Written by Sun Peiyi
Table of Contents:
1. Screenshots
2. Installing on Windows Pc
3. Installing on Linux
4. System Requirements
5. Game features
6. Reviews
This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.
1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."
Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.
Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.
2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.
3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.
4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.
A vast 6 million-square-kilometer world evolves gradually step by step from the wild primitive age all the way to the advanced interstellar age, where countless spaceships are carefully built one after another to boldly explore the boundless outer space.
Initial Civilization，the Intelligence and resources are the two core attributes of characters, determining whether players can advance to the next era. Progressing to a new era automatically unlocks new crafting methods and technologies. The eras are divided into: Primitive Age, Agricultural Age, Iron Age, Steam Age, Electrical Age, Interstellar Age, and Stellar Age.
**Primitive Age**: Players can craft simple survival tools; sufficient wild food must be accumulated to unlock the Agricultural Age.
**Agricultural Age**: Crops can be grown for large food supplies; massive iron reserves are required to unlock the Iron Age.
**Iron Age**: Players are largely protected from wild beast attacks; substantial iron and sufficient intelligence (gained through thinking, exploration, and interacting with tribe members) are needed to unlock the Steam Age.
**Steam Age**: High-strength gear and semi-automatic devices can be crafted; large quantities of iron, copper, oil, and other materials are required to unlock the Electrical Age.
**Electrical Age**: Cars, electrical appliances, and electronic products can be made. Rockets can also be crafted, though this is challenging as they consist of hundreds of components.
**Interstellar Age**: Unlocked by building a rocket, allowing travel to the Moon, eight planets, and the asteroid belt. Exoplanets harbor abundant and unique resources; additionally, intelligence gained from space exploration increases significantly.
**Stellar Age**: Unlocked by mastering nuclear energy and nanomaterials, enabling the construction of sublight-speed spaceships for travel to other star systems.
This game functions more like a virtual world, where most objects feature physical simulations. There is no inventory system—characters can only carry items by hand. Even spacecraft movement around planets uses a realistic gravity system: if a ship fails to reach escape velocity (second cosmic velocity), it will orbit Earth indefinitely and cannot travel to other celestial bodies.
In space, players can build space stations of any shape, with a maximum size of 600 meters. However, they must monitor the stations’ orbits; a collision with a planet will result in total loss of progress.
Each planet offers an open world of at least 6 million square kilometers, with dozens of planets in total (the eight planets plus their moons). Exoplanets are far from dull: players must explore a sufficient number of planets and accumulate enough travel distance on each to gain the intelligence required to unlock more advanced technologies. They can also bring Earth’s indigenous people to exoplanets for colonization.
In this world, characters age one year every 10 minutes—meaning players experience a full life cycle every 10 to 10-plus hours, reborn as infants in the civilization each time. If all members of the civilization starve to death or are killed by beasts, players can no longer be reborn, resulting in a game over.
*Initial Civilization* is currently developed by me alone. While many models cannot be perfected, I have tried my best to implement all essential features. Future updates will include team expansion to improve model quality. The Stellar Age is merely the beginning of the game; future updates will introduce the Large Star System Age, Intergalactic Age, Large Intergalactic Age, and Universal Age... The progress of civilization has no end.
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