The only need here is for more people to participate and test the games on Wine (If applicable) or Steam (Which is new right now). I can only imagine the amount that will reach Platinum rating once 1.6 is released. And this is only in the Development phase of the 1.5.x. Today there are more than 5800 Games of which more than 1800+ are Platinum. In August 2012 (First time I wrote this answer) you could find More than 1500 games out of which almost 200 were in the Latest Titles. Of course if you have a game with the Garbage rank it means it will never work or will only work if Superman starts eating kryptonian cereal in the morning.Ī couple of years ago the amount of Platinum games was less than 50. They show as Gold because they have not being updated with the latest Wine version. In most cases, Gold status will work out of the box. If you see one with the Gold ranking you might find yourself doing a little bit of configuring but at the end it will work out good. If you see a game with a Platinum ranking it means you have a 99% chance it will work out of the box with no problems at all, from start to finish. Wine also offers something called Ranking which helps in determining what games can be played with less configuration and a bigger chance of them working out of the box. This helps in knowing if a game is playable and has the same confirmed performance over the same game on Windows. This also includes information for most games about the performance, which is not the same for each game that can be playable on Linux.
This are games that demand powerful graphics and you can play them with little to no additional setups other than the normal install and play steps.Ī quick way to know what games can or can not be played on Wine (In Ubuntu) can be found in the Wine App Database: which holds more than 11000 games (Litte over 5000 about two years ago). Alice in Wonderland (The new one I mean), The Sims 3, World of Warcraft, Amnesia and others. After Wine 1.2 and in this year 1.4 came out, I had changed my answer for several games and for the first time I was more on the positive side about telling a new user that they could actually play the game.Ĭases like Deep Space 2 which is/was one of the latest games I could play. If the answer was positive for that game the next question would be something along the lines of: Will it have the same performance?Ĥ years ago my normal answer was no in most cases.
For Wine installation and configuration please see How to install and configure Wine?Īround 4 years ago if somebody came to me and wanted to change to Ubuntu, one of the questions they would ask would be: Can I play X game on Ubuntu?. I have also seen how the developing process in Wine under Ubuntu has been quickly catching up to the latest games. Also tried Cedega (Dead for me after Wine 1.2 came out) and PlayOnLinux (PoL for short). I have tried Wine since around 2005-2006. From a 7+ year experience I can say the following: