Games: Steam, Distrobox, Heroic Games Launcher, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2022

• Valve dev shows more Steam Deck prototypes

  Want to see what could have been? Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has revealed some working prototype units and they look pretty interesting.

• Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 18: Run Away and Join the Circus

  Continued from Part 17: The Llama Master

• I hate to admit it but I like Disney Dreamlight Valley — works well on Steam Deck / Linux

  Well here's a game I didn't expect to like or actually be any good. It's Disney Dreamlight Valley from Gameloft, a game that's a mixture of Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley but for Disney fans.

• Valve are still fixing up Left 4 Dead 2, over 10 years after release

  Valve seem to be continuing to give some love to their older titles, with Left 4 Dead 2 recently getting a nice bug-fix release. This is one of their older Native Linux ports, that came to Linux officially back in 2013 and back in 2021 they updated it with Vulkan support powered by DXVK.

• Distrobox can open up the Steam Deck to a whole new world

  Distrobox is a way to use pretty much any other Linux distribution in your terminal, along with full GUI apps and now it supports the Steam Deck with SteamOS too.

• Defend humanity from an alien organism in puzzle game Xenospore

  A mixture of strategy and puzzling elements together, Xenospore is a currently free game about defending humanity by prevent a strange alien organism from spreading too far.

• GE-Proton 7-33 and Wine-GE-Proton 7-28 are out now

  Two very popular open source compatibility layer projects from developer 'GloriousEggroll' are out now, with updates to both GE-Proton and Wine-GE-Proton too.

• Heroic Games Launcher version 2.4.3 is another critical bug-fix release

  The open source Heroic Games Launcher for running Epic Games and GOG has another important bug-fix release now available.