Games: Nightingale, Palworld, Steam Deck, and More
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Inflexion Games give update on Steam Deck & Linux support for Nightingale
Nightingale is an upcoming open world survival and crafting game from Inflexion Games, it looks quite magnificent and will no doubt be another early 2024 hit and the developers put up a blog post on Steam Deck / Linux support status.
Much like Palworld and Enshrouded it will be in Early Access, but given how people are clearly always in the mood for more of these open world games, I fully expect it to do well. Especially so with the rather wild looking "Victorian gaslamp fantasy" setting with the ability to portal-hop through to entirely new locations using special Realm Cards and each realm features new "dangers, discoveries, and surprises, you have the power to influence its design, including prevalence of hostiles, abundance of resources, and even the environment itself".
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It's nice to see Linux normally mentioned too, we don't see that too often and the developer actually being open to reported issue with it. More like this please.
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Boiling Steam ☛ Linux Gaming Distros: Ubuntu and Manjaro Fall Further Into Oblivion - February 2024
It’s time again to observe the latest trends related to the Linux Gaming distros, based on the very useful ProtonDB data dumps. Without further due, let me share with you the result below of the latest few months of data:
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Palworld is getting external anti-cheat but it will be mostly optional
Palworld continues to be an incredible success seeing a 24 hour peak player count of 527,994 but cheating is causing problems, so the developers plan to address it with new anti-cheat.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.3 is example of how to do retro right
Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.3 from Bitwave Games / Toaplan is another 4-pack of classic games, and a nice clear example of how to bring retro games the right way to modern platforms. With full Linux and Steam Deck support too, thanks to their work from the first and second collections.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) gets new default look and different font sizes
EmulationStation Desktop Edition 3.0 is out now and it's gone through a rebrand to simply ES-DE, plus a whole bunch of improvements come with this release.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Need more games? Check out my February Steam Deck Verified picks
As we approach 14,000 games rated either Playable or Verified for Steam Deck, here's a look over some recently Steam Deck Verified titles if you're in the mood for something new. Currently there's 4,542 games noted to be fully Verified by Valve as of February 19th, 2024.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ There's a new Godot Engine addon to simplify testing on Steam Deck
For game developers using or looking at using Godot Engine, you may want to check out the Godot 4 DeployToSteamOS addon which gives you a one-click method to test your games on Steam Deck. Be sure to also check out the Godot Engine 2023 showreel.