Games I recommend and would absolutely buy (again, if already owned) if they were on linux:

1. Rising Storm / Red Orchestra 2
2. Depth (great multiplayer action, I'm addicted and this would be a dream come true)
3. Doom 2016 (i'm so pissed that it wasn't on linux, and i refuse to buy it until it is)
4. Any of the Final Fantasy series, but especially the ones when Squaresoft existed and had a soul, like 7, 8 and 9
5. Age of Empires 2 HD
6. Sonic Generations
7. Sonic & All-stars Racing: Transformed (hands down best kart racer I've ever played)
8. Any and all of the SEGA Dreamcast ports to PC, for that matter.
9. Killing Floor 2 whose linux dev apparently died or something, but they still wanted to port it.

And there's no good reason Doom 3 should be windows-only on steam when the game even has an official linux client from back in the day. There are open source implementations, I realize, but it makes installing a hassle. I heard something on phoronix about a vulkan renderer from an id employee, but the engine is open source and has been messed with like that a million times. A proper port ought to just be an official option on the steemz.

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