I never thought this day would come!
itch.io upgraded their app to support Steam shortcuts, a headless mode and linking existing downloads
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Scio@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Holy crap this is awesome!
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
I wonder if the headless mode has anything to do with Heroic’s upcoming itch support. Heroic would only add stores if they could utilise an external cli program to use it. Not sure if that is still the case.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Whats the point of itchio though? As far as i know it is just an alternate place for mods.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Itch.io is a game store, specifically popular with indie devs.
There’s no fee to publish a game on itch, and devs can choose what % goes to itch if they choose to charge for the game. They can also sell games where they let the customers pick what price to pay. Overall it’s very dev freedom focused and is very popular for smaller/experimental games and game jams.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ah that sounds a lot more interesting then, ill have a look. Thanks for the info!
RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I’ve been out of the loop. I didn’t know Itch.io had an app, and by the look of the github page they have linux releases going back to late 2015.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
The trouble with the Linux support is that you could only download games with Linux versions with it. And I think only those that have been uploaded in a very specific way.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Oh, that’s not so practical then. And no way to get it to download the full installers like GOG Galaxy can do?
Selfes@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Not exactly true. If you have Wine installed on the system, it can also run Windows Games on it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support Proton, but they are working on umu integration. But yes, it needs to be marked correctly as Windows or Linux app…