As of Tonight, 1900 Steam Games For Linux (phoronix.com)

New submitter KGIII writes: "After a recent Steam change, there were more than 1,900 Steam Linux games listed as Valve ended up including yet-to-be-released Linux game ports. That total including unreleased Linux games is now up to 2,009! But in terms of released Linux game titles available for download right now, the 1,900 threshold was crossed tonight to end out February." It's getting there. All of you gamers might just be able to make the choice to move to Linux soon. It looks like there are quite a few more games coming down the pipe. This is a good thing as it gives gamers more options for their operating system. I imagine this bodes well for the SteamOS project and for the dedicated SteamOS devices.

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7,560 Windows Games And Counting.

[westlake]

Balrum, Gloiath, And So It Was, Soul Axiom, and Fairies vs. Darklings: Arcane Edition were among the latest Steam Linux game releases. Meanwhile, the Steam Windows game count is at 7,560 and OS X is at 2,900.

It is not hard to imagine 10,000 Windows games being distributed through Steam in the not too distant future.

But there are at least two numbers that matter more that a simple count of games. The first is sales. The second is the breakdown between casual Indie games and the somewhat more ambitious and demanding AA and AAA titles --- another $3 gem-drop game like "Fairies vs Darklings" takes Linux gaming only so far.

Thank you, Valve!

[jouassou]

I switched to Linux as my main operating system when Windows ME came, and stopped dual-booting around the time Vista came. During the past 8 years without dual-boot, I haven't bought a single new game; just played a few old ones in Wine, and a few open-source ones from time to time. But a couple of months ago I installed the Steam client for Linux, and have so far paid for 22 new games in those two months. So I'm definitely one of those customers that simply wouldn't be using their products if it wasn't for their Linux support. I also have many friends who dual-boot Windows and Linux, but only use their Windows install for gaming; most of them still have a few games keeping them on Windows, but seem ready to move to Linux-only in the near future, and that is mainly thanks to Steam. If one thing is gonna lead to much-predicted "year of Linux on the desktop", I think it's Steam.

Re:Linux Gamer

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

You're what we call a "settler". You'll settle for what you can get on Linux. Or you'll settle for carob instead of chocolate.

Yea I'm sure there's plenty of content, if "anything" is good enough for you.