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Wow, that's about ~12,000 games just about a year ago. 5000 in one year -- a 40% increase -- is huge. I did a lot of gaming in 2020, and it felt like games the
by lynndotpy 2y ago
Wow, that's about ~12,000 games just about a year ago. 5000 in one year -- a 40% increase -- is huge.
I did a lot of gaming in 2020, and it felt like games then just ran on Linux as a rule rather than an exception, thanks to Proton. Congratulations to Valve on the rapid pace of milestones, and congratulations to Windows 8 (the original impetus for Valve's investment in Linux gaming) for kickstarting the impossible.
- viraptor 2y agoIt's the nice side of the project running for so long. At first, lots of extra work was needed for the support for each extra title. Now they have so much coverage that every compatibility fix likely unlocks more then one game, so the numbers just keep growing.
- whazor 2y agoIts actually very impressive when you consider that the Playstation has less than 5000 games overall. And Switch has around 4761 games listed on Wikipedia. Now Sony and Nintendo have nice exclusive games, but Steamdeck gained more supported games in a year than that these consoles have at all.