This reminded me that I was going to buy Beautiful Desolation! Nice - downloading now. I bought CAYNE as well, since it was pretty cheap, but STASIS had no Linux support, so I skipped that one.

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Noita has a very slow start, so be sure to watch some howto guides. I recommend FuryForged, although there are big spoilers in there. Although the thing about Noita is that it's so obscure that if you don't use spoilers, it's probably impossible to understand any of the game in the first place! You also have to absolutely read the Noita wiki to understand how wands work - https://noita.gamepedia.com/Wands, although that'll only take you a few minutes to wrap your head around.

However, get over that hill, and you'll find a game that you can pour literally hundreds of hours into without boredom. I'm well over 200. FuryForged has well over 1100.

I mean, it took me hundreds of attempts to finally beat the game. Then I discovered the Orb runs. And parallel worlds. And Hell. The Gold. Sky. Space. It's absolutely GIGANTIC. Love it.

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So roughly 200 units sold for Linux on Steam (assuming everyone that bought on steam played it within 2 weeks, of course...) and from Jake's comment, over half again sold on Itch. That's 2.76% of all sales we know about. Given the market share, that's not terrible.

It's just a shame that in the grand scheme of things, there's no way to avoid that this only a touch over 300 units for supporting a whole new O/S. And you have to wonder how many of those 300 would have bought the game anyway (either because they have access to Windows, they dual-boot, or they use Proton).

No wonder Valve is pushing so much into Proton. They must see these figures, this story, all the goddam time.

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Quoting: no_information_here

Quoting: AciDDishonored (I tried 2.4h, but it crashed my whole computer 2 times, so removed it :()

Wow - I just finished the main campaign (clean hands, ghost) and in 30 hours I think it crashed maybe once, but not the whole system. Running a GTX1050 under KDE Neon (20.04 LTS), I got 130 FPS almost the whole time using Proton 5.13-4. Just starting the DLC tonight.

I had much the same experience. Dishonored was one of the first games I played through with Proton and it was absolutely flawless. I didn't experience any crashing in the main campaign, nor the three DLCs. I also bought the two sequels and had similarly flawless experiences with them. They're just such epics titles.

In fact, the original Dishonored is an easy "Top Three of All Time" entries for me. Not sure what the other two are mind you, but I've also had a soft spot for that game and its DLC. Especially the Knife of Dunwall, which was that case where a DLC is better than the original game. Just brilliant games. Brilliant.

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I poured nearly 15 hours into completing Deep Sky Derelicts. It's a slow starter, but ends up being very engaging. Highly recommended! I enjoyed Tacoma as well. Total steal for those two great games - one for 75p and the other for just another fiver more? Superb.

Top tier is a waste of time though. Both games are silver-rated at best, and neither game plans to release on Linux. Dual-booters only.

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Amazing price for the specs of this thing. It's in that magical Raspberry Pi range of value where you might afford to take a risk on it, even if you end up hardly ever using it.

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I reckon this game is too cute to be called "distopian" :D

Absolutely beautiful graphics though. I'm not sure a point-n-click is my thing anymore, but I'm still tempted to pick this up!

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Have a great holiday everyone - Merry Christmas! Here's to EAC working in 2021 - a Christmas miracle?

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So many games. In date order:

Native
Iris and the Giant
Wildermyth
Fort Triumph
Nimbatus: The Space Drone Constructor
Space Grunts 2
Burning Knight
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Half Life: Alyx
Blasphemous (technically 2019, but only released for Linux this year)
Children of Morta
Superliminal
Carrion
art of rally
Hellpoint
Wasteland 3


Proton
Risk of Rain 2
Neoverse
Gunfire Reborn
Outer Wilds
Lightmatter
Noita


There's also a bunch of games I played for the first time this year (but not launched this year):
Mr Shifty
The Forest (proton)
Mindustry
Manaspark
Dark Souls III (proton)
Control (proton, yesterday!)


There's others, but these stand out as the ones I really enjoyed. I've played much, much more this year than previous years, probably because I had extra cash from not having to travel, not eating in restaurants and not going to the pub! Also, my VR experiences have been fun, so from a technology/gaming perspective, it's been a fun year to offset all the realities and politics happening in the "real" world.

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Quoting: drlambIt's about the long term here. Stadia has helped Linux game development 10X what Valve has been able to do thus far in terms of AAA studios developing for/on Linux. While you may never benefit directly from this, its benefits are there.

Uh... what?? Do you mean "Stadia has helped Linux game availability 10X what Valve has been able to do thus far"? Because the points being made above are that Stadia has only very indirect impact on actual Linux game development.

And the benefits aren't there. They probably won't be for years, and even that's assuming that all the other AAA studios don't do what CDPR did, which was to pass the buck on Vulkan entirely to another company to deal with. Which bypasses the one benefit we thought we might get from Stadia - greater engagement with Vulkan.

To be completely clear - I'll never use a streaming games service, so I'm talking here as a Linux gamer, who is wondering whether Stadia can have any useful/positive impact on my future gaming experience.

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