Dang, I remember playing that when I was 14 or so. Surprised to see it’s still being developed. Looking at gameplay of the latest release… It still looks awfully janky still. Does it play well nowadays?

They did a really good job with the GUI too.

Added UnCiv to the list, thanks for the suggestion! Plays really well on my phone, surprisingly.

Awesome suggestion! Added! :D

Using the word “free” to refer to proprietary games in a GNU/Linux context is a huge indicator of a lack of awareness.

If I’d intended to create a FOSS only list, I would’ve just said FOSS instead of free. I think it’s a little much to expect people to always qualify ‘Free as in beer’ anytime they ever use the word free in a monetary sense in a Linux community. The information needed to determine if a game is FOSS was provided next to each title, it’s not like you’ve been deceived. This was just a little list I put together in hopes to give people who are struggling financially (as many of us are these days) to have more options for fun games they can play with their friends or by themselves, I’m sorry it didn’t meet your standards. 🫤

FYI, the page you linked to isn’t publicly accessible.

I was able to add the list in the body of the lemmy post, the link is no longer required, but unfortunately it’s not federating my action of having removed the post link.

Back when I created this list, I had the mindset that if I did include a game with the a Free to Play monetary model, it would only be eligible if it was absolutely not Pay to Win, and if it was possible to have a lot of fun without and be on a fully equal playing field spending a dime.

Looking over the list again, I think you’re right in that a couple titles (runescape, eledivin, and argueably EVE online) really don’t meet that criteria.

However, I think others such as CS:GO, TF2, and War Thunder still deserve a spot on the list, as you’re still experiencing the full game with no disadvantage without spending anything.

But I will remove those titles and put Free To Play in the description of the others.

Though I mention the monetary aspect, it doesn’t mean I’m not fully aware of and advocate for the FOSS philosophy. I would’ve thought going to the extra effort of finding out what software license each and every title used, along with a direct link to the source code (which in some cases was not trivial to find) would’ve made that much obvious.

Mind you, I’m 100% okay with using penultimate to mean second best,

That was my intended use of the word, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I fully misread the little info blurb in my search engine, which led me to believe I was using it appropriately 😅

I thought it said: a formal or literary way of saying it is not a superlative or beyond ultimate, as many people think.

…I didn’t notice the period after ‘it’ (or the double ‘it’). But the sentence right after that one is really the pièce de résistance! 🤌

But I very much appreciate your charitable view on my fumble.

Did you mean to include a link to this website?, If so, I added it to the top of the list in the other references.

That’s an incredible feat of cataloging, and blows my efforts out of the water. Hats off to them!

It may have been the ultimate list 4 years ago, but I haven’t updated it in so long I would’ve been embarrassed to call it the ultimate now :p

Actually, now that you mention it, I should be able to post it here entirely. I’ll see if I have enough space.

EDIT: It fit! No more reddit! :D

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I had a few interactions with Bridgman over on reddit years ago. He was always friendly, and always seemed to try his best to meaningfully help solve people’s problems. We owe him a lot for how good gaming is on AMD systems. We were lucky to have him on our side.

There’s a lot of projects to help get Windows games working better on Linux, and this effort is basically all those projects coming together to work on making the ‘ultimate’ project that will make it easier than ever to game on Linux! :D

I love it! 😄

The other handhelds cost more, and usually have worse battery life.

Proton has absolutely solved the chicken and the egg problem. There’s a big enough audience on Steamdeck that many devs of online games have flipped the switch to allow their anti-cheat to work under proton.

there should have been more if not better ways.

Linux gaming was stagnant for over 20 years, what would you have done differently?

Well, I mean… of course, yeah? They’re a private a corporation, they want to make a profit on anything they do. But the idea is the Steamdeck with Linux on it is worthless if it doesn’t play games, hence why so much money was poured into Proton to make the Steamdeck a desirable and profitable object.

Saying it’s not a good handheld because it will become outdated is like saying every laptop in existence is bad because it will eventually become outdated. You sacrifice upgradeability for portability.

I suspect the Steamdeck and Steam machines were the main motivations for Valve to put as much resources behind Proton as they did.

Mastodon will hopefully naturally grow as twitter continues to destroy itself. Lemmy might be a bit harder get people to stick with.

If they can find an instance that really fits them, or most of their communities are here, then it should be an easy transition. But if they’re missing their favorites, it’ll be tough to get them to stick with it.

Love the idea of this. I believe slowly building up these alternative, open-source and decentralized platforms will be pay off long term as the centralized platforms bloat and die via enshittification.