Quoting: Corben2016 was a great year for Linux gaming in general, with a lot of big releases. Some of them finally released after being announced a long time ago. But what's coming next? I'm missing big announcements to get hyped for and to look forward to.
There are some kickstarter projects like System Shock or Everspace, but that can't be all.

Quite a lot of good releases are coming out in 2017 (supposedly if they won't be delayed of course). Torment: Tides of Numenera, The Bard's Tale IV, Underworld Ascendant, System Shock (remake), State of Mind and etc. I don't think we'll be lacking good games.

Quoting: Corbenmy feel is negative @Shmerl

Why so? I might feel negative, when studios which started releasing for Linux would stop. That happened a few times in the past - CD Projekt Red, Larian (who supposedly don't even have Linux developers in house anymore and didn't include Linux version in crowdfunding for Divinity: Original Sin 2). But I think those are the minority. Most are continuing, and new developers start releasing for Linux in addition.

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Quoting: subSteam on Linux is clearly losing momentum, if Valve/Newell were really
up to change that - the money is there.

I don't worry about Steam. Rather about Linux gaming in general. And it doesn't seem to be losing momentum. Increasing number of studios now regularly release games for Linux, major engines are improving Linux support and etc. The trend is positive, not negative.

Valve so far also don't seem to have lost interest. They work on drivers / Vulkan and VR on Linux, which isn't a minor effort. My only concern is that they can end up with Steam only stuff (SteamVR is such example), that's not good.

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Interesting read. The situation with 3D graphics on Linux only improved since then and continues moving in the right direction, and I'm sure MS views Vulkan as even a bigger threat than OpenGL. I expect the trend is going to continue.

Valve's major effort in Vulkan and recently hiring engineers to work on AMD driver in Mesa shows that they view this seriously and are invested in Linux gaming. I'd say, those are more important for success of Linux than SteamOS.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI would love to see separate "AAA" and "non-AAA" categories for best game. Games like Deus Ex, Mad Max and Xcom will be hard for smaller devs to muscle out just from sheer voting numbers...

I know it is a little hard deciding where to draw the line between them, though.

I don't think it's a good idea to make such separation. AAA is a bad term to begin with. Do you mean big budget games? Publisher funded games? Or something else? Its ambiguity makes its usage pointless.

For instance I wouldn't vote for most of publisher funded games because they aren't available DRM-free, so I can't even evaluate them and they can't be in my list of GOTY games. And in my understanding, they more frequently end up being mass market driven and as such less original and interesting than games developed by independent studios. And that topic is really orthogonal to budget, since there are big budget independent games as well.

So categories are fine as they are.

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Should the game appear in the list after adding? I don't see it.

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My favorite game of 2016 - The Dwarves.

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Thank you all so much for the support. It really is massively appreciated.

Looks very fun. I hope it will come out on GOG too!

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It would be interesting also to have an option to see trends over a period of time.

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Downloading the game now, to check if they fixed the the infamous "missing LFS / failing on large XFS partitions" bug.

Nope, is till fails. These developers really should stop making 32-bit builds, if they can't produce them correctly.

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Well, Tizen is normal glibc/Wayland/Linux, same as SailfishOS. But it's nowhere near to Android in adoption.

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