Favorite or recent SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games?

[Welly Wu]

I have 272.00 SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games out of a total of 564.00 PC games available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh OS X, and GNU/Linux combined. Here are my top five favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games:

Bastion
Transistor
The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief Deluxe Edition
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World + all of the DLCs
Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition

I recently purchased Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition and X: Rebirth Collector's Edition from Steam. Batman: Arkham Knight will be released on June 23rd, 2015. I have not played X: Rebirth yet, but I do own the other Egosoft SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games in my Steam library.

I like the older SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games a lot like Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded or Bioshock Infinite and the season pass or Metro 2033 and Redux or Metro: Last Light and Redux, but I rarely play these specific titles except for Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded. That's a blast from my past as a child growing up with the classic Sierra PC games on older versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1980s. I do like indie SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games a lot and I think that they are more fun than the big AAA SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games that grab all of the headlines on release date. Bastion and Transistor are two of my most favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games because of the hand painted artwork and the relatively modest PC hardware requirements to play them.

I was wondering what other Ubuntu users like to play on SteamOS + GNU/Linux. How many do you own? What kinds of PC game genres do you like? What are your favorite titles? Why? What are you looking forward to purchasing in the future?

I saved Tropico 5: Espionage DLC, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth Rising Tide DLC, and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt in my Steam account for future purchases. I already own the entire Tropico and Sid Meier PC games franchises. I own The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings + DLCs. I'm not really into the Witcher franchise, but I am a SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game collector and I do purchase old and new PC games among different franchises.

What future SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games are you wishing for or do you already know will be ported over? I am hoping that Dark Souls III will become available for SteamOS + GNU/Linux sometime in 2016. I am also hoping Grand Theft Auto V will be ported over to SteamOS + GNU/Linux as well. I own almost all of the Grand Theft Auto PC games except for V. I also own all of the Dark Souls currently available for Microsoft Windows. Like I said, I'm a PC game collector. I am hoping for another SteamOS + GNU/Linux indie PC game from Supergiant Games in the future as well as I believe it will be excellent. They are a small indie PC game developer, but they release excellent work.

I just played Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and it was a total blast! This is quickly becoming one of my most favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games of all time! The graphics are incredible and I can play at ultra graphics settings at 128.00 - 135.00 frames per second smoothly. PC gaming is a lot of fun. It's an expensive hobby, but it's totally worth it.

[Welly Wu]

1. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php

2. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=calendar

If this list is accurate, then I plan to purchase several more SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games and DLCs later this year:

Total War II Emperor Edition
Total War: Attila
Killing Floor 2
Company of Heroes 2
Pay Day 2
Saint's Row IV
XCOM 2
Duke Nukem: Project Manhattan

I already own the older Microsoft Windows versions of these PC game franchises and I am looking to add to my Steam library with the SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game versions. The one that I am particularly interested in is XCOM 2 as I think that is a must have future purchase if it becomes available for SteamOS + GNU/Linux later this year.

This is another good resource for Linux PC games:

3. http://www.linuxgames.com/

4. http://www.lgdb.org/

5. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/

6. https://www.youtube.com/user/tuxreviews

I find Gaming on Linux's website to be the most trusted resource as they are right most of the time, but their expected shipment dates for specific SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games are not always timely. However, it is an excellent resource overall and it gives a pretty good glimpse to what might be coming in the future years ahead.

As you can see, SteamOS + GNU/Linux is growing with a respectable number of PC game titles. Valve Corporation is going to ship SteamOS hardware in November 2015 which should help to bolster the fledgling platform and it will undoubtedly help to expand the tiny community in the coming years. Shipping future SteamOS hardware will help to gain awareness among the general public and it is a pretty serious challenge to the entrenched Microsoft XBOX and Sony Playstation platforms by offering a unique and viable alternative. I think that this may or may not help to grow the GNU/Linux community and awareness worldwide and perhaps a small number of people will start looking for GNU/Linux certified PC OEMs and ODMs to purchase products and run FLOSS technologies in their homes and offices. Valve Corporation and Steam have been mostly positive driving forces to grow the GNU/Linux user base and communities worldwide thus far.

I also follow The Linux Gamer on YouTube and I follow him on Steam as a curator. He produces quality SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game video reviews and he's just getting started, but his content is good and there are enough interesting titles that he has reviewed in the past that offer me food for thought in terms of future purchases. I recommend his YouTube and Steam channels.

[Welly Wu]

Valve Corporation just started their Steam 2015 Summer sale going on now from June 11th, 2015 through June 21st, 2015! I'm going on a spending spree! Yippee!

I just bought Football Manager 2015 + all of the DLCs and Pillars of Eternity at deeply discounted prices. I'll wait until later this month before the end of the Steam 2015 Summer sale to see if Tropico 5: Espionage DLC goes on sale or not among other items in my wish list. I also got Dreamfall Chapters, Invisible, Inc., and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Digital Special Edition. I just bought Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass and Tropico 5: Espionage DLC from Steam on sale.

