action RPG

Diablo IV is the next iteration of the franchise and you get everything you expect and more.


The graphics are amazingly detailed and the world is much bigger! Most of the maps are open-world as you can travel anywhere and even have a mount to help you across these massive lands. There are more interactive elements like snow, crates-n-barrels to destroy, but also many small villages with side-quests. Level up and use the skill tree to test out your newly found abilities. Even the blacksmith has some new features!

I'm not going to ruin it all, but you will like Diablo IV if you are a fan of Diablo!
For the most part it runs well in Proton. There is some stutter when starting but once it caches everything the game runs really well! I haven't noticed any crashing yet and I've already put in a dozen hours in co-op with my wife. This is the Diablo we've been waiting for as we have played through Diablo III about four times.

Mint 21.3...

The Outer Worlds is an Obsidian Entertainment game much like Fallout but in Space. Explore huge maps on several planets with their unique biomes, creatures and inhabitants. Learn how a powerful corporation has taken over each planet by controlling their economies while helping an unravelling rebellion. Which side will you choose? Why choose a side at all?


Upgrade your arsenal of melee and projectile weapons and loot to your hearts desire! Recruit characters into your crew and invite them along away missions to the planet. Level up your active/passive skills and your NCPs as well.

Mint 21.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton GE 9-11

At first launch I cranked up the graphics to high and the game was unplayable. Frame rates were way too low. So then I started turning down the settings one by one and eventually was able to play. There were some serious issues with the menus like inventory or map. Once you leave the menu frame rates...

Who doesn't know the story of Geralt and his monstrous adventures helping the people of Nilfgaard searching for his daughter? Play as the famous Witcher again and slay all kinds of hideous monsters who lay waste to the realm. Craft weapons, upgrade, use runes and wield magic at your disposal. The story and cut-scenes are cleverly engaging... even the side-quests are interesting and full of unexpected surprises.


I did a bit of research on ProtonDB before downloading and testing The Witcher 3. In most cases it ran beautifully, but I did see a bunch of posts about a Steam Launch Option to skip the "Launcher"

I have only experienced a handful of crashes, probably because I'm constantly taking screenshots, but other than that, it runs great with almost all the settings on Ultra.

Specs:
Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton GE 8-4

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Blizzard finally created a free-to-play MMO for Diablo! Currently in Beta, join your friends and live the story between Diablo II and III. Choose a deadly male or female class:

• Blood Knight
• Barbarian
• Crusader
• Demon Hunter
• Monk
• Necromancer
• Wizard

Battle all kinds of forest minions all the way to hell demons! Also expect the typical environments like Gothic graveyards, deserts and epic castles. Help other players and expect random encounters!

I was able to install Battle.net in PlayOnLinux with ProtonGE8 and run Diablo Immortal. Honestly it will require some patience because of the random crashing. I was unable to run the game on any other version of Proton. The game will consistently crash at start up, but don't give up, just use the System Monitor to kill DiabloImmortal.exe and then launch again. If that doesn't work, just kill all processes in PlayOnLinux and run it again.

For the most part, once it...

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem is an action RPG much like Grim Dawn-meets-Diablo 3-meets-Warhammer 40K Chosbane. Traditionally its is a top down looting, melee, projectile, magic slaying monsters game, but once you level up... there are a lot of features to choose from.

• Skill Tree
• Special Abilities
• Character Stats

For the most part, Wolcen ran really well in Proton. There were a few instances where our character started moving really slowly and couldn't attack. But it was so infrequent we didn't research how to fix it. Probably something to do with bandwidth or ping speeds.

Honestly Wolcen was much to easy for my wife and I playing in co-op. We were able to connect over Steam and play the same campaign, which is pretty long... but there was a sever update which completely removed all of our skill tree selections. As a reward for this unfortunate event, they gave us both 400K coins which meant we could purchase anything we...

Fallout 76 is the newest version of the Fallout franchise, but now you can play online with friends in a post apocalyptic world full of zombies, mutated creatures and environmental events. Craft your own camp, loads of loot, countless guns, armor and of course... pop caps. Based on the famous Fallout 4, explore all kinds of biomes, run down buildings, schools, airports and much much more! Level up with experience cards and trade all kinds of loot with your buddies. The world is massive and there for you to conquer!


I was so happy Fallout 76 was finally on sale! I played once during a free weekend and even with some performance issues, I thought it was a lot of fun! Now with Proton Experimental my daughter and I are playing co-op and exploring the world of Fallout together.... finally!

Of course there are still performance issues, but I expected this and spent some time tweaking the settings in the .ini file to get it to run smooth...

