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Dungeon Nightmares is a simple dungeon maze terror game with a perfect balance of:

• Jump Scares
• Spooky Environment
• Exploration
• Roguelike
• Procedural Generation
• Small Download
• Replayability

https://kmonkey.itch.io/dungeon-nightmares

Explore the maze-like dungeon looking for gold, candles and notes about what to do. Your goal is to survive each night without dying.... find the artifact and escape your nightmare!

Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.7

Snake Pass looks like a kids game from Nintendo, but after playing it is quite a realistic snake challenge. Slither up and around bamboo objects to collect bubbles, coins and medallions to complete each level. It was definitely created with a controller in mind, but I was able to play with keyboard & mouse.


This is one of the most original ideas I've seen in a long time. Moving a snake in any direction with gravity as your enemy is quite difficult. There is a rhythm and synchronization with movement in order to traverse the objects. Once you reach the top where a coin or bubble resides, its quite satisfying.

Performance was great in Proton with my GeForce GTX 1060. Never had any game-stopping stutters or save/load issues. It just ran awesome!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/544330/Snake_Pass/

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
Proton 5.0-9

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I initially tested Dungeon Siege III in PlayOnLinux back in 2015 and posted a guide. I was able to finish the game and really enjoyed it!


Now I'm replaying Dungeon Siege III in Steam with Proton and even co-op with my wife and two controllers.
So far Proton is handling the game perfectly! It's even funner playing co-op and the adventure is just as interesting and action-packed as before.

My GeForce GTX 1060 is able to handle the game without any issues and the environments are beautiful!

If you see Dungeon Siege III on sale, definitely pick it up!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/39160/Dungeon_Siege_III/








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Lurk In The Dark: Prologue is a Japanese first person horror game playing as Marcus Brown, a detective investigating murder case in Babels Hill Top mining town. What he doesn't know is that he's entering a nightmare of his own.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094030/Lurk_in_the_Dark__Prologue/

You can play the initial episode called "The Guilty" for free with Steam and Proton. It is an incomplete demo as you have to purchase the DLC, so the ending will feel very incomplete. Prepare yourself for dark scenery with evil lurking around the corner and difficult clues to the puzzle.

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Janga is a silly yet clever sandbox game. You begin on a white planet and begin to plow the surface with your blow pipe. Strange huh? Yeah well, turns out it is a lot of fun. These random heads (called Gluttons) that you can shoot and explode to help you change the surface. Then you can eventually get new pipes like a earth pipe, love pipe, grass pipe, vacuum pipe, tree pipe and plant pipe... maybe even more.

https://concretegames.itch.io/janga


One of the coolest features is gravity. You can eventually jump and as you bring life to your tiny planet you can run faster and jump higher. At some point you will be able to leap out of orbit and float to another planet.

Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
Proton 5.0-9

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It Lies is a short free horror game where you play a little girl looking for her dog in a field of wheat. What could possibly go wrong, right?

https://toomanyteethgames.itch.io/it-lies

You can call out for your dog and search in the direction of its barking... but be careful, there is something else out there that mimics the bark.

Is it human?
Is it alien?

Search through the vast wheat field and find notes about the creature and what others have discovered about it. It Lies is a Unity 3D games which runs great using stable Wine and DXVK

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
Wine 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.7

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Ever Forward is a clever puzzle game where you play as a little girl in a fantasy world. Walk her around beautiful islands with waves crashing all around the beaches and cliffs shooting out of the ground... but beware of the corruption. In order to purge the land of corrupt darkness she will need to enter it and solve the puzzles with her companion cube.

https://patheagames.itch.io/ever-forward

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine: 5.7-staging 64-bit
DXVK: 1.7 64-bit

Initially the game ran really slow with Stable Wine 5.0
So I cranked down the display settings and tried with Wine 5.7-staging and it ran perfectly.

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Remember DOOM 3?

The first time I played it I was awe struck with the beautiful graphics, creepy monsters and scripted events. Like visions of hell, floating objects, automated machinery and monsters crawling on the walls.

Doom 2016 is a re-creation of Doom 3 better in every way. Glory kill minions with your bare-gloves, parkour across levels to reach power ups and level up your weapons and skills. This is what everyone wanted! An epic bloody horror space action FPS with all of our favorite monsters.

In Linux Proton 5.0-7 handles Doom 2016 (vulkan) perfectly! I was able to launch, configure graphics settings and play without any problems. Game-play and controls handle nicely with my GTX 1060. This game is beautifully made. Every objects looks hand-crafted and all the gory details are there. Anyone who loves FPS shooters has to buy this one.

