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sigmaleph ([personal profile] sigmaleph) wrote2021-12-25 11:06 am
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my Christmas present was a Steam gift card*, some of which is going to stuff i was previously considering buying but most of which does not have a designated target yet. requesting recs for video games under the following restrictions:

1) it's available on Steam
2) runs on Linux natively**.

don't worry about genre and such, just tell me stuff you like and i will do further sorting myself. i have genre preferences but want to explore the space outside them.


*technically it was cash, given in the spirit that i spend it on video games. the person gifting me noticed that i had listed among possible presents in my wishlist a Steam gift card but thought it'd ruin the surprise if i got it before the Christmas present exchange, so they put money in an envelope. accepting the gift in the spirit in which it was given i earmarked an equivalent amount of money for video game purchases

**yes, i know proton exists. i have terrible luck with it.
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[personal profile] feotakahari 2021-12-25 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Checking what's on Steam Linux . . .

Baba is You

Blasphemous

The Binding of Isaac

Crosscode

Darkest Dungeon

Hollow Knight

Outlast

Pillars of Eternity

Psychonauts

Salt and Sanctuary

I don't use Linux, so I can't speak to the port quality.
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[personal profile] ilzolende 2021-12-25 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Terraria is good.
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[personal profile] lunartulip 2021-12-25 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Already-made recommendations which I second:

- Baba Is You
- Hollow Knight
- Terraria

Further recommendations:

- BAD END THEATER
- Cave Story+
- Celeste
- Civilization V
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Cultist Simulator
- Divinity: Original Sin (...for some reason the first one has Linux support but the second doesn't, not sure what's up with that)
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- Into the Breach
- Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
- Planescape: Torment (they're only selling the enhanced edition now, which I haven't played, but nothing I've heard about it suggests that it's *worse* than the base edition)
- Portal 2
- Undertale
- VVVVVV

Separate list for visual novel recommendations, since I'm not sure whether or not they count relevantly as 'games' for you:

- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Heart of the Woods
- Higurashi When They Cry Hou
- Umineko When They Cry