1. I agree with many of the suggestions already stated, and I would not hesitate to recommend the follow “marked with a Penguin” games on GOG which have not been mentioned yet (in no particular order below):

FoxTail: very mellow and relaxing point-and-click adventure game, nice pixel graphics. “In development” though so the game is not yet complete, so far there are two chapters with a third in progress.
Anna's Quest: point-and-click adventure.
Edna and Harvey - Harvey's New Eyes: point-and-click adventure, manages to be both creepy and funny at the same time.
Chroma Squad: simple turn-based tactical battles, nice pixel art, a lot of meta humour.
Knights of Pen and Paper +1: an earlier meta RPG-lite game by the same devs as Chroma Squad.
Eschalon Book 1,Book 2,Book 3: turn-based isometric RPG, explore at your own pace. Book 1 is free, so it costs nothing to try it out.
Wasteland 2: Party-based RPG with large maps and turn-based tactical combat.

2. My new year’s resolution is to complete certain older games before my wife switches our computer to a new OS which makes them incompatible! Luckily my backlog is quite small and she has kindly given me time to do so.

3. I am in for Deponia 4: Deponia Doomsday.

Thank you bjgamer!

I'm on my fourth Linux laptop at the moment. I don't use them for gaming (have a handbuilt desktop for that), so most of my experiences don't really translate, but each of those four laptops over the past ~15 years has been troublefree with Linux. For the first one, I did extensive research on which laptops would be suitable for Linux. For the last two laptops, I only did minimal due diligence, searching for "laptop model linux problems" and "laptop model ubuntu" and seeing if anything came up which pointed to potential problems (nothing did, so I could just go for my first choice laptop).

I do know that of the main manufacturers, Dell has been doing very good with offering multiple systems with Ubuntu pre-installed, taking pains to ensure a good situation with drivers (mostly through choosing well supported hardware). I've never gone for one of their laptops (and even if I did, I'd wipe that pre-installed Ubuntu and start from scratch), but they were very much in the running for the last two laptops, and I believe their effort deserve to be supported.

Thanks, that's really helpful. I guess googling as you suggested may be a nice way to verify compatibility. I often rely on user opinions and I like popular products, because they're usually well explored and documented, so that's really good idea for me.

Regarding Dell – I've heard the opinions, but personally I've got two problems with them:
a) actually their linux-based offer is very limited in Poland; e.g. Lenovo offers dozens (if not hundreds) of no-OS models & configurations, which allows me to make almost free choice of preferred hardware; I can see that no-OS offers are about 10% of all available laptops and only 6 in ~700 are Dells...
b) I was working on Dell laptop for about a year in my previous job – and that laptop was just terrible, made of cheap plastic and a I've got a lot of hardware issues being simple consequence of low quality of used materials; as I'm going to buy low-end model, I'm simply afraid of choosing this manufacturer...

I love Talking s of Maj'eyal and it runs on Linux! I also looked at my games and Apotheon is also listed as running on Linux. They are both very different games, one a Rogue-like and the other, I guess it's a platformer? But they are similar in that they both have simple graphics. Both well worth their price.

This new year my goal is to make time to work out once a week.

Im in for Empires of the Undergrowth. I loved Sim Ant growing up and this looks like it had a similar feel to it.

Well, this is an interesting party. I'm in!

1)
DOOM series: Timeless shooters with a lot of replay value and an infinite amount of wonderful custom levels and mods. This game was made for Linux from the start (did I mention you can run it anywhere?).

Eschalon series: A CRPG series like the old times of the genre, a brutal difficulty, lots of skills to customize your playstyle and a large world to explore.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall: Another RPG? Yep! Daggerfall may be buggy, sometimes broken beyond repair, it it is a complete open world 2.5D game where you can straight live in an interesting fantasy world with dense lore and things to do. You can emulate the original version with Dosbox (like I do) or, if you want a modern engine with mods, you can install the recently released Daggerfall Unity, both Linux compatible.

2)
My new year's resolution: To stop drinking too much soda. It is delicious but it will bring health issues with time. I'm getting closer to my 30's each year and I don't want to lose health by that time, I'm still young.

3) Of course I will dance with an adorable penguin! I'm in for Star Wars: Dark Forces.

Thanks a lot for the opportunity!

Some great favorites and selections here, old favorites of my own and new selections I will have to look into. :) Thanks to all who are participating in the party and sharing Linux capable old favorites and new.

