If you replace 'Proton' with 'SDL', 'OpenGL', 'PixiJS', or something similar, that'd be awkward. Quoting: Furyspark Quoting: Guest Quoting: subThey're just letting 'Proton' handle things for them and see it as the easy way out. They can't really guarantee any degree of support since it is Valve and co handling it for them, the way I see it is that the game developer is not really doing anything. If it is broken, finding out why might end up being a hassle and hold them back and end up causing more issues.

Anything less than that and I wouldn't say they were actually supporting it. When developers say they will support Steam Play/Proton, how will they do that? It would at the very least, require them to test every single patch they do on a Linux system through Steam Play to ensure they haven't broken it. However, there's a lot that's unclear right now. To be clear, I'm very open minded about Steam Play especially since sales will still show up as Linux and that I do like. This does bring up some interesting thoughts. So, they said they will 'focus our efforts on supporting Steam Play and Proton.'.

An issue that seems to be mentioned more lately by gamers and developers. They went on to mention the issue of users only getting a single choice between Native or Proton, since Steam has no built-in way of picking between Steam Play or a Native build. Let's be clear on this again too, you do not need to support all Linux distributions, support the most popular. I always find these types of statements highly unhelpful, unless they actually say why that is. With each flavor of Linux came different issues.' along with 'Right now everything indicates that Linux port would be very high maintenance.'. Things like 'We had as many different issues with the build as testers. Anyway, writing on the Steam forum the developer noted a few vague issues they were having.

At least in this case, they aren't pulling support for an already released game like Human: Fall Flat as Book of Demons didn't have a public Linux version. It won't be the last game to do this I'm sure. ORIGINAL: Book of Demons, a dungeon crawling hack and slash with deck-building will no longer get a native Linux port. This doesn't mean we won't do it after the launch.' I think the key point to take away is this 'Last but not least, we are shelving the Linux port, not outright killing it. UPDATE: The developer provided some clarifications here.

Instal Book of Demons