It seems to me that the "Ashes of the Singularity" will be a perfect case Vulkan vs DX12. If Vulkan proves to be viable competitor in less than a year even though DX12 had a head start, we will have a strong case.

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Quoting: PeciskWe don't need 2000 games on Steam playable on Linux - I want to know how much are recommended, I want to read good reviews

I agree but in fact things are even better in this regard! As I have pointed out the _average_ quality of linux games is in fact HIGHER than the average quality of windows games.

In averages things are actually very good. The problems are
a) linux games are a subset of windows games, so for someone going from windows to linux it seems he has less games
b) linux games are not evenly distributes across the genres. The result is that some people will find out that most of their games do support linux and other will find that most of their games do not support linux even though both categories did not buy any game with linux support in mind, it does happen because of the different genres people love. For some genres all good games support linux and for other too few support linux.

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I am totally not interested as I already own more games than I can play. If anything mostly I would like to see Need for Speed Underground and Ashes of the Singularity (the second would be very important as a dx12 vs vulkan case)

Other games that personally I am not interested but they are very popular so they would be good for Linux as a gaming platform:
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Arma 3
Rocket League
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
Grim Dawn
PAYDAY 2
Total War™: ROME II
SMITE
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Orcs Must Die! 2

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Just about time I was thinking that I had bought no games on February. lol

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I really, really want it on haswell :(

at least it says: "and have experimental support for older platforms."

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I have a laptop with i5-4200U and graphics intel HD 4400.

Talos Principle actually does play and also plays with a lot FPS! But... the motion is not smooth and very annoying so it is in fact almost unplayable. There is clearly the potential to play well. Vulkan is very exciting new as it may do the trick and make Talos playable on intel graphics.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBasically, it seems like in the course of a couple of years, Linux gaming has gone from ridiculously marginal to vague parity with Mac. That's hard to believe when I think about it.

Don't forget how ridiculously marginal Mac also was. Steam supported mac at 2010. At 2013 mac was already something but far behind from where is Linux now. Linux has done in 2 years about the same mac done in 5. Linux is still behind but mac had an head start and is also ridiculously expanding.

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Although these numbers do not tell about "quality" if we search the tags, WORST tags for linux are:

Massively Multiplayer 39/280
linux first on "relevance" are:
ARK: Survival Evolved
War Thunder
Robocraft
Star Conflict
Day of Defeat: Source

windows:
Naval Action
ARK: Survival Evolved
Warframe
H1Z1
War Thunder

Racing: 49/322
linux:
Distance
Audiosurf 2
Action Henk
Absolute Drift
Road Redemption

windows:
Rocket League
Grand Theft Auto V
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
DiRT Rally
Sonic Adventure 2

Sports: 40/281
linux:
Football Manager 2016
Lethal League
Out of the Park Baseball 16
Absolute Drift
ACE Academy

windows:
Rocket League
Football Manager 2016
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
DiRT Rally
NBA 2K16

Actually not that bad except Racing. The only genre that linux is really bad right now is racing.

from the above, the game that will help most on this comparison are
Rocket League (is on the way!)

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These days I am playing Ultimate General: Gettysburg.

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one small detail. It is not a "free game", it is a "free to play game".

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