Linux Gaming

seen a lot of games with native linux ports, always need to use proton because usually the native ones won't even launch successfully. the only one that works almost 100%, golf with your friends.

Team fortress 2. The best game of all times, if not for the bots

Off the top of my head: Half Life 2! OpenTTD, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft.

A great game I haven't seen mentioned yet is The Talos Principle (1) that also has a really good native port using Croteams Serious Engine.

Rimworld for me.

(I have never tried Dwarf Fortress.)

Honorable mention goes to War Thunder, while it isn't on of my favorites, I was still a bit blown away to find out it runs natively on Linux.

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Borderlands 2. Give me a mindless Diablo With Guns experience any day.

Most of mine have already been mentioned; KSP, Rimworld, Stellaris.

So I'll add one of my all time favourite games and say XCom and XCOM 2. I've sunk hundreds of hours into xcom 2 with various mods.

Close second is Crusader Kings 2, and close third after that is Empire Total War.

And of course CIV. It's not a proper list without CIV.

Songs of Syx. hiiiiiighly addictive

UT2004

I'm not sure if I have a favorite game but if I had to choose one I'll probably have to say Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup given the amount of time I have spent with that game.

Heroes of Might and Magic II, using the fheroes2 recreation engine.

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

Dota 2

I bought Tales of Maj'Eyal from GOG and have been playing the Linux port. Yeah, I'd say it's my favorite. Even if I hate it sometimes.

Devil daggers at the moment

Since people have already mentioned Factorio, Dead cells, and Stellaris (which btw all of paradox grand strategy games since CK2 have native versions). I'll mention a lesser known game that me and my wife love to play, it's similar to Overcooked (which btw Overcooked 2 has native Linux support) but a lot more calm: Out of Space

Tomb Raider 2013 reboot, although today the windows version under proton actually performs significantly better than the linux version

Rocket League. It has an outdated Linux port that still runs just fine, just no online play, then runs great in Proton, too.

So technically, it qualifies.

I'm gonna say Valheim, even though the native version doesn't respect your default audio device so it can end up outputting sound to the wrong device at startup, which you can then correct using a volume mixer.

That's the reason why I still play the Windows version via Proton though.

But you were asking for my favorite game with a native Linux port, not for the game with the best Linux port :D