action games

Play as stealth assassin Corvo in the city of Cornwall, attempting to purge the city of corrupt politicians who murdered the Empress. Save the princess with cold dead assassinations or passively take out each enemy without shedding blood. The choice is yours... as you traverse huge castles and forts with multiple paths to your objective. Use clever skills to sneak and stealth unseen or slay guards with hungry rats or worse...


https://store.steampowered.com/app/205100/Dishonored/

Proton handles Dishonored perfectly without any hacks or workarounds. I was able to play with all settings maxed out on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to play through the entire campaign and it was beautiful!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 5.13-5

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Just about anyone has played Half-Life 2 at this point and maybe even played Synergy... but did you know there is a native version for Linux?

Play again as Gordon Freeman and escape the city through canals, sewers, beaches, Ravenholm and City17. You aren't alone, not only is the rebellion there to help, but you can bring a few friends along! Enjoy the physics puzzles, jump tricks, hover jet and buggy with a few friends... you never know what is going to happen.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/17520/Synergy/

Synergy installed without issues and I was able to host on a LAN and my other PCs joined easily. You use the classic listenserver interface where you pick a level start the game. There have been a few unexpected bugs which is honestly... expected with mods. You can not save the game either, but Synergy packs an autosave and autospawn feature so you all can play cooperative together without loosing a lot of progress...

The Haunted began as an Unreal Tournament 3 total conversion which one the "Make Something Unreal" competition. The developers used their earnings to develop a full professional release: Hell's Reach
Improving on the original mod you can play co-op with 3 friends online and slay all kinds of new demons in the original maps or a few new maps. New features and weapon upgrades available as well. And to top-it-off... a final boss ending!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/43190/The_Haunted_Hells_Reach/

I originally posted a guide for The Haunted as an Unreal Tournament 3 guide, but later posted Hell's Reach in PlayOnLinux. The game ran fine and Wine handled Unreal engine without any issues. The only problem was installing Windows Steam and configuring everything in PlayOnLinux. Today Proton makes it simple and easy. Download, set compatibility with Proton and play. Nuff Said!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460...

Traverse and assassinate in an epic world created by Cyanide Studios. Play as the mysterious goblin who will unfold his origins in a world of greedy men and elves. Use clever stealth abilities and assassinate with powerful skills. Each massive level consists of multiple routes to your objective making re-play exciting. Level up your skills and meet interesting characters who help you on the way.


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

I initially created a guide on Styx years ago and Wine could barely handle the game. Any time I looked up into the distance there was a huge CPU spike and the game slowed to a crawl. Today, Proton handles the game perfectly and I've never experienced a single frame rate drop!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 5.13-5

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Symphonia is a clever colorful platformer with interesting and difficult jump tricks. Play your violin in order to activate areas and interact, but your bow can fling you across hard-to-reach areas. Use your bow to traverse the epic mechanical orchestra and begin the symphony.


https://isart-digital.itch.io/symphonia

Symphonia is a 2D platformer with beautiful animation and interactive levels. Watch the backgrounds animated as you move from one area to another. I never had any issues running it with Wine and my GeForce GTX 1060 handled the 2D graphics perfectly. This is a short game, but pretty dang fun and free. It requires a controller and my Amazon Xbox basics controller worked perfectly as long as I didn't click anything with the mouse.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0.2
DXVK 1.7.2

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Play as an insurgent fighter and join the Red Faction rebellion against the EDF. Red Faction Guerrilla is a completely physics destructive environments. Use your hammer to break down any wall or structure. Use your mines to blow up any building or vehicle in this open world action game! The remastered version on GOG now supports modern resolutions and enhanced graphics.


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

I was able to install and run the game with Wine 5.0.2 but upon launching there was no audio in-game. The BIK movies played audio, but not in-game. I still had to install DirectX June 2010 Redistribute for all of the xact, xaudio overrides. It would fail again and again until I manually added all the xaudio2_0 all the way up to xaudio 2_9 and set to (native). Then it installed and now audio works!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0.2 64-bit
DXVK 1.7.2...

Play as an Assasin, Paladin, Crusader or Necromancer in an epic tale to defeat Eidolon the Serpent Rider. But he's not alone, slay all kinds of minions with your class's special weapons and inventory items. Made with the Quake engine, enjoy Gothic indoor levels and outdoor areas with maze-like precision.