[Welly Wu]

I got Kentucky Route Zero, The Banner Saga, Besiege, Shovel Knight, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and many others during the Steam Summer sale.

[MasterNetra]

Just purchased CIV 5 (Complete) and Civ Beyond Earth (alone, didn't want Starships, I'd prefer a 4x simlair to Space Empire V, waiting to find a good one), and excited for The riptide expansion coming in the Fall (which should of been part of vanilla from the beginning but what can you do), I recall mentioning that riptide is supposed to be a free download for those who purchased BE, I remember it mentioned on a Firaxis vid discussing it (hope so, Vanilla BE is pretty light on content compared to it's predecessors).

planning on nabbing that cities game somepoint in the future as well.

[Welly Wu]

I too own the complete Sid Meier PC games. I own Civilization V: Brave New World and all of the DLCs and Beyond Earth for SteamOS + GNU/Linux. It's called the Rising Tide DLC for Beyond Earth and it should be available later this Fall 2015 for roughly $29.99 USD. I have not heard that it will be available for free of charge for current Beyond Earth owners. I also own Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition and it's fantastic. Think of Civilization, but down on the street level. You build a city and the most difficult challenge is managing the flow of traffic especially in highly populated areas of your city. It's a great SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game. I enjoy it quite a bit.

The other SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game that I'm waiting for is The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. It should be released for SteamOS + GNU/Linux later this year and I definitely plan to purchase it with the DLCs or season pass or deluxe edition.

So, there are at least two more purchases that I plan to make later this year. I'm also thinking about Kerbal Space Program. It's currently available for SteamOS + GNU/Linux, but I'm not sure if I really want it or not yet. I put it on my wish list for now.

There are quite a number of SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games and DLCs available right now and some of the major AAA PC game titles are hitting our platform. This is a great time to be an Ubuntu GNU/Linux PC user and SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC gamer. Next year should be better.

I'm still waiting for Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition to release on June 23rd, 2015 and Shadow of Mordor later this year. I already purchased these two AAA SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game titles and I'm waiting for them to release for SteamOS + GNU/Linux.

You should back up your Steam PC games after downloading each one. It makes restoring an individual PC game much faster without the need for an Internet connection.

[Welly Wu]

I just bought Age of Wonders III Deluxe Edition for SteamOS + GNU/Linux. I don't think that I am going to purchase Kerbal Space Program after all. It seems like Age of Wonders III is a more interesting PC game title for me. I love these semi-regular Steam PC game sales. They help me to save a lot of money over the long run compared to buying at full price. I got a good deal tonight.

[mastablasta]

you can save even more by not buying them at all. :p

but then you also won't be playing them and you will have more time for other things...

[mips]

I do like indie SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games a lot and I think that they are more fun than the big AAA SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games that grab all of the headlines on release date.

Nah windows is still where gaming is at, I can't play GTA V, Witcher 3, BF4, Crysis 3, Thief etc on Linux and I'm not interested in the WINE masochism trying to make things work. And Windows 10 does not cost me a cent.

[Welly Wu]

I don't like Microsoft Windows any longer. Ubuntu 64 bit LTS GNU/Linux and SteamOS + GNU/Linux are the future of PC gaming at least in Valve Corporation's hedge bet for its' future. There are so many problems with Microsoft Windows especially when it comes to PC hardware compatibility and performance issues as related to PC gaming. The newest AAA PC game titles almost always need patches and updates and they are shipped too early to market which prompts Valve Corporation to issue refunds for various installation or performance issues. SteamOS + GNU/Linux obviate all of those problems usually because there is a time gap between the release date of a PC game title and the SteamOS + GNU/Linux release date. This allows for more time to target software blockers and to incorporate patches and updates to the software source code so that the SteamOS + GNU/Linux version installs and plays smoothly. It's a trade off that I am willing to make. Batman: Arkham Knight and Shadow of Mordor are coming to SteamOS + GNU/Linux later this year. Shadow of Mordor should ship any time now. Batman: Arkham Knight should ship in Fall 2015. I'm still waiting for The Witcher III: Wild Hunt to ship on SteamOS + GNU/Linux later this year. I want more SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game titles to release each passing year and I will do my own part to keep buying new and old titles for as long as possible.

[mips]

Holy crap batman, quite the fanboy you are, the world disagrees with you when it comes to gaming. All games have patches, do you for one second believe that because it's on linux there won't be any patches? Games are massive projects and there are bound to be bug fixes coming down the line, if you expect anything otherwise you are being naive. I don't have any compatibility or performance issues, my rig actually runs bloody smooth.

[Welly Wu]

I just got Shadowruns Dragonfall: Hong Kong for SteamOS + GNU/Linux. It should be released sometime in July 2015 which is currently this month. I am also waiting for Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor to be released for SteamOS + GNU/Linux sometime in the coming days ahead. It was supposed to be released during this previous Spring 2015. We shall see.

