Read more.Celebratory opening sale announced, with 50 to 80 per cent off many games.
Read more.Celebratory opening sale announced, with 50 to 80 per cent off many games.
This is brilliant news! Thanks Valve!
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- Douglas Adams.
Yes, but, what games currently work in Steam for Linux? The article suggests that game developers have to specifically support Linux, so the situation has not changed very much at all.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
And Yet It Moves
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Aquaria
Bastion
Closure
Cogs
Conquest of Elysium 3
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
Crusader Kings II
Cubemen
Darwinia
DEFCON
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
Droid Assault
Dungeons of Dredmor
Dwarfs!?
Dynamite Jack
Eversion
Frozen Synapse
FTL: Faster Than Light
Galcon Fusion
Hacker Evolution Duality
Half-Life
Harvest: Massive Encounter
iBomber Attack
iBomber Defense Pacific
Intrusion 2
Killing Floor
Lume
Magical Diary
Multiwinia
Osmos
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Requiem
Penumbra: Overture
POSTAL 2 Complete
Psychonauts
Puddle
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-15
Revenge of the Titans
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Solar 2
Space Pirates and Zombies
SpaceChem
Splice
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
Spectraball
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Team Fortress 2
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
The Book of Unwritten Tales
The Clockwork Man: The Hidden World
The Clockwork Man
The Journey Down: Chapter One
The Polynomial - Space of the music
Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers
Titan Attacks!
Towns
Trine 2
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
Uplink
Waveform
X3: Reunion
World of Goo
Zen Bound 2
Obviously the PC isn't going anywhere as the primary computer OS for gaming but I think it's nice that the support is there. Plus, with SteamPlay, if I ever get a linux box for gaming, I know the titles I have bought that have multi-OS support will work without needing an additional copy.
Just tried TF2 to see if it worked and was amazed it ran without hassle first time.
I also got a Tux in my inventory which Steam says isn't tradeable but in the press release says is. Not that I'm into collecting online tat, just wanted to give it to someone I know who does
PS Some of my previously purchased Windows games (Penumbra, Cave Story, Amnesia) appear in the Linux library but others that have Linux versions (Darwinia, Multiwinia) don't.
PPS Using Ubuntu 12.04 32bit on an old Nforce board, Core2: some errors logged relating to Steam libraries but didn't crash PC or cause any system instability. Complete Noob @ Linux btw
Last edited by Pleiades; 15-02-2013 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Clarification
Good news!
This should really bring more development and interest into Linux based platforms now
Wow, X3 Reunion on linux? pretty good. Shame its not X3 Terran Conflict. But if you've not tried it and can get it cheap on the sale give it a go It's a great space sim.
Thanks directhex for that list - didn't realise the support was so extensive.
Got me thinking now whether I can slap a drive on the side of my Windows/Gaming PC and give this a spin. Ubuntu is my main OS anyway (Windows being relegated to gaming and one or two programs - like Paperport - that don't have valid Linux equivalents.)
Fabulous news! I can't wait for all of my Valve games to come along! I own the Half-Life 2 games, the Left 4 Dead games, the Portal games, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and DOTA2 but have only actually played Team Fortress 2 and an ever so tiny bit of Left 4 Dead. When I heard the news that Steam is coming to Linux, I decided to postpone playing them even further. Hope it happens soon!
Would love to see PlanetSide 2 ported to Linux now !
This really is great news. Something that I've been hoping would happen for years!
Well i'm gobsmacked. Even when they issued the press release way back, i didnt honestly believe that they'd be able to gather the depth of games required for it to be meaningful, but here they are.
Even if literally nothing else is developed to support this, this is an absolute sucess right there - i know so many people who wont go with Linux because of the final stumbling block - no games support. Now that has gone, I think that Valve could become credited with bringing Linux finally to where it deserves to be - on a par with any other modern OS.
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This is awesome news! Getting ever closer to that moment I remove W7 from my dual boot.
As a non-Linux user for the most part, I've now got an instant collection of 30 Linux games already (a dozen bought in the current sale). That's pretty impressive IMHO ; just waiting on a few more like Day of Defeat: Source and Left 4 Dead to appear (as I thought L4D and most Source-based titles would be on the launch list tbh).
Looking forward to the Steam Box, wonder why it's taking so long...
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