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i primarily use fedora linux and im looking a website or something specifically for linux versions of games, specifically stardew valley and hyper light drifter. any help would be great!

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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

LinuxRulez from torrminatorr. The more recent ones are more likely to be seeded.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 5 points 21 hours ago

Thanks all, i ended up getting christmas money do i bought stardew valley :)

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro just use Proton, it's unbelievable how well it works these days

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It even somehow works better than native Linux ports sometimes.

[–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 hours ago

In my experience not just sometimes, but rather commonly. It often feels like the native Linux version, if it is even available, gets far fewer bug fixes - not like I can blame them, considering the far lower amount of Linux players, but sometimes I wonder why they even bother with it in the first place if they don't want to bother with focusing on it, with how good Proton is.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What I find even more amazing is that with some regularity the windows versions run better (faster, fewer issues) in wine than on native windows. Used to happen more frequently when DX12 was still fairly fresh, but still happens.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When you say wine, you do mean proton, right? Much better for games from what I understand.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. But Proton is just wine with extra patches. And many eventually find their way into upstream wine.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I know... I just think it's an important distinction if we're talking to people who are new to Linux gaming.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this group called johncena141:
https://1337x.to/user/johncena141/
I think their guide moved from github to here:
https://gitlab.com/jc141x/setup

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You do you and maybe you have no spare money, but Stardew Valley is probably one example of a game that is worth buying. Not too expensive, goes on sale regularly, available on GOG, creator still pumps out updates with small new content even.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I bought it on my iPhone. I want to transfer the save to my computer and play it there.

Oh, can you do that? That would be cool.

[–] Micromot@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think you can transfer saves

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can from Android, but I don't think you can access the app data on iOS.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

I think it might be possible if it's jailbroken.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Didn't the latest big update give us cross-save or am I confusing this with another game that recently got it?

[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure if it's better to play native linux games than to use wine

some games I tried, the native linux version had broken lighting, while the wine version worked fine

also with wine all your saves are in the game folder, and it doesn't make a mess by saving files wherever the developer thought would do the job

also it's easier to find the latest version for windows than it is for linux

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

To clarify, in case it's not what you meant, I would recommend using Proton over wine

[–] LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Agreed, and one particular example I can think of is Terraria's Steam Workshop tools. If I try and publish a texture pack using the Linux-native version of the game, it crashes, but when I use the Windows version of the game via Proton, it works just fine. Not sure if the developers have gotten around to fixing this yet.

Edit: Now that I think of it, it's a similar story with Half-Life 2 now that they added Steam Workshop support for its 20th anniversary. Crashes on native, works fine under Proton.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are a few linux native games, with actually compiled for Linux binaries. Otherwise you’d better look at the WINE project and all that make many windows (as in win64) games runs on Linux.

[–] Stretch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

For OP's sake, I'll add that many, many games in steam can be jiggered to work in compatibility mode on Linux. Its as simple as telling steam to use compatibility mode on all games, and checking proton.db for tricks.

With Heroic launcher, Epic, Amazon Prime (untested for me) and GoG too.

The only games I have so far been unable to play are Fortnite and an obscure FPS I forget rn, both with EAC.

WINE is the last thing I try after these easy solutions.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

One that isn't on that list, but should be is Hedgewars. It is a fantastically made clone of the Worms games featuring adorable hedgehogs.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Idk about the latter, but Stardew Valley you can get from GOG or Steam for a pretty reasonable price, and it runs natively on Linux. You can transfer your save files between Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android for SDV, at least. If the second one you mentioned doesn't have a native Linux version it should run through Steam through Proton. The website protondb can be used to find game compatibility.

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I game on Linux (Arch, btw) and the only games that don't work using wine/proton (so far) are those that require kernel level anti-cheat software. Everything else runs mostly flawlessly throgh Steam or Lutris.

Some games have annoying issues. For example Brawlhalla has keyboard inputs locking

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Torrminator, rutracker, jc141 in 1337x

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://freelinuxpcgames.com/

I use this site. Not all games work, though.

Another option is to use 1337x and search for jc141. They put either native linux game or sometimes have wine built-in their setups, but they require you to install a lot of prerequisites.

Another option is to use emulators like PCSX2 or RPCS3 to play other games with relatively less hassle.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 1 points 21 hours ago

I will check it out!

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Adding to this, jc141 releases I believe are tested before uploading so they will most probably always work regardless of being native or wine. They do have some perquisites which can be a bit much if you are a new linux user who uses ubuntu. Otherwise they are perfect.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago
[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I play both of these games on Steam on Nobara (Fedora) with zero issues.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

It's kinda difficult to find cracked Linux-native games, though one site that I do know which has a section for it is Torrminator. Don't really want to get in trouble with the mods so can't post the link, but if you do end up finding the site, then I hope it has whatever games you're looking for.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Weirdly enough, 2/3 of my GoG library have a native Linux version. I didn't even look for that (cause wine, and bad native port has sometimes worse performance and bugs) and most of them aren't retro.

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most of the original d&d games, baldur’s gate 1 &2 and neverwinter nights etc, have Linux native versions and go on sale for a couple of dollars. You can easily sink 100s of hours into them, especially neverwinter which has amazing community made campaigns.

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Rutracker has preconfigured wine versions of games. IDK if they also have native linux games.