Games: Terraria, Minetest, Myst, and Dota 2

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Terraria to get Steam Deck optimizations soon | GamingOnLinux
It already has native Linux support and it seems they're going to do some tweaks to get it just right on the Steam Deck.
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Minetest 5.5.0 is out, forked their own rendering engine with IrrlichtMT | GamingOnLinux
Minetest 5.5.0 has rolled out, with a switch over from Irrlicht to their own fork of the rendering engine IrrlichtMt designed to have special enhancements just for Minetest. What is Minetest? It's an open source voxel game engine, that can be modded into many different games - like Minecraft.
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Get a bunch of Myst games in this latest bundle | GamingOnLinux
Up for some exploration? Humble Bundle has a nice selection of new and old games in the Myst universe. Here's a look at how they can run on Linux.
This is a 12 item bundle and it's actually pretty great value. No native Linux games in this bundle, but looking over them all, it appears they will all work with Steam Play Proton. However, some may need Proton-GE for working videos which you can install easily with ProtonUp-Qt.
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Dota 2 on Linux gets upgraded to use the newer Steam runtime container | GamingOnLinux
Hopefully an update that will allow Dota 2 to continue working on Linux and the Steam Deck long into the future.
Back in September 2021, Valve announced some major technical changes were planned for the Dota 2 client. This included dropping OpenGL support, with Vulkan as the default amongst other adjustments. Part of their plan has now shipped, at least for Linux.
At the bottom of their latest blog post, they noted that "As part of our continuing efforts to move Dota's technology forward, we have upgraded the Linux client to use the container version of the Steam runtime. This ensures better compatibility across distributions and prepares for future improvements.".
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