7 Days to Die. Since Alpha 14.6 the Linux version is playable again (the broke the shaders in 14.5), although there are some snags:

- It used to be extremely fast in 13.8 to start up, until the main menu appeared. Now it takes minutes (?). From main menu to game it's also slower, but still rather fast.

- There's a bug with tone mapping or bloom or something, making light sources and bright surfaces on Linux _extremely_ bright.

- There's still some weirdness with scavenging. Things that are not very scarce in real life, but extremely so in 7DTD. Like loads of zombie lumberjacks, but chainsaws extremely scarce. Or that you can't find loads of cement in any construction site.

And the good:

- 13.8 had a lot of out-of-memory crashes, these are mostly gone.

- The skill system has been revamped, and I think it's become rather nice.

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Quoting: darkszlufi really hope the next step is fixing the support and the website, being spammed with windows titles on my linux machines is pretty annoying

Yes, either they should take the OS the browser reports into consideration (and not just SteamOS), or have some kind of switch you can set in the preferences.

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I asked in the Debian bugtracker, here's the answer:

There is a statement:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012918.html [External Link]

the alternative is build the packages yourself:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012917.html [External Link]

Please build the packages and report all the issues you have, so the
maintainers can make a stable package.

You will need all three .run-files in the tarball, including the one for ARM.

If you get Errors like "glXChooseVisual failed", especially when starting steam, you didn't install all libraries for i386 on your 64bit system...

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Quoting: DrMcCoyI have that error for a while now on Debian Sid. No repo at all; I update Steam from within Steam.

I do use the repo:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ [External Link] precise steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ [External Link] precise steam

And my Debian Sid does complain. And the workaround doesn't work, because my Steam already resides in .steam.

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Quoting: Stupendous ManThe only way I'm going to buy from them is if I get a DRM-free .mkv file. I want to own the stuff I buy, not rent it, and make as many personal backups as I wish.

I second that. I bought some cheap ones on steam, but won't ever again, as long as I can't download them.

I'd like them in 1080p, x264 or x265, AAC, and in a sensible container, preferably mkv, in original language (which I actually sometimes can't get on DVD here) with subtitles for a slew of languages (english in any case, and german too, please, and all the rest as nice to have). Now, set a sensible price and start selling them to me.

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Not really interesting, as I already have everything but NOT A HERO. which boils this down to that, plus "more games coming soon" for roughly $4.20. Still an ok deal, but not impressive.

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Quoting: HamishMy rapidly filling UFA farm receipt calendar.

Funny enough, this here is in Sursee, Switzerland, where I grew up. And our UFA does about the same things as yours.

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Game characters as a reflection of the player? You can rarely customise them enough.

For instance, I look like Link, not Conan. If the game only lets me choose between Duke Nukem and Lara Croft, I tend to pick the one nearer to my proportions, which is Lara Croft.

Unless the developers genderifucked (Is that word understandable? I was looking for a word that describes "making something gender-specific that should not be gender-specific; and doing it in a way where it doesn't even work any more" ) the armour, in which case I take whatever can wear the more realistic armour.

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Yes, the ones with the logo are not the only games on Steam that run on Linux.

You can find more here: https://steamdb.info/linux/ [External Link]

Plus, there are some games for Unity, which do not package the Unity-runtime for Linux, but will work on Linux when you copy it over by hand: http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/ [External Link]

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Unless you build, and test from time to time, you'll never know whether it will work. That's true for Linux, MacOS X, and also for 32/64bits.

Because although Unity might be cross-plattform, you will still be able to do things which will break that.

I've got 14 Unity games that are broken on 64bit Linux, for instance. They all have the same bug, triggered by the same broken example code, which results in "Got a bad hardware address length for an AF_PACKET 16 8".

Or another nice example, not related to Unity: I've got a .NET program, which runs on Linux. But you can't load files, because it appends a backslash to all file paths.

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