Written by Relevo
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.
Battle for Asciion is a classic horizontal shoot ’em up built entirely from real text characters. No sprites. No pixels. No images. Just pure ASCII action, massive bosses, weapon upgrades and retro arcade challenge.
Battle for Asciion is not just styled like text — it is text.
Every ship, enemy, explosion, background and boss is rendered in real time using actual ASCII characters.
There are no sprites, no textures, no PNGs hidden behind the scenes.
What you see on screen is literal text.
Inspired by legendary horizontal shooters like Gradius and R-Type, Battle for Asciion delivers tight, old-school arcade gameplay focused on precision, memorization and pure skill.
Fight through five long, challenging stages, face giant end-of-level bosses, and upgrade your weapons to survive increasingly intense waves of enemies — all represented purely through text.
To enhance the old-school feel, the game includes multiple visual modes that simulate classic CRT monitors, including scanlines and monochrome phosphor colors such as green, amber and white.
It looks like a terminal.
It plays like an arcade machine.
Battle for Asciion is so text-based that it includes a unique feature we call Textshot™.
Instead of saving screenshots as images, Textshot™ captures the current frame and saves it as a plain .TXT file containing the actual ASCII characters displayed on screen.
Open it in any text editor. Copy it. Share it. Print it.
It’s not an image — it’s the game, frozen in pure text form.
Classic horizontal shoot ’em up gameplay inspired by arcade legends
100% real-time ASCII graphics — no sprites, no images, no textures
Five long stages with massive text-based bosses
Weapon upgrade system with strategic depth
Deploy a single Option to extend your firepower
Multiple CRT-style display modes (scanlines, green / amber / white phosphor)
Textshot™: save gameplay frames as real .TXT files
Local high-score leaderboard for true arcade competition
Controller support via Steam Input (keyboard emulation).
Fully playable with keyboard or controller.
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