For me, it’s Factorio.
a game in which you build and maintain factories.
It even has Wayland support!
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- Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)
What’s yours?
EDIT: Great Linux ports* not like some forced ports that barely work or don’t.
Space Station 14, seriously one of the best games I’ve played.
Interesting that it hasn’t come out yet. Did you play demo / playtest or what? I’m glad to see the Linux version.
There is a flatpak. It hasn’t technically come out, however there are thousands of players right now. Though most are in russia. I would also recommended looking at the git repository to see how it’s going.
There is a flatpak
Oh, nice!
Space Station 14 is a remake of SS13 that runs on Robust Toolbox, our homegrown engine written in C#.
That’s awesome. Thanks for showing this game!
My favorite native game is flight simulation X-plane since version 8. For kids Super Tux Kart.
X-plain seems fantastic for hobbyists and enthusiasts! Good to see a Linux port.
Realism You Can Feel
Everything in X-Plane operates from real world physics. Aircraft handling, ground effect, wind gusts, and more will give you the most accurate flight sim experience possible. Try it today!
Detailed World and Atmosphere
As you explore the X-Plane world, the weather, water, light, 3-D forests, and everything around you add to the immersion.
Analyze and Refine Your Flying
There’s no end to the customization you can make to your flight simulator experience. Adjust your approach scenarios, get real-time feedback, and use tools like X-Plane’s replays to study and improve your skills and confidence over time.
Yeah, that’s the classic one. It would be weird if there wasn’t a Linux port for something “Tux” related.
Portal 2, one of the best games, good story, excellent gameplay, excellent coop, good performance.
Strongly agree. I also tried to play Portal Reloaded on Linux, but I had some performance and dual monitor issues.
Portal Revolution has a native build and it works great, highly recommend!
I know, but I had some issues on PopOS 22.04 (Nvidia) X11 with Dual Monitor setup. :c
I will probably come back to it, though.
This is the one
Rimworld. Also DRM free through GOG!
I think you can be a DRM free copy on their website too. But damn, that game is expensive with all the DLCs.
the DLC are pricey, but they’re also proper, old school expansions adding lots of content that actually enhances the game.
it’s perfectly playable without the DLC, and there’s a LOT of DLC-sized mods on the workshop!
kind of a fundamental problem with modern DLC: they generally don’t get cheaper over time (remember when that was an actual thing? not just sales, but actually lower prices for older games?).
if you keep up with the releases it’s super okay at about 20/25€ once a year, maybe twice, bur if you’re late to the party it’s a whole lot of cash all at once!
exactly why paradox introduced a subscription for Stellaris’ DLCs at 10€/month… honestly kinda worth it, if you know you’re just gonna play for a while and then move on…still wish stuff would just get cheaper at some point again…
So it’s a biiiig rabbit hole, then.
Well, Factorio price policy says that they will never have a discount for their game. Full price only so you’re committed.
it’s super okay at about 20/25€ once a year, maybe twice, bur if you’re late to the party it’s a whole lot of cash all at once!
Yeah, exactly.
exactly why paradox introduced a subscription for Stellaris’ DLCs at 10€/month
I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Sucks, though.
It is also DRM free on Steam. You can copy the rimworld folder to a PC that’s never had Steam on it and play it as an example.
You can also do that to sort of save a snapshot in time of Rimworld when they are releasing a new version that will likely break mods for a long time/sometimes forever.
Minecraft, Stellaris, and Valheim were already mentioned so I’m gonna add Neverwinter Nights.
Fun fact about Minecraft: It’s written in Java which is a programming language makes porting to other platforms really easy. The way it works is that it turns the instructions into bytecode that Java Virtual Machine runs, essentially allowing any device with JVM to run it.
And funnily enough they made Bedrock for every device that’s not a PC.
I consider Bedrock as the Microsoftified edition of Minecraft. Microtransactions everywhere, halting modding whenever possible, support on all platforms except Linux, no access to previous versions.
and it runs on every device and operating system under the sun, except for fucking linux
and mac
only microsoft things
Rimworld! Probably my favorite game ever actually.
I see many of you in the comments section. I will probably try it at some point. :)
I was going to say Factorio as well! :D Hollow Knight has a native port and is a fantastic game, but my favorite games are ones like OpenMW or DevilutionX where the entire engine is remade from the ground up and open-source
As a Linux newb…
Its all about how an application goes from “I would like to display X on a screen” to how X actually gets displayed. Wayland is effectively a language (technically a protocol) that graphical applications can speak to describe how they would like to be drawn. It’s then up to a different program more deeply embedded in your OS to listen to and act on those instructions (this program is called a Wayland compositor). There’s a lot more to it (handling keyboard input monitor settings, etc), but that’s the general idea.
Wayland is a (relatively) new way of thinking about this process, that tries to take into account the wide variety of input and output devices that exist today, and also tries to mitigate some of the security risks that were inherent to previous approaches (before Wayland, it was very easy for one application to “look at” what was being displayed in a completely different app, or even to listen to what keys were being typed even when the app isn’t focussed).
