Linux gaming rising: 25 killer PC games that call Linux home

For the first time in a long time, Linux gamers have a reason to smile. Gaming on the open-source operating system has long meant dabbling in Wine and arcane workarounds, but ever since Valve launched Steam for Linux a year-and-a-half ago the number of native Linux games has positively exploded.

Sure, Valve’s embrace of Linux may have a wee bit to do with advancing the Steam Machine ideal, but any game released for “SteamOS” works just fine on other Linux distros, too. Ahead of the big Steam Machine unveiling at GDC 2015, here are a slew of killer PC games that’ve recently become Linux natives—including the previous two PCWorld Game of the Year winners.