GOG

Once again our three heroes are thrust into another Frozenbyte adventure with puzzles, enemies and bosses. Play as the knight, mage and bowoman with all of their unique abilities. Overcome physics-based obstacles and take down all the enemies in your way! What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.gog.com/game/trine_3_the_artifacts_of_power

This Trine is a bit different from the other Trine games. Your characters are no longer restricted in 2D space and can move freely in and out of limited 3 dimensional space. Jump tricks, physics and lining up your character is more challenging because depth perception is "off" a bit. There is also an interactive map where you can freely select any level you like, but you have to unlock them with golden triangles. Didn't find enough triangles in the last map? Go back and search again... and again... and again... oh and the mage cannot spawn multiple cubes or planks. He can only spawn a single cube. No wonder he's confused...

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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Trine 1 completely blew-me-away with detailed 3D graphics, special effects, physics puzzles and co-op action. Who knew they could out-do themselves with Trine 2? Play as the same three characters: Knight, Mage & Thief and traverse amazingly detailed environment where almost everything is interactive! Upgrade new skills on the skill-tree and use your abilities to solve physics puzzles and reach your objective. There is even more amazing fantasy environments where everything is animated and almost every object or ledge is interactive.

https://www.gog.com/game/trine_2_complete_story

There is even an epic level where you are swallowed by some huge monster and you have to jump around this oozing disgusting level of guts, acid and flesh. Don't miss this one... its amazing! I'm not even a huge platform fan, but Trine has much more to offer than most simple platform games.

The only issues I had running the GOG version is in Mint. Full-screen would not cover the bottom...

Tiny and Big is one of those game you will never forget!
In a surreal sandbox world where underpants give you super powers... traverse towers and bridges made of stone... which of course, can be cut apart, dragged and pushed anywhere with powerful physics. Nevermind the dude with underpants on his head trying to kill you...


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

The developers of Tiny and Big provided a native version on Steam and GOG. It runs beautifully on my GeForce GTX 1060 without any issues. It is a great sandbox puzzle platformer with some great physics moments. Cut almost any object into huge slices or small pieces. Use these objects to climb around and reach the end of the level.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460

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Trine is a clever physx based fantasy platformer where you can switch between 3 characters in order to progress through the levels. Play as an female archer, wizard or knight and use their skills to traverse through traps, skeletons, dungeons and much more! Also connect a controller and play co-op with a friend! Amazing graphics, animation and effects... what else could anyone want?


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

Trine is an older game from 2009 and required a few older libraries, but I found they were already available in the "Lib" directory in the game folder. So I just renamed them to the library the game was expecting and it worked. Here is also a post on GOG about how to install the proper libraries:
https://www.gog.com/forum/trine_series/fix_missing_libraries_for_trine_1_2_on_ubuntu_1804_64_bit

Other than that, I was able to play with Keyboard & mouse and my wife was able to play with Amazon...

Ever wanted a farm? A farm with slime animals? No, sorry that is all you get in Slime Rancher!
Play as a slime farmer collecting different kinds of slime animals and earning money from their plorts to expand your farm, exploration and tools. Watch out for the contaminated slime!


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

Slime Rancher has a native version on GOG and runs nearly perfectly! My GeForce GTX 1060 handles is without issues and I'm planning to try a co-op modification in the future. I was also able to successfully play the multi-player mod with three computers in a LAN.
https://satypardus.itch.io/slime-rancher-multiplayer-mod

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460


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Play as a covert journalist who is investigating suspicious characters and questioning them about the evidence you have uncovered. Each objective can be solved in may different ways... in a way this is a sandbox stealth mystery game. The world around is very detailed and you will discover many interactive elements to help you find evidence.


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

With the help of ProtonGE The Occupation Demo ran flawlessly in PlayOnLinux with my GeForce GTX 1060. Of course I still installed DXVK and Media Foundation. Initially I thought it wasn't running at all, but if you are patient, the first black-screen will start loading. I think there may be a bug with Media Foundation, so I wasn't able to see the intro videos... thankfully it did load and played just fine.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
ProtonGE5.9
DXVK 1.7.2

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Traverse and assassinate in an epic world created by Cyanide Studios. Play as the mysterious goblin who will unfold his origins in a world of greedy men and elves. Use clever stealth abilities and assassinate with powerful skills. Each massive level consists of multiple routes to your objective making re-play exciting. Level up your skills and meet interesting characters who help you on the way.


