Dwarf Fortress is linux compatible, although I haven’t played it in years its a colony builder that can get super in-depth. Its interface is a learning hurdle though.

You might like Conan Exiles, its a sandboxy survival game that just got updated recently with better graphics. I kind of feel its more a exploration game than a builder though. Hrm…

A bunch i really liked were:

• Hades (and Hades 2) (action roguelike)
• Dead Cells (side scroller roguelike)
• Celeste (Precision Platformer)
• HexCells (puzzle game)
• Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun (Stealth Strategy, the other games by the same dev are great too)
• Prey (well, maybe its not an indie, but its great)
• Vampire Survivors (Bullet Heaven, great to zone out too, lots of things to collect)
• BugSnax (Not sure if Indie, but a lot more fun than it looks)
• Cave Story (Side Scroller)
• Creeper World 4 (Strategy game, I think 4 is the most recent. No need to play older ones unless you want more of the same)
• Earth Defence force 6 (janky, but fun multiplayer with friends)
• Heros Hour (strategy)
• Oxygen Not Included (colony builder)
• Rim World (colony builder)
• Satisfactory (Automation game)
• Pit People (strategy game)
• Supraland (puzzle game, sequel is fun too)
• The Talos Principle (Puzzle game, I think its indie?)
• Undertale (RPG, its fantastic)
• You must build a boat (Match 3)

I can’t wait till he’s dead just so I don’t have to look at his nasty face anymore.

Neat. I feel like I’d accidently chew them off if I had them.

Steam wouldn’t start with that, apparently I’m missing some UI & pipewire libraries. Probably safer for me to keep using steams runtimes anyway.

I just grepped the log for gperftools and came up with nothing.

I installed via apt, so should be fine. Oh well!

Weirdly enough, it did work that time, but froze the game when I tried to exit. I tried another time and it didn’t run the game and gave some errors like:

[___](ERROR: ld.so: object '/REDACTED/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
)

and

Initializing steam
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 462770
free(): invalid pointer

and then a long stacktrace. No idea what it means.

Great, glad to hear that Mint will be okay. I don’t mind the slower kernel/driver updates. :)

2 quick followup questions:

1. Should I set my filesystems to something other than ext4? I know some games in windows I feel like would benefit from a faster filesystem, but I don’t know a whole lot about it.
2. If I upgrade my videocard (I’m using a NVidia GTX something something), would it be better to go for an AMD card? Do they have better linux driver support?