Games: Manjaro, Vintage Story, and More
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Manjaro Is Losing Ground Very Fast as A Linux Gaming Distro
And in case you were wondering if it’s something that’s limited to ProtonDB data, well, think again. The Steam Hardware survey shows that Manjaro has been losing big time in the past year compared to Arch Linux that has held strong desprite the rise of SteamOS after the launch of the Steam Deck):
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Survival game Vintage Story set for a huge update with a big story event
Vintage Story is a survival game that I simply love to watch and casually dive into now and then, and it's probably one of the most impressive indie open-world survival games around, if you like things hardcore.
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Zoria: Age of Shattering now skipping Early Access to release in September
The developers of the upcoming squad-based tactical RPG Zoria: Age of Shattering have changed their release plans, and they're now going to skip Early Access entirely with a small release day.
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Valheim is getting extensive difficulty options including a creative mode
Valheim continues to be one of the most popular survival games on Steam, and it seems in an upcoming update there's going to be much more extensive customization of the difficulty.
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Picma - Picture Enigmas gets a free Steam release, lots of Picross styled puzzles
Love your Picross? Check out Picma - Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It's also free to play, to a point.
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MangoHud performance overlay gets a few needed fixes in v0.6.9-1
After the previous release of v0.6.9, MangoHud has another nice update out that fixes up a few lingering problems for the Linux performance hud that's also used on Steam Deck for the built-in performance info.