Ask HN: Linux users, which Steam game would you recommend and why?

• 0ad

  142 2,650 9.1 C++

  Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)

  

I have a lot of fun playing the FOSS "clone" of Age of Empires: 0 A.D.

https://play0ad.com

• Mindustry

  272 21,073 9.9 Java

  The automation tower defense RTS

I’m a fan of Mindustry (https://mindustrygame.github.io/) which is a mixture of tower defence and rts

Also, if you want to play through the story mode of an rts, I’d recommend Zero-K (https://zero-k.info/)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• proton-ge-custom

  1,160 9,229 9.6 C++

  Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

It goes against OP's stated desire to not do any installation or configuring, but cloning and building Proton-GloriousEggroll [0] can broaden the horizon of what Just Works quite considerably. Once build and copied into place, it's as easy as selecting it in the Proton dropdown.

[0] https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases

• esports-for-engineers

  11 81 3.0 Shell

  Providing linux scripts, documentation and bug fixes to revitalize classic engineering simulation games. The games are organized into a week-long eSports & mindsports decathlon.

Classic racing and flight sims such as Grand Prix Legends, Mig Alley/Battle of Britain and Falcon 4 are available for linux here:

https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers

(this is free, and does not use steam)

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