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[-] 79luca79@lemm.ee 67 points 3 months ago

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[-] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 23 points 3 months ago

I wish the GoG client supported Linux the same way Steam do.

[-] cron@feddit.org 25 points 3 months ago

Heroic launcher and lutris are both decent and work well with gog. I'm currently playing Cyberpunk 2077 from gog on ubuntu with heroic.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

Good luck. Their website said it's coming for years, then they quietly dropped the promise.

Didn't even have the decency to publicly admit they were never going to care about Linux support.

[-] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

Too bad. One can hope that when Valve release SteamOS for general use, a decent amount of those forced to upgrade to Windows 11 later this year will use SteamOS instead.. and maybe that will give Linux some traction amongst gamers. But it might also not.

[-] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

They sid partner up semi-officially with heroic though.

Makes sense, don't duplicate the already perfectly fine work of the heroic team :)

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Nobody non tech savvy or without weird interesting is going to pick up an unofficial 3rd party launcher

[-] TeutonenThrasher@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Minigalaxy might be an option

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 37 points 3 months ago

GOG is the closest we got. All games on there are DRM-free. No direct Proton- or Linux-integration but you can use Heroic Launcher for that.

[-] sp3ctre@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks! It's something. I will take a look at this!

[-] Kualdir@feddit.nl 12 points 3 months ago

While an alternative except GOG doesn't really exist. What you can do is buy your keys from any site linked by https://isthereanydeal.com/

These sites sell keys but money still goes to the developer, its just that steam does not get a cut and the companies on there do.

The companies that I know for a fact are EU based Greenman and Fanatical (UK), Gamesplanet (France)

There's also GamersGate (Swedish)

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[-] sp3ctre@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Basically I'm interested in a service, where I can buy games with a linux support. And without having to sail the high seas 🏴‍☠️.

It seems GOG will be it.

[-] Matombo@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

Besides gog there is also itch.io

Made by a single dude I think 'murican, but all drm free and stuff, mostly indie games, but also the big indie games. And linux client (albeit a little but buggy).

[-] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

As others suggested GOG + some FOSS Gamelauncher. There was one posted a few months back. Looked pretty nice but cant remember the name.

Though community stuff and such obviously wont be the same as in steam

[-] Gabadabs 4 points 3 months ago

I run a lot of games from GOG, and you can install them/configure them in lutris. You can log into your gog account and see your library there, and select what to install in it.

[-] McWizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Well you can use lutris or bottles and the high seas.

[-] vesi@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Gog

[-] Obelix@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

You can still buy games in stores.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Triple A games sure but basically no indie games.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A lot of the time it's a box with a code for some online store these days. And yeah, no indies.

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