Games: Steam Games, Steam Deck, Liberated Games, and More
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2023-01-12 Edition: Kandria, Crypt Architect and More... - Boiling Steam
Between 2023-01-05 and 2023-01-12 there were 26 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 287 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 9.1 % of total released titles.
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New Steam Linux & Steam Deck Beta fixes up a major bug
Recently Valve put up a Beta for Steam desktop and Steam Deck, which unfortunately came with a huge bug that people found but a new release fixes it and adds some more fixes too.
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Dino Run DX has the source code opened up
Seems more developers are warming up to the idea of open source. Pixeljam recently opened up the source code to Dino Run DX.
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GOverlay app for managing the MangoHud overlay gets a bunch of new options
GOverlay is great! Giving you a real easy way to tweak the MangoHud performance overlay on Linux, along with it also working with vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery. Instead of editing text configuration files, you get to tick boxes, much more user friendly overall.
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Hogwarts Legacy to be Steam Deck Verified at launch
For Harry Potter fans, the upcoming release of Hogwarts Legacy is fast approaching and it seems they're making sure it works on Steam Deck. Well, that might be a bit of a stretch, they might have just loaded it up to see if it works, but the result to players is the same.
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Dwarf Fortress too retro? Songs of Syx is worth looking at with another big Beta update
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder that in many ways could be compared with Dwarf Fortress, only with a graphical style that's just a bit more modern. A new Beta release went up recently and it's another big one. It also has Native Linux support.
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Mega Man-like side-scroller action game Super Alloy Ranger now on Linux
Enjoy games similar to Mega Man? Like running and gunning? Super Alloy Ranger looks interesting and they recently put up a Native Linux version too. The update on January 5th added support for Linux, macOS, added 50 new achievements, new Steam community items and plenty of optimization too.
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BusyBox, systemd, Gear update in Tumbleweed
openSUSE Tumbleweed started the new year just like it finished the last; on a roll and giving users freshly updated software packages.
The rolling release has been on a daily release streak since the beginning of December and since the beginning of October has only missed one daily snapshot; !
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Pokemon-like 'Coromon' finally has big FPS problem fixed for Steam Deck / Linux
Coromon is another attempt to make a Pokemon styled game and while it is a lot of fun, the game had a major frustrating problem on Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton that has now been solved.
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Steam & Steam Deck Beta improves controller configurator plus Linux fixes (updated)
Update at 20:10 UTC: this Beta seems to have a pretty major bug. I would suggest you stay away from it for now otherwise you might find you can't open things on Linux and Steam Deck.
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Valve remind people to be careful where you buy a Steam Deck
Recently the official OnDeck Twitter account from Steam creator Valve posted a PSA (public service announcement), reminding people on being careful where they buy a Steam Deck.