Oh YUM!! *Nom-Nom-Nom* Thank you! :)

I wish I could help on this one, but beyond an old Alienware laptop for personal use, our only other laptops are top-line special builds for work. Our gaming rigs are personally built desktop boxes, which is how we transitioned to Linux with the last build and advice from the community here.

Thanks, gogtrial, for helping. Can anyone else also share advice or info on this?


In my experience it's not always wise to flirt with multiple partners at a dance. ;) Because I am not looking to add to a backlog, but rather to have people see just how many favorite games now work with Linux and to give a couple in our community a nice game to play in the New Year, the prize is one game from GOG's 'Penguin marked' Linux games. However, I will consider a game with DLC's that add to $20 USD or less to qualify, or you may ask for qualifying DLC's to a game you already own (examples: Dungeons 3 DLC's. Stellaris DLC's. etc). Valid question, I will update the OP for clarity. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

I'm not in, to give room for newcomers to Linux.

As for my favorite, it was The Witcher 3, it was the game I played the most (in Wine on Linux naturally). Second favorite is Ion Fury.

Resolution: Update my Debian Mesa building script to use cross compiler for x86_32, to build 32-bit Mesa in addition to 64-bit one. Also run some tests with wave32 in radv/aco on Navi with Vulkan games.

Great giveaway. I'm in.

1) A favourite guest: Desktop Dungeons Enhanced Edition
A unique turn-based puzzle/tactics/roguelike/dungeon-crawling game that is quite unlike anything else out there. Every move counts --- literally --- and despite having a relatively simple concept, it offers great variability and freshness over a very long campaign. Its one drawback is that if you're a completionist and wish to finish all quests, you're looking at a very very very long game, and ultimately a very hard one.

2) A gaming New Year's resolution: Finish one of the following: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, SpellForce, or Age of Wonders.
I have attempted to play each of these at least three times in the past and have always abandoned them due to lack of interest. Perhaps this year...

3) A penguin to dance with: Tangledeep + Legend of Shara + Soundtrack

Thanks for your generosity.

Got it thank you. I'll browse the store then

Thanks a lot for the giveaway!!!

1) Definitely FTL! It's a great game that can be played equally well if you have fifteen minutes or several hours. Highly recommended!
2) Finish long RPG game in 2020. UnderRail seems to be a good candidate ;)
3) Empires of the Undergrowth sounds great :)

Thank you for the Penguin Party giveaway bjgamer.

1. I found a single wishlisted Penguin game: Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe on the 'Marked with a Penguin' GOG search

2. My 2020 gaming resolution is to convert my Win 7 PC to a Ubuntu gaming PC. Also I'll start wishlisting more Penguin compatible games and play them. It shouldn't take too long once I start the final backup, I'll just wipe the HDD and swap it for another drive with Ubuntu installed. *fingers crossed*

3. My Penguin Virgin Party game will be Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe https://www.gog.com/game/battle_chef_brigade
Thank you for the Penguin Party giveaway bjgamer.

1. I found a single wishlisted Penguin game: Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe on the 'Marked with a Penguin' GOG search

2. My 2020 gaming resolution is to convert my Win 7 PC to a Ubuntu gaming PC. Also I'll start wishlisting more Penguin compatible games and play them. It shouldn't take too long once I start the final backup, I'll just wipe the HDD and swap it for another drive with Ubuntu installed. *fingers crossed*

3. My Penguin Party game will be Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe https://www.gog.com/game/battle_chef_brigade

^Sorry about the 'edit' and double post. I thought my post was swallowed up by the GOG post munching machine so I just reposted the same post 10 mins later (yes, after so many incidents, I always copy my post before submitting it). Nothing was added or deleted.

Welcome to Linux!

Thank you for the giveaway!

I'm in!

Favorite game: Neverwinter Nights EE. Windows, Linux, and Mac users can all play together. Everyone has lots of fun with unique tales. When my server ran, I had a regular Georgian (US), Californian, Canadian, and Swede and more all playing on all 3 OSes. We had lots of fun.

New Year Resolution: I just installed Mint on an old XP laptop. It's now running buttery smooth. My goal is to get back into writing. Between work and kids, I don't have much time. But I'm going to try to put in 30 minutes every few days. I have 3 books in process over the past 6 yearsish. I think it's been roughly 6 years or maybe even 8 since I last published a book.

Hopefully, I'll have a book mostly written by the end of next year. But I'm not exactly counting on it.

Game: Stardew Valley

Thank you!