Steam alternatives?
Hey there!
I am really astonished about the big amount of alternatives we've got in europe.
But I think this is a hard one: Steam.
I have switched from windows to linux a few years ago and I don't plan to go back. Steam has the advantage of the integrated proton-service which allows playing many windows games on linux.
Do we have something similar?
~ sp3ctre
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I wish the GoG client supported Linux the same way Steam do.
Heroic launcher and lutris are both decent and work well with gog. I'm currently playing Cyberpunk 2077 from gog on ubuntu with heroic.
Good luck. Their website said it's coming for years, then they quietly dropped the promise.
Didn't even have the decency to publicly admit they were never going to care about Linux support.
Too bad. One can hope that when Valve release SteamOS for general use, a decent amount of those forced to upgrade to Windows 11 later this year will use SteamOS instead.. and maybe that will give Linux some traction amongst gamers. But it might also not.
Last weekend I upgraded my gaming pc from windows 10 to EndeavorOS. It works great and I can run all my games. Pillars of eternity never worked for me with windows since I’m using a weird TV as a screen, but with Linux everything works.
My reason for upgrading was the W10 EOL and the fact that my computer couldn’t run W11 due to no tpm.
I know there is workarounds, but it would be nice with official support.
It will be coming... Probably some time after nvidias wayland support is finally good enough to support all the features needed... so it could take a while... I wish they would release it for intel & amd GPUs already though :/
They sid partner up semi-officially with heroic though.
Makes sense, don't duplicate the already perfectly fine work of the heroic team :)
Nobody non tech savvy or without weird interesting is going to pick up an unofficial 3rd party launcher
Minigalaxy might be an option
GOG is the closest we got. All games on there are DRM-free. No direct Proton- or Linux-integration but you can use Heroic Launcher for that.
Thanks! It's something. I will take a look at this!
Good Old Games, or GOG. That's the only one that I can think of.
While an alternative except GOG doesn't really exist. What you can do is buy your keys from any site linked by https://isthereanydeal.com/
These sites sell keys but money still goes to the developer, its just that steam does not get a cut and the companies on there do.
The companies that I know for a fact are EU based Greenman and Fanatical (UK), Gamesplanet (France)
There's also GamersGate (Swedish)
Basically I'm interested in a service, where I can buy games with a linux support. And without having to sail the high seas 🏴☠️.
It seems GOG will be it.
Besides gog there is also itch.io
Made by a single dude I think 'murican, but all drm free and stuff, mostly indie games, but also the big indie games. And linux client (albeit a little but buggy).
As others suggested GOG + some FOSS Gamelauncher. There was one posted a few months back. Looked pretty nice but cant remember the name.
Though community stuff and such obviously wont be the same as in steam
Well you can use lutris or bottles and the high seas.
I run a lot of games from GOG, and you can install them/configure them in lutris. You can log into your gog account and see your library there, and select what to install in it.
Yer see that mighty ol boat ove ther, she aching to leve the doks
Gog
You can still buy games in stores.
Triple A games sure but basically no indie games.
A lot of the time it's a box with a code for some online store these days. And yeah, no indies.