I can vouch for Deep Sky Derelicts. I only did one playthrough, but it was 13 hours of mainly pure joy. Great tactical battles and some nice synergies to take advantage of. For a fiver? Highly recommended! The first hour is pretty slow though, so give it a chance to shine.

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Well, thanks to g000h, I discovered that the Fate Hunters devs have moved on from the publisher they used for that game and they... recreated Fate Hunters under a new title called Dreamgate. So I bought that on Saturday and played a few hours. Great game, but still a bit rough around the edges in terms of balance. It's basically a Fate Hunters reskin at the moment, but they have plans to extend it significantly.

Played a bit of 7 Days to Die on stream with Sin and Ehvis. That was fun. And thanks to Sin, I'm also now playing Terraria again! So much depth to that game, it's actually kind of overwhelming.

Finally, I finished Starcom Nexus. At least, it's as finished as I care to play. Great game, fun space battles, but the lack of a useful map makes the final 5 hours or so a bit of a grind and frankly, I gave up caring to play on, although I still had some un-finished missions. Recommended, but it's shame about that final quarter.

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Quoting: Schattenspiegel

Quoting: scaineJust a little point, but when you say

make sure you have Proton 5.0 installed in the Tools section of Steam

...well, I don't think that exists any more. You can still filter by "tools", but there's no section as such, so there's no way to install tools directly.

[Edit: So, after experimenting and googling, it turns out that you just can't "browse" tools anymore, but you can still type "proton" into your search bar, you'll still see results appearing, even if you haven't actually ticked "tools" in your filter. So tools still exist, you just have to know their name to install them - try searching "sdk" or "server" for more examples]

1. Check Tools filter
2. uncheck show only installed games filter
3. browse tools in the uncategorized section

Good shout. Very muddy for me because I have hundreds of uncategorised games, so I didn't notice that the servers/sdks were mixed in there. I also use "recent" view by default and had to collapse many, many months/years to get to the bottom of the list!

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/1kiFmZg.png [External Link]

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Just a little point, but when you say

make sure you have Proton 5.0 installed in the Tools section of Steam

...well, I don't think that exists any more. You can still filter by "tools", but there's no section as such, so there's no way to install tools directly.

[Edit: So, after experimenting and googling, it turns out that you just can't "browse" tools anymore, but you can still type "proton" into your search bar, you'll still see results appearing, even if you haven't actually ticked "tools" in your filter. So tools still exist, you just have to know their name to install them - try searching "sdk" or "server" for more examples]

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Quoting: Liam DaweAs a note, the developer I spoke to was for Deep Rock Galactic who've now said they're happy to be quoted on it. After this went live, I mentioned it to them and they have confirmed they can see the Linux sales.

Love those guys and such an amazing game - it's rare for a "play with strangers" to be a positive, encouraging experience, but somehow they've managed it. There's even friendly fire and it STILL encourages teamwork and promotes this honest-to-god brotherhood vibe somehow.

It is a game best played to heavy metal, in an empty house, in a dark room. Everyone should experience it.

ROCK AND STONE!

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: dpanterAll I want is that buying a game from a Linux platform counts as a Linux purchase.
Is that really so bloody difficult? :><:

On which platform are you not getting this, though?

Well, Android for one - I think that was mentioned earlier. I can't buy games at work either, because that's either Android or Windows, so I have to wishlist, then hope I remember when I get home.

We really should be able to demonstrate support for our platform in easier/better ways that this...!

There is always the "send a mail to yourself" option otherwise :)

Pfff, I'm a busy guy... who's got time for that. I have games to play, places to be. Well, games to play at least. :D

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: BielFPsBut if I check, Steam will hide games which are not flagged as Linux compatible right? If not then I'll change in my profile ASAP

I have it checked and it shows me a lot of games that do not officially support Linux. I think the theory at this point is, with Proton, any game is a Linux game if you really believe.

It definitely affects queues and many elements of the primary store page, but there are lots of exceptions. The setting is ignored for big sales, for example, and mid-week madness. It's also ignored on all the steam labs stuff, like Deep Dive [External Link], which is pretty infuriating, as it renders those tools pretty useless for me.

Funnily enough, you mentioned Deep Dive as an example, which is the only one that honors the Linux store filter. Reason for that was that original implementation wasn't done by Valve and developer implemented Linux support just because people requested it.

However Diving Bell might pick non Linux game to the first set of selections, which is not actually bad thing as you can check if there are similar Linux games available.

Funnily enough, it was Diving Bell that I was thinking of, because I follow Lars Doucet on Twitter (big fan of his games). And yep, it doesn't support platform filtering, while I notice that Deep Dive now seems to!

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: dpanterAll I want is that buying a game from a Linux platform counts as a Linux purchase.
Is that really so bloody difficult? :><:

On which platform are you not getting this, though?

Well, Android for one - I think that was mentioned earlier. I can't buy games at work either, because that's either Android or Windows, so I have to wishlist, then hope I remember when I get home.

We really should be able to demonstrate support for our platform in easier/better ways that this...!

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Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: BielFPsBut if I check, Steam will hide games which are not flagged as Linux compatible right? If not then I'll change in my profile ASAP

I have it checked and it shows me a lot of games that do not officially support Linux. I think the theory at this point is, with Proton, any game is a Linux game if you really believe.

It definitely affects queues and many elements of the primary store page, but there are lots of exceptions. The setting is ignored for big sales, for example, and mid-week madness. It's also ignored on all the steam labs stuff, like Deep Dive [External Link], which is pretty infuriating, as it renders those tools pretty useless for me.

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That's honestly a huge relief! And now it should be more obvious to devs too. Great result!

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