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Let's see, some recommendations...

For FPS enjoyers, there's the GZDoom game [Hedon Bloodrite](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1072150/Hedon_Bloodrite/). Most fun I've had with a FPS since First Encounter Assault Recon ('Fear').

For those who like their action turn-based, there's [House of Necrosis](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/House_of_Necrosis/), a bit like if Silent Hill 1 had a baby with Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

For those looking for something more chill and cosy, there's [Lake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118240/Lake/). Be a computer-related professional who takes a 2 week sabbatical to deliver mail in her hometown.

And finally, my most anticipated game since Pillars of Eternity, the retro platformer [Double Shake](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1445190/DoubleShake/).

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: CatGirlKatie14310/10 name

I suspect that rating is not entirely unbiased? 😸

I uhhh :eyes emoji:

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Quoting: CatKiller

These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

It's on the No Tux No Bux crowds now. Just today, I saw a reddit thread saying "Wine is not an excuse," so they better walk the talk and actually play this game, give feedback, and contribute real support to a game that's actually doing what they're asking for.

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Oh man, Next Fest... aint nobody got time for that.
Every evening, when its finally getting quieter, i look at all my games already, cannot decide what to play next and... go for a round of brotato and go to bed. Sigh.

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If you like cyberpunk/scifi but are willing to weigh story/gameplay over stunning visuals, try:

[FOREHEAD CHIP](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352260/Forehead_Chip_Demo/) - a nostalgic pixel-platformer inspired by 80s and 90s sci-fi, play a single-player narrative campaign with multiple-endings, or battle with your friends in PVP arenas!

I mean... once you finish the Replaced demo ;)

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WOOOO NEXT FEST!!!!!!!!!!

that starship troopers game looks cool, gonna add that to my list of demos. Thanks :)

Here's my list of interests / demos that I'm going to try out (same as my post in cyberspace.online)

• [Ardenfall](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837770/Ardenfall_Demo/) - "first-person RPG inspired by Morrowind" - you had me at morrowind (one of my all time favs)


• [REPLACED](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/) - a 2d side scroller cyberpunk adventure. Art / lore / story / visuals look absolutely killer awesome.


• [SpaceCraft](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276050/SpaceCraft/) - I'm a sucker for a good space sim. I'm not much on base building or logistics though, so this could go either way for me.


• [Chipmatic](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3780950/Chipmatic/) - "incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot" - looks like a really cool digging game for the steam deck


• [Dead Fibers](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834670/Dead_Fibers/) - looks / sounds kind of like a fps immersive sim? That's one of my fav genres, but hard to do right, so we shall see.

What's everyone else got on their radar?

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Quoting: AsciiWolfMeanwhile, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is still on Mesa 25.3.3.

PPA?

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhat they are talking about at this link would work best with tarball binaries. For example, with OpenMW it is possible to have multiple versions installed using tarball binaries. They all share the same configuration files, however.

Now that I think about it, this should work with AppImages too. The same caveat about shared config files, however.

Lutris isn't available as an AppImage, unfortunately.

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Just going to pile on: Plague Tales are SO GOOD. Very much looking forward to the 3rd game this year / next year. I'd never heard of the others, but from looking: Atlas Fallen & Shady Part of Me look pretty cool. And those prices are insane good.

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A Plague Tale is also a great way to check if you have musophobia!

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Quoting: CatGirlKatie14310/10 name

I suspect that rating is not entirely unbiased? 😸

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A plague tale are good games if you like this genre of course

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Quoting: legluondunet@ID:1059;mrdeathjr
Hello, I tried to play Spider-man 2000, only one big issue: game crahes or loose keyboard + mouse after Alt-Tab, can you reproduce with this recent Wine release?

in my case alt+tab work in menus, cinematics and on game



however i use virtual desktop with mesa 26.1-dev, almost forget i use X no wayland and desktop effects aka compositors stay disabled in my case too

😀

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I just updated my system today, on cachy arch, and I'm still on 25.3.5 ... so I bet they're waiting on the .0.1 release to do the move to 26. I'm pretty excited for that to see how RT functions now. I don't think I've ever played a game with it turned on before LOL. I still think it's mostly marketing but we shall see.

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This is wonderful! It makes me so happy to see intel continue to put effort into the arc gpus. Competition is good for all of us.

This does seem like a job perfectly fit for remote work, but it is listed as in person in CA / OR which is sad, but oh well. At least they're hiring for it!

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@ID:1059;mrdeathjr
Hello, I tried to play Spider-man 2000, only one big issue: game crahes or loose keyboard + mouse after Alt-Tab, can you reproduce with this recent Wine release?

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This wine version in my case work ok with some olds pc titles like:







😀

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These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

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10/10 name

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Meanwhile, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is still on Mesa 25.3.3.

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Looks really interesting. Reminiscent me of some levels in Kingdom Hearts, with a CupHead vibe... looks really cool.

