Quoting: Guestoperation ditch valve in favor of gog itchIO and other stores lets do it
in fact lets go even further one month of no steam challenge commence!

Steam is much more than a store and a DRM; the workshop alone makes it superior to the alternatives.

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Quoting: Code ArtisanOutside of hardware-based signatures and cloud gaming, programs like this can't be countered. This was what i feared when steam came to linux; that it become the platform of choice for cheaters. edit: this is also why you will never see clients like esea on linux.

Please elaborate, as it is i can't make sense of your comment, since people have been cheating on windows (and mac) ever since games existed. In fact, all the cheaters in Valve games i encountered used windows. And don't pretend hacking windows or any system is impossible, i see no reason why it would be any different on the aforementioned systems.

Linux enforcing GPLv2, an anti-cheat operating at the kernel level (eg: ESEA) would be useless. The kernel being open source also gives much more power to hackers to hide their programs from anti-cheats. There is also the fact that gpu drivers are open source too; you could add special feature and recompile the amd driver.

I know you can cheat on Microsoft Windows too, this is why i said only hardware and cloud solutions would be 100% effective.

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Outside of hardware-based signatures and cloud gaming, programs like this can't be countered. This was what i feared when steam came to linux; that it become the platform of choice for cheaters. edit: this is also why you will never see clients like esea on linux.

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You are right; It seems the steamdb's list is manually updated by volunteers.

https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamLinux [External Link]

"This is a community‐sourced database of Games, on Steam for Linux, maintained because backend data from Steam is not always as close to reality as we would like!"

Note that the steam's store list has games without price (not released yet).

For Windows, the numbers from steamspy are accurate (+7000 games this year !)

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Amount of games released on steam according to steamdb [External Link] and steamspy [External Link]

       Linux  Windows
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2017    ~372     7143
2016    ~681     5001
2015    ~664     2965

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Things like PS Now [External Link] will eventually make all the OSs and PC vs consoles wars irrelevant.

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Emulating the ps3? Are these guys sadomasochists?

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI purchased this game on Humble bundle a long time ago and it includes the DRMFREE version...
Do the FREE game includes the DRMFREE version or just the Steam key?

The steam game is actually DRM FREE, you need steam to download it but you can then play it without steam.
Just go into the game folder and run the script named RunGameNoSteamRT.sh

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Great indie or small games you may not have heard about:

-90% Outland [External Link]
-85% Door Kickers [External Link]
-75% Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number [External Link]
-75% Convoy [External Link]
-70% I Am The Hero [External Link]
-25% Alwa's Awakening [External Link] (My current favorite game for this year)

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Bought

* Crypt of NecroDancer
* Barony
* Transistors
* Electronic Super Joy
* Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
* Anomaly Über Bundle
* Gemini Rue
* Ichi
* Saturday Morning RPG

No AAA really interested me.

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