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i already use heroic, but my issue is that there is nothing where i can add ALL games regardless of source; in playnite i was able to add everything from amiga 500 games over ps2 games to current pc games, with great costumisation, integration of steamgriddb, addition of pcgameswiki links, the ability to start scripts and programs at the launch and the end of the game, is well controllable by gamepad (heroics gamepad support works, but where your selection jumps if you press up or down is a bit of a mystery; and pressing b to return to your library after looking at a game places you cursor somewhere not clearly defined, not to the last selection.) and offers a huge selection of plugins.
@[email protected] This is the curator I use
I’m running Nobara, so the basics like wine, Nvidia drivers … are already set up OOTB. There are multiple ways, but i like the way Lutris does it:
- Click on “Add a game”
- Select “Install Windows Game from an executable”
- give it a name, if you use the name identifier as it is used on lutris.net you get the box art automatically
- click through, select install/prefix directory, select setup.exe file
- install as normal, install on the c: drive (only thing to note is if the game is using stuff like .net or vc runtimes then don’t install them and just remember which ones you will need)
- If runtimes are needed: run “winetricks” to add those, if you want to install patches: use “run exe inside wine prefix” (both are in the menu next to the Windows-logo Button)
- Play Game
Heroic Launcher’s installation is a bit more streamlined, but i found Lutris can do more stuff - i don’t know if i would have managed to mod my (owned) Battletech installation (BTA3062) so easily with Heroic. (involved setting a bunch of Envvars and dll overrides)
Grim Dawn (currently playing Community Season 7! check it out @ https://grimdawnleague.com/, Dead Cells and Terraria (and most of that time unmodded - i just love building cozy or not so cozy homes).
I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and gaming isn’t really an issue. I still have to get Cyberpunk running when heavily modded tho. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app is available through an Electron PWA using Lutris: https://lutris.net/games/xbox-cloud-gaming/
i’ll just add a few i haven’t seen yet:
- Chained Together - running gauntlets while … chained together
- Children of Morta - adorable graphics meet solid gameplay and vivid storytelling
- Core Keeper - top-down Terraria with great pixel art, full release in a week!
- Cosmoteer: Build your 2d-Spaceship and do what you want! Full workshop support with tons of available mods.
- (hmm so much stuff starting with c, gotta change my game)
- Element TD 2 - classic tower defense experience
- Heavenly Bodies - Adventure game with physics!
- Kingdom: Two Crowns - the right thing for chilling :-)
- Necesse: even more Terraria, but with a huge world and settlements to build and manage. Still in EA, and needs polish, but great game even now!
- Neon Chrome: Cyberpunk twin-stick shooter
- Operation Tango: Asymmetric Coop, one is a hacker, the other is the agent on the ground
- Streets of Rogue: “immersive sim”-top down twin stick action roguelite - i cant even describe it well, but it is heaps of fun and chaos can pop up around every corner!
- Synthetic: twin-stick shooter with tons of guns and a hefty difficulty later on
- Grim Dawn: ARPG, and one of the best in its class. Dated, but still updated (and gets a new expansion soon-ish!). community is running seasons which add new areas, items and whatnot! i’ve sunk 1500 hours into that one, so i am probably biased when i say give it a whirl.
Fury Unleashed 2,92€ instead of 19,50€.
Metroidvania with roguelike elements and metaprogression. Graphics are timeless (the game plays inside of a comic book, which is a nice change), very tight gameplay, tons of weapons and cool bosses.
Smooth working 2-Player-Coop!
Jupiter Hell, 8,39€ instead of 20,99€.
Spiritual successor to DoomRL. a turnbased roguelike that doesn’t feel turnbased, with smooth animation and fast gameplay. 3 different classes with a lot of gamechanging perks, tons of guns and heaps of demons, what else could someone want?
Taking a stroll through my library:
- The Ascent: Cyberpunk Action RPG, nice action and story, single/coop.
- Star Valor: Top-Down Action space. not so much story wise, but great gameplay, costumisation, fleets, and the upcoming addon will add station building and (more) faction warfare.
- Weird West: from the Arkane Austin crew (Prey 2016, Dishonored). Good story, immersive gameplay, and a innovative world. It’s 3rd person, but there is a mod which makes it 1st person!
- Mortal Sin: Roguelike Melee-FPS. lots of fun, and the dev just replaced the level generation completely, adding verticality and much more variety.
- Golden light: another Roguelike FPS, its on the weird side, but a lot to explore, had a lot of fun with that one!
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker: scrapping spaceships in zero-g has never been more fun! good storyline highlighting the plight of workers in an inhumane system, and what they can do about it.
- Styx: Master of Shadows: Thief-like gameplay, well polished.
- Red Faction: Guerilla: Older game, Open world is a bit bland, but the realtime destruction of large buildings with explosives will never get old
- and if you haven’t played it yet: the System Shock Remake is an absolute joy to play.
My current FPS fix is Deadlink: another roguelike FPS, very tight gunplay and movement, good looking too.
if you can give a few examples what games you enjoyed, i can probably point you in the right direction… i think i have a slight game collecting problem with a few thousand titles, but at least i can help people like you out lol
you download the corresponding depots using the console / steamcmd. Here’s the process using the console.
That doesn’t change the fact that you might just have a game where you get shafted and have to pay to get meaningful fast travel going. i’m pretty sure that wasn’t the case in dd1, and that they hid the MTX in the review copys they sent out and activated their garbage when they started selling it shows that they know that it’s not acceptable and that their reviews would have suffered quite a bit.
also, delivering a single player game as always online, Denuvo Antitamper AND Anti-Cheat (so you can’t circumvent the MTX-crap) simply doesn’t fly in a post-Baldurs Gate 3 Era.
https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine works for AMD/Intel/Nvidia :-)
Simulacra together with my wife :-)