Path of Exile is a free-to-play action RPG with large maps, dungeons, tons of loot, bosses, skill tree and all kinds of upgrades! Pick your class, join up with friends and slay minions, mini-bosses in creepy super detailed worlds! This game is worth it! The monsters are very creepy and smart. They sometimes run away and find cover, other powered-up monsters are almost impossible to kill. Use your skill gems and load up and armor/damage to take them out!


Once again it was time to re-visit Path of Exile and play co-op with my family. Initially I tried through Steam but for some reason I was having all kinds of problems. So naturally I went to PlayOnLinux and used ProtonEXP and installed the client. No issues or performance problems these days and it is a lot of fun with my family!

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 515
Proton Experimental 7 P
layOnLinux 4.3.4
DXVK 2.1

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Blizzard recently released a complete graphical overhaul for Diablo II and I caught it during a sale!

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo_ii_resurrected?p=168305

Everything in the game has been updated with new graphics and widescreen compatibility! Even online co-op is available!

Play the epic Diablo II with all the eyecandy you wanted and even press "G" to play with original 1990's graphics!


I was able to install Battle.net in PlayOnLinux but initially unable to run the Diablo II launcher. Darandin provided the solution for DirectX12 compatibility:

Download the 2.6 release vkd3d-proton-2.6.tar.zst:
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/download/v2.6/vkd3d-proton-2.6.tar.zst

You can extract it, and then simply run the provided script to install the dx12 libraries automatically. You just need to ensure to set the path to the wine prefix for the game, and then simply run the script...

Drox Operative is a top-down space shooter with exploration, customization, upgrades, RPG elements, clan relations & a lot of enemies! Explore populated solar systems and complete missions for different alien clans. But be ware, too many favors for one sect will cause the others to go to war with you!

http://www.soldak.com/Drox-Operative-2/Overview.html


This action space series provides native Linux ports and full LAN co-operative capabilities! Conqueor the solar systems with your friends and gather loot to trade with planets! The action is unending and each game you start is completely procedurally generated.

Specs:
Mint 20.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 515

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Pine is yet another open world RPG with gathering, crafting, skills and such, but also some interesting features. The world of Pine is full of animal clans you can befriend and fight alongside. Explore many biomes and find a safe place for your human clan to live in a world of intelligent animals who are enemies or allies.


I picked up Pine on Epic games for free and it was worth if for sure! The game plays beautifully and there are only a few instances with some serious stutter. Other than that, I found that the game has issues loading and can take almost a whole 2 minutes to reload after dying.

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
Proton 7.0
Heroic Games Launcher

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Dungeon Hunter is a mobile RPG series that is completely free-to-play. Fight in an epic story in singleplayer campaign or play co-op with 3 friends in all kinds of beautiful war-torn environments in Valenthia. Wield hundreds of weapons, armor and spells... fight in tower defense modes and take on daily events.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/982510/Dungeon_Hunter_5/


Dungeon Hunter 5 has a Diablo meets Torchlight feel and graphical style. The only downside is the levels are very small and completed very quickly. I could only play using Proton 6.3. None of the other versions of Proton or GE worked... the game would time-out with internet connectivity at the beginning.

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
Proton 6.3-8

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Children of Morta is a couch co-op action RPG in a fantasy world of dungeon crawling. Enter the lives of the Bergson family where their land is becoming corrupted by darkness and evil. Slowly level up each character starting with the mother and father but later adding their children. Change characters between dungeon runs and learn each one of their intricate abilities. There is no permadeath, but survival is key to moving ahead and stopping hordes of evil.

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

Children of Morta comes with a native Linux edition and it runs very nicely. Performance isn't an issues since it is 2D pixel art. I was able to play with keyboard/mouse and an Xbox controller in co-op. The one frustrating thing about this game is... its very hard! We never finished the first dungeon. I love that the dungeons are procedurally generated... which is great, but until you finish the boss, you can't make it to the next level. There are several other...

Who doesn't like the Borderlands series?
Procedurally generated weapons/loot/vending machines, hilarious enemies, hideous creatures and minions that level up. Play as one of 4 classes and continue the story of Handsome Jack and his plan to rule Pandora. This should be easy right? Level up our skills, equip your gear and tear through deserts, icy mountains and mechanical cities.


Borderlands 2 provides us Linux gamers with a native port that runs beautifully! I am playing co-op with my two daughters and only one computer had a problems with shadows. I edited a configuration file and enabled shadows, then we were on our way!

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 950, 750 Ti
Nvidia 470

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Borderlands franchise are epic vault hunter games with procedurally generated weapons, RPG elements, crazy minions, vehicular combat and awesome skills. On top of all that, fully co-op campaigns.

Linux gamers are happy to have native ports for both Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel. Pre-Sequel specifically has an awesome space-oriented campaign on the moon of Pandora and broken/destroyed ships. Gravity effects, slams and oxygen will keep you on your toes and plenty of badass minions and bosses to slay!

