gaming

Westerado is a 2D open-world, 8-bit inspired, western shoot-em-up action adventure game. Your family was murdered by a bandit and you chase him and his posse down. But first, you got to find him by investigating and asking questions around town. Interact with everyone in the game, quick travel to areas on the map, or lone-gun it riding your horse across dangerous terrain. Sneak through underground mines or across barren deserts. Either way... you are gonna DIE!

Your reputation play an important role in Westerado as well. Locals will help you if you help them first, or they will kill you if you play hard-ball. Once I shot a turkey on some farmers land and he attacked me. Every time I went back to his farm I was his sworn enemy. Be careful who and what you shoot.

Running Westerado was flawless with Proton 5.0-7
Never had any issues with settings, keyboard/mouse or load/save.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 4440.59

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Encodya is an point-in-click adventure based in a futuristic Neo-Berlin Germany. Play as Tina and/or SAM-53 her robot protector. The visual style is reminiscent of Bladerunner-ish world with a colorful anime style.

I love the fact that you can play as two characters who are completely different and have their own inventories. The voice acting was great and worked well with the characters presented in the demo. I would love if more items were interactive, but these days gamers no longer have patience to click everything on the screen.

Since its a demo, there are limited areas you can visit. But the animations, graphics and effects are well done and quite beautiful. Encodya ran perfectly in Linux without any extra configurations.

https://chaosmonger.itch.io/encodya

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59




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Grand Theft Auto 2 is a classic 3rd person shooter from 1999 where you basically play sandbox style driving any vehicle and killing anyone you want. You can accept missions or go completely postal... just watch out for the police.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Grand Theft Auto 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: Make sure to search online for the free version (at your own risk) of Grand Theft Auto 2 ahead of time. Save it to your Desktop, extract if necessary.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 32-bit

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow...

Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
Proton 5

I crowdfunded Wolcen Lords of Mayhem back when it was on Kickstarter as Umbra. Hoping they would do a Linux port and implement co-op they finally finished it and runs great in Proton. I'm assuming it will probably never get a Linux port, but as long as my investment was well rewarded I'm ok with playing in Proton.

I was able to run Wolcen with all the settings on high and can play offline or online without any serious issues. This game is beautiful! Epic animated backgrounds with waves and soldiers... I'm not regretting my $15 cost years and years ago.


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Recently I've been playing Torchlight II in Steam and GOG. Both versions still run perfectly without issues and I was able to play co-op online and offline with friends and family. The game still absolutely ROCKS with intense mini-bosses, randomly generated minions and huge boss fights. Your character will level up quickly so each time you play try a different class and level up a different skill. Its like playing the first time over again, but you are familiar with the levels and story, but even the levels change a bit.


Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59

Tacoma is a sci-fi first person narrative adventure game on a space station in the future. Explore the space station and learn about the crew as they survive in an emergency situation. View real-time virtual recordings of their actions and decisions that led to current events. Where did the crew go? What were they working on?
Learn about their personal lives on space station Tacoma

https://www.gog.com/game/tacoma_game

Tacoma ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 950 without any issues. Transistions, loading, saving and no gravity areas ran without a hitch. This is a great Linux port and the graphics are top notch beautiful.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 950
Nvidia 440

Contemp is a very short horror puzzle game where you explore a mysterious haunted house. It is almost like an experimental tech demo. The design of the house is amazingly detailed and realistic. If anything, enjoy the terrifying experience in this creepy house.

I was able to play in PlayOnLinux with Wine and DXVK. Never had any issues running the game or controlling it.

https://micaka.itch.io/contemp

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
DXVK: 6.1

ULTRAKILL is a tribute to 90's FPS lowpoly bloody action gaming. It succeeds very well!
Obliterate hordes of minions in this fast-pace shooter by trick jumping, strafing, granading, shooting and more! You'll never tire with the abundance of blood an slaughter through each level... and a the end... is... of course...
A BOSS!

https://hakita.itch.io/ultrakill-prelude

P.T. Remake is an Unreal 4 remake of a Playstation psychological horror game that was a playable-teaser for Silent Hill. This is a very repetitive game as you explore the same hallway over and over with new clues and puzzles each time.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing P.T. Remake in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: ProtonGE 5.6
DXVK: 6.1

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Installed



Click...

This is a unique low-poly first person shooter where you finally get your chance to kill all of those mangy spiders in your house! Inspect every object, make a huge mess, burn, shoot and slaughter every last one of em!

Kill It With Fire: Ignition
Has a free demo in Steam and it runs great in Proton

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 430.50
Proton 5.0.6

Played some Gauntlet recently in a LAN party online. I've played before and even created a guide in PlayOnLinux, but now it runs beautifully in Steam with Proton. I was able to play an online game and invite friends who are using Windows. It ran perfectly! No bugs or graphical issues.
Proton handles it just fine!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/258970/Gauntlet_Slayer_Edition/

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 430.50
Proton 5.0.6

Crumbling World is a lowpoly action RPG with a unique feature: The world is constantly crumbling around around you.
Use portals to move around the map before you fall off the crumbling landscape and end up in the Underworld. Yes, you don't immediately die... instead you fight your way through the Underworld and hop in a portal back to the upperworld. Crazy huh?

The current beta has a Linux version

https://dumearts.itch.io/crumbling-world

I have been playing Alan Wake recently (tested previously but never finished) and decided to give DXVK a try. It runs really well with only minimum graphical artifacts. Other than the audio not working during the cut-scene's it is an awesome game! I love the lighting effects and shadow/wind effects. The game mechanics and puzzles are really fun and intense.


Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 430.50
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
DXVK 1.6

Lumote is a colorful platform puzzle game with some surreal visuals. The demo is free and runs great in Proton. I didn't even force a Proton version, just used the default and it ran fine.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 430.50

https://store.steampowered.com/app/791240/Lumote/

Fistful of Frags is a Free-To-Play Source Engine complete modification of an old Western shootout first person game. It consists of Old West themed levels & weapons with your typical deathmatch, capture the flag and team deathmatch styles of gameplay. There is even co-op levels with bots.

This game has been around for a while, but still has an active community. In fact they released a Linux version too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/265630/Fistful_of_Frags/

Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox game. Full of creepy minions, crafting and even bosses. The beta is completely free an works online and local LAN:
https://dvoidis.itch.io/valheim

Just finished NaissanceE in Proton. What an epic game! It starts out humbly with some small light/dark jump puzzles... but stick with it and you will traverse through massive surreal areas.

There were several areas that I almost gave up. Very difficult jumps, puzzles and repetition. On occasion I had to look up the solution online, but I would try to solve it myself several times before giving up.

This game has a real geometric Tron-ish graphical style. Even the music has the synthetic digital sounds like in Tron.

I was able to play with all the settings on high. VSync enabled prevented screen tearing.
Proton: 5.5

Elisa is a retro 90's inspired horror game with Resident Evil influences.

• Low Poly
• Static Camera Views
• Survival
• Puzzles
• Horror

https://caspercroes.itch.io/alisa-demo

I picked up Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris when Steam announced it was free. Then searched https://www.protondb.com/ to see what the rating was. Most of them were gold, so I gave it a try.

It ran great with Proton 4.11-13 and I was able to play co-op with keyboard/mouse and my Amazon Xbox Basics controller. Worked out-of-the-box

Stowaway is a free indie first person horror project with a clever 1950' pop-art 8-bit style. I was able to run it perfectly by extracting the rar and using Steam's "add a non-Steam game to my library" and selecting a proton version. Then it ran perfectly

https://dirigogames.itch.io/stowaway