action games

Who doesn't like Unreal Tournament? This classic FPS series that laid the foundation for Sci-Fi action and vehicular battles! Hop in an alien Dark Walker or hover around on a hover-board...
All the classic game types are there:

• Deathmatch
• Team Deathmatch
• Duel
• Survival
• Capture The Flag
• Vehicle CTF
• Warfare
• Betrayal and Greed

Unfortunately a native Linux port was never completed. So we have to use Wine to enjoy all the classic Unreal mayhem. PlayOnLinux and Wine handle the game perfectly. I'm not even using DXVK and my GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 950 and 750 Ti handle it perfectly! Even on high settings!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0 64-bit

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Driver: Parallel Lines is a GTA inspired roam-the-streets sandbox action game. Like the original Driver games, you will be driving the cities avoiding police and accomplishing tasks or missions. But like GTA, you can exit the vehicle and roam the city and steal whatever car you want. I love all the classic cars from the 1970s and character clothing styles. Even the city had a vintage look and ambiance to it.

https://www.gog.com/game/driver_parallel_lines


Driver runs fairly well in Wine, but there is a bit of stutter as it loads the distant city lines. I was able to use my Logitech MOMO racing steering wheel with force feedback. It handles nicely, but the buttons are a bit confusion to program in the game. Obviously this is not a simulation game, so I dealt with the settings and had fun roaming New York in the 1970s. Unfortunately there are only two camera modes... 3rd person and bumper view. Also, there is no support for...

Metallic Child demo is a 3rd person melee action game where you play as a human controlling a mysterious space station battle robot: Rona

At first glance she appears to be an innocent child-like robot, but beneath the skin she packs-a-punch!
Use several skills and melee weapons to destroy enemy bots then combo them together and take out challenging bosses.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1490610/METALLIC_CHILD/


The demo on steam is basically an introduction and tutorial to the game. Proton handles it just fine and I was able to play through the entire demo. Once you learn the basics, this is a fast moving action game with a lot of variety and upgrades.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
Proton 6.3-7

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Who doesn't like a good Jack Black movie?
What about a Jack Black heavy metal action tactical game!

Brutal Legend is a combination of the minds from Double Fine and Jack Black creating an epic world of fantasy and 80's heavy metal! Wield your Flying-V against counterfeit cover bands, string-spinning spiders, huge-fist-pounding bouncers and much much more! Team up with metal legends locked into arena rock history and summon your headbanger metalheads to mosh your way through unreal lands of epic METALish stuff.

Spinal Tap would be proud!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/Brutal_Legend/


Double Fine Productions was happy to produce a native Linux version for us and it runs beautifully! My aging GeForce GTX 1060 handles it just fine! A little stutter here and there, but other than that Brutal Legend runs GREAT! And its a lot of fun! Takes me back to grade school where I first heard Anthrax and Metallica...

Monster Hunter Rise is the next installment of the hunting series...
Select a class like an axe, sword wielding character or a gun slaying character and many more... then ride your wolf around the massive map searching for elements to craft traps and poisons. Once you find a monster, TAKE IT DOWN or mount it if possible and use its own body weight to smash them into the environment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446780/MONSTER_HUNTER_RISE/


Proton was able to handle Monster Hunter Rise demo very well. I left all the settings on normal which included HD textures and most settings on high. The screenshots are kinda crappy because the stinking HUD is so large, but the environment and animation is top notch! Each creature has a purpose and the monsters roam around freely. Unfortunately when I tied to play co-op with my daughter there was a HUGE sync issue and it was unplayable for her. Any time she moved her character the...

Ryse: Son Of Rome is a 3rd person action game about the story of Marius Titus who almost single-handed saves the Roman Empire from the Celtic Barbarians. Slaughter enemies with your trusty gladius using special executions. Level up your abilities and use a clever system of XP, damage, focus and health.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/302510/Ryse_Son_of_Rome/


Ryse initially had all graphics settings on high which ran quite slow on my GeForce GTX 1060, but when I set them to the normal preset and disabled esync in the launch options, it ran beautifully!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
Proton 6.3-6

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This is another example of how well Proton can handle new games! This is online co-op with beautiful graphics and huge levels... Wow

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1549970/


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My previous post on Assassin's Creed Origins regarded Discovery mode where you can explore and learn about Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire. This is a non-violent way to play, explore, climb and learn.

