What is your favourite game with native Linux port?

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For me, it's Factorio.

a game in which you build and maintain factories.

It even has Wayland support!

(Version 1.1.77» Fri Mar 03, 2023 3:44 pm)

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  • Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)

What's yours?

EDIT: Great Linux ports* not like some forced ports that barely work or don't.

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UT2004

UT2004

Unreal Tournament 2004? Since when has it native Linux port?

Since release.

Why system requirements say something different on their Steam Page? What am I missing?

You are missing that Atari castrated the Steam version since Steam is only windows (at that time) they thought they wouldn't need to ship the linux binaries with the downloadable version of UT2k4.

So you get the following options:

  • Use the UT2k4 linux setup from the original dvd
  • run UT2k4 via wine/proton
  • use the Flatpak launcher, copy the gog/steam data into the appropriate folder (the flatpak runner will tell you where)

via the latter I got this: