11, 2017
Multiplayer:
Chaos Reborn still going strong.
0 A.D. caught our interest lately.
Singleplayer:
Finally took the time to marathon through Life is Strange and it was quite enjoyable a Journey.
Chaos Reborn still going strong.
0 A.D. caught our interest lately.
Singleplayer:
Finally took the time to marathon through Life is Strange and it was quite enjoyable a Journey.
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Black Mesa, SteamWorld Heist, CS:GO and last but not least: Hero Academy (best game ever).
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