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The Survivalists demo is top-down retro survival game on a mysterious island. You are shipwrecked and alone, but you meet a trusty monkey to help you gather, harvest and craft the resources you need to survive. Night-time bring creatures out of the dark and exploring the island can be treacherous with natives and caves. No matter... still lots to do and lots of crafting to be done.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/897450/The_Survivalists/


Proton as able to handle the demo without issues! The game played perfectly and is quite fun. You can train your monkey to gather and harvest for you. Keep an eye on your hunger and explore as much as you can. There is even a hosting option to invite your friend, but I haven't tried it yet.

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

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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...

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...

SuchArt Creative Space is a free-to-play sandbox artist game! Create custom paintings on canvas using brushes, rollers, palette knife, smudge tool, spray paint and even a pain gun. Receive requests from customers and receive money to buy new painting gear. That's not all... you can pain any surface in the game, create custom size canvas and interact with any object. Make a mess of your whole studio... who cares? Just have fun!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1469280/SuchArt_Creative_Space/


Proton handles SuchArt pretty good... every once in a while there is a stuttering-effect while painting but its tolerable. The only thing I'm not happy with is the lack of tablet support. As an artist, I would love to use my tablet and actually paint detailed art instead of abstract shapes. I assumed that my Wacom tablet (which acts just like a mouse) would work, but once the game is launched it doesn't. Stuck with painting only using...

The Way Of Life Free Edition is a clever low-poly adventure puzzle game where you can choose different scenarios between three characters:

• Young Boy
• Middle Aged Man
• Old Man

https://store.steampowered.com/app/310370/The_Way_of_Life_Free_Edition/

Each scenario is about real life situations and your goal is to find a solution or choice to continue. Some are mostly mini-games where you have a goal to achieve.

CyberCoconut provides a native Linux port for us and it run beautifully!
No issues on my system.

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

Return to Castle Wolfenstein as Blazkowicz again, but this time with stunning visuals, new electrifying weapons and enemies... Defeat the Nazi order and walk into the sunset... Wait no! That not what happens... after storming the castle you wake up in an asylum in 1960. Nazi Germany has won!


I tested the GOG version of Wolfenstein New Order in PlayOnLinux and surprisingly runs perfect with stable Wine 6.0 64-bit. I added the standard overrides and vcrun2019. It started up perfectly, cutscenes work and the frame rate is beautiful! I cranked almost everything up to high and my GeForce GTX 1060 handles it nicely.
Reports on protondb.com are equally the same!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.0 64-bit
DXVK 1.9.1

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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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Company of Heroes 2 begins at the Russian front during WWII with real-time RTS combat. German forces are pushing forward and your troops must advance or die. Control your units and take cover, attack with true line-of-sight firefights, use tanks, cannons and other vehicles to obliterate your enemy. Recruits are ready to drop-in and flank the enemy!

https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/231430/


In Steam Company of Heroes 2 ran perfectly in Linux. At first I thought there was a problem with audio, but realized that my surround system had to be set for stereo. The surround settings in-game do not seem to work, but stereo is fine. I didn't have any other issues!

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...

I started re-playing Portal I & II with my oldest daughter. We are taking turns for every puzzle and its like a co-op experience... a lot of fun! Play as an unfortunate test experiment unit who is forced to go through rigorous and dangerous facilities where your body is thrown into portals across levels for cake. But is there really cake? You'll see...

In Portal II you will re-visit the original testing facility but with a new twist... your test moderator is bitter and angry, now she is punishing you and creating new portal experiments to torture even further. But something is wrong with the facility and everything is falling apart...


Portal I & II ran perfectly in Linux as Valve ported them years ago... I was able to crank all the video settings to HIGH and play without any performance issues on my GeForce GTX 1060. Both game are designed with dramatic lighting and lots of eye candy and animation. I love these games!

Specs:
Mint 20.1...

At first I was surprised, but after thinking about it... why not?
Steam should enter the portable gaming industry!


And it runs Arch Linux!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

List of software
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/software

Software
Operating System - SteamOS 3.0 (Arch-based)
Desktop - KDE Plasma

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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Portal Stories: MEL is a free total conversion of the Portal game with a whole new story and content. Your character is thrust into a huge salt-mine in the early 1940s and put to sleep in a chamber. Then you are rudely awakened with the world around you crumbling. Use a new portal gun to find your way through epic underground testing facilities.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/Portal_Stories_Mel/


Portal Stories: MEL is fully ported to Linux and ran fine on my GeForce GTX 1060. I never had any performance problems and didn't even need Portal 2 installed in Steam. So this is a stand-alone version.

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

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Elteria Adventures is a minecraft-sandbox clone with high poly characters and monsters. Explore massive floating islands, mine for resources and craft your hearts desires. At night skeletons appear and the passive creatures become hostile. The alpha Linux version is currently free and you can join huge online islands with your friends.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/744200/Elteria_Adventures/


The current Alpha edition runs very well in Linux. I initially noticed the audio was pretty quiet and thought that it wasn't working, but turn it up and all the sound effects are there. Also, there is a bug where you use the teleportation device and end up in the same location... but if you quit the game and restart, you will transport to the new location. Other than that, it runs great and is pretty dang fun! I've played Minetest for years with my family and co-op is always funner because you can mine, craft and fight together...

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...

Sky Beneath is a clever gravity puzzle game where you can control which way gravity aims for your character.
Play as Cassie who is about to test an experimental gravity suit. Rotate the world around her to solve physics puzzles and find you way through the space station...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313110/Sky_Beneath/

Proton handled the Sky Beneath Demo without any serious issues. I was able to keep all the settings on high and all the Unreal Engine features were beautiful!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
Proton 6.3-3

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