Games, on Steam for Linux

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License

The contents are under the public domain.

Contribution

If you want to edit the list, make a fork on GitHub, make your changes and then make a pull request through GitHub. Describe your changes and be thorough! Follow the format below, cite sources, etc.

When editing the GAMES.json file, remember to follow the format with tabs as indentation, not spaces. Keep in mind that the list must be sorted numerically.

To set a game as working, you need to add the app number in quotes, and set it to true. This is the number you’ll see in URLs when browsing the Steam Store. http://store.steampowered.com/app/40/ would be app 40. You would add "40": true, on a new line.

Example

{
	"20": true,
	"30": true,
	"400": true,
	"420": true
}

You can add extra information to a game entry with the tags below:

• "Hidden": true for betas and game servers that clutter up the list to hide them.
• "Beta": true for games that have open beta that can be opted‐in via beta branch in game properties. If the beta password is public, you may add that in a Comment.

If you want to add a comment about additional issues (these should be limited to Steam functionality lacking between the platforms), there are 2 more tags you can use:

• "Comment": "Broken overlay"
• "CommentURL": "https://google.com/" - not required if there is no source URL.

Examples

	"57640":
	{
		"Comment": "Steamworks features are unavailable."
	},

	"15400":
	{
		"Comment": "May require a workaround to launch without getting stuck in a loop.",
		"CommentURL": "https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting#Harvest:_Massive_Encounter"
	},

Make sure that your edits validate before submitting your patch with a tool like JSONlint.com or you can use the phpunit script included in the repo which will validate your edit, it can be called via phpunit --configuration .phpunit.xml. If you’re comfortable with cli edits, you can use this pre-commit hook to prevent git from committing faulty edits.

Commit titles should include %game% (%appid%) along with your preferred flavour text. If you have multiple games to confirm and it makes the title unwieldy, consider breaking the commit into many.

Pull Requests should have clean history, no commits to clean previous commits, no merges that include --no-ff, etc. They may be rejected or rewritten if this is the case.

Credits

• flibitijibibo - Creator of The Big List of Steam Games on GNU/Linux.
• swordfischer - Re‐made the list from scratch to use markdown and jekyll, then json.
• xPaw - Improved the new list by making different stylesheet additions, and other minor improvements.
• weltall - Frequent contributor to the list.
• soeb - Frequent contributor to the list.
• hypercephalickitten - Frequent contributor to the list.
• johndrinkwater - Infrequent contributor to the list.
• And a whole lot of very helpful people! Too many to list, truthfully.

Contact

Most of us can be contacted on either #SteamLUG or #SteamDB on Freenode