Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.
It’s a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.
I’m looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.
I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I’d appreciate it!
A Vampyre Story worked nice on Wine on an old computer with Mint Xfce when I played it last year. Only had to set Wine as windowed full screen, since the game got issues when alt-tabbing. Also worth noting it requires DirectX on Windows, so you’ll have to use DXVK.
Haven’t seen any PICO-8 games lag on Linux, and both Celeste Classic games were released on PICO-8.
Dust: An Elysian Tail might be playable, bar maybe two areas (one mandatory) that have a lot going on.
Slay the Spire should run fine, but I had to sideload an older version of OpenJDK to get it working (maybe 8 or 11; don’t remember which exactly).
Songs for A Hero also seems to run fine.
Tanglewood is a Mega Drive homebrew, so should be playable on any emulators your PC can run.
Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action also runs fine.
Böbl and Nix: The Paradox Relic should both run fine on NES emulators.