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Since people have already mentioned Factorio, Dead cells, and Stellaris (which btw all of paradox grand strategy games since CK2 have native versions). I'll mention a lesser known game that me and my wife love to play, it's similar to Overcooked (which btw Overcooked 2 has native Linux support) but a lot more calm: Out of Space
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Out of all the games that I know for sure that have a native Linux port, I'm either going with Minetest, which I have been playing for Voxel Libre (once Mineclone2), or the Sonic Robo Blast 2 with the Reveries mod, despite not knowing what exactly it changes. They're the 2 games I know have a native port that I've been playing the most recently.
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One of them would have to be Life is Strange 1, it's a pretty good port and honestly it's one of my fav games of all time.
I completed it on Windows before I knew what Linux was. I didn't know there was a native Linux port, thanks!
Ark survival evolved is one of my personal favorites
- unreasonably realistic open ended post apocalyptic survival simulator roguelike
- similar to dwarf fortress adventure mode (allegedly, never played it)
- you will lose 3 weeks of progress
- every major release makes the game feel like a different game
- cool lore, even if it changes all the time
- puts zomboid to shame
- the best traditional roguelike
- extremely focused design
- tedious features get cut, pure gameplay
- only (subjective) downside is the game is fairly heavily RNG dependent
Both of them are probably in your distribution repository, dcss may be packaged as "crawl" or "stone-soup".
Most of mine have already been mentioned; KSP, Rimworld, Stellaris.
So I'll add one of my all time favourite games and say XCom and XCOM 2. I've sunk hundreds of hours into xcom 2 with various mods.
Close second is Crusader Kings 2, and close third after that is Empire Total War.
And of course CIV. It's not a proper list without CIV.
I've never finished Xcom 1. It's the second part that much better that's it's worth trying it out still?
I'd say yes; with the mods available 2 is still WELL worth it. i n fact I'm doing yet another play through at this moment.
1 is also excellent, especially with the Long War overhaul installed.
I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.
I hadn't noticed. but I have no real comparison since I was on Linux long before starting either title, so I've never played either on Windows.
They seem to run well enough, so even if its faster on windows and that's the tradeoff for having no Windows in my house, I'm cool with it.
Yeah. Normally I wouldn't care, but when the colonies/galaxies get big, even a 30% TPS hit or whatever starts to feel very painful.
Rimworld.
Paradox games! Stellaris, Victoria 3, CK3, HOI4, etc. They just make the effort with all their games and it's great