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Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:40 pm UTC

Added Kart racing for Nintendo alts.

News - Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals
By TiZ, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:34 pm UTC

Another developer dumping non-hidden files into $HOME. Ugh! I filed an issue, I hope they'll be willing to fix it.

News - Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC
By walther von stolzing, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:34 pm UTC

IANAL, but I think one vector for a legal attack is the really poor name of the project?

I think that's true -- because Nintendo, *they* sure are ANAL about such things.

News - Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC
By chr, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:24 pm UTC

IANAL, but I think one vector for a legal attack is the really poor name of the project?

News - Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is like an infested Windows XP as a survivor-like bullet hell
By mr-victory, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:23 pm UTC

Lovely, would like to be able to drag & swing weapons with the mouse on top of of shooting bullets all around. WinXP Professional is my first OS lol.

News - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an excellent horde survival game - 1.0 out now
By simplyseven, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:22 pm UTC

This game is insanely fun and plays great. The new changes look to be a rework but they've made "save slots" so you can play both your change/pre-change experience.

Really cool

News - The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project
By MrBlueGuy, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:22 pm UTC

Man, I've tried every possible way to get this to work on Linux but to no success. Reading the comments here I'm glad this wasn't an issue on my end. Hopefully this fix will happen soon, I am looking forward to play this once again, it's been years!

News - Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals
By chr, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:04 pm UTC

I'm willingly and consciously engaging in conspiratorial thinking here 😅 - but AMD's "massive oopsie" really sounds like a Clippy moment to me 🤔. I'm referring to the right-to-repair campaign by Louis Rossmann.

News - Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals
By dlove67, 17 Sep 2025 at 1:02 pm UTC

And once again we have the community to thank for this, showing what is possible when you're not blinded by corpo mindsets. AMD could've unlocked FSR4 on their previous gens to reward customer loyalty, and increase their value, but they decided that their new GPUs need a selling point. Ironically this makes them look worse now from a consumer standpoint and will probably hurt their sales rather than increase them

The code came from AMD though, so clearly they've been working on it. Since it's still in this halfway state the performance isn't all there yet.

Perhaps with redstone it'll be "officially" supported.

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2025 at 12:45 pm UTC

Added platform fighters, split into two tables between PC and Nintendo alternatives.

News - Soldat dev releases demo for Jackal, a brutal new top-down action game inspired by Hotline Miami
By Zlopez, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:39 am UTC

I see OTXO as inspiration, I had really bad time with it as the controls on gamepad were really strange (I couldn't get used to how the character was turning). Hopefully this will not be that case.

News - Soldat dev releases demo for Jackal, a brutal new top-down action game inspired by Hotline Miami
By pb, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:23 am UTC

I'm not sure about the "randomly generated rooms" part, but other than that, looks great.

News - Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS
By LoudTechie, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:23 am UTC

This is good news for desktop Linux and Valve.
They see the need to address the SteamDeck separately and not push needless extra stores.
EA'll intentionally be one of the latest to allow their software to run on desktop Linux systems.
They're fighting Valve and keeping Linux down means that Microsoft can keep Valve in check.
Yet they've SteamDeck became enough of unit on itself to be addressed separately even though with the same motivations(remember SteamDeck isn't even half of the Linux market share).
Lets hope they'll need a SteamOS and/or an Arch statement next time, because it shows effort on their part.
Every time they need to split the platform it means they're now dealing with two problems instead of one.

News - Palworld 1.0 arrives next year with a huge update and plans to fix all the jank
By shadow1w2, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:19 am UTC

I feel the game is still very alpha and lacks some good structure.
Hope they keep working on the gameplay and overall game feel as I feel its severely lacking in structure.

I'd be down for a creature redesign model wise and some visual growth elements to replace the lack of evolutions.
Maybe more ocerall personality too.

They are good to their community so far, hope they keep at it and dont get lost into the "just stuff in more assets" trend for updates.