I also got the entire Tropico 5 DLCs from Bundle Stars at 50.00 percent off the MSRP for each one except for Tropico 5: Espionage DLC which I already purchased from Steam directly. Now, I have the complete Tropico 1 - 5 PC games and all of the DLCs.

[Welly Wu]

I just bought Goat Simulator for 75% off the MSRP from Steam. Now, I own 293.00 SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games out of a total of 593.00 which is roughly 49.41%. That's decent.

[QIII]

Does Steam sell fractional games?

[Welly Wu]

What do you mean by fractional games? Do you mean discounted games or do you mean fractional studio PC games? If you mean discounted PC games, then yes Steam does sell them. Once in a while, Steam will send a coupon or a free PC game to a customer's inventory and he or she can redeem each one.

Mind you, I don't play video games any longer. I lost interest in them altogether. However, I am a digital packrat and I do collect SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games, electronic books, digital magazines, photographs, music, films, videos, digital newspapers, etc.

I do share my Steam library with my close friend Robert W. and my good friend Vincent V. They get to play my growing Steam PC game library for free of charge so there is an incentive for me to keep purchasing both Microsoft Windows and SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games for us in the long term future.

Once in a blue moon, I will play one of my top five favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games for less than one hour. It's a nice change of pace for me.

[Linuxratty]

Still playing Minecrft.

[Welly Wu]

I am thinking about purchasing Kerbal Space Program 1.0 from Steam when it goes on sale later this year. I have read excellent reviews about this SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game. It is a space simulator. I will add it to my Steam wishlist and I will considering purchasing it in the future before the end of this year. I also watched a seven minute preview video of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth Rising Tide expansion pack DLC and it looks very interesting. I am definitely going to purchase this DLC and start playing it during this Fall 2015. As more expansion packs and DLCs become available for Beyond Earth, I will continue to purchase, download, install, and play them over a long period of time.

[Bucky Ball]

I thought this was the thread topic:

Favorite or recent SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC games?

... not 'share your games shopping list'. :-k

[Welly Wu]

These are going to be my new old favorite PC games real soon! :-)

[Welly Wu]

So far, I think that Sid Meier's Beyond Earth has potential to become my second favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game, but I have to take a wait and see attitude until the Rising Tide DLC is available later this Fall 2015. The problem with Beyond Earth is that it feels alien and it does not have enough legs to stand on its own yet. Civilization V feels like a complete world rooted in history. This is why it is still my top favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game of all time. It's a huge world with layers of details to delve into and there are enough civilizations to keep it fresh and interesting which strengthens its' replayability factor by several magnitudes of order. Fighting over scarce luxuries, resources, and gold keeps it challenging and the other civilizations go out of their way to defeat you using science, culture, war, or natural wonders of the world. It is hard to stop playing this one. The best "win" is a draw with another civilization in a given set of turns. Beyond Earth goes beyond Earth and it explores space and the galaxies, but it needs more expansion DLCs to flesh it out. It feels like an unfinished software product right now. The Starships! PC game is a joke and it was poorly reviewed, but it is interesting to go Beyond Earth in a simplified board game style of PC gaming. I read rumors that it will be ported to SteamOS + GNU/Linux later this year, but 2K and Firaxis have not commented on this yet. If it becomes available, then I will purchase it. Beyond Earth has huge potential to change the game for Firaxis because it fixes the years old complaints about the previous Civilization PC games. It adds logical structure and easier management of the technology web and it adds new challenges to survive and thrive on a hostile alien planet. Where Firaxis missed the boat was to complete Beyond Earth and the modding community stepped in to make it more usable. Sometimes, I think that Firaxis is shooting for the moon when they publish a brand new Civilization PC game and I feel that the SteamOS + GNU/Linux port needs to be optimized for better performance as it is very resource heavy at ultra graphics settings which I don't think that it should be in the first place. It goes beyond loading screens and loading saved games. I'm talking about 3D hardware accelerated graphics performance here. It needs to be optimized for multi-core and multi-GPU hardware configurations and it needs to scale up more smoothly. There should also be a more detailed manual and a short video to teach new Beyond Earth PC gamers how to do basic tasks. There is too much of a steep learning curve involved and it winds up becoming a frustration riddled with trial and error type of learning from mistakes which can destroy a space colony or your entire civilization. Firaxis made the alien planet too hostile and inhospitable and some assets and resources are not apparent which results in missed opportunities to take advantage of each one each turn. It is still my second favorite SteamOS + GNU/Linux PC game so far, but I want much more and I am willing to pay for more features and content in the foreseeable future.

[ukripper]

you can save even more by not buying them at all. :p

but then you also won't be playing them and you will have more time for other things...

same sentiments... I guess new generation just want to sit home and get on with their ticky-tacky, rather be out n about socialising, taking sports or indulging in other interesting activities