I'm pretty sure it already worked on day one, as I went to an in-person gathering for the event and saw someone running it on Steam Deck (but it might have been Ally X). I myself play it on Bazzite, though only a week later, as I spent around a week rerolling on phone (you can't reroll on PC).

Regardless, the game is REALLY fun. You don't really get it just doing the tutorial. You start a career... And then everything clicks. The game is deceptively simple. At the heart, it's an athlete sports management game. You get to raise the girls' stats through training, acquire skills that works well with their races, while balancing between racing, training, resting, and recreation (plus healing, if you messed up). Then... You watch them race. And boy does it work - it's really tense as you hope she wins, and while I was initially meh on the idol aspect, as soon as I got invested in the girls I am on-board with seeing them at the center of the stage.

In any case, this game has been consuming ALL of my algorithm (and friends IRL and online). Even my Instagram recommendation feed is all Uma even though I barely play it. After Blue Archive being pretty rough, I was afraid this would have issues, but Cygames remains pretty good with the first ShadowVerse, ShadowVerse Worlds Beyond, and now this.

Still, it does mean I am once again a Cygames slave, with me playing nothing but SVWB (just got Master) and Uma for the past month.

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This is great! Like it or not, gacha games is a major blocker for a lot of people running Linux.

I hope that Mihoyo eventually follows with the rest of their catalogue as well - though for them they only have Honkai Impact 3rd on Steam.

My personal wishlist would he Heaven Burns Red though, was a big fan of Key visual novels and I'd love to see how they eventually did Angel Beats continuation there.

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It looks like this is the first big exposure for Bazaar as the new app store. I've seen noticeably more comments about it from first time posters on the forum. Well, at least it should get the issues resolved with more people using it.

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I've heard that Lossless Scaling is a blocker for some people to gaming on Linux because they are "used to it" and expect to be able to still use it like they do on Windows.

It's important that these type of projects that address such issues exists. Hopefully it can be implemented on ProtonUp-Qt and ProtonPlus eventually.

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Couldn't get into the game. With whatever the default Proton was, I was stuck loading for Nexon Game Security or whatever it's called. I was able to run game on latest ProtonGE (10-8), but I got stuck when I got to the end of the tutorial (since I clicked guest account instead of immediately logging in to Nexon ID). Couldn't get to Main Menu at all, even after changing Nexon ID and changing which game id Steam should use on Windows.

Doesn't seem like it's working.

Oh well, back to the horse gacha game and the anime card game. Once again, Cygames continues to monopolize my attention and free time.

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UOOOGHHH

I was so afraid it would have anti-cheat but thank god much like Shadowverse Worlds Beyond and Uma Musume it just works on Linux!

That's very great news. I don't need to work on the Waydroid emulator setup anymore. I can just play the game. I hope other gacha games launching on Steam follows this. I know a LOT of people are worried about their favorite gacha games on Linux, and a main blocker of their transition to Linux.

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Heroic is also exploring adding other stores, but they are committed to only adding those when they have good cli option so it can be natively incorporated to Heroic UI.

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/4605 [External Link]

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@Eike I do like the idea of Debian... But the idea of offering Debian for Gaming in the same way Bazzite does sounds very complicated! Even Bazzite makes a point to use ublue-os Cloud Native configs which itself is downstream of Fedora Atomic, because they offered a solid base to build a stable yet up-to-date base image so we can support something like a ROG Ally day zero, having a separate base image for both legacy Nvidia system for both DE, and also supporting emerging open Nvidia drivers and new hardwares in general!

Fedora was a perfect middle ground for all of it and there's a reason why Kyle transitioned his custom setup into a proper OS image under Universal Blue!

Debian is great, but it isn't the answer to everything. I wonder though... Maybe NixOS under bootc???

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Exactly. This scenario was brought up very early on in the Discussion and it's not treated seriously. Some outright gleeful about dismissing the usecase of natively installed Steam (take a guess who they are).

We cannot allow proprietary software that we cannot fix to hold back Fedora development. Removing i686 support is critical. It’s long past time to do this. Thank you, Fabio!

It’s not clear that there is any actual serious problem here anyway. The strongest argument I see above is “I don’t like Flatpak and now I have to install Steam via Flatpak rather than via RPM like I would prefer” which is just not a very convincing use case.

In regards to steam another issue with flatpack is that using VR with it it’s simply not possible.

Surely this is not important enough to merit continued production of i686 packages.

This is bad. We are doing the EndOf10 campaign and gaming is currently becoming a killer app / honeypot for getting more people on Linux Desktop. Bazzite is one of the desktop that has AMAZING growth, even if it may seem small right now (it's right there, in their public number, both the not very big number now but amazing growth trend).

To have this news of Bazzite potentially shutting down because "Steam is legacy" right when Windows is making headway into gaming is a bad news!

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That's good. To be honest, the amount of action-y games built on top of RPG Maker and Wolf RPG feels weird sometimes. Clearly, there's appeal to developing with their UX and tooling even if you're doing a non-traditional RPG (including action game), so it is great that they pay attention to Linux there.

Hopefully, we eventually see more natively exported Linux version for RPG Maker games as well, because non-native nwjs performance sucks.

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