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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Toy Shire and Train Station Tycoon - 2026-10-07 Edition
Between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-07 there were 107 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 735 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 14.6 % of total released titles. This week our selection is quite short despite the large initial pool of games. Worth noting is Toy Shire, a tower defense game in a very nice package. Let’s not forget Train Station Tycoon that is still early but shows some great promise.
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Escape: Immersion has launched on Steam for macOS, Windows, Linux, and SteamOS
Royal Games and AzDimension have released Escape: Immersion, a 2.5D horror adventure, on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux, and SteamOS. A free playable demo is available.
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Linux has 'almost no control' over GPU task priority, say the engineers rewriting it
The Linux kernel "has almost no control anymore over task prioritization" on modern graphics hardware, according to a slide shown by the two engineers writing its replacement. The claim comes from a Linux Plumbers Conference talk on October 5 by Daniel Almeida of Collabora and Philipp Stanner, whose employer the title slide gives as Red Hat.
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xreal-linux runs Xreal 1S glasses as a 3DoF SteamVR headset on a Steam Deck
A project called xreal-linux tagged its first release on October 8 at 20:08 UTC, and what it does is run a pair of Xreal 1S display glasses as a 3DoF SteamVR headset on a Steam Deck. Head rotation comes from the glasses' own sensors, there is no positional tracking, and the tag is v0.1.0-rc1, an AppImage the release note says was built from commit 75c5b7d in the pinned Steam Runtime SDK. A second pre-release, v0.1.0-rc2, followed at 21:20 UTC the same day.
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Valve will relieve Steam users on Linux from manually configuring Proton for Windows games - beta testing of the new feature has begun
Valve recently introduced a new beta version of the Steam client. Developers have started testing a feature for users of devices with Linux OS.
Now, Windows applications added to Steam as “third-party games” will launch via Proton by default. Previously, users had to manually select Proton for such projects — thanks to this feature, there will be no need to delve into the settings (if everything launches correctly right away).
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An old AMD Phenom II X6 1100T could run God of War and Silent Hill 2 thanks to Linux.
A user nicknamed sslhijacker restored a decommissioned six-core AMD Phenom II X6 1100T processor and ran demanding modern games on it. The main obstacle to using this chip was the operating system. Windows is the absence of AVX, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 instructions, as well as the support of modern games only for the latest versions of DirectX 12. In the environment Windows Many modern executable files immediately terminate the process with a crash error when accessing missing processor registers.
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Video Cardz ☛ Steam beta removes manual Proton setup for non-Steam Windows games
Valve has released a new Steam Client Beta that makes running Windows games outside the Steam library easier on Linux and SteamOS. The update automatically enables Proton for Windows executables added as non-Steam games, removing the need to select a compatibility tool manually.
Until now, users adding Windows games from other stores or standalone executables had to open the game’s properties and select Proton under compatibility settings. Without this step, the game might fail to launch. The new default removes this requirement, although users can still change the selected compatibility tool.