battleblock theater (native) and call of duty 2 in wine.

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For some unknown reason I already have that game in my library :)

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What I know is than I have deponia and I dont have linux support, and i'm not willing to pay 30 bugs for it.

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I just saw the example. Interesting.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: edoseparate purchases for different platforms in Steam? I dont think thats possible

It has always been possible, other games have done it. Steamplay is optional and not a requirement.

Can I see any example? I have never seen any Linux game without steamplay, it will probably be the first one.
I hope they will support it, steamplay is why steam is great.

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separate purchases for different platforms in Steam? I dont think thats possible

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Congratulations. With some luck this blog will continue working for a lot more years, at least enough to release the announcement of Half-Life 3 for Linux.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyWell, my "Missing Linux version" category in Steam currently holds these games:

Air Forte
Atom Zombie Smasher
The Binding of Isaac
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Botanicula
Braid
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Dear Esther
Draw a Stickman: EPIC
Dustforce
Fieldrunners 2
Flotilla
Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
Greed Corp
Hack, Slash, Loot
Incredipede
Jamestomes
KRUNCH
Lone Survivor
Machinarium
McPixel
Metal Slug 3
NightSky
Offspring Fling!
Paper Sorcerer
Papo & Yo
Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds: Surivor
Shelter
Torchlight
Trine
Vessel
Windosill
Wizorb

As well as games that use AGS and could theoretical use the GNU/Linux build of AGS:
Blackwell Convergence
Blackwell Deception
Blackwell Legacy
Blackwell Unbound
Blackwell Epiphany
Primordia

Night Dive studios, who rereleased several old adventure games on Steam, some with ScummVM, some with DOSBox, have also rereleased The 11th Guest and Tex Murphy: Overseer, which both are Windows title (without ScummVM support) and therefore can't use DOSBox. They could maybe use a Wine bottle. Personally, I'd prefer if Night Dive would pay people to RE both The 11th Guest, as well as the whole Tex Murphy series, for ScummVM.

Then there's Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, which uses Unity 3 and has had promised Linux support (with no fixed date) since at least September last year. They're looking into upgrading to Unity 4.

Also, there's X2: The Threat, which, AFAIK, had a Linux port done way back when. Both the Mac OS X and the Linux ports were outsourced, though, and from what I've seen, Egosoft never really seemed to care for either of those.

Also, Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Dragon Command, which should have Linux support coming soon-ish, after the Divinity: Original Sin launch. And the new Tex Murphy game is also still waiting on Bink, it seems.

In the case of Trine it will be upgraded to the engine of trine 2 and it will come to Linux.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/Trine/announcements/detail/1711680838650906965
Its weird no one here had talked about it yet.
But that list is very interesting to keep in mind.

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I just hope he finish porting the game soon. I want to play it ;)

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHey all. Just discovered something regarding performance. I'm running Manjaro (Arch-based) with KDE, and with or without compositing the performance is terrible. However, if I switch the window-manager to openbox with "openbox --replace" it improves a lot, even on High settings.

This is very good info. I would like than someone else confirm it too. I thought the desktop environment (or whatever retated to it) does not affect the performance.

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