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Games: Dwarf Fortress, The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory, MineClone2, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 07, 2022

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Dwarf Fortress arrives on Steam, works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck

↺ Dwarf Fortress arrives on Steam, works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck

> Dwarf Fortress has now finally arrived on Steam, with all the shiny new bits including the new graphical tiles and audio included in Early Access. The good news is that even though it doesn't have Native Linux support yet, it does work on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton.

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory out now as the game is split up

↺ The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory out now as the game is split up

> The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory is the 12-month long expansion pass for The Long Dark and it's out now, along with the game now split into different parts.

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now

↺ MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now

> MineClone2 is pretty much as close as you can get to Minecraft without playing Minecraft. It's free, open source and runs on the Minetest voxel game engine. A new release is now available with version 0.81.0.

Fanatical running a winter festival of game bundles, like a Steam Deck Verified Bundle

↺ Fanatical running a winter festival of game bundles, like a Steam Deck Verified Bundle

> Staying in and staying warm? I am. So might as well make the most of it with a whole load of new games to fill up your Steam Library with. Fanatical are running a little festival of bundles, including one full of Steam Deck Verified games.

Heroic Games Launcher gets a big Hotfix to clean up some issues

↺ Heroic Games Launcher gets a big Hotfix to clean up some issues

> The Heroic Games Launcher to help manage games on Steam Deck and Linux with GOG, Epic Games and other apps you can sideload has a new release out to clean up after the recent big update. Nice to see they've been really quick to deal with some of the problems, including sideloaded apps not being added to Steam automatically that I pointed out.

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck

↺ Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck

> Update: a follower of ours on Mastodon pointed out it's a Mesa driver issue�in the ACO shader compiler, and there's a fix noted so hopefully Valve will update the Steam Deck AMD GPU driver soon.

Valheim: Mistlands is out now with an animated trailer

↺ Valheim: Mistlands is out now with an animated trailer

> After a pretty short testing period, the Valheim: Mistlands update is out now for everyone expanding the great survival game quite a lot.

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