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This is likely to ruin my life... (I have over 5k hours on StS on the steam version alone - plus another healthy amount on Android)

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Thank god, I got a 1TB SSD for my laptop and Steam Deck and bought two 16GB memory sticks for my laptop in time before they got expensive. I even bought a lot of other external SSD storage to store my data. I knew this would one day happen. I even already bought my Steam Deck OLED one year earlier. I dreamed about this.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: jams3223Thank god, I got a 1TB SSD for my laptop and Steam Deck and bought two 16GB memory sticks for my laptop in time before they got expensive. I even bought a lot of other external SSD storage to store my data. I knew this would one day happen. I even already bought my Steam Deck OLED one year earlier. I dreamed about this.

Did you accidentally post your comment under the wrong article? This one doesn't mention the hardware price hikes. 🤔

Opps sorry wrong article lol

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Quoting: memvirus(got the idea from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1036337/is-there-way-to-install-two-instances-of-the-same-application but am not knowing enough in Linux..)

What they are talking about at this link would work best with tarball binaries. For example, with OpenMW it is possible to have multiple versions installed using tarball binaries. They all share the same configuration files, however.

Otherwise, @fenglengshun's advice would work best. I recommend keeping it as simple as possible.

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Quoting: memvirusI have Lutris currently installed via apt/ a downloaded .deb
Will installing it via flatpak make a new directory for it?

Yes. Flatpak, being containerized by default, would install its version of Lutris separately from the one installed via apt. Flatpak keeps its file system separate. It shouldn't overlap with apt.

The challenge would be telling the shortcuts (launcher) apart. They'll likely share the same name. Fortunately, you can just rename the shortcut as desired.

Quoting: memvirusOr I just backup my current lutris directory (which ones are the important ones?) and then upgrade - later if I want to have my old downgraded state again, just uninstall, reinstall and restore my backed up directory?

In this case, I would suggest using Flatpak for the latest version and then choosing an earlier version to install via a .deb installer. There should be no need to back up your config files (although it never hurts - they're in hidden folders under your Home folder in multiple locations). I never have and the files & settings have remained while I've bounced back and forth between versions. Not sure how it would work with Flatpak, however. I don't know where that version stores its config files.

Quoting: memvirusalso sadly PopOS seems to be neither in compatible host nor container OS

Not sure exactly what you mean by this, but Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu. It is listed under Ubuntu in the link you provided. Generally, anything you can do on Ubuntu, you should be able to do on Pop!_OS. It supports .deb installers and LaunchPad PPAs, for example.

Being as you are new to tinkering with Linux, make sure you make a complete backup of your system and data before you start. That way, if something foobars, you'll have something solid to fall back on. Timeshift is effective but my favorite backup tool is Clonezilla (its back-ups are compressed and take less space).

Good luck and have fun.

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It is still funny the only one who actually has something to do with Linux and gaming is Liam 😅

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Quoting: Technopeasant

It's an interesting opinion from a person who created SDL, and we didn't have most of these games for Linux without his project. Everyone can agree or disagree.

It would be an interesting opinion for him, but unfortunately I meant Scott Draeker. I got my S names mixed up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020202221402/http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/24/2118235

Thank you for your response.

I know that LGP also planned to publish the original game for Linux, but they have never finished it. I wish to see a screenshot of it one day.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

I'll drop another one: generative ai found an algorithm to multiply matrices faster

https://spectrum.ieee.org/matrix-multiplication-deepmind

forgive me if two instances of in-house models making improvements in specific fields doesn't make me feel better about its primary use case being making cheap garbage that makes life worse, misinforming the public and stalking political dissidents

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Quoting: scaine

"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."

This is about indignation specifically targeted at how people (individuals or companies) spend their legitimately earned funds on choices that are legal, consensual, and don't directly victimize anyone.

Why would anyone be morally indignant about legal, consensual, no-victim spending??

It's entirely obvious to everyone but you that your statement implied otherwise. It's bizarre that you can't see that.

Time to move on here, I think.

No, deconstructing everyday phrases like “hard earned money” through critical theory lenses is not
"entirely obvious to everyone."
Most people hear “hard earned money” and just think: “I worked for this, so it’s mine to spend however I want.” Full stop. No secret Protestant work ethic dog whistle, no coded hierarchy, no sly bid to make the wealthy our moral “betters.” It’s ordinary language doing ordinary work-describing effort and ownership.
Only a very specific subset of people (mostly academics, online left-theory enthusiasts, cultural studies types, and people who’ve spent too much time marinating in Foucault/Weber/Bourdieu type reading lists) reflexively reach for the ideology critique toolkit the moment they see a merit-flavored phrase. To them, everything is “loaded,” everything is “doing work,” everything is quietly reproducing domination or naturalizing inequality. So they treat a standard expression as if it were a cryptic manifesto that needs to be unpacked layer by layer until the hidden class project is revealed.
To literally everyone else- left, right, center, working-class, business-owner, barista, retiree-that level of hermeneutic suspicion applied to a commonplace idiom looks like over reading at best, pretentious performative intellectualism at worst. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of seeing a stop sign and immediately launching into a 500 word thread about how traffic infrastructure enforces car-centric capitalist spatial discipline.
"Hard-earned money" - it’s just normal speech. The clever loading and the elaborate suspicion is entirely on the receiving end. Most of the world isn’t playing that game.

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