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By d3Xt3r, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:13 am UTC

SuperTux and SuperTuxCart are pretty fun alternatives to Mario and Mario Kart, definitely worth checking out IMO.

News - Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals
By Stella, 17 Sep 2025 at 11:03 am UTC

And once again we have the community to thank for this, showing what is possible when you're not blinded by corpo mindsets. AMD could've unlocked FSR4 on their previous gens to reward customer loyalty, and increase their value, but they decided that their new GPUs need a selling point. Ironically this makes them look worse now from a consumer standpoint and will probably hurt their sales rather than increase them

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2025 at 10:43 am UTC

I was confused seeing Pokemon and Mario
The very top of the article:
Also including games not available on PC to show alternatives.

News - SteamOS support is being explored for the Lenovo Legion Go 2
By Boldos, 17 Sep 2025 at 8:29 am UTC

"M$ threatened our Windows discounts after that Go S release, so we had to promise a Windows-exclusive release, even though everybody is figuring out it runs way worse that way."
Ugh... and where does this come from, please?

News - SteamOS support is being explored for the Lenovo Legion Go 2
By Phlebiac, 17 Sep 2025 at 4:51 am UTC

"M$ threatened our Windows discounts after that Go S release, so we had to promise a Windows-exclusive release, even though everybody is figuring out it runs way worse that way."

Netbook deja vu?

News - A second Hollow Knight: Silksong patch is ready for testing - here's the details
By AnthemV, 17 Sep 2025 at 2:38 am UTC

Having built-in dithering is nice, but I really wish they would tackle HDR support to solve the banding issue at the source. I know there are mods for it, but they tank my framerate on Steam Deck.

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By Adoch, 17 Sep 2025 at 2:37 am UTC

Yooka-Laylee, possibly as an alternative to Mario, but more closely Banjo Kazooie. Its steam deck verified and Linux native.

News - GPD WIN 5 highlights support for running Bazzite Linux
By PaldinoX, 17 Sep 2025 at 2:37 am UTC

I wonder how back-heavy this thing is with the battery attached...

News - The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project
By GoEsr, 17 Sep 2025 at 2:37 am UTC

Same here, I prefer Forza offline. But then I'm not competitive at all and the most social you really get with other player in the open world is freaking them out with bizarre car skins.

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By LynnAlice, 17 Sep 2025 at 2:14 am UTC

No Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon for platformers?

News - Valve fixes Baldur's Gate 3 issue on Steam Deck / SteamOS
By Metallinatus, 17 Sep 2025 at 12:19 am UTC

The only reason I'm not cursing Larian right now for that asinine decision of making a Steam Deck exclusive Linux build (and let's hope that doesn't ever become a trend), is because BG3 runs horribly on the SD, so if they are specifically porting the game to that hardware, it better be better than Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2!

Guide - Why some games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck have broken videos and what you can do
By pilk, 16 Sep 2025 at 11:40 pm UTC

If you own Cult of the Lamb, install and launch it. For some reason, it always fixes this issue for me.

News - Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS
By ElectricPrism, 16 Sep 2025 at 10:15 pm UTC

FTFY ;P Linux, SteamDeck & macOS confirm that they will not support EA.

News - The cute co-op game LEGO Voyagers has released and it's Steam Deck Verified
By hell0, 16 Sep 2025 at 8:39 pm UTC

Looking forward to playing that one! I can never get enough of these coop adventure games.

Also can I just point out that it really irks me when people use reviews as a grievance form for what's obviously a bug.

Guide - Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS
By MrBelles, 16 Sep 2025 at 8:34 pm UTC

I was confused seeing Pokemon and Mario but I guess it was to mention games of those genres supported on Linux rather than them being actual games. This is a great list and I'd love to see it be expanded more based on commenters!

News - Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC
By mrdeathjr, 16 Sep 2025 at 8:34 pm UTC

In my case see nice, have more characters like toadette

https://i.imgur.com/TCOZ0Ka.png

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