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The city of Harran is in a devastating zombie apocalypse and there are small factions of survivors who can't escape. Join a friend in co-op and explore a massive city using parkor skills to traverse any terrain! Loot buildings, level up skills, help the locals and of course... slay zombies in all manner of goriness you can imagine! There are so many ways to kill mindless biters... Dying Light is a zombie sandbox.


Initially I tried the native Linux version of Dying Light and it ran very well! I Think it ran better than with Proton, but unfortunately in co-op every time we entered a safe zone the game would crash. After researching I found that Proton handles the game well and we never had any issues with the crashing.
I doubt there will ever be a fix because Dying Light 2 has already been released and I'm sure they are working on another game at this point. Maybe Dead Island 2?

If you do want to try the Linux version, be sure to add this...

Östertörn, Sweden is over run with robots! Not your run-of-the-mill Lost in Space robot, but dangerous animal-like killer mechanical robots with you as their prey! Explore an enormous island with towns, forests, tourist traps and of course... a lot of robots to slay!


Generation Zero is a co-op and/or singleplayer campaign with a lot of focus on stealth. You can run out into the open and start laying them down with bullets, but it isn't gonna last long. Too many minions and not enough bullets. Proton handles the open-world games perfectly without any glitches or crashes yet. No launch options needed so far and I was able to run it mostly on Ultra with my hardware.

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton Experimental 8

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Survive a zombie apocalypse on the island of Banoi! This band of friends hack and loot their way across a massive resort island crafting weapons, tossing molotov's and slaying varying types of minions. Dead Island was released in 2011 and still looks as beautiful and detailed as many AAA games released today! I still can't believe the amount of detail in every object, plant, weapon and animation!


Dead Island in 2024 still has a native Linux port available in Steam and runs beautifully even in co-op!
One simple Launch Option:
This allows the game to use Vulkan instead of OpenGL and it shows! There are a few minior bugs but nothing game breaking! Its crazy to think developers were considering Linux back in 2011 when so many just rely on Proton these days.

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535

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Bioshock 2 is the second installment of the underwater euphoria franchise. Visit Rapture once again but 10 years later, this time as a Big Daddy! Adopt a LittleSister and save Adam to upgrade your skills but as always, you are not alone! Fight again all kinds of splicers, turrets and even a Big Sister. Learn to wield your skills along with your drill and guns! This ain't your first rodeo, so get out there and save Rapture!


I originally posted a PlayOnLinux guide back in 2014 and it has a ungodly amount of steps... there was also a memory leak with the textures on high that would crash the game. Ten years later Bioshock 2 Remastered runs PERFECTLY in Proton and you only need one launch option to bypass the "launcher".


Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535 Proton
Experimental 8

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After playing the entire Black Mesa remake of Hal-Life 1, I was absolutely amazed at the quality in Zen levels. The beautiful organic alien world make of glowing vegetation and flying creatures. The details are amazing and the interactive puzzles are so creative! This whole game blew me away and I'll never play the original Half-Life again. This is what gaming is all about!

Here are some creative screenshots in PNG 1920x1080

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Enter the world of memory as Nilin where your emotions and memories are digitized and can be exploited! Will the world be a better place if we can erase all the bad memories? Nilin starts with no memory of who she is, but her brother hacked the system and allows her to escape. Explore the future with memory control where robots rule and the underworld is full of manic zombies.


Melee you way through hordes of zombies, soldiers, robots and mini-bosses using Proton. I was able to finish the game without any serious issues or repeated crashing. I enabled the super-sampling and set all video settings on high. The only real issue I had was mouse control. Remember Me feels more like a console game with the mouse because I couldn't fully control the camera like most 3rd person games. It works, but gets stuck when moving the camera around. No huge deal because its not a game breaker.

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535 Proton...

One of my favorite ship interiors is in Borderlands 3!
Ever since Borderlands 1 the visuals, textures, graphics and shaders have improved incredibly.

I decided to load up the game and visit Sanctuary III for some wallpaper screenshots.

Each shot was taken with almost all settings on High and using the Photo Mode in the Esc menu.
I played around with focus and field-of-view for more dramatic shots.

Some are simply a wall with wallpaper-ish items.
Each screenshot is 1920x1080 PNG

Enjoy!

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Black Mesa is modder-built total conversion of Half-Life using the source engine. Anyone who has played a First Person Shooter on PC knows about Half-Life. It is one of the most original linear action sci-fi games ever made! Crowbar Collective has taken it upon themselves to create a reboot of Half-Life using more modern Source engine the entire game from beginning to end!


