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Square Enix invests in Linux distribution (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's pretty cool. Square Enix is one of the better AAA-publishers when it comes to Linux support, they had native ports for Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, Hitman and a bunch more.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not sure about the others, but I'm pretty sure Hitman isn't linux native.

As far as I can find on protondb, neither are Deus Ex or Tomb Raider.

I've never had any issues running those games through Proton though, so that's great.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Although this game has a Linux-native build available, Steam does not list it as having Linux support. This can happen if a game has an unofficial, unfinished, or unsupported build. You may need to force Steam to enable Proton for the game in order to run properly.

https://www.protondb.com/app/203160

Square where early adopters of Linux back when Steam Machines V1 came out commissioning ports for a bunch of their Eidos (western) IPs. And then they stopped support for those ports when Proton came around

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

According to Wikipedia, Deus Ex MD, Hitman, Life is Strange 1&2, and the new Tomb Raider trilogy all have native Linux ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_Interactive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's because the IP rights for those games were sold.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They make you have an internet connection for the pc port of the original ff7....