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

Never play Hexen in DOSBox or Wine again! Download an OpenGL supported engine on triptohell.info:
https://fte.triptohell.info/downloads

Much like GZDoom, use Wine to install GOG Hexen II in a wineprefix, then simply cut-n-paste the game folder anywhere you want. Drop fteqw64 executable in the game folder and run with Terminal. Now you have a plethora of video options, widescreen settings and even realistic water reflections. Trust me, Hexen has never been so beautiful on modern computers!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
fteqw64

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Agent 47 is sent by the International Contract Agency to assassinate Diana Burnwood and recover a genetically-engineered teenage girl who is meant to be trained as an assassin. Use stealth, force and clever traversing around the level to eliminate mercenaries. Kill the target and save the girl!


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

Hitman Absolution ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux with Wine 5.0.2 on my GeForce GTX 1060. I played through th first three levels and never experienced any graphical issues, control issues or save/load issues. It just ran perfectly! I was also able to crank up the graphics as this title was created back in 2012.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0.2 64-bit
DXVK: 1.7.2

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The zombie apocalypse has arrived and begun a whole new war! World War Z is a co-op third-person shooter very similar to Left4Dead series. Slay countless zombies in an objective based experience in New York, Moscow, Jerusalem, Tokyo and Marseille. With an arsenal of weapons you will try to escape linear levels with your friends (or bots) and survive massive hordes of zombies.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/world-war-z/home


World War Z is one of the rare games that actually works in PlayOnLinux with Epic Games Launcher. I had to do a bit of trial-n-error just to get the Launcher working by adding Media Foundation, Visual C++ 2019 and DXVK, but it actually works. The only issues I had playing this game is a bit of stutter at the begging of each level. I'm sure there is some caching going on there and its annoying, but if you are patient, it eventually begins to run well. I also had to crank down the settings as...

Robot abominations are taking over the world! Bezoar is the last city of humans to be consumed... our last and final hope is veteran Major Fletcher! Slay all kinds of robots in this fast action FPS with all kinds of destructive objects and physics. Use traps or just mow down mechanical minions and free the remaining human race.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/98400/Hard_Reset_Extended_Edition/


I tested Hard Reset years ago and posted a guide. At the time Wine produced some graphical artifacts but nothing game-stopping. Today with Proton, its painlessly perfect! Everything runs great on my GeForce GTX 1060.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
Proton 5.0-10

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Our Solar System is in danger! An alien race of clones and machines are taking over one planet at a time and they have to be stopped! Assemble a squad of warframe avatars to stop the forces of evil. Slay minions with a huge arsenal of upgradable weapons. Use guns, bows, swords and much much more! Upgrade your warframe and fight along-side friends in survival, excavation, mobile defense, extermination and more game types.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/


Warframe is a completely free-to-play game with in-game purchases. Proton finally handles the game perfectly without any launch options, overrides or extra hacks. IT JUST WORKS! I was able to run Warframe on my GeForce GTX 1060 and GTX 950 without any serious issues.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
Proton 5.0-10




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Back in 2011 ID Software released a post apocalyptic first person shooter with a Fallout-ish theme. 9 Years seems like a long time ago, but RAGE is quite a visual experience with a lot of action! Explore a linear wasteland and slay bandits, mutants and The Authority.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/RAGE/

I posted a RAGE guide in PlayOnLinux years ago and it ran fairly well. I don't remember having any issues, but I didn't exactly play the whole game either. Proton makes the process painless in comparison. Download and click "play". That's it!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
Proton 5.0-10

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Play as "Black" a mercenary/detective in this psychological action-packed FPS thriller. Attached to a new technology you are captive in your own mind and go back to the events of a terrorist act where a girl was murdered. Use your smartphone to find clues, solve puzzles and reveal hidden areas... then enter your own memories to learn secrets of your past. Is this real or a dream?



https://store.steampowered.com/app/299950/GET_EVEN/

Get Even played beautifully in Proton on my GeForce GTX 1060. I'm amazed at the quality of visuals and graphics in this game. The action and fancy experimental weapons are pretty fun to use as well.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440
Proton 5.0-9

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Its New York City, there is an epic battle to save the world from an alien threat... again! Play as a military special forces infiltrating New York but there is an attack on your entry point and you barely survive. Prophet finds your body and saves your life by sacrificing his own. Now it is up to you!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/108800/Crysis_2__Maximum_Edition/