Assassin's Creed Origins is much more than just exploring, there are complex stories of murder, traitors, foul-play and much more. Traverse the wide variety of terrain in the middle east as you fight soldiers, hide in the shadows, slay crocodiles, fight in an arena, stealth execute officers or escape by the skin-on-your-teeth.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/582160/Assassins_Creed_Origins/


I've spent over 90 hours revealing the entire map of the middle east, completing main quests and side quests... and there is still much more to do and explore. There is easily over 400+ hours of gameplay here and it pays off!
Initially Origins ran pretty well in Proton 5.0-10 with my GeForce GTX 1060... but later on I started getting some...

Stellar Overload is a crafting, harvesting, story-based action game in the same vein of Minecraft. Each planet is a massive cube and gravity falls according to each side of the cube. Find your brother in the resistance, mine for resources to craft your weapons, protect the colonies from the evil robots and build your own structures.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/397150/Stellar_Overload/


Sadly Cubical Drift left this game in eternal beta. It is a crowdfunded game with some epic goals, one of which is a Linux version. I was able to play natively in Linux without any issues. I could crank up the graphics and view distance to almost high and play with a decent frame rate. Too bad its no longer for sale on Steam.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460

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Geneshift is an online twin-stick action 3rd person shooter! Join multi-player matches in all kinds of game types:

• Battle Royale
• Capture the Flag
• Team Deathmatch
• Free-For-All
• Conquest
• Checkpoint Racing
• Co-Op Campaign (DLC Required)

Prepare to upgrade your character with special abilities and useful tools to slay your enemies faster and level up.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/Geneshift/


The developers of Geneshift provide us with a great native Linux version and it plays beautifully. I was able to pick up Geneshift during a sale and got a few extra copies for my family. For the most part it is a typical twin-stick arcade shooter, but you can choose a bunch of upgrades depending on your level and how many coins you have. You can also drive cars-n-shoot or fly up or across buildings with jump-pads. In-game there are many NCP merchants who want to sell you stuff like grenades or ammo...

Terminator Resistance is yet another chapter in the epic story of a post apocalyptic world ruled by robots. This time you join a resistance in a war torn world, looting, crafting, sneaking and cleverly taking down machines to survive. First impressions are comparing Rage and Fallout series as the game is fairly linear but full of story, NCPs and exploration.

https://www.gog.com/game/terminator_resistance


I've only played a few hours at this point, but it runs pretty well with all the settings on epic and 1920x1080 on my GeForce GTX 1060. There is a base I arrived at and it started to slow down considerably, but still playable. When going out to explore it runs perfectly. This is an Unreal Engine made game so it required vcrun 2019 and Media Foundation installed. I had to skip some of the intro scenes, but in-game cutscenes ran fine.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.3-staging 64-bit...

Franz Fury is a fast driving action arcade game with one speed: FURY!
In the wasteland your only choice for survival is your trusted car, but when Franz wakes up someone has taken all of his gear. In a drunken FURY he races across said wasteland looking for his weapons and nitro by taking down everything in his path. Nuff said...

https://picster.itch.io/franzfury


This game was made as a 48 hour game jam by Raffaele Picca
He was gracious enough to provide a native Linux port and it runs great! No need for benchmarks here, just download this free game and enjoy!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460

One True Hero is a zelda-like platform action game with a clever adventure story. Play as a typical hero who is returning home, but finds his hometown in chaos. People are trying get on with live despite their town slowly falling into an underground abyss. Trick jump and climb your way around the town and slay mysterious minions.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1596170/One_True_Hero/


One True Hero is developed by a single person and has many polished features of an epic indie game. I was able to play in Proton without any issues. I reached out to the developer on reddit with hopes of a native port, but its hard enough to develop a Windows port in Unity by yourself. There may be a chance of a native port in the future, but until then, enjoy the free demo with Proton.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 6.3-5

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Hellpoint is a sci-fi dark-souls-inspired hack-n-slash action exploration game.