Black Mesa is so well done that I won't ever play the original Half-Life again! You will see some content from Half-Life 2 series but there is a lot of original content as well. I'm amazed at how detailed the models, objects and level design is... each level is so close to the original game but with beautiful lighting and detailed textures... I'm hooked! And for our bonus, they made a native port for Linux!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

I am still playing through the entire game with my daughter and so far its a bit easier than the...

Darksiders Genesis is the 3rd installment of the Darksiders franchise and provides a new top-down world view. Not only that, co-op has been implemented so you can jump, shoot, slice and combo all the minions at your noteworthy desire! Play War and Strife in singleplayer or co-op as War and Strife in this prequel to Darksiders 1. Work together to solve level puzzles, find secret areas and slay every single minion and boss!


Genesis ran perfectly from the first time I clicked Play! Of course I checked protondb to be sure it would run before I purchased two copies. I am able to play the campaign with my wife and no serious bugs or issues. In fact some of the protondb posts say there are game-stopping bugs, but I haven't seen any yet and we made it through 3 chapters so far. Also, my Xbox controller works perfectly in Steam and Proton.
No launch options here, just select Proton Experimental or Proton 8 and enjoy!

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX...

Who doesn't know the story of Geralt and his monstrous adventures helping the people of Nilfgaard searching for his daughter? Play as the famous Witcher again and slay all kinds of hideous monsters who lay waste to the realm. Craft weapons, upgrade, use runes and wield magic at your disposal. The story and cut-scenes are cleverly engaging... even the side-quests are interesting and full of unexpected surprises.


I did a bit of research on ProtonDB before downloading and testing The Witcher 3. In most cases it ran beautifully, but I did see a bunch of posts about a Steam Launch Option to skip the "Launcher"

I have only experienced a handful of crashes, probably because I'm constantly taking screenshots, but other than that, it runs great with almost all the settings on Ultra.

Specs:
Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton GE 8-4

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Play as Kate Wilson during the Great Population Flood and take on the terrorist group the Malthusians in a Tomb Raider-ish game with action, puzzles, climbing and amazing water effects.
The Hydro Engine was designed for Hydrophobia to create realistic water effects as you find your way through epic linear maps completely flooded in water. Kate even wields an interesting physics water gun with unlimited ammo cool down. This makes for some interesting puzzle solving with the surroundings.



https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/92000/

Hydrophobia is a pretty short game, but full off action and crazy waves of water everywhere. Proton was able to handle this 2011 engine without any serious issues. There were a few random crashes, but the game auto-saves everywhere, so just launch and continue playing. I've made a step-by-step guide for Hydrophobia years ago in PlayOnLinux, but now with Proton, it just runs without any extra...

In the Titanfall 2 campaign you will learn the bond between human and titan. Play as Jack Cooper and fight to save your commanders abandoned titan BT-7274. You will experience first person shooter and mech styles of gameplay throughout the campaign. Fight in your titan and also fight alongside your titan. Both styles bring unique gameplay as you communicated with BT-7274 and escape the enemy.


I initially tested Titanfall 2 with stable versions of Proton and EA Play failed to launch the game. But as expected... Proton Experimental paved the way! Now the game runs beautifully and the singleplayer campaign is pretty amazing! I was able to play with most settings on high and hardly any frame stuttering or frame rate issues. What a beautiful game!

Specs:
Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton Experimental 8




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Gunslinger is another instance of the Call Of Juarez franchise with a story-tellin emphasis. Literally! Play as the narrator who slays famous outlaws of the old west. Utilize old classic weapons like The Winchester, Colt, shotgun and more... Play epic one-on-one showdown shootouts in slow motion!


Gunslinger has a great graphics style almost like Borderlands and it runs really well in Proton! Unfortunately the game is fairly linear and sometimes the story halts right in the middle of a firefight to introduce an enemy animation, dialog or simply change the story. Other than that, you won't get to use a lot of creative weapons or loot... mostly run-n-gun using classic western guns. Which is still pretty fun!

Specs:
Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton GE 8-4

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Blizzard finally created a free-to-play MMO for Diablo! Currently in Beta, join your friends and live the story between Diablo II and III. Choose a deadly male or female class:

• Blood Knight
• Barbarian
• Crusader
• Demon Hunter
• Monk
• Necromancer
• Wizard

Battle all kinds of forest minions all the way to hell demons! Also expect the typical environments like Gothic graveyards, deserts and epic castles. Help other players and expect random encounters!

I was able to install Battle.net in PlayOnLinux with ProtonGE8 and run Diablo Immortal. Honestly it will require some patience because of the random crashing. I was unable to run the game on any other version of Proton. The game will consistently crash at start up, but don't give up, just use the System Monitor to kill DiabloImmortal.exe and then launch again. If that doesn't work, just kill all processes in PlayOnLinux and run it again.

For the most part, once it...

Deep Rock Galactic is a Dwarf-ish spelunking mining extravaganza where you and 3 friends will dig for resources while surviving mobs of alien/bug-like monsters. Each Dwarf has a unique blend of weapons and tools, so it is important to work together! As you explore massive caverns or twisting caves keep an eye out for health because you will be attacked with random monster invasion and even bosses.


Its been about a year since I played over a free weekend and since then I've been waiting for a Steam sale. It finally happened and I picked up 3 copies! With 3 PCs running Linux Mint I didn't have any issues with two of them, but the third one caused a bunch of issues with Vulkan Shaders. Every time we ran it, those stinking "Processing Vulkan Shaders"!!! Then the game would freeze or crash! After some research and setting Processing to background we set Proton to version 7 and ran as "Safe Mode" it finally worked.
Now works flawlessly every...

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem is an action RPG much like Grim Dawn-meets-Diablo 3-meets-Warhammer 40K Chosbane. Traditionally its is a top down looting, melee, projectile, magic slaying monsters game, but once you level up... there are a lot of features to choose from.

• Skill Tree
• Special Abilities
• Character Stats

For the most part, Wolcen ran really well in Proton. There were a few instances where our character started moving really slowly and couldn't attack. But it was so infrequent we didn't research how to fix it. Probably something to do with bandwidth or ping speeds.

Honestly Wolcen was much to easy for my wife and I playing in co-op. We were able to connect over Steam and play the same campaign, which is pretty long... but there was a sever update which completely removed all of our skill tree selections. As a reward for this unfortunate event, they gave us both 400K coins which meant we could purchase anything we...

Once again, Dunwall is under threat but this time the empresses half-sister Delilah is threatening to take power as an evil sorceress. Play as Corvo or Emily and explore a whole new world: Karnaca capital of Serkonos. A new enemy lurks in the form of robotic soldiers and witches, but expect to learn some new deadly stealth skills as well.


I picked up Dishonored 2 on a GOG sale and naturally tried to play using PlayOnLinux. But I was unable to even launch the game with Wine or Proton. So I tried Steam "non-steam" game and it ran fairly well. Every once in a while I would get a stuttering frame rate issue probably related to Vulkan shaders, but other than that it was a beautiful game! I was able to run almost all the settings on high. Also one of the best looking skulls I've ever seen in a video game!

Specs:
Mint 21.164-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 530
Proton Experimental 8.0

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Valheim has sold millions of copies with millions of players exploring the massive map, creating Viking cities, slaying monsters, collecting loot and crafting gear. But where did it all start? The free-to-play beta of course!


Sadly I've had a hard time tracking down a download for Valheim Linux beta. I've kept it from years ago and it still runs pretty well and is still a lot of LAN co-op fun! If you still don't want to spend money on Valheim and want to play with limited features, give it a go, but have fun finding an installer.

I was able to host a listenserver and my daughters both joined on Mint PCs
Every once in a while there is a slight performance stutter. Part of it is the automatic save, but the other part may just be optimization issues. Either way, a lot of fun!

Specs:
Mint 21.164-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 530

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The world is not what it seems...
Enter a terrifying world where humanity is at its end, WAU monsters have taken over and you are the only one left to save us. Creatures roam in the dark you can run, you can hide, but the only way to stop them is to become one of them? Explore massive underwater facilities spanning across an ocean. Hear resonating memories from objects and bodies, figure out who you really are and work with Catherine the computer AI.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/soma

I've had SOMA for a few years on GOG and finally broke down to give it a try. I'm a big Amnesia fan so I knew I would like this horror thriller by Frictional Games. I wasn't disappointed! Not only does it run native in Linux, it ran beautifully and the visual effects are AMAZING! The monsters are pretty terrifying and your only defense is hiding, closing doors behind you and running. Enjoy!

Specs:
Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX
1650 Nvidia 530

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Fallout 76 is the newest version of the Fallout franchise, but now you can play online with friends in a post apocalyptic world full of zombies, mutated creatures and environmental events. Craft your own camp, loads of loot, countless guns, armor and of course... pop caps. Based on the famous Fallout 4, explore all kinds of biomes, run down buildings, schools, airports and much much more! Level up with experience cards and trade all kinds of loot with your buddies. The world is massive and there for you to conquer!


I was so happy Fallout 76 was finally on sale! I played once during a free weekend and even with some performance issues, I thought it was a lot of fun! Now with Proton Experimental my daughter and I are playing co-op and exploring the world of Fallout together.... finally!

Of course there are still performance issues, but I expected this and spent some time tweaking the settings in the .ini file to get it to run smooth...