Quoting: eldakingIt's not just about "cheap or joke" games. It is about potentially fraudulent games. It is about games that are seriously objectionable, that can cause a lot of harm - like a nazi propaganda game.

Well, I'd prefer laws to regulate such things, rather then private companies.
Do you have an example for a nazi propaganda game on Steam? I'd be shocked, if it would be available here in germany.

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ProtonDB looks into the oslist attribute under control of the developer via SteamDB.
If you look at the os symbols on https://steamdb.info/app/102840/ [External Link] , Linux is missing there, too.
ProtonDB chat redirected me to SteamDB, SteamDB redirected me to the developers. I contacted the developers and informed ProtonDB chat. ProtonDB chat agreed with SteamDB staff. So, this is how it is.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: eldakingValve has its many flaws (their hands-off approach to curation or their subpar treatment of indies for example). But they are still so far ahead of the competition it's just hard not to support Steam.

Yep! And when you read the complete post... It's quite shocking (unfair? Surprising?) when people say that Valve takes a 30% cut without doing anything... I don't see Epic offering an equivalent infrastructure now and not before a long, long time...

Edit: I hoped we would get news about new hardware, but Valve being Valve, we still may have surprises. :)

The sad part is that they take the "we want to add all those features" part as an excuse to not support linux.

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ProtonDB devs have sent me to the SteamDB bugtracker and they send me to the individual devs.
Also, I especially mentioned Shank2 is marked as a linux title in the shop and wonder what's the difference to the other titles. Are there actually separate oslists, one for SteamDB and one for the shop?
I didn't get involved because of these 3 individual games, but because I fear there is a systematic problem here, decreasing the value of ProtonDB statistics.
The thing is, Steam client itself doesn't care for oslist. As soon as there is a linux repo, the linux version will run by default.
So angry is the wrong word, more a little frustrated. ;)

I wrote to the 3 devs, anyway.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: cprn

Quoting: liamdawe500 games, that aren't supported by the developer on Linux

Did anyone actually check if those titles are truly not supported? There are games like Shank 2 [External Link] that have official Linux support on Steam but aren't marked as native on ProtonDB. I guess you can still proton-run a Windows version on Linux if you want but I don't think that's the point of the article.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I think many reports hurt ProtonDB more than they help because of people enthusiastically overstating the matter of things and marking games as Platinum while clearly adding a comment that says a workaround was used.

Also, adding a report with old driver marks it as informational, i.e. it doesn't seem to count towards the status.

ProtonDB shows it supports Linux, it has a Linux icon and all just no reports it seems.

Until 2 days ago, ProtonDB used SteamDB directly to check for native linux games and Shank2 was actually not marked as a linux title on SteamDB. I wrote a bug report for SteamDB and contacted ProtonDB on discord about this issue. Not sure, where it was fixed, but cprn was right that there was a problem.

Edit: There is still a Problem:
https://steamdb.info/app/102840/ [External Link]
Also, https://www.protondb.com/explore?page=0&selectedFilters=restrictToLibrary%2Cuntested&sort=playerCount [External Link] still shows Shank2 to me, although native titles should be filtered.

Edit2: My bug report was closed and I'm a little angry about it:
https://github.com/SteamDatabase/steamdb.info/issues/606 [External Link]

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: constIs there a way to automatically find games in my steam game library that still need ProtonDB reviews? I'd consider to help that way.

If you are logged in ProtonDB, click here [External Link]

Thanks, though there are quite a lot of games that actually have a native version in that list ("include native" is unchecked)

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Is there a way to automatically find games in my steam game library that still need ProtonDB reviews? I'd consider to help that way.

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Recently looked into porting a game I develop in Unity for a while to Goddot, because Unity bugs (both runtime and editor in linux) really started frustrating me and I started to consider copying the business model of "One hour one life", which would never be possible with Unity.
There are a lot of things I currently do with Unity (and payed for "plugins"), that will be a lot more work in Goddot and it will cost me months of free time, but this settles it.

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This blogpost is yet another reason to support them: How I support Windows, Mac and Linux [External Link]

While I totally dig arcade games, I also think a game must have a very streamlined story mode to be really successfull these days. Preferably not only with the ability to restart at the start of a level (like a continue in the 90s), but with well placed checkpoints throughout the stages and infinite lifes.
There's a reason most games have picked up that system - it really reduces frustrations.

Anyway, game looks awesome. Will buy :)

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Tried it. Was really fun and laid back, but some community supplied levels seem incredibly hard. The best voted level in the lobby was not beatable for me. :dizzy:

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