A ship appeared from a mysterious worm-hole and every living being is dead. You were created to find out what happened in the worm-hole. Explore a creepy ship swarming with hellish creatures and robotic guardians wanting to slay you at every corner. Your character is some kind of avatar or empty shell which you control to explore the ship and find out what really happened. As you progress, your character can be fully customized with abilities, skills, armor and weapons.


https://www.gog.com/game/hellpoint

Hellpoint on GOG provides us with a native Linux version. It ran perfectly on Mint 20.1 64-bit and my GeForce GTX 1060. But I had crashing issues on Mint 19.3 64-bit and GTX 950. I'm pretty sure its related to a version of Vulkan and continue to troubleshoot the issue. I wanted to play co-op one two local computers.

Expect to die a LOT in...

Of Love And Eternity is a retro-inspired dark-souls-ish melee action adventure game. Play the Linux demo and begin as an undead who was murdered saving your special love. You are not alone... the creature of purgatory in the in-between world of life and death. Can you find your way back and avenge your death?

https://acornbringer.itch.io/of-love-and-eternity

acornbringer was nice enough to provide a native Linux version of the demo for us. It is short, but has some very nice story telling and retro-3D environments. I can't wait to see what it will be like when the game is complete.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460

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HOB is an action puzzle game developed by Runic Games who made Torchlight and Torchlight II.
https://www.gog.com/game/hob


Discover a magical world of ancient technology of epic scale. Use your robot arm to slay minions, toggle switches and light up the world of strange machinery. There is no dialog or story in this game, just find your way around the world to unlock new areas, upgrades and abilities.

Hob plays beautifully in PlayOnLinux with stable Wine. There are some stutters here and there probably related to loading the streaming areas of the game, but other than that it is full of exploration.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.0 64-bit
DXVK 1.8.1

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Lets play old school 90's Nintendo-inspired game called Caster... Use your terraforming abilities to slay bug creatures in a fantasy world with your super-hero character. Run super fast, jump super high and create land deformations to smash them to bits.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/29800/Caster/


Caster runs perfectly Proton 6.3-2 on my GeForce GTX 1060. This isn't a very demanding game so any video card should handle it. I'm sure its mean't for a joystick, but I was able to play without any issues on my keyboard and mouse.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 6.3-2

If you are a fan of John Woo movies then you are a fan of Stranglehold! Inspired by games like Max Payne, this action FPS will satisfy all of your shooting and destruction needs. Plays as Tequila Yuen (Chow Yun-Fat) in a fast shooter where you can mow down all of the Chinese gangsters in Shanghai. Use bullet-time to slow down your enemies, sniper modes and shoot-offs with your dual pistols, shotgun and machine guns. What else could you possibly want?


https://www.gog.com/game/stranglehold

I was able to play Stranglehold in PlayOnLinux with Wine 6.0 64-bit. I didn't have any serious issues except one point during my recording where the keyboard stopped working... Not sure why, but it didn't happen again.
I was also able to add the widescreen and FOV mod found here:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1590-stranglehold-hor-fov-fix
This allowed me to use F5 to zoom out and F6 to zoom in. I had to install dinput8...

Setting Sun is an indie Co-op Roguelite Dungeon Crawler in a Japanese world. Over come soldiers with your Shinai and collect coins to upgrade your abilities. Find the portal and power-up dragon, then advance until you can save your Sensie in order to learn more skills. Built in the Unity 3D engine, graphics are crisp and professional with linear grid of areas which load quickly. Enemies get hard really fast, but you an block or dodge their attacks to survive. Find the well of heal to replenish your health bar.

https://lejean12.itch.io/setting-sun


The Linux version on itch.io is an untested release but runs very well on my GeForce GTX 1060. The only problem I had was the game resolution. I had to add the width/height commands and run it from the Terminal to get 1920x1080. Also the game requires a controller to play, so I used my Amazon Basics Xbox controller without any issues.

I ran the command like this... path to the...

Rico is back! Join the rebellion once again and free the oppressed islands of Medici from the tyrant General Di Ravello. Wield a huge arsenal of weapons and vehicles to traverse across 400 square miles of Mediterranean islands populated with roads, bridges, tunnels, oceans, railways and so much more! Fly planes and helicopters or hop in any vehicle and take a detour across landscape, then whip out your parachute. Anything is possible in this epic sandbox action shooter!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/225540/Just_Cause_3/

The only issue I have in Linux is initially loading the map. When I click "continue" nothing happens, but if I minimize the game and maximize it begins to play perfectly! I'm surprised how well Proton handles these huge islands and steaming the active world around me! Everything else like explosions, crashes, flying around or costing in a parachute runs GREAT! This is a must buy!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit...