Open world games for Linux (Steam included)?

dugan · 11-28-2016, 10:58 PM

If you install Steam with "winetricks steam", it takes care of that.

BTW, I'm sure it surprises no-one that I have a SlackBuild to always download and package the latest version of Winetricks:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...cks.SlackBuild

273 · 11-29-2016, 12:37 PM

Thanks, people, I'm having some issues with my Sid install so can't try any of this but when I get chance I'll play.

Fat_Elvis · 12-11-2016, 03:59 PM

Great suggestions overall, but I'd avoid Dying Light if you are avoiding faster paced games. That one is about as fast as it gets at times.

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Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale are open world-ish RPG's, but being "vintage", they do take some getting used to, if you're used to modern gaming.

Oh, yassss!

I would not, however, suggest them to anyone who's not very much into RPGs, or oldie old games. Even with a kinda-sorta modernized engine, the textures and such are still not great looking on high res monitors. Maybe even worse than the originals, since they seem to have run a blur effect on everything to make it "less blocky" i suppose. Ugh.

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Originally Posted by Sefyir

Steam has always had this annoying bug when run through WINE where no text shows up.
Running the below fixes that.

Ref

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wine reg add 'HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam' /v DWriteEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000

Fantastic tip. Thanks!

Fat_Elvis · 12-11-2016, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

I run Windows Steam games all the time. My typical process is:

disable the overlay in Windows Steam
fire up Steam for Windows in WINE and download the game
create a launcher that cd's into the game's installation directory and uses WINE TO launch the .exe
start Steam for Linux
Add the launcher to Steam for Linux
launch the game from Steam for Linux

Argh. That sounds a bit convoluted. And you can add arbitrary launchers to Steam? Didn't know that.

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Originally Posted by sag47

It is WINE running "Windows Steam". i.e. open Steam setup.exe in WINE.

Very much so. You basically install and run Windows versions of everything under Wine. As far as Steam is concerned, you are running Windows.

Note that stuff doesn't always "just run" under Wine. But a surprising amount of games actually run without any issue.

273 · 12-12-2016, 12:24 PM

Thanks for the continued input.
I'm hoping to have my gaming computer working again in the next few days and am told there's a Steam sale coming up to have my eye out for.
I'll admit I've been avoiding WINE for ages but might give it a try also -- I accidentally bought a Fallout bundle (thankfully when it was cheap) I've not been able to play yet.

Fat_Elvis · 12-12-2016, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 273

Thanks for the continued input.
I'm hoping to have my gaming computer working again in the next few days and am told there's a Steam sale coming up to have my eye out for.
I'll admit I've been avoiding WINE for ages but might give it a try also -- I accidentally bought a Fallout bundle (thankfully when it was cheap) I've not been able to play yet.

You might be able to play Fallout 1 and 2 in DOSBox, which is considerably easier to set up than Wine.

Wine itself is not that bad to configure. The CrossOver product is pretty good, and works very well with the Installations and such. But when I got to the point I was manually configuring Wine anyway, I just ditched it.

When it works, WINE is quite excellent.

sag47 · 12-12-2016, 03:46 PM

I've played Fallout 3 Vegas in WINE.

273 · 12-24-2016, 05:58 PM

Spent some time playing Rising World (it was a little cheaper on Steam) today and it's looking like it ought to be good when it's finished. In some ways it could be given as a good example of why Minecraft is so blocky as mining and the like are really odd with a more realistic world, and I can't get the furnace to work, but it does look good and I feel it could lead to more compelling user-created environments and games in the future. Thanks again, Sefyir for recommending it.
Rising World makes me wish, again, that Second Life had underground and a few other things.
I was talking to some colleagues the other day about gaming and how I think it would be cool to convert all of Google Earth data into a game. I know they don't have quite enough, yet, but an old-style Unreal Tournament type map would be quite possible in most towns with the 3D modelled buildings they do have and just a little more work for some interiors.
I suppose, in the end, that's what I'm looking for (but doesn't have to be real earth data) an immersive world where there is creation and war and one can choose either or both.
Sorry for the long, rambling, post. I will try some other games from the lists and now I'm fairly happy I've everything else I need installed on my desktop I may have a go at WINE. Wish I had next week off work too now...

dugan · 12-24-2016, 06:40 PM

I just saw this on Reddit. It looks amazing.

https://endless-sky.github.io/

273 · 12-24-2016, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

I just saw this on Reddit. It looks amazing.

https://endless-sky.github.io/

Isn't that modelled upon a classic which is on the tip of my tongue? May have to give it a go though as I recall that game was fun.

dugan · 12-24-2016, 08:23 PM

Escape Velocity. Which I'd never heard of until today.

273 · 12-24-2016, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Escape Velocity. Which I'd never heard of until today.

That's probably it. Is "Eve Online" something to do with it, also?
My knowledge of gaming (as it is of mist things) is patchy, to say the least.

Xeratul · 12-31-2016, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 273

Recently I have been trying to take up gaming but I tend to find things too fast-moving and action-packed. I am, slowly, moving through Metro 2033 Redux, like a little Minecraft and mess about with Second Life.
Are there any Open World games available for Linux? Two games I find when I ask people or google about the type are the Fallout series and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl -- neither of which, sadly, are available for Linux.
Does anyone have any recommendations of this type of free-roaming game for Linux? I would prefer open source, but I have Steam and have bought Minecraft, for example.

I like Eternal Lands, it is open world

And coded in C/C++ on SDL!

273 · 12-31-2016, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

I like Eternal Lands, it is open world

And coded in C/C++ on SDL!

Thanks, it looks like it might be a bit involved but I'll take a look.

In the mean time I've found something on Steam that, while it's not quite what I had in mind, seems to be worth the (cheap) price -- The Stanley Parable.

Xeratul · 01-01-2017, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by 273

Thanks, it looks like it might be a bit involved but I'll take a look.

In the mean time I've found something on Steam that, while it's not quite what I had in mind, seems to be worth the (cheap) price -- The Stanley Parable.

Eternal Land is really amazing ; I mean, the source code. Very nice project.
https://github.com/raduprv/Eternal-Lands

No bunch of Java, Python,... codes, it is just C/C++.

Eternal lands works, it is fast, it is clean, and it is very nice.

I holds on almost nothing. Installer less than 55 Mb, and very tiny installation.

try to compare 1.5 Gb with <200 Mb eternal lands.