Quite a nice surprise! Sid Meier's Civilization VII from Firaxis Games / 2K has been given the green tick of approval from Valve, as it's now Steam Deck Verified ahead of release.
Really cool to see “mainline” titles getting this prior to release. Had a friend get pulled into Marvel Rivals who mainlines Linux at home, and he had actually 0 issues getting it running at the time. Literally just download and play. Civ also seems like the perfect game to play on a Deck, so this is a no brainer, but cool to see this stuff is getting more popular to support out-the-box.
My old PC could barely launch STALKER 2 so I decided it was time to upgrade. While picking out the parts I also decided I wanted to try using Linux as the OS. Then I got worried some of my games wouldn’t work. I mean, would STALKER 2 even run on Linux? What about Monster Hunter? Surley these huge titles wouldn’t have Linux support! They do. They work out of the box. It’s amazing how far Linux support for gaming has come.
I’m so here for it. I don’t have a real gaming PC atm but I’ve been in and out of it for decades, and recently decided to switch to Linux for my daily driver. Seeing everything Valve has been doing for Linux gaming has been wonderful. The few games I want to play on my laptop instead of my PS5 have worked great, none of the headaches I had last time around with Linux (circa Obama). It’s helped me convince one or two of my friends, too, head of the Win10 dump.
SteamOS has been changing the game and it’s just gonna get better
I think I remember hearing about a bunch of Linux rivals players getting caught up in bans recently. BUT I also heard the company apologized, stated it was a mistake and reinstated them all. Which was sad to see happen but an extremely good sign that they wanted those players.
Really cool to see “mainline” titles getting this prior to release. Had a friend get pulled into Marvel Rivals who mainlines Linux at home, and he had actually 0 issues getting it running at the time. Literally just download and play. Civ also seems like the perfect game to play on a Deck, so this is a no brainer, but cool to see this stuff is getting more popular to support out-the-box.
My old PC could barely launch STALKER 2 so I decided it was time to upgrade. While picking out the parts I also decided I wanted to try using Linux as the OS. Then I got worried some of my games wouldn’t work. I mean, would STALKER 2 even run on Linux? What about Monster Hunter? Surley these huge titles wouldn’t have Linux support! They do. They work out of the box. It’s amazing how far Linux support for gaming has come.
I’m so here for it. I don’t have a real gaming PC atm but I’ve been in and out of it for decades, and recently decided to switch to Linux for my daily driver. Seeing everything Valve has been doing for Linux gaming has been wonderful. The few games I want to play on my laptop instead of my PS5 have worked great, none of the headaches I had last time around with Linux (circa Obama). It’s helped me convince one or two of my friends, too, head of the Win10 dump.
SteamOS has been changing the game and it’s just gonna get better
I think I remember hearing about a bunch of Linux rivals players getting caught up in bans recently. BUT I also heard the company apologized, stated it was a mistake and reinstated them all. Which was sad to see happen but an extremely good sign that they wanted those players.