Linux Gaming

The Half-Life Games.

I guess I have to say Stellaris because it's my favorite game in general. It also runs as good or better under the native Linux version than it ever did on Windows, so points there.

Terraria

Somewhere between Minecraft Java edition and a modern title made with the Steam Deck in mind, like TMNT Shreaders Revenge.

I'm just happy to see a slowly increasing support base, even if its just to support wine

World of Goo!

Stardew Valley is great

Off the top of my head: Half Life 2! OpenTTD, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft.

No Besiege fans in here? Probably the most relaxing way to cause complete chaos and destruction.

I will also add other games that I've played and absolutely loved them on Linux

Linux Native games that I've played

• Dead Cells
• Tails of Iron
• Dome Keeper
• Baba is You
• Slay the spire
• dotAGE
• Inscryption
• Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
• Psychonauts
• Just Shapes & Beats
• Bastion
• Tunnet

CitiesSkylines, it was that game (having lower requirements for linux listed in steam) that actually made me a linux user in the first place!

Factorio is great, I'm also a fan of X4.

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.

seen a lot of games with native linux ports, always need to use proton because usually the native ones won't even launch successfully. the only one that works almost 100%, golf with your friends.

Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2! You need to own an official version of the game in order to get the models and textures and whatnot, which are still under copyright. After that, you can play with ORCT2 and enjoy the expanded capabilities,

Xonotic?

@Psyhackological , the original Kerbal Space Program.

I never knew factorio has a Linux version. I hear the factory calling me again. You might not see me for a few days.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

• 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

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

• 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".

Songs of Syx. hiiiiiighly addictive

I bought Tales of Maj'Eyal from GOG and have been playing the Linux port. Yeah, I'd say it's my favorite. Even if I hate it sometimes.

The Long Dark

Rimworld for me.

(I have never tried Dwarf Fortress.)

Honorable mention goes to War Thunder, while it isn't on of my favorites, I was still a bit blown away to find out it runs natively on Linux.

factorio, i have played well over 100 hours in the last three weeks.

help

A great game I haven't seen mentioned yet is The Talos Principle (1) that also has a really good native port using Croteams Serious Engine.

Team fortress 2. The best game of all times, if not for the bots

@Psyhackological @play0ad 's #0AD game has to be my favorite

I'm not sure if I have a favorite game but if I had to choose one I'll probably have to say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup given the amount of time I have spent with that game.

I'm gonna say Valheim, even though the native version doesn't respect your default audio device so it can end up outputting sound to the wrong device at startup, which you can then correct using a volume mixer.

That's the reason why I still play the Windows version via Proton though.

But you were asking for my favorite game with a native Linux port, not for the game with the best Linux port :D

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Borderlands 2. Give me a mindless Diablo With Guns experience any day.