Years ago I tested Crysis 2 with patched versions of Wine. It played fairly well on my older hardware, but there points in the game where it crashed. Eventually I crashed every time in a specific spot in the game. I gave up, but one day it will play through beautifully. Today with Proton and DirectX 10/11 support I found Crysis 2 runs perfectly! No crashing yet, and amazing performance!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
Proton 5.0-10

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Betrayer is a first person exploration action game based in 1604 in the to-be-America's. You sailed from England to a new world, but found something has gone horribly wrong. The Spanish soldiers are not what they seem... the land is corrupted, but you can enter the "upside-down" realm and defeat skeletons to purge it. Explore the land, discover its mysteries and learn what really happened.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/243120/Betrayer/

Back in 2013 I posted a Betrayer guide in PlayOnLinux using Wine to play it, but there were some graphical bugs. Today Proton handles Betrayer without any issues... well there were some black rocks, but that was about it. Performance was awesome, even during the trees and vegetation blowing around in the wind.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
Proton 5.0-10

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Perfect Vermin is a low poly first person arcade sandbox smasher! Find the alien vermin who imitate office objects like chairs, doors, toilets, etc... then smash them! The next office is more interesting as you continue and sometimes surreal... either way, its fun to smash everything in an office!


https://itsthemaceo.itch.io/perfect-vermin

Honestly, as an IT professional this game is quite a stress reliever. I love going around the office and smashing desks of those stubborn employees and smashing the stupid copier that always breaks! While I'm at it, lets go in the kitchen and smash everything...

• Got a call from the conference room? Smash It!
• Executive driving you nuts with their nuances? Smash It!
• Receptionist forwarding SPAM calls to you? Smash It!

The developers provide a native port and it runs beautifully! Considering its low poly, it should run on just about any computer. I never had any...

In Sound Mind is a first person psychological thriller that takes place in the mind of the main character. Discover fears, solve puzzles, hide from past demons and discover a path to sanity... well maybe.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119980/In_Sound_Mind/

In Sound Mind demo ran well in Proton at first, but there is a large grocery store area that ended up killing my frame rate down to unplayable. I tried tweaking the game video settings but nothing worked. It is a clever game with spooky dream sequences, but unfortunately my video card couldn't handle the large areas.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 450.80
Proton 5.0-9

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Ghostrunner is a speedrun melee slasher bundled with parkour elements. You are a rogue robot running for your life, but this isn't the end... is it? Jump and run across walls, climb up ledges and slow down time to avoid projectiles. Find who you are and why you were created!


https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1139900/

Ghostrunner demo runs in Proton perfectly on my GeForce GTX 1060. After the game downloaded there was an initial directx installation that took a few minutes, but when it was done I could play without any problems. After I removed the game and re-downloaded, it wouldn't launch. So I had to delete the wineprefix in the compadata folder. Interesting that it doesn't have the same name as the steapowered.com path. Make sure to delete: 1249200

Honestly, this is not my type of game. I love parkour games like Mirror's Edge, but in the demo a single shot from a soldier will end your life, then return you...

Estranged: The Departure is a final act of the series. Continue the journey of the mysterious island and uncover conspiracies of Arque Corporation. But this is not going to be easy... There are forces who will stop you in your tracks and puzzles to solve, but you are not alone...



https://store.steampowered.com/app/582890/Estranged_The_Departure/

You will be thoroughly immersed into the beautifully detailed island environments. Some actually almost look real. Discover cliff-sides and corporate offices with zombies and soldiers in your way. I haven't seen graphics this epic in a long time. I found myself admiring the natural stone walls in a cave, the small puddles on the ground and edges of walls reflecting light. Its pretty amazing!

This is a native Linux port and it ran beautifully on my GeForce GTX 1060

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.100

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Medal Of Honor is a military frontal assault first person shooter based on the battles in World War II. Play as U.S. Army Sergeant John Baker in the front lines of Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge and DDay. Warchest includes the original Allied Assault and both expansions:

• Spearhead
• Breakthrough

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



I never did a guide for Allied Assault because I was never able to run it in Wine until now. This game was developed in 2002 and though the graphics are hard on the eyes, its a pretty fun war game with a lot of action. It displays features and scenarios before its time. The Call of Duty series was inspired by Allied Assault.

The key to playing Allied Assault in Wine is adding the following command for Nvidia video cards:
export __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

In PlayOnLinux you have to paste this in the Miscellanous Tab area at the bottom...