I took a look at fixing Unity engines for games that came without Linux support.

http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/

As for Republique, there are actually three Unity-Plugins:
BalancerSDK64.dll -- http://www.atangeo.com/products/sdk
CSteamworks.dll -- https://github.com/rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET
cri_ware_unity.dll -- http://www.cri-mw.com/

And yes, two of them are broken.

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Minecraft
The Long Dark
Ark Survival Evolved
The Secret Order 2 (Yeah, I somehow like these hidden-object-puzzle-adventures)

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It's very nice.

However, it can be rather frustrating. One wrong move, and you're dead. Like: Fell down a ledge, strained your wrist and ankle, and now you can't run from a wolf, and you can't use a bow either..

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Still, it's quite moody, nicely made and I somehow like it.

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I don't even want to tell what I bought... Way to many games.. Anyway, what I wanted to say:

Gabe Newell Simulator also just came out for Linux.
Correction: It actually installs the windows exe (!)

On the other Hand:
Moebius: Empire Rising
and
Age of Survival
Don't offer anything to download on Linux, even tough Age of Survival has a "linux" beta you can choose. And both feature the SteamOS icon.

Also: Flight of the Paladin installs windows .exes as well.

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Quoting: MrTennessee17Just wanting to be sure...If purchased npw, all will count towards Linux sales right?

Depends, AFAIK it counts the minutes you played the first two weeks. If Linux is more, it counts as Linux. If you don't play, it counts as with whatever Browser you bought it (might be broken right now and only work if bought from steam client), UNLESS of course the Linux version is not out yet. Then it probably automatically counts for windows. Also, if you play on wine, this will most probably count towards windows.

A lot of Linux sales are actually counted as Windows sales.

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I miss a lot of older first person action games, such as Far Cry, and RPGs such as Fallout 3, 4, all the Elder Scrolls, and so on.

But speaking of games that should be available for Linux in Steam, I've got a list:
- Aerena
- Ankh 2
- Ankh 3
- Arx Fatalis
- The Basement Collection
- The Binding of Isaac
- BIT TRIP RUNNER
- BIT TRIP BEAT
- Blade Symphony
- Crayon Physics Deluxe
- Doom II: Hell on Earth
- Doom 3
- Doom 3: BFG
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Eufloria
- Fieldrunners
- Final Doom:
- Fractal: Make Blooms not War
- Gorky 17
- Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
- Hexen II
- Jack Keane
- Jamestown
- Kingpin
- Lone Survivor: The Directors Cut
- Machinarium
- Master Levels for Doom II
- Mind: Path to Thalamus
- Offspring Fling
- On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One
- Papo & Yo
- Quake
- Quake II
- Quake II: Ground Zero
- Quake II: the Reckoning
- Quake III: Arena
- Quake III: Team Arena
- Quake 4
- Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
- Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Serious Sam 2
- Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
- Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
- Shadowgrounds
- Shadowgrounds: Survivor
- SiN
- SiN Multiplayer
- Swords and Soldiers HD
- Time Ramesside
- Torchlight
- The Ultimate Doom
- Unreal Gold
- Vessel
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny

All of these are available on Steam; all of these have been ported to Linux, but are not available for Linux on Steam.

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Quoting: GuestThere is also the fact that WebGL is an officially supported build target.

It needs JDK 6. That's "six", like in "the version before the version that just went end-of-life".
Do the world a favour, kill off JDK6. Now.

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H.264 is not really a problem. There are some illegally granted patents on it, which means you can ignore them. Especially if you leave the decoding of H.264 to libraries provided by the OS.

There are several open source libraries for H.264 out there; most are GPL'd, but https://github.com/cisco/openh264 is BSD licensed.

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I've been looking around why people exactly use bink:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-making-of-killzone-3?page=3

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=35188523&postcount=39
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=35193675&postcount=92

Methinks, there should be some kind of libnobink, same API exposed, but not supporting the bik codec, but some others on the backend. Transcoding is cheap, changing the API is not. Although this might not really help in this case (Unity+Bink), it might help a lot with porting other games.

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