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Square Enix invests in Linux distribution
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That's pretty cool. Square Enix is one of the better AAA-publishers when it comes to Linux support, they had native ports for Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, Hitman and a bunch more.
I'm not sure about the others, but I'm pretty sure Hitman isn't linux native.
As far as I can find on protondb, neither are Deus Ex or Tomb Raider.
I've never had any issues running those games through Proton though, so that's great.
https://www.protondb.com/app/203160
Square where early adopters of Linux back when Steam Machines V1 came out commissioning ports for a bunch of their Eidos (western) IPs. And then they stopped support for those ports when Proton came around
According to Wikipedia, Deus Ex MD, Hitman, Life is Strange 1&2, and the new Tomb Raider trilogy all have native Linux ports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_Interactive
That's because the IP rights for those games were sold.
They make you have an internet connection for the pc port of the original ff7....