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Deeper Down is a Half-Life 2 Episode 2 mod inspired by the travelling scenes where you go from location to location taking down Combine... and you aren't alone. Alex will be joining you on this expedition!



I didn't have any issues playing Deeper Down and it ran beautifully with all settings on high and very high. This is a mod you don't want to miss! Love the interaction and help from Alex and the travelling from place to place enjoying the sites and taking out Combine.

Installation:
Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

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Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:
To be safe, install the following SDK tools for all Windows compatible mods for...

The Citizen Returns is the end game of the epic story in City 17 and beyond...
Join the resistance and again lay waste to the Combine regime to pathe a way to freedom!


The Citizen Returns

Explore new areas of City 17 by joining up with citizens of the resistance and maze your way through epic cities and alien territories.
Wield new weapons, meet new characters, solve puzzles and survive the Combine terrorism!

Installation:
Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:
To be safe, install the following SDK tools for all Windows compatible mods for Half-Life 2:

• Source...

The Citizen is Half-Life 2 mod takes place in City 17 as Gordon Freeman saves the rebels from the Combine invasion.
Explore new areas of City 17 and meet new characters!


Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies

To be safe, install the following SDK tools for all Windows compatible mods for Half-Life 2:

• Source SDK
• Source SDK Base 2007
• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer [set Beta to: upcoming]

Dependencies
Set the following Compatibility to Proton Experimental:

• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer

Important!
When clicking "Play" you may have to wait a minute for the game to officially launch. I had issues where I...

Spherical Nightmares is a Half-Life 2 Episode: Two mod where Gman leaves Gordon Freeman in a remote prison. Find your way out and stay alive if possible.... or is this another simulation?


My first tests failed as the game was having issues with Proton and would crash. After some research I found you have to rename the game folder and replace the GameInfo.txt

Installation
Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Important!
When clicking "Play" you may have to wait a minute for the game to officially launch. I had issues where I thought it crashed when the Play button doesn't display "Cancel" or "Stop" but it actually is running.

Proton Settings

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Whoopservatory is Half-Life 2 mod where you visit a mansion in the middle of nowhere, but this is no ordinary house. Find yourself in the middle of a scientific lab of experiments gone wrong!

Installation:
Install Full Release - Will error background image

Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

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Install Patch 1.16
Download the patch and copy/paste the folder over the original one.
Merge everything!

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:

• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer [set Beta to: upcoming]

Proton
Set the...

Research and Development is a Half-Life 2 mod made with puzzles in mind. There will be no wielding of Half-Life weapons here! Well the Gravity Gun and Bugbait, but most of the puzzles are physics based and cleverly designed.


Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Download the patch and copy/paste the baryonic_predicament folder over the original one. Merge everything!

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:
To be safe, install the following SDK tools for all Windows compatible mods for Half-Life 2:

• Source SDK
• Source SDK Base 2007
• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer (set Beta to: upcoming)

Dependencies:
Set the following Compatibility to Proton Experimental...

Forgotten Journey is a set of Half-Life 2 mods all in one!
Continue Gordon Freeman's adventures against the Combine in custom levels modded from Half-Life 2, Ep1 & Ep2.
The Gutter by Sloprano
Stormbringer by Soulia
A Freeman Apart by Sarwia
Hazard Trip by Spas12
Transmission by Les Grossman
Lost Journey by JIMONIONS
Overflow by Marnamai

I'm not going to lie... some of these mods are very difficult but there are some interesting ideas with puzzles and story which make it totally worth it!

Important!
When clicking "Play" you may have to wait a minute for the game to officially launch. I had issues where I thought it crashed when the Play button doesn't display "Cancel" or "Stop" but it actually is running.

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:
To be...

Baryonic Predicament is a single player mod for Half-Life 2 Episode Two. Navigate through a small combine island solving puzzles and taking-out soldiers. But once you get below ground, there is a world of experimental puzzles and more resistance.

Be sure to download the mod and the SDK 2013 patch.

Make sure you place the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library!

Requires:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2 Episode One
• Half-Life 2 Episode Two

Dependencies:
To be safe, install the following SDK tools for all Windows compatible mods for Half-Life 2:

• Source SDK
• Source SDK Base 2007
• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer [set Beta to: upcoming]

Dependencies:
Set the following Compatibility to Proton Experimental:

• Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer...

We've waited many years for Half-Life 3, until this day comes... enter Dark Interval!


Gordon Freeman is back in City 17 to learn of the aftermath since the destruction of the citadel.
Dark Interval is a very well made continuation of the Half-Life story with new characters, new features, new weapons and incorporating Half-Life assets with familiar characters like Barney, professor Kleiner and Dog.

Everything ran really well in Linux with Proton!
I previously never heard of this modification and after playing through Part II, I am thoroughly impressed!
Seriously! It's a great story with a lot of Half-Life-ish environments, puzzles and action! They did a very professional job creating a convincing City 17 and story!
I won't mention any of the new features, but I was excited to see new content which add to the story and development of Gordon Freeman as a silent character.

Dependencies...

Silent Hill Alchemilla is an original story presented as a Half-Life 2 mod. Explore a creepy sanitarium in reality and in the upside-down reality. Solve puzzles and explore this maze-like hospital, but you are not alone!


