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Project Zomboid is not another zombie game!

Your character isn't going to run around with a chaingun mowing down hordes...
Your not going to hear one-liners or see finishing moves in slow motion...

This is not a typical horror survival game...

Project Zomboid IS THE PERFECT SURVIVAL HORROR GAME!!!

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


Customize your character class, strengths and weaknesses, then find yourself in the middle of a Kentucky county... in a zombie apocalypse! Exploration and looting is absolutely key for survival. Find food, board up windows, craft all kinds of useful items and level up your skills. Read books in order to learn how to farm, build, disassemble, engineer and customize just about anything you want. Eating and sleeping are absolutely necessary to retain energy!

This is a slow moving game where you plan every movement and life-risking choice:

• How many weapons and how much food...

Monster Hunter Rise is the next installment of the hunting series...
Select a class like an axe, sword wielding character or a gun slaying character and many more... then ride your wolf around the massive map searching for elements to craft traps and poisons. Once you find a monster, TAKE IT DOWN or mount it if possible and use its own body weight to smash them into the environment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446780/MONSTER_HUNTER_RISE/


Proton was able to handle Monster Hunter Rise demo very well. I left all the settings on normal which included HD textures and most settings on high. The screenshots are kinda crappy because the stinking HUD is so large, but the environment and animation is top notch! Each creature has a purpose and the monsters roam around freely. Unfortunately when I tied to play co-op with my daughter there was a HUGE sync issue and it was unplayable for her. Any time she moved her character the...

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...

Triple Hell is a horror puzzle game where you have to avoid a crazy giant maniac with a red lantern. You have to hurry as he is roaming the asylum and if he see's you its almost impossible to escape. Find the items you need to leave the asylum or die trying.

https://kenethdev.itch.io/triple-hell

Solitary Games also has a few other horror games:
https://solitarygames.wixsite.com/official

Triple Hell ran perfectly in stable Wine without any issues. Performance was great and its a pretty spooky game being chased around this small asylum.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.0 64-bit
DXVK 1.9.1

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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Abriss demo is all about destruction! It kinda reminds me of the Matrix where the robots have taken over and protect their nests. In Abriss you can construct all kinds of apparatus's for demolishing these robot breeding grounds. The demo includes multiple levels and a sandbox mode where you create your own hybrid with lasers, gears and all kinds of smashing structures.

Everything is physics based and it is a lot of fun watching epic structures go down in misery!

https://randwerk.itch.io/abriss-demo

Abriss is made with Unity 3D engine which runs really well in Wine. I didn't have any issues with physics or performance.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.3 staging 64-bit

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The Creation is an indie FPS with horror, fantasy and sci-fi elements. Begin exploring a forest after your car has broken down on the highway when you arrive at a mysterious church. After eating a few mushrooms everything starts to get very weird... next thing you know you are talking to fairies and shooting zombies in a mountain facility in another world.

What do you expect after eating mushrooms?

https://jivapeira.itch.io/the-creation


I was able to play The Creation in PlayOnLinux with stable Wine and never had any serious issues. In fact this indie game is surprisingly polished and optimized. Normally I have some stutters and frame rate issues, but not this time. Ran GREAT!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
DXVK 1.9.1

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Peaks Of Yore demo is a stylistic climbing simulation taking place back in the 1940s.
Climb famous peaks and earn the Stamp of Approval in your climbing journal! But its not as easy as you think... Control your left and right hands with the mouse, then swing and jump from ledge to ledge. Complete a few peaks and earn new climbing gear! Every peak is a challenge of its own and are more difficult as you progress.

https://andosdev.itch.io/peaks-of-yore


In PlayOnLinux Peaks Of Yore demo ran perfectly with Wine. This is a Unity 3D engine made game and I never had any issues. Runs perfectly!

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 470
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.0 64-bit
DXVK 1.9.1

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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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You Suck At Parking is a clever driving puzzle game where you have to overcome obstacles in order to park your vehicles. Sound simple? No... its not! Fly over jumps, launch through explosive thrusters, fight against huge fans and get lost in the deep water. Everything rendered in beautiful island-esque cartoon world with perfect physics for your entertainment and frustration. Failing is an option, then you can just give it another go!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/837880/You_Suck_at_Parking/


You Suck At Parking demo runs fine in Proton until you load the menu or another level. Its seriously an issue with Proton and Unity 3D or Unreal Engine games. I've never had this problem until recently yet all of my other Wine games and native games run fine! I recently posted GOG's Wolfenstein New Order and it runs perfectly!
But most indie games are made in the previously mentioned engines and now I'm having issues...

Here is a...

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...

Terminator Resistance is yet another chapter in the epic story of a post apocalyptic world ruled by robots. This time you join a resistance in a war torn world, looting, crafting, sneaking and cleverly taking down machines to survive. First impressions are comparing Rage and Fallout series as the game is fairly linear but full of story, NCPs and exploration.

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


I've only played a few hours at this point, but it runs pretty well with all the settings on epic and 1920x1080 on my GeForce GTX 1060. There is a base I arrived at and it started to slow down considerably, but still playable. When going out to explore it runs perfectly. This is an Unreal Engine made game so it required vcrun 2019 and Media Foundation installed. I had to skip some of the intro scenes, but in-game cutscenes ran fine.

Specs:
Mint 20.1 64-bit
GeForce GTX 1060
Nvidia 460
PlayOnLinux 4.3.4
Wine 6.3-staging 64-bit...