Total War: Warhammer 2 stacks on top of the original game if you own it, letting you combine all the factions from both games into one super-campaign. Each faction feels completely unique to play, and watching thousands-strong armies of Skaven, Undead, Lizardmen, Chaos and the other grimdark factions go at it is a sight to behold. Another new release that supported Linux from the get-go, Desperados 3 is a relentlessly old-school real-time tactics game in the vein of Commandos or of course the older Desperados games.
But Desperados 3 made by the devs behind the excellent Shadow Tactics modernizes the formula, too. Showdown mode lets you pause and slow the game down to line up moves by your ragtag crew of vagabonds, and you can even play with a gamepad should you want to kick back on your couch.
Dying Light chucks you into an open-world city destroyed by a zombie pandemic, as you try to help out the enclaves of humanity that still live there. You refine your character with skills, leap between rooftops and chop up zombies with crafted weapons. It doubles as one of the best co-op experiences out there, too, as up to three friends can dash around the city with you complete with new challenges and competitive modes like races.
Civilization VI has the same stone-age-to-space-age turn-based formula as its predecessors, but adds neat new ideas like de-stacked cities, combined arms units, and in the DLC climate change, golden ages and dark ages. One of the titles that best represents the cRPG revival of recent years makes your typical Bethesda RPG look like a facile action-adventure. The latest entry in the majestic Pillars of Eternity series has a more buccaneering slant as you sail with a crew around islands filled with adventures and peril.
Adding naval combat to the mix, Deadfire continues with the rich storytelling and excellent writing of its predecessor while building on those beautiful graphics and hand-painted backgrounds of the original game. This is a deep and unquestionably hardcore RPG that may cause some to bounce off it, but those who take to it will be absorbed in its world for months.
With endless card combinations and a different layout each time you play, Slay the Spire feels like the realization of all the best systems that have been rocking the indie scene in recent years — card games and a permadeath adventure rolled into one. This one deserves highlighting as the combat-platformer of the year.
With its rogue-lite structure, Dead Cells throws you into a dark yet gorgeously colored world where you slash and dodge your way through procedurally-generated levels.
Dead Cells can be merciless, but its precise and responsive controls ensure that you only ever have yourself to blame for failure, and its upgrades system that carries over between runs ensures that you always have some sense of progress. Dead Cells is a zenith of pixel-game graphics, animations and mechanics, a timely reminder of just how much can be achieved without the excesses of 3D graphics.
Everyone thought Valve was crazy to turn Team Fortress from a Half-life style realistic ish online shooter to a bold and bouncy online shooter in But it worked, and incredibly well, too. The bread-and-butter of Team Fortress 2 are classic team-based modes, like Capture the Flag, Control Points, and the excellent Payload, where one team needs to escort a cart across a level sound familiar Overwatch fans?
That's not surprising, though, because few major games are released without bugs requiring large patches a week later. Those bugs can be even worse when a game runs on Proton and WINE, so Linux gamers often benefit by refraining from early adoption.
The trade-off may be worth it, though. I've played a few games that run perfectly on Proton, only to discover later from angry forum posts that it's apparently riddled with fatal errors when played on the latest version of Windows.
In short, it seems that games from major studios aren't perfect, and so you can expect similar-but-different problems when playing them on Linux as you would on Windows. One of the most exciting developments of recent Linux history is Flatpak , a cross between local containers and packaging. It's got nothing to do with gaming or doesn't it? This applies to gaming because there are often lots of fringe technologies used in games, and it can be pretty demanding on distribution maintainers to keep up with all the latest versions required by any given game.
Flatpak abstracts that away from the distribution by establishing a common Flatpak-specific layer for application libraries. Distributors of flatpaks know that if a library isn't in a Flatpak SDK, then it must be included in the flatpak. It's simple and straightforward. Thanks to Flatpak, the Steam client runs on something obvious like Fedora and on distributions not traditionally geared toward the gaming market, like RHEL and Slackware! If you're not eager to sign up on Steam, though, there's my preferred gaming client, Lutris.
On the surface, Lutris is a simple game launcher for your system, a place you can go when you know you want to play a game but just can't decide what to launch yet. With Lutris, you can add all the games you have on your system to create your own gaming library, and then launch and play them right from the Lutris interface. Better still, Lutris contributors like me! It's not always necessary, but it can be a nice shortcut to bypass some tedious configuration.
Lutris can also enlist the help of runners , or subsystems that run games that wouldn't normally launch straight from your application menu. For instance, if you want to play console games like the open source Warcraft Tower Defense , you must run an emulator, and Lutris can handle that for you provided you have the emulator installed.
Additionally, should you have a GOG. Linux gaming is a fulfilling and empowering experience. I used to avoid computer gaming because I didn't feel I had much of a choice. It seemed that there were always expensive games being released, which inevitably got extreme reactions from happy and unhappy gamers alike, and then the focus shifted quickly to the next big thing.
On the other hand, open source gaming has introduced me to the people of the gaming world. I've met other players and developers, I've met artists and musicians, fans and promoters, and I've played an assortment of games that I never even realized existed.
Some of them were barely long enough to distract me for just one afternoon, while others have provided me hours and hours of obsessive gameplay, modding, level design, and fun.
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