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

I initially created a guide on Styx years ago and Wine could barely handle the game. Any time I looked up into the distance there was a huge CPU spike and the game slowed to a crawl. Today, Proton handles the game perfectly and I've never experienced a single frame rate drop!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 5.13-5

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Play as an insurgent fighter and join the Red Faction rebellion against the EDF. Red Faction Guerrilla is a completely physics destructive environments. Use your hammer to break down any wall or structure. Use your mines to blow up any building or vehicle in this open world action game! The remastered version on GOG now supports modern resolutions and enhanced graphics.


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

I was able to install and run the game with Wine 5.0.2 but upon launching there was no audio in-game. The BIK movies played audio, but not in-game. I still had to install DirectX June 2010 Redistribute for all of the xact, xaudio overrides. It would fail again and again until I manually added all the xaudio2_0 all the way up to xaudio 2_9 and set to (native). Then it installed and now audio works!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0.2 64-bit
DXVK 1.7.2...

Play as an Assasin, Paladin, Crusader or Necromancer in an epic tale to defeat Eidolon the Serpent Rider. But he's not alone, slay all kinds of minions with your class's special weapons and inventory items. Made with the Quake engine, enjoy Gothic indoor levels and outdoor areas with maze-like precision.


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

Never play Hexen in DOSBox or Wine again! Download an OpenGL supported engine on triptohell.info:
https://fte.triptohell.info/downloads

Much like GZDoom, use Wine to install GOG Hexen II in a wineprefix, then simply cut-n-paste the game folder anywhere you want. Drop fteqw64 executable in the game folder and run with Terminal. Now you have a plethora of video options, widescreen settings and even realistic water reflections. Trust me, Hexen has never been so beautiful on modern computers!

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
fteqw64

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Agent 47 is sent by the International Contract Agency to assassinate Diana Burnwood and recover a genetically-engineered teenage girl who is meant to be trained as an assassin. Use stealth, force and clever traversing around the level to eliminate mercenaries. Kill the target and save the girl!


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

Hitman Absolution ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux with Wine 5.0.2 on my GeForce GTX 1060. I played through th first three levels and never experienced any graphical issues, control issues or save/load issues. It just ran perfectly! I was also able to crank up the graphics as this title was created back in 2012.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0.2 64-bit
DXVK: 1.7.2

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Spiritfarer is a hand-drawn and animated adventure exploration game with some clever crafting elements.
Play as ferrymaster names Stella and help the dead reach their final destination. Explore curious islands and learn about each spirits history and culture... meanwhile trading and gathering items to craft and build crops on your ship.

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


This is non-violent exploration game with varied tasks and objectives as you learn about the world. The 2D animated game is beautifully done with amazing colorful effects and creative characters. The native port ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 1060 and I was able to play through the entire demo twice without any problems.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 455

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After finishing Layers Of Fear 1, I wanted more... more jump scares, more super detailed environments, more psychological fear, more creepy sounds... more of everything! Layers Of Fear 2 does not disappoint!



Your nightmare begins on an old 1920s cruise ship where there is a film production taking place. Among the ship is all kinds of props and scenery for the film... but what is the film about? Are you an actor? The game quickly becomes very creepy as you re-live the adventures of stowaway children... a young girl and her brother.

https://www.gog.com/game/layers_of_fear_2

The graphics are very detailed and beautiful as expected. Even the water effects are very realistic. You will find yourself exploring some surreal environments that are pretty strange, but compellingly scary. This might actually be a nightmare of a small boys imagination. My GeForce GTX 1060 was able to handle the game nicely. At first the game was crashing because...

Grim Dawn is a huge epic action RPG with a very large linear maps. As if that wasn't big enough... the expansion Ashes of Malmouth and Forgotten Gods has more locations with more monsters to slay and more quests to complete.



Ashes of Malmouth
Forgotten Gods

Continue slaying minions, mini-bosses and epic boss battles and level up your additional skill trees and masteries to equip your character with new weapons and magical skills. The developers have added more factions to side with or eliminate and all kinds of epic environments to slay them in.