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A Plague Tale: Innocence is story of a french girls and her little brother during the black plague. You will be immersed in tale of horror when they are forced our of their castle as she witnesses the murder of her father and servants. Use stealth tactics to escape unseen and maneuver your environments. Your sling will come in handy to serve as a distraction or weapon. Keep in mind your completely responsible for your brothers safety.

Proton 5.0-7 handles this game really well. I only played the demo, but it ran great without any crashing or stuttering. I was able to handle almost all the settings on high with my GTX 1060. No need for launch options.

Graphics: Amazing!
Story: Stunning and unpredictable
Animation: Exceptional
Audio: Crisp and Realistic
Realism: Immersed

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

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Remember those cheesey old zombie shooter games at the arcade? Bad voice acting, over-the-top scenarios where you follow the game on-rails shooting zombies? Yup, they have one for typing lessons.

Typing Of The Dead

Search online for a free download and install with PlayOnLinux or Steam (Proton)

It runs in super low resolution, but the game runs great and you can even play co-op over a local network. Of course the textures are super low quality and of course the animation is really bad... but its really fun to type the words in place of shooting guns.

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

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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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A few years back I was able to play through all of How To Survive - A 3rd person survival action game based on several tiered islands. As you slay zombies, search for food, water and resources... you can craft a bunch of neat gear and weapons. The goal was to survive night & day and leave the island alive.

The game ran well in PlayOnLinux with Wine and only a few minor issues, but I was still able to play through the entire campaign cooperatively with my wife.



How To Survive 2 is a promising sequel that ultimately fails. From the beginning it didn't play in PlayOnLinux with Wine or even Proton. There were reports of an anti-cheat in place that was not compatible with Wine. Sure enough it didn't work in Proton either. So I would check back every few months to see if it was fixed or some kind of good result. One day it happened, someone posted on protondb.com that How To Survive was now working Proton. Gave...

Westerado is a 2D open-world, 8-bit inspired, western shoot-em-up action adventure game. Your family was murdered by a bandit and you chase him and his posse down. But first, you got to find him by investigating and asking questions around town. Interact with everyone in the game, quick travel to areas on the map, or lone-gun it riding your horse across dangerous terrain. Sneak through underground mines or across barren deserts. Either way... you are gonna DIE!

Your reputation play an important role in Westerado as well. Locals will help you if you help them first, or they will kill you if you play hard-ball. Once I shot a turkey on some farmers land and he attacked me. Every time I went back to his farm I was his sworn enemy. Be careful who and what you shoot.

Running Westerado was flawless with Proton 5.0-7
Never had any issues with settings, keyboard/mouse or load/save.

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 4440.59

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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...

Encodya is an point-in-click adventure based in a futuristic Neo-Berlin Germany. Play as Tina and/or SAM-53 her robot protector. The visual style is reminiscent of Bladerunner-ish world with a colorful anime style.

I love the fact that you can play as two characters who are completely different and have their own inventories. The voice acting was great and worked well with the characters presented in the demo. I would love if more items were interactive, but these days gamers no longer have patience to click everything on the screen.

Since its a demo, there are limited areas you can visit. But the animations, graphics and effects are well done and quite beautiful. Encodya ran perfectly in Linux without any extra configurations.

https://chaosmonger.itch.io/encodya

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




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Grand Theft Auto 2 is a classic 3rd person shooter from 1999 where you basically play sandbox style driving any vehicle and killing anyone you want. You can accept missions or go completely postal... just watch out for the police.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Grand Theft Auto 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: Make sure to search online for the free version (at your own risk) of Grand Theft Auto 2 ahead of time. Save it to your Desktop, extract if necessary.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 32-bit

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow...

Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
Proton 5

I crowdfunded Wolcen Lords of Mayhem back when it was on Kickstarter as Umbra. Hoping they would do a Linux port and implement co-op they finally finished it and runs great in Proton. I'm assuming it will probably never get a Linux port, but as long as my investment was well rewarded I'm ok with playing in Proton.

I was able to run Wolcen with all the settings on high and can play offline or online without any serious issues. This game is beautiful! Epic animated backgrounds with waves and soldiers... I'm not regretting my $15 cost years and years ago.


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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

Contemp is a very short horror puzzle game where you explore a mysterious haunted house. It is almost like an experimental tech demo. The design of the house is amazingly detailed and realistic. If anything, enjoy the terrifying experience in this creepy house.

I was able to play in PlayOnLinux with Wine and DXVK. Never had any issues running the game or controlling it.

https://micaka.itch.io/contemp

Specs:
Mint 19.3 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 440.59
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
DXVK: 6.1