There's Now More Than 1,000 Games On Steam For Linux

[froggyboy604]

There's now more than one thousand native games available via Steam for Linux / SteamOS. 
 
As of writing the article this morning in the US, there's 1,002 games available for SteamOS + Linux as shown here. If including other software and demos/DLC, etc, there's 1,853 items available natively for Linux. 
 
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1000 games is a lot of games for Linux. When the Steam Machine gets release, gamers will now has a lot of games to play on it.

 

[lb]

Are they trying to make Linux a gaming-friendly OS or what is the reason for which the Steam Machine will run on Linux?

 

[froggyboy604]

Are they trying to make Linux a gaming-friendly OS or what is the reason for which the Steam Machine will run on Linux?

Yes, Valve's Steam is trying to make Linux a more gaming friendly OS. They also want more game buyers from Linux users who want to play game on Linux rather than Apple Mac, or Windows.

Linux is also free, and open source, so Steam could make changes to Valve's Linux OS without getting sued if they use a non-free OS. The OS being free would also make the Steam Machine cheaper because Valve, and Steam Machine buyers won't have to pay for a Windows License.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

how many are just copy and junk games though?

 

[froggyboy604]

how many are just copy and junk games though?

I'm not sure, but I think most of Steam for Linux games are PC Games which were previously released for Windows and Mac.

The good news is there are games like Counter Strike, Portal 2, and many more games to keep gamers entertained.