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> Multiplayer games generally don't. "generally" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Recent big multiplayer games: Marathon, no Linux support. Call of Duty, no Linux support. Battlefield 6, no Linux support. Valorant, no Linux support. The Finals works and is great, but I'd be mindful of what games I'm giving up if considering a full switch
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A pattern I’ve found useful in other settings is starting with code for an existing “game” that sort of resembles what you want to make and then modifying components until you have a whole new game but it shares similar infrastructure to the original. So you benefit from the existing system and avoid a lot of problems.
What would be your added value?
Programming is like 10% of a game. The world building and UX is the juice.
Anybody can make Lord of the Rings, but there's only one.
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2026 Steam hardware survey [1]: Windows: 94.10% Linux: 3.68% macOS: 2.21% [1] Click the "OS Version" row to expand the table, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Something of a self-reinforcing statistic. Steam is rarely installed on Mac because there’s hardly any point doing so.
> including support for the Zuiki MASCON, a bespoke peripheral for train driving sims. This just makes me feel so glad to be alive today!
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> Multiplayer games generally don't. "generally" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Recent big multiplayer games: Marathon, no Linux support. Call of Duty, no Linux support. Battlefield 6, no Linux support. Valorant, no Linux support. The Finals works and is great, but I'd be mindful of what games I'm giving up if considering a full switch
I always wonder how a solo developer can source high quality assets like these, plus develop a full game with them. In this case did the dev create the assets or did they purchase them from a freelancer? How much would purchasing this many assets cost?
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Solo developer just means they developed the game themselves, not made it all themselves. I'm not sure how you could write what you wrote without that occurring to you.
In that case, please, define "developed the game" for us. Is doing all the programming "developing" the game? Is coming up with the game design and hiring programmers "developing" the game? sits back with popcorn
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Recent big multiplayer games: Marathon, no Linux support. Call of Duty, no Linux support. Battlefield 6, no Linux support. Valorant, no Linux support. The Finals works and is great, but I'd be mindful of what games I'm giving up if considering a full switch
...and yet out of 280 multiplayer games in my library 200 are marked as Deck Verified or Playable (and most of the rest has no rating available). Also, looks like all of your examples are from a single particular niche.
But if the biggest multiplayer games straight up don't support it, that needs to be acknowledged.
Add League of Legends to the list.
I've had Deck verified games straight up refuse to work on Linux.
It always feels like it's my fault somehow. 'Well of COURSE Wayland doesn't work, skill issue'. Vs Windows where I can blame Microsoft.
The dev is a person from Indonesia (Rizky Nova) who's device has 16GB of ram. Being able to use the Unreal Engine for free to develop this is awesome. This couldn't have happened 10 years ago.
I think this is incredible, and I am so happy for him, he deserves all the praise he gets (and maybe more). I will sin and make this about me, briefly, but just to say that when I was a kid/teenager with a really slow computer, a) I enjoyed coding much more, b) I think I was a way better programmer. Constraints make you better, you have to be smarter. I miss those times.
Personally, I think the reason you enjoyed it more as a teenager is just down to the fact you were fully in control of what to do and had no external pressure to earn money etc, so if anything you had less constraints - at least from my point of view
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...and yet out of 280 multiplayer games in my library 200 are marked as Deck Verified or Playable (and most of the rest has no rating available). Also, looks like all of your examples are from a single particular niche.
I like Linux alot. But if the biggest multiplayer games straight up don't support it, that needs to be acknowledged. Add League of Legends to the list. I've had Deck verified games straight up refuse to work on Linux. It always feels like it's my fault somehow. 'Well of COURSE Wayland doesn't work, skill issue'. Vs Windows where I can blame Microsoft.