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I love how many good games are available for linux in steam! Factorio, Terraria, Silicon Zeroes, ... It seems that it's even trivial to release Stream games fo

I love how many good games are available for linux in steam! Factorio, Terraria, Silicon Zeroes, ... It seems that it's even trivial to release Stream games for linux when using any common game engine, and I hope developers will make use of that as much as possible. Fallout 3 has no linux version in steam unfortunately, but I actually could play it perfectly by running the windows client of steam in wine. Everything just worked (I had to do a memory patch to support 64-bit CPUs, but so do windows users have to so no difference there)

aveao 9y ago
I tend to prefer GOG over Steam lately, mostly because of how shady Valve is at certain stuff. The first 2 of the 3 games you mentioned are available DRM-Free on their site. Playtesting takes time and money and it's entirely possible that just exporting the game for linux won't run perfectly, so I can see why some companies using the common game engines don't do it, I kinda wish they did, though. Wine runs a lot of Windows games properly.
- baud147258 9y ago
  I remember a indie dev saying that he won't port his game to Linux, since, even if it was working, he couldn't do enough testing to guanrantee a stable enough release.