Learn how Jack the hero became Handsome Jack!


The native port runs amazing on my GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 950 & 750 Ti. No performance issues at all! I'm playing co-op with both of my daughters and it is lot of fun!

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470

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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim places you in the cold Nord lands north of Tamriel. Explore an open world, level up your characters skills, design your characters facial features, find dragon shouts and slay all kinds of monsters.
Level up a huge variety of skills, craft all kinds of potions, cook food, craft weapons and armor.


Character Skills:

• Alchemy
• Alteration
• Archery
• Block
• Conjuration
• Destruction
• Enchanting
• Heavy Armor
• Illusion
• Light Armor
• Lockpicking
• One-Handed
• Pickpocket
• Restoration
• Speech
• Smithing
• Sneak
• Two-Handed

I'm currently playing the original vanilla Skyrim with the enhanced textures. With my GeForce GTX 1060 I can crank up all the textures to ultra and all the distances to maximum. Skyrim run beautifully! Proton handles everything perfectly! Also consider there is hundreds of hours of gameplay in only 10GB while Elder Scrolls Online is 150GB!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit...

Death Trash is an 8-bit retro action RPG inspired by classics like the Fallout series. Your character begins in a vault-ish base where robots protect the un-infected. You have been cast out into the open-world where meat and flesh are your only hope. Wield all kinds of guns, swords, lasers and blunt instruments to loot your way around the wasteland.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Death_Trash/


The demo is a native port for Linux and plays beautifully! Since its a retro 8-bit inspired game, performance wasn't an issue. I can't wait for the full game release because this is going to be an epic story with all kinds of NCPs and mutated monsters all around the world.

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

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Fallout 76 is a new chapter exploring the wastes of Appalachia. But this time you are not alone... the world is full of online players in this post apocalyptic MMORPG. Survive in a world very similar to Fallout 4 and experience random player encounters as you slay new minions in new epic environments ranging from New York to Alabama and Georgia. Level up your character and equip new skills for you and your team.


I was able to play Fallout 76 during a free weekend on Steam. After researching on ProtonDB.com it was recommended to use Glorious Egg Rolls version of Proton. Performance wasn't great at first. I had to crank down the display settings just to get a barely playable frame rate. But a gamer mentioned changing a setting in a configuration file. This made a significant difference in performance. Now I could play, but some of the display settings had to stay on medium... like shadows.

There were a few streaming/loading glitches...

Reaper of Souls was on sale recently so I picked up two copies hoping it will runs as well as Diablo 3...
It runs great!


I previously posted a Diablo 3 guide in PlayOnLinux which still works except now you can use Proton GE:
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/diablo-3-guide.1691/

Continue into Act V and then enable Adventure mode. Use your favorite character and crank the difficulty up to Torment... slay new minions, mini-bosses and new BOSSES! Fight through heaven once again and stop Malthael Angel of Death! Blizzard has out-done themselves again! The levels are more detailed, more interactive, enemies are clever and fun to kill! I can't wait to try Adventure mode.

As expected, Reaper of Souls runs really well with Proton. I did have to add the argument: -d3d11legacy
This allows Proton to handle the DirectX 10/11 compatibility. Battle.net also is running in Proton GE so we were able to play co-op without a...

Chaosbane is a Warhammer themed action RPG bundled with all the expected thrills! Choose a class, wield deadly swords, hammers, magic, bows and clear out dungeons, sewers and graveyards! Slaying all kinds of corrupted & mutated monsters of Chaos! Play co-op with your friends online or couch-co-op with a controller.

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


Chaosbane (GOG version)is a very linear game but packed with story and action. All kinds of minions will attack from every angle and expect mini-boss and BOSS fights too. The graphics are beautiful and I was able to play with my GeForce GTX 1060 with minimal frame rate loss. At first the game was dragging along so I messed with some of the graphics settings and was able to get a decent frame rate.

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



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Stormrite is an in-development Open World RPG in a fantasy medieval world. Chose a class like archer, knight, assassin, mage and more... then weild realistic weapons and hack down your enemies. This public test version will put you in a small mountain arena where you can practice using the weapons, learn the physics and controls of the characters. The physics are pretty realistic like Chivalry, where each slice or arrow will contact their body and react accordingly. Its fun to watch how they recoil and swing realistically where you open yourself to danger if you are too offensive.


https://kerds78.itch.io/stormrite

Proton handles the demo fairly well in PlayOnLinux and I was able to play indefinitely by reloading the level every time my character died. I can't wait to see more locations and the "open world" the developers are advertising... but the weapons and realistic physics are top-notch and pretty fun. The demo is developed...