Quoting: liamdaweNothing to do with acceptance, just an oversight! Added.

Ah great, thanks! The list looks pretty impressive already.

Hearts of Iron IV [External Link] is going to be released this year.

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A disappointment to see that OOTP wasn't accepted to the list. The company has been supporting Linux for a long time and they are making one of the best manager games available, OOTP16 will be released in March.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/newsletters/nl0154/ [External Link]

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Couple of huge games are missing from the list (mentioned in other posts as well):
RPG - Torment: Tides of Numenera [External Link]
Grand strategy - Hearts of Iron IV [External Link]

Manager game - Out of the Park Baseball 16 [External Link]
OOTP-series has long history of Linux ports.

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Quoting: wojtek88Honestly it's hard for me to believe that there are many people working on linux port of this game. It's been already more than half of a year since game was released. And what's important - linux port was anounced "just after Mac version". Mac version was released the same day windows version was released, linux port is not there yet.

As they said before they had some big middleware issues on Linux. They are solved now and we will finally get the Linux version. This kind of stuff just happens sometimes. A software issues may slow down the progress a lot.

Linux is going to be treated as second class platform for a while anyway. Consoles are doing very well and Windows 10 + DirectX12 is going to be very strong as well, no doubts. Consoles and Windows has already very good tools and lots of game developers who knows the platforms and APIs very well.

Linux gaming will take but will get eventually get there. Before that we are going to hear lots of criticism about lack of games, performance problems and bad support for gaming peripherals. It will be interesting to see how Linux community is going to handle the criticism.

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Here are the numbers from the console and Windows versions Steam Machines are going against.
Face-Off: Dying Light Xbox One, PS4 and PC head-to-head. [External Link]

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"The only word we have out of them, is that Linux issues will be sorted in a "future" update."

I'm afraid Linux will stay as a third class citizen for a long time. Especially if the scenario happens where developers makes the games for PlayStation (GNM and GNMX) and Microsoft products (DirectX 12) and other platforms uses wrappers.

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Quoting: Lapinopl

Borderlands 2 still has abysmal performance on my rig.
Phenom II + Radeon HD 7950.
Runs perfectly smooth on Win7, though (same machine)

HD 7950

Here's your problem... I don't think it's even officially supported by aspyr (AMD that is)

GTX 750 Ti runs Borderlands 2 okeish on Linux but still much worse than on Windows.

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Quoting: Xpanderlatest drivers yes... 346.35 ... steamOS not.. who on earth will use that on a PC?
thats for couch gamers

SteamOS will define if Linux has future in gaming. I use SteamOS because I want to see what kind of gaming experience people will have with Steam Machines / SteamOS.

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Cities: Skylines looks extremely good, can't wait. I hope it is everything Sim City 5 wasn't. Good to see some competition in this genre as well.

Quoting: GuestI’ve already wasted money on Crusader Kings 2 (bad tutorial) and Cities in Motion 2 (broken game), so I’ll be very careful before buying anything published by Paradox from now on.

The best way to learn CK2 and other Paradox Development Studios's games is to play them. It takes some time but is super fun to learn and realize new things you are able to do in the game. As already said Youtube videos are great help too. PDS's games are PC games for PC gamers.

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Quoting: LiekkiIf you happen to like the other X games then you might want to pass this one, it is nothing like the other in the series.

I don't think being different is a good reason to skip any game without even giving a fair change to game. I personally think that X Rebirth improved many areas in X series and getting rid of S.E.T.A was a huge step forward already. Sure it has still its problems just like most of more complex games (CK2, EU4, etc.), but as we have seen Egosoft is working hard to fix issues and expand the experience.

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