• Burning sands
• Lush oases
• Volcanic wastes
• Forest of Gloomwald
• Murky Ugdenbog
• Fallen city of Malmouth

I've recently started replaying through Grim Dawn in co-op with my wife and picked up both expansions during a GOG sale. You won't regret adding...

Medal Of Honor is a military frontal assault first person shooter based on the battles in World War II. Play as U.S. Army Sergeant John Baker in the front lines of Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge and DDay. Warchest includes the original Allied Assault and both expansions:

• Spearhead
• Breakthrough

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



I never did a guide for Allied Assault because I was never able to run it in Wine until now. This game was developed in 2002 and though the graphics are hard on the eyes, its a pretty fun war game with a lot of action. It displays features and scenarios before its time. The Call of Duty series was inspired by Allied Assault.

The key to playing Allied Assault in Wine is adding the following command for Nvidia video cards:
export __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

In PlayOnLinux you have to paste this in the Miscellanous Tab area at the bottom...

In The Surge you awaken in the ruins of a huge corporation with an exoskeleton suite as your advantage. Fight rogue robots and augmented zombies as you learn what happened to the CREO corporation. This is a Dark Souls-ish combat game with the ability to target specific areas of the enemies unarmored body parts. Use combos and dodges to slay clever minions who have similar attacks as yourself.

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


PlayOnLinux was able to handle The Surge with Wine 5.0 64-bit and DXVK on my GeForce GTX 1060. Loading, saving and keyboard/mouse controls worked without issues as you can see in the video. I warn you, this game is pretty unforgiving as all the enemies re-spawn even when you return to a previous area. There are only checkpoints which save your progress, so you may find yourself dying an clearing out the same areas over and over.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.100
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4...

Years ago my wife and I played through Grim Dawn (GOG version) several times. It was a lot of work setting it up to play "bug free" in DirectX 9 only. There were a bunch of workarounds to prevent missing textures, but it worked! Today Wine 5.0 handles everything perfectly with DXVK compatibility. We are playing smoothly and no more graphical artifacts. It may slow down a bit when a lot of monsters are in the screen at the same time, but that is typical of games with a lot of animation.



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

I recently purchased the Expansions (DLC) and we are starting over from the beginning. The game runs over LAN easily in Linux and plays smoothly with co-op.

• Ashes of Malmouth
• Forgotten Gods

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060 & GTX 950
Nvidia 440.100
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4

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Firewatch is a story of a lonely forest ranger in Wyoming trying to escape the harsh realities of life. His wife is sick with dimentia and they are separated while he "finds himself". But even in the forest you are not alone. There are fires to investigate and a large forest to protect.


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

The Developer, Campo Santo provides us with a native Linux version and it runs beautifully on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to crank all the video settings to high and enjoy the natural beauty of the toonshaded forest. Even if there wasn't a story, I would enjoy exploring the forest and taking screenshots.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.100

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Disaster Report 4 is like a natural disaster simulation. Create your character, personality and then within minutes you are thrust into an earthquake right in the middle of a busy downtown in Japan. Decide if you will help people or help yourself. Explore a broken city with immediate danger around every corner.



https://www.gog.com/game/disaster_report_4_summer_memories_demo

Disaster Report was built in Unreal Engine and ran very well with ProtonGE on my GeForce GTX 1060. At first the game wouldn't run at all, probably because my wineprefix was missing DXVK. Once that was all setup, the game launched and played perfectly! I had never heard of Disaster Report before and wasn't sure what it was about... after playing the demo, I'm anxious to see what happens next.


Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.100
ProtonGE 5.0-9 64-bit
DXVK 1.7 64-bit

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Hellblade is a 3rd person psychological action adventure. Senua is trying to fight her inner-demons as she searching for her husband. You will fight in melee combat against all kinds of evil spirits as your inner voices help you solve the clever puzzles. Some would say this is a story game, but you only hear stories when interacting with a specific object in the game. Otherwise you are searching for puzzles and slaying minions.



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

A few months back I saw Hellblade in a GOG sale. Checked ProtonDB to see if it ran well in Proton. Reports were looking good. So I purchased it and gave it a try... Stable Wine 5.0 64-bit ran it well with DXVK 1.7

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.100
Wine 5.0 64-bit
DXVK 1.7 64-bit

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