Not quite fitting, but Hotline Miami is great!
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Maybe I haven't scrolled far enough, but haven't seen anyone recommending Persona, if so I definitely recommend it, in this case, Persona 4, which I played.
There's also Fable Anniversary, the classic Xbox exclusive RPG, both games are also Deck Verified.
Gta san andreas, works perfectly fine with the newest wine-ge and dxvk 2.2 but you can try without dxvk if your computer doesnt support vulkan renderer
All of the Vampire Survivors like games (aka Bullet Heaven games) are very accessible on low-end linux laptop and super fun. Major time sink though, be warned!
Might be interested in Endless Sky? It's a 2d spaceship simulator/RPG. I haven't played it in a while but I only started encountering performance issues when my fleet was 40+ ships large and at that point I kinda get it
Deus Ex is a great one (and you can even play the Randomizer mod in Linux)
Oceanhorn
caves of qud is quite good, its tile based roguelike.
I can't vouch for it running on Linux but that being said, Caves of Qud is really good and has lots of depth.
I've heard something about the dev being a POS or something? Never quite figured out what that was about.
at least according to steam info it should run on linux.
tried quickly searching for 'caves of qud controversy or drama. I found an article that could be related to this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/keeping-trolls-out-of-the-caves-of-qud-community
This steam forum conversation could also be related: https://steamcommunity.com/app/333640/discussions/0/3005549744939895263/
Maybe they angered some group/people with certain political leanings, which tried to smear their reputation? At least that is the general gist of things i'm getting based on quick browsing of these. At least I can't find anything bad.
Backpack hero is very cute and fun, and runs very well through proton.
I quite like Mindustry, it's FOSS and on Android too, it is in most repositories/appstores
One Hour One Life and Two Hours One Life (open source) can be run on pretty much any computer.
The concept is: you're born as a baby or a fertile woman and you have to gather and build to survive. Your maximum age is 60 years (OHOL) or 120 years (2HOL) and you hunt, gather, build tools, have babies and raise them. You can become the matriarch of a huge multigenerational family and build towns, buildings, farms, roads and weapons. People keep adding to it, I haven't played in awhile but I think they have cars and airplanes now.
The graphics are MS Paint-quality but the gameplay is so incredibly fun. Highly recommend.
edit to add: also after you die you can go look at your offspring and their offspring, whether they're still alive, what they died of etc. It's a great community game. You can also run private servers if you want to play with friends instead of strangers.
VA-11 HALL-A (not sure if I wrote that right) is a nice little cyberpunk visual novel that can run on a toaster and has a native linux version. It sort of falls in line with the choose your own adventure you mentioned because you can make some choices that affect certain things, but mostly, the game is about mixing drinks and changing lives.
the EV games combine asteroids style flight with choose your own adventure text walls. I recommend Nova. You'll need to run it in WINE.
How well do these run in wine now? When I last tried (a good few years ago), I remember bugs that stopped me doing a full play through, although I don't remember what they were. I'll give it another shot if things are better now.
On the back of the EV recommendation, I'd add Endless Sky. Very heavily inspired by the EV line, although the feel of combat is a little different. Open source and under development, and should run on most hardware.
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If you like text-based adventure games, check out ifdb.org for a massive store of free and abandoned text-based games. You can play in-browser or on any OS with a native client, Linux and Android included
I recommend Baldurs Gate, BD 2. Good games. Also Planescape Torment.
If you like roguelikes I'd recommend Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.