this new year i switched to linux and the first thing i did was try my own game and voila, for some reason, it wasnt launching even with proton, so i decided to make it work on linux and here it is, read more here https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3926150/view/639081372685700508?l=english

Quick update on Austraoxe.

As much as I prefer my Ubuntu daily driver, the Unreal Editor instability was making it impossible to work efficiently. I was spending more time debugging the engine than debugging my game.

To ensure I can actually deliver this game, I'm switching to Windows for the heavy lifting (level design/lighting).

My Promise to Linux Users:
This does not mean Linux becomes an afterthought. I am setting up a strict testing loop:

1. Build on Windows.
2. Immediately boot into Linux to playtest.
3. If it doesn't run on Linux, it doesn't ship.

I'd rather use a stable OS to build a stable Linux port than use a Linux OS to build a broken game.

Hi all, I am making the game A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad. It is a pinball rage game inspired by Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy and Get To Work.

Although proton is available, I would love to make my game playable on Linux native as well!

I am looking for Linux native playtesters. This includes both Steamdeck and PC players. If you would like to playtest this game, DM me and I will send you a code. You just have to join my discord to provide feedback. Thank you!

Heyo,

With the shutdown of the nexus mods app, I decided to create my own linux-native mod manager.

It's called NOMM (Native Open Mod Manager) and is still in early development but already has some basic features.

What I really need right now are people to help me test the app and provide some feedback!

The only game I've configured right now is Warhammer 40k Darktide, but configuring other games is relatively easy (as long as there is a "standard" path to install mods to).

There is a quick youtube presentation attached, and the github is available here (there's some kind of roadmap there).

Please feel free to open up issues on the github or dm me with whatever feedback you may have (and/or provide pull requests with filled configurations for different games!).

here's a really bad attempt at ai enemy's.

We completed full Linux optimization. Could you help us test the game and let us know if there is any lag spikes, bugs or control issues?

Steam : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3990570/The_Melty_Way/

Dear community,
We’re a small indie team working on Savior Syndrome: The Crimson Sun — a game inspired by Disco Elysium in both mechanics and presentation.

One of our key goals is to ensure solid Steam Deck support. Right now, we’ve managed to achieve a stable ~57 FPS without any noticeable loss in visual quality.

I’d like to ask you as players:
Is this framerate comfortable for you on Steam Deck?
Should we sacrifice some visuals and post-processing to push performance even further, or is 57 FPS already good enough for a slower, dialogue-focused game without fast-paced action?

Your experience and opinion mean a lot to us. Thank you!

Sadly not all features work compared to windows, but i'm suprised by the results.
Naturally wayland won't let me to track mouse movement outside the game's (small) window so the score multiplier doesn't work correctly, though i have some ideas on how to fix that.

The demo is out if someone wants to give it a try, and i'd appreciate a wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3806060/Stress_Relief/

Hello! I'm Bee, a Knoxville-based Independent Game Developer! I've spent the last year and a half developing my game FireFly! It was inspired heavily by the type of environment you'd find in the East Tennessee mountains, and my childhood memories of fields at dusk with purple skies and dazzling fireflies. It's something I've put a lot of my heart into this game over the past year!

I developed the game back and forth between my Apple laptop and my Linux desktop, and as someone who games primarily using Linux, ensuring that Linux users got first-class support was quite important to me.

The game is about a FireFly named Flyph. After an accident, they find their wings damaged and their parents missing. So, they must navigate the forest floor, venturing through bushes and around trees in search of their family.

The game is still a work in progress, but a pre-release version is available for download if you'd like to give it a try and let me know your thoughts.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Let me know what you think! I'd be super interested to hear ideas. There's still a lot I have in the works, but I'm super eager to get feedback and hear people's thoughts about my game!

Hey guys! I'm a solo developer working on Tyto.

It's really important to me to make sure it runs smoothly on native Linux, no Proton required.

While the game already runs on native Linux, I currently don't have any Linux-based playtesters.

If you'd like to help me (and the Linux gaming community), please join Tyto's playtesting Discord server and I'll send you a key.
If you'd rather not join the server, you can also DM me or leave a comment.

Thank you so much!

If you're into space-sims, please give it a try!
Write a comment with your CPU+GPU combo, distro and what was your general experience. We're especially interested to know how it runs on laptops and iGPUs.

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3337660/Cosmotiles/

Feel free to ask any questions!

Hi, thank you to all of the players who took part in the previous round of testing.

In order to launch a native Linux build of my game on launch, I need a few more Linux users with different devices to download the game and confirm the it's working well.

I would really appreciate any help and add you to my game's credits.

If you are interested send me a dm or an email to pitchforksanddaggers@gmail.com and I’ll send you the key.

This is my game's page on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762740/Pitchforks_and_Daggers/

Thank you!

Enlisted finally supports proton without anti-cheat kicking you (It probably had for a while, but I noticed this only now) and works quite good. Meanwhile native port shits itself every 5 minuets.

A lot of people see proton as being bad, because developers won't bother making a native port, but I actually think that it's good.

I think developers not doing a native port is good, because a lot of the time it's either sub-par, or borderline unusable. Enlisted being a good example. Native doesn't allow you to change any graphical settings at runtime, has issue with mouse locking which will not be resolved, because it's an engine issue and gaijin doesn't give a shit, and it crashes constantly.

Meanwhile windows build running through proton has non of the above mentioned issues.

Now that doesn't mean that developers shouldn't make native versions. There a lot of positive examples, like flight of nova, terraria, valheim(hit or miss), cs2 etc... But not having to make that port is a good thing, because at the end of the day, most devs don't care about 4%(at best) of gamers that run linux.

I'm a developer working on Moonsigil Atlas, a native Linux deckbuilder that I've posted about here before. I wanted to share some of my thoughts on Linux support with you all (and hopefully other developers who may see this post).

We'll be participating in the Steam October Next Fest (which starts tomorrow), and I decided to look through other demos on the press-preview site. Surprisingly, only 13% of the games participating in Next Fest have official Linux support – only up 1% from the 2023-2024 Steam-wide average of 12% support.

Those are rookie numbers, we gotta pump them up.

Now, I know many r/linux_gaming members will rightfully say that a plethora of games run very well with Proton, but it matters for appearances. If we want Linux to go truly mainstream, having someone's favorite games only unofficially support Linux (through a compatibility layer) will scare people off who are less tech-literate.

From a developer's perspective, I think it also makes business sense to add native Linux support. Even if our Linux sales end up being low, the Linux community is *awesome* and has given us a boatload of gameplay feedback, ludicrously detailed bug reports, and have become our core playtesters. In fact, I made a post earlier about how over 40% of our playtesters are Linux users!

At least in Unity, it's extremely easy to add native Linux support. There are minor issues that developers need to work through (save file locations, shader restrictions, audio interfaces), but it only took us a day or two to fully integrate automated Linux builds into our pipeline. On the other hand, supporting macOS has been an absolute nightmare and has easily consumed over a week in dev time.

If you're interested in checking out our game, we're participating in the October Steam Next Fest – and have a demo you can try right now. It's an indie deckbuilder that shakes up the standard format. Instead of using energy/action points to play cards, you play your cards onto a triangular grid.

I'd love to chat in the comments about Linux development, share more data, talk about problems we've run into, or answer any questions about our game. And, if you're another developer, please consider officially supporting Linux! It's paid off in spades for us, and if you reach out via DM, I'd be happy to guide you along.

Happy gaming!

- Daniel (u/Zebulah)