Thing is, change is hard, doubly so in the consensus driven world of Linux/FOSS. So, until the last couple of years or so, adoption of Wayland was quite slow. Now we’re at the point where most things work at least as well in Wayland, but there’s still odd bits of software that either haven’t been ported, or that still rely on some features that don’t exist in Wayland, often because of the aforementioned security risks.
Thing is, change is hard, doubly so in the consensus driven world of Linux/FOSS.
… So if im reading this right
Move fast and break thingsMove slow and fix things?
more like "move glacially and declare things as "will not support’ so technically we had nothing TO fix!"
I see X11 and Wayland as display protocols that tell to render things on the screen, for example to Desktop Environments like Gnome or KDE Plasma. X11 wasn’t originally designed for this purpose, and its codebase is very messy and ‘hacky,’ which led to the development of Wayland.
X11 Wayland Legacy Modern Many issues due to being legacy Many issues due to being Modern Old New Stable Experimental in short.
Ah, so it’s like DirectX11/12? That makes sense! How come it’s never (presumably?) used on Windows?
Also…
Many issues due to being legacy
Many issues due to being Modern
Lol.
Edit: Okay, looking it up, it’s apparent that X11 is not the same thing as DirectX11. Lol.
DirectX is a set of APIs for game and multimedia development on Windows, whereas X11 and Wayland are display protocols that manage how graphical applications are rendered and interact with the desktop environment. DirectX is more similar to Vulkan in terms of providing a low-level API for high-performance graphics rendering or OpenGL.
I knew what DirectX was; I just thought X11 was an abbreviation for DirectX. Lol.
it’s a newer display server protocol designed to replace X11, focusing on improved security, simplicity, and contemporary display technologies such as multi-display variable refresh rate and HDR (eventually).
it’s when devs of a graphics stack just suddenly feel the need to protect your own computer from itself, so they say fuck you to any features that they deem “insecure”, including accessibility features (they will claim they fixed this, but it’s opt-in per app. old apps will just be completely unusable for some people with special needs.)
But they eliminated tearing on the desktop! woo!!!
Ew.
That’s unfortunate.
I use steam and I can’t tell which is which usually.
True, when Proton enabled it’s hard to tell, but you can filter it.
And another one!
BallisticNG. Incredible WipEout homage, Linux native, VR compatible, runs locked at 60fps on Deck. Fun tracks, cool ships, nice lore. Physics and mechanics are by default more geared towards classic PSX games (1, 2097, 3), with “modern” physics and mechanics (Pure/Pulse/HD with absorb, barrel roll etc.) getting an overhaul in the next version.
Hoping to organize some online tournaments. Maybe monthly? Gonna need players :D
I didn’t realise this was Linux native. appreciate you calling it out
Doom, of course!
Also, OpenRCT2, and Unreal Tournament.
The original CDs of UT 99 had the linux Binaries on them, but (as mentioned in the UT2004 comment) Atari Castrated the Steam version.
Use https://flathub.org/apps/com.epicgames.ut99 to play UT 99
I see.
Unreal Tournament Launcher by Epic Games
Seems funny to me that’s on the Flathub due to this.
Nope, I meant this Doom, whose original source code is here on GitHub.
I’m surprised you’ve not got OpenRCT2 to work - I’m fairly sure it’s in most default repos.
You do need to have a full copy of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 as it uses data / assets from the original game.
I would happily link you to Unreal Tournament, but it’s no longer for sale anywhere as far as I’m aware.
Factorio is so amazing on linux. Like the devas actually care about Linux. They care so much that went on to shit on Gnome for no client side decorations. Absolute legends. Wish more studios wer like them.
In fact Linux is the superior version of Factorio, since you get to have asynchronous saves that don’t pause the game
Windows people don’t get async saves? Wtf. Where are the Spyware benifits?
One of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.
Asynchronous saving
Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform’s features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.
Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.
I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> “The rest” -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!
It’s Linux superpower that some implementation from / to the OS aren’t pain in the ass.
You need to set up CI for the new platform, expand your build system to support the new compiler(s) and architecture(s), and have at least one person on the team that cares enough about the platform to actively maintain it. https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408
And yeah, exactly. Their game seems like their life mission, and I don’t blame them. The game is spectacular.
The Half-Life Games.
Terraria
True… I need to try it. Game updates to this game never die.
Highly recommend. I have finished so many worlds with and without mods and I still return to it once in a while.
Yeah, but I heard it’s one of the games that you need to have opened Wikipedia on the 2nd monitor.
😂 Well, at the beginning I was a bit lost and a friend played with me for like half an hour and then I knew the basics. After that you look things up that you want to know more about, but it’s not necessary to have the wiki open all the time. The game actually has a quite clear progression and hints on first playthrough.
Good to know, you encouraged me to it then! But after all of these updates, the game is huge!