In order to play Half-Life 2 mods in Linux a few things need to be downloaded and prepped.
Thankfully the White Noise team provided a Linux installer for us...
But this installer only extracts the mod folder into your Steam Sourcemods directory.

Make sure it places the mod folder in your:

/home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/sourcemods/

Click to expand...

Be sure to enabled "Tools" in Steam and download:

Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer

Click to expand...

Restart Steam and the game should appear in your library

Important!
When clicking "Play" you may have to wait a minute for the game to officially launch. I had issues where I thought it crashed when the Play button...

Dead Frontier is a zombie MMO in a huge city full of buildings to loot and a lot of zombies. You will encounter some of the creepiest monsters you have ever seen! Talk to the local police for quests and then go door to door searching all kinds of places for ammo and loot. Explore building like:

• Apartments
• Grocery Stores
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• Local Businesses
• Homes

And much more! Join up with some friends or go solo as the city is so vast you will never get tired of exploring. Be careful with guns though, start blasting in a building and attract more zombies!


When I have tested Dead Frontier II in the past, it ran very slowly. Maybe it was my old hardware or maybe it was Wine, but the new Proton Experimental ran it like I was playing natively. Loading times were fast and I was able to run and gun without any performance loss... honestly this isn't a run-n-gun game, but when needed, the shotgun works great for...

Portal Revolution is a sequel after the initial test subject killed GladOS. You wake up once again in a strange experimental chamber as another test subject. The modding community has created some new features not seen in Portal or Portal 2 and some new A.I. characters who help along the way.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/601360/Portal_Revolution/

Portal Revolution ran perfectly in Linux as a stand alone Linux native game. I never had any performance issues or crashes... it was extremely fun and only a few puzzles required searching online for a solution. I love the bot voice-overs and the new character plots. I can't believe Valve has not created a new Portal with some of these new laser and Pneumatic vent features! Thank you Portal community!

Mint 21.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 535
Proton Experimental 8

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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...

Valheim has sold millions of copies with millions of players exploring the massive map, creating Viking cities, slaying monsters, collecting loot and crafting gear. But where did it all start? The free-to-play beta of course!


Sadly I've had a hard time tracking down a download for Valheim Linux beta. I've kept it from years ago and it still runs pretty well and is still a lot of LAN co-op fun! If you still don't want to spend money on Valheim and want to play with limited features, give it a go, but have fun finding an installer.

I was able to host a listenserver and my daughters both joined on Mint PCs
Every once in a while there is a slight performance stutter. Part of it is the automatic save, but the other part may just be optimization issues. Either way, a lot of fun!

Specs:
Mint 21.164-bit
GeForce GTX 1650
Nvidia 530

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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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Unreal Tournament 4 has been on hold for a long time as Epic develops other games. Thanks to the Linux community there are some dedicated developers who have made Unreal 4 available for us to play again!

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1111t8g/unreal_tournament_4_saved_by_ut4uu_community/


Following the instructions in the reddit post, I was able to download, install, launch and sign in. Then I could play my own singleplayer training maps or local LAN maps. Thank you for including LAN!!!

I noticed some serous stutter or lag when initially playing. This must be some caching issue with Linux, Vulkan or OpenGL. Not really sure, but it sure is annoying during the first match. Once the issues are loaded up, then it plays just fine afterwards!

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

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Sclerosis: an Amnesia PS1 demake is a re-make of Amnesia Dark Descent with Playstation 1 look and feel.
Re-live the horror experience as Daniel finding himself among sacred dungeons and experiments gone wrong.
Play for free like it was 2001...

https://createam.itch.io/sclerosis-an-amnesia-ps1-demake


Made with the Unity 3D engine, I didn't experience any issues in Linux. Playstation 1 games have extremely low requirements so performance was spectacular as expected. I loved all the interactive objects, lighting effects and spooky sounds. Makes me want to play the original Amnesia all over again.

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.17-staging64-bit
DXVK 1.9.1

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I never played the original Bloodborn on the Playstation, but this game reminds me of Dark Souls soooo much! The movement, the backgrounds and even the sound effects are just like Dark Souls!


Download Bloodborn PSX for free and customize the graphics to simulate a 1990's CRT television and enjoy the old school hack-n-slash!

https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx

I was unable to play this game on stable versions of Wine because of dependencies needed for Unreal Engine.
But I quickly found that staging versions are able to run it almost perfectly! There are some staticy sound artifacts which I tried to fix by installing xact and Direct X June 2010, but it didn't help. So I just dealt with it...

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
Wine: 6.17-Staging
DXVK 1.9.2

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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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Island Saver is a free-to-play first person clean-up game where you are saving the island from litter bugs who want to pollute it. Wield your Trash Blaster and suck washed up plastic and recycle it. Then suck up water can and clean the black goo from trees, water and recycling objects which help you clean up the island.

This is an absolutely kid safe game! And its educational by teaching kids how plastic and pollution can damage the environment and an animal ecosystems. Once you complete the free-to-play island, you can pay for more islands and continue the adventure!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1210250/Island_Saver/


I was unable to play Island Saver with standard issue proton or experimental, because it requires Media Foundation to play the videos. So I tried ProtonGE and it played beautifully!

Specs:
Mint 20.2 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Proton 6.21 GE 2

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