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Layers Of Fear is a horror adventure with almost unending rooms of jump scares. Play the role of a drunken artist who is trying to finish the masterpiece of his life... a portrait of his wife. But there was an accident and she was scarred from a fire. Live his drunken nightmare as he tries to find out what happened to his child, his wife and his house.



Playing Layers of Fear is a crazy psychedelic horror experience where you explore a massive house full of room with terror. Anything can happen and anything does! Search through cabinets riddled with wine bottles and hear the artists memories of items you find. Every room is different, but seems familiar... turn around and its different again. Are you afraid of dolls?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/391720/Layers_of_Fear/

Layers of Fear provides us with a native Linux port as it was developed in Unity 3D engine. So the game ran quite well on my GeForce GTX 1060. There are a few...

Apparently Microsoft is going to port Chromium Edge to Linux. Who ever would have thought Microsoft would care enough to release a browser in Linux?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?&OCID=AID2001283_SEM

Slashdot article:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/09/22/1924237/microsoft-is-bringing-edge-to-linux

Path of Titans is a MMO dinosaur survival simulator. The demo includes a few dinosaurs with male and female options, skins and colors. Enter the massive island to explore beautifully lush biomes. Every tree, plant, rock and cliff-side is modeled with super realism and day/night cycle shows off all varied elements in the environment. The demo didn't include gathering or eating plants, but there were hints of interactive vegetation.



Join your friends in a group and scour the landscape hunting down prey. Each dinosaur is cleverly and carefully modeled and each one has its own dino-calls. The developers "spared no expense" when designing these realistic Jurassic creatures.

https://pathoftitans.com/

I'm happy to present Path of Titans demo comes with a native Linux version which is cross-platform compatible. Meaning we can join servers from smartphones, PC, Windows alike. Unfortunately the island is so large you may find yourself...

A Story About My Uncle is not a read-along adventure... or a children's book...
This is an epic first person physics adventure where your grappling hook and jump tricks allow you to traverse amazing terrain. Jump super high with your suit and grapple floating islands, rocks and structures. Fling yourself around cliffs and waterfalls above bottomless worlds. Meet alien creatures who inhibit these mysterious floating lands and use energy crystals fly themselves across the landscape. All in the name of finding uncle Fred.


A Story About My Uncle ran great in Steam with my GeForce GTX 1060. I never had any performance issues and the graphics settings were cranked to high. This Linux port made with UDK (Unreal Development Kit) in 2012 by a group of students at Södertörn University.

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

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If you haven't played System Shock 1 or 2, these are a must play FPS horror/action/stealth/hack/adventure game!
The original System Shock was made 1994 and was one of the most interactive sci-fi games made at the time. This is no run-n-gun arcade game! You can loot just about any container, solve puzzles, fight robots and zombified crew. The original game had clunky controls which made it very hard to play, but today it can play on just about any computer made.

There is an enhanced edition available on GOG which supports higher resolution and better controls
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/system-shock-enhanced-edition-guide.2412/

But Nightdive Studios is doing a complete remake of the original game with the Unreal Engine
https://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/System_Shock/
https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_demo

Sadly Steam and GOG only offer the Windows version of the Demo
But there is a Linux demo out there somewhere... I...

Timeout is a brilliant point-n-click 2D 3D action adventure mystery. Everyone live by time. If your time runs out, you die. So of course the world has commercialized buying & selling time to stay alive. Investigate a case where fake time is killing people because they are deceived into purchasing a clever deal on time.


Timeout demo ran perfectly in Linux. I was able to play and control my character without any graphical issues or performance issues on my GeForce GTX 1060.

https://christopherlee.itch.io/timeout

Ever wanted to play Minecraft?

Nope, because I've been playing Minetest. Its an open source free-to-play Minecraft clone. Of course its not quite as polished, but the vanilla game has a lot in it:

• Endless world (almost)
• Exploration
• Resource Gathering/Farming
• Crafting
• Building
• Day/Night Cycle
• Host/Client - LAN Connection

Host your own world, invite your friends and explore, build and craft cities together. Its educational and very fun to explore huge cave systems, massive mountains and vast oceans.

There is even a community developing mods to improve the base game with all kinds of new features.

Customize Minetest

In Mint you can use the software manager to install Minetest vanilla, but also a bunch of amazing mods to make it more functional and interesting.

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No matter how many steps or processes you implement, there is always a potential security hole.

This guide is going to present a few ways to secure your system from intrusions, malicious software and unwanted connections. There is always a balance between security and convenience. The more secure your system is, the less convenient is it to use.

Who wants a “bricked” computer because it is so secure you can’t even use it?

Please use some of the suggestions below as a baseline to secure your system. Then implement more in the future as you learn how to manage them.

Linux Built-In Security

• sudo
• Permissions

Every Linux distribution includes security features like other operating systems.
Users are tied to groups with access to their own files and data. Linux adds another layer of security when an application needs to run or install. The...

Recently I've been playing Torchlight II in Steam and GOG. Both versions still run perfectly without issues and I was able to play co-op online and offline with friends and family. The game still absolutely ROCKS with intense mini-bosses, randomly generated minions and huge boss fights. Your character will level up quickly so each time you play try a different class and level up a different skill. Its like playing the first time over again, but you are familiar with the levels and story, but even the levels change a bit.


Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59

Tacoma is a sci-fi first person narrative adventure game on a space station in the future. Explore the space station and learn about the crew as they survive in an emergency situation. View real-time virtual recordings of their actions and decisions that led to current events. Where did the crew go? What were they working on?
Learn about their personal lives on space station Tacoma

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

Tacoma ran perfectly on my GeForce GTX 950 without any issues. Transistions, loading, saving and no gravity areas ran without a hitch. This is a great Linux port and the graphics are top notch beautiful.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 950
Nvidia 440

ULTRAKILL is a tribute to 90's FPS lowpoly bloody action gaming. It succeeds very well!
Obliterate hordes of minions in this fast-pace shooter by trick jumping, strafing, granading, shooting and more! You'll never tire with the abundance of blood an slaughter through each level... and a the end... is... of course...
A BOSS!

https://hakita.itch.io/ultrakill-prelude

Crumbling World is a lowpoly action RPG with a unique feature: The world is constantly crumbling around around you.
Use portals to move around the map before you fall off the crumbling landscape and end up in the Underworld. Yes, you don't immediately die... instead you fight your way through the Underworld and hop in a portal back to the upperworld. Crazy huh?

The current beta has a Linux version

https://dumearts.itch.io/crumbling-world

Fistful of Frags is a Free-To-Play Source Engine complete modification of an old Western shootout first person game. It consists of Old West themed levels & weapons with your typical deathmatch, capture the flag and team deathmatch styles of gameplay. There is even co-op levels with bots.

This game has been around for a while, but still has an active community. In fact they released a Linux version too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/265630/Fistful_of_Frags/

Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox game. Full of creepy minions, crafting and even bosses. The beta is completely free an works online and local LAN:
https://dvoidis.itch.io/valheim

There are a lot of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games out there right now. A lot of them are free and driven by advertising and in-game money. Wakfu is grid-like, turn-based free MMORPG, but has native support for Linux.



There is a lot more than your standard RPG...
Select from 15 classes consisting of ranged, melee, steam-punk, mage-like and much much more.
Utilize many abilities and skill attributes to battle multiple minions. Follow quests or just explore the land. Use an interesting take on Alchemy by harvesting animals and plants, then planting more. Join up with friends or play solo and level up your characters abilities and skills.
The possibilities are endless...

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Wakfu in Linux.

Download Wakfu

Go To: http://www.wakfu.com/en/mmorpg/game/download
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