Written by Omnicore
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 hardcore sci-fi survival game spanning 400+ procedurally generated star systems. Defend, mine, trade, fight, and command your way through a galaxy where five factions never stop expanding and every resource fuels your next desperate move.
The Plague Tide consumes the galaxy. Five warlords carve what remains. In desperation, Chancellor Aldric reaches across time — and summons you. A wizard from a forgotten age. Your mission: reclaim over 400 star systems across 5 hostile zones.
You are not ready for this.
A procedurally generated galaxy sprawls before you. Five factions with autonomous AI expand every 21 days, devouring your borders. Tax your vassals too hard and they rebel. Ignore a frontier and watch it dissolve. There are three ways to lose. Exactly one way to win.
When night falls, everything wants you dead. 71+ enemy types swarm — ground crawlers, wall-phasing hunters, flying beholders, siege ents, and 10 bosses that will end your run. Build mazes. Place towers. Craft on the battlefield — but if enemies destroy your table mid-build, everything is lost. Night doesn't end on a timer. It ends when every last enemy falls. Or when you do.
When dawn breaks, you dig. Beneath every conquered planet lies ore, oil, and diamonds. Drill through alien rock. Lay pipe networks to hidden oil pockets. Deploy autonomous workers. The sand orb — a glowing sphere collecting your haul — expires in 10 seconds. Deposit it or lose everything. The clock never stops.
When credits run dry, you trade. Dutch auctions with real-time descending prices. 20 NPC competitors — the Impulse Buyer grabs fast, the Shark bluffs high, the Calculator never overpays. 32 Fate Cards flip the table: Monopoly, Sabotage, Market Crash. Then the Bomb Draw. Pull profit cards one by one — but 15% are bombs. Push your luck or walk away with nothing.
When factions push into your territory, you fight. Drop onto hostile planets. 14 biomes, each one killing you differently. Ice worlds where you can't stop sliding. Crystal caverns that reflect your bullets back. Arenas that shrink until there's nowhere left. At the highest difficulty, 15 enemies spawn instantly. The last waves get 3x HP. Pure adrenaline.
When empires crumble, you battle among the stars. Timeline-based tactical combat. Both ships race a shared bar — reach 100 first, you act. Bullets cost 20 time. Lasers cost 70. Outplay the clock. Cloakers vanish and ambush for double damage. Vampires drain your hull to heal themselves. And to destroy a faction HQ, you face the Gauntlet — up to 22 consecutive battles. No healing. One loss means total failure.
Everything is connected. The ore you mine fuels the ship that carries you to the auction that funds the upgrades that let you survive the arena that claims the planet that expands the empire you must defend when night falls again. One galaxy. One war. It never stops.
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- Procedurally generated galaxy
- 400+ star systems across 5 hostile zones
- 71+ enemy types across ground and space
- 15 tower classes with unique abilities
- 14 planetary biomes with environmental hazards
- 50+ tradeable goods across 5 auction houses
- Timeline-based tactical ship combat
- Full crafting system on the battlefield
- 5 autonomous faction AI systems
- 500+ hours of gameplay
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