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Games: Retro Linux Gaming, Steam, MineClone2, and Much More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2023

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 23: Ready, Set, Go!

If you look at the commercial Linux gaming catalogue at the turn of the millennium, in amongst all of the 3D shooters and strategic simulations being released, one glaring omission seems to have been the lack of any racing games. Loki Software never ported any to Linux, nor did any of the other porting houses. This left a void for the free gaming community to fill.

Marvel's Midnight Suns gets an update to help Steam Deck

Marvel's Midnight Suns is a great strategy game from the developer of XCOM, and now it should actually much better on Steam Deck.

Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now

A free and open source�survival sandbox game pack for the voxel game engine Minetest, MineClone2 is as close to Minecraft as you can get without playing Minecraft. A big new release has rolled out with version 0.82.0 with lots added.

Slavic fantasy-adventure The End of the Sun gets a demo

In the mood for something just a bit different? The End of the Sun is a Slavic-fantasy adventure and you can try it out now.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory open source project ET: Legacy has a new release

ET: Legacy continues carrying the torch of the classic multiplayer title Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, with a new release out that has lots of fixes.

Adventure puzzler Myst now Steam Deck Verified, will adjust graphics automatically

Myst, the remake of the 1993 classic, has been updated and is now Steam Deck Verified so you can go and get as confused as I was by it.

GE-Proton 7-48 out now with updates to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton

GE-Proton v7-48, the community supported version of the Proton translation layer, is out now with upgrades to various components to continue making Steam Deck and Linux gaming better.