I started using the beta around October 2012; 6 years ago, many of the then tiny selection had already been available from various Humble Bundles. The first big game, summer 2013, was Crusader Kings II, inaugurating Paradox' complete support of Linux, and Paradox' endless DLCs:huh:

Then, several games I had backed on KS,Wasteland II and Pillars of Eternity, War for the Underworld, Planetary Annihilation (now TITANS), and a couple others that slip my mind came out and appeared in my library, and I was happy with all but 2 games: Akaniero:Demon Hunters, which is Free To Play on Steam. Not too bad, but the removal of the map, which was in beta, make it a game I wish I hadn't backed. Also Torment:Tides of Numenera, which is a huge novel with half of a great game which has a great ending, but it comes WAY too soon. And, the project, which gathered more money than any other KS-backed games, and took FOUR $^#%# YEARS to deliver. Buy it only on sale.

Otherwise, I'm delighted with the selection and Steam Play. Happy 70 year old camper.:)

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Quoting: GuestNew kind of horror, too much games on Linux! :D Recently I bought Dusk for native and Bioshock 1 & 2 Remastered for SteamPlay. + my game for every weekend is Diablo 3. So yeah, lets get the party started!

And I remember when the only commercial game I could play in 2008 was Neverwinter Nights, which released a Linux client in 20003, and it still works.

Now, 5 years after Steam for Linux debuted, we have a surfeit of riches. No, not as many as Windows or even OSX, but remember that OSX will never have Steam Play, and, well, they pay too much money for their non-upgradable PCs. So, **** 'em.

And Steam Play has enabled me to play Windows games from my shameful dual-boot days, and, while it's still a bit of a crapshoot, a lot of them run flawlessly. Medieval Kingdom Wars has bad artifacts on water surfaces, and Banished has no sound.

There really is no good reason for the average person not to move to the Best Operating System;:wub: what does Windows have that Linux doesn't? Well, besides Adobe:dizzy: and MS Office :><:(Libre Office is better, and FOSS), a vast number of games, and for those it doesn't (mostly military shooters, and action games that are better on a console anyway), one can find every type of game: way too many FPS games:O, which is true of FOSS games as well, good RTS games besides the excellent FOSS Warzone 2100, a ton of RPGs, TBS games, Torchlight 2:D, and Tower of Time:woot:, the other wonderful cross-platform games, puzzle games, X-rated games(!), and undefinable games. Thousands of them.

More than one developer has stated that their Linux games sell quite well. The Humble Bundles,back then, showed that the highest contributions were from Linux users. This did not escape the attention of game developers, paving the way for the great situation we have now.

Goods times!:D

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I couldn't run Age of Mythology, then I enabled the beta and now I can play a fairly primitive (with tons of cool features) perfectly.

Beta is the only choice at this point.

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I guess I missed this thread. I got BoD for cheap, on sale plus a coupon because I own Darkest Dungeon, and DD got a coupon if you own BoD.

Yes, it does run on SteamPlay, and I will admit that I have bought a very few other Windows games that run perfectly. This is one very fun game, and has attracted a large community, with very responsive devs.

I, at least, highly recommend it. AFAIC, the three best indie games of 2018 were Book of Demons, Slay the Spire, and Towers of Time, all three of which I very highly and heartily recommend.

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Mine:
Neverwinter Nights EE
Tower of Time
Book of Demons
Slay the Spire
Dominions 5 (2017, but...)
Melty's Quest:whistle:
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Good year for Linux gamers, especially since Steam Proton:wub:.

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Nice idea for a game, but sooner or later, there are no match-3s available:><:. I haven't faced that extreme frustration since.

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Quoting: ShmerlYeah, USB optical drive sounds like a good enough solution if you never need one.

Yes, I am very happy that the laptop has one.

My radio show, BTW, uses a 4TB drive, with months of music.

And, once I figured out how, Aqualung, my go-to music player, isn't all that hard to compile. You need to compile GTK2, and install a raft of -dev libraries, but it compiles just fine. I do recommend it, especially for live concerts, or albums in which the songs run together.

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I regretfully had to change my info to a laptop, since the world has has conspired to prevent me from being able assembling a working desktop:'(, and it isn't like I've never done that before. Some day I'll update my info...

My current rig, an Acer E 15, the model for <$400, is currently the most bang for the buck for <$400 in laptops. An 8th generation i3-8130U, which is no speed demon, but not a slouch, 6GB RAM, 1080p display, 1TB hard drive for /home, an optical drive:woot:, Ethernet, a USB2 port and 2 USB 3 ports, a USB-C port(!), HDMI AND VGA. It also has a 3-screw cover to access the RAM slots, and has a slot for an M2 SSD. I use a 64GB SSD for /.

And Ubuntu MATE runs beautifully as can be on it. I compiled the Aqualung music player to do my radio show, which is a gapless music player. It disappeared from the repos, and the PPA is only for Xenial. It runs fast and lean.

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Quoting: ison111Is it wrong to say that I think it would be hilarious to get an actual homeless person to play this game and film their reaction?

That's just mean.:><:

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As a 70 year old rocker, I used Story Mode and posted that it was way too hard. The dev:wub: (bless him) told me that it was being made easier, and it is.^_^

And I totally LOVE this game, with its very original and very unique combat system, its story, and that fact that an indie studio released a AAA game at a reasonable price. It's a lesson that other indie devs should heed, IMHO.

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