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Valve took the lid off yesterday, the first of three living room-related gaming announcements. The next one happens tomorrow afternoon, with the final presumably taking place Friday. One of these reveals may be the fabled Steam Box, a kind of living room PC-console ostensibly built and sold by Valve to carry its software digital distribution platform beyond the increasingly staid traditional keyboard-and-mouse paradigm. This is _not_ Valve dipping a toe in the water, in other words; this is Valve taking full measures and diving in. That said, we don’t know a lot about what SteamOS is, exactly. Not yet anyway. We know it’ll be freely distributed because [Valve says so in plain language](http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/), but then so is the Steam client, and that’s been the case since its inception. We don’t know if we’ll be able to modify SteamOS in the same sense that one can modify Linux. In what sense will SteamOS manifest, in Valve’s words, “the rock-solid architecture of Linux”? SteamOS is _derived_ from Linux, sure, but not, one assumes, another Linux distribution with the Steam-for-Linux client folded in. Here’s a question we can answer in part now: What would gaming on SteamOS (vis-a-vis Linux) be like today? We already know what Steam’s like on Linux — _have_ known since [Valve rolled its inaugural Linux client out](http://techland.time.com/2013/02/14/steam-for-linux-is-here-valve-celebrates-by-discounting-entire-catalog/) last February. Forget SteamOS’ ability to stream Windows and Mac games from separate Windows or Mac systems to a SteamOS box for a moment. I’m interested in that technology, but no one knows what it’ll be like, or how tenable, latency-wise (on the PC gaming side of things, players are even _less_ forgiving when it comes to even slight deficiencies in the latter column). Let’s talk instead about Linux games on Steam. Most of you have no idea what Linux gaming is like on Steam because [most of you don’t run Linux](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage%5Fshare%5Fof%5Foperating%5Fsystems). But what if you did? What could you play natively? Valve maintains a catalog of Steam games online, including [one sorted according to Linux support](http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/). The latter list’s appeal depends on your gaming proclivities. Do you like strategy games? You’ll find two of Paradox Plaza’s finest here: _Europa Universalis IV_ and _Crusader Kings II_. Ambient first-person horror puzzlers? See the recently released _Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs_. Sprawling, hardcore space flight sims? Egosoft’s _X_ series remains unsurpassed. Top-notch MOBAs? Try Valve’s own _Dota 2_. Indies galore? There’s _Legend of Grimrock_, _Castle Story_, _Trine 2_ and dozens more. On the other hand, you’re looking at a relatively small catalog in total, most of the games showing their age, like Valve’s own five-year-old _Left 4 Dead 2_, or _Wizardry 6_ and _7_ — solid roleplaying games in their day, but fresh two decades ago. What you won’t find are games like the following, released this year for Windows (and a few doubling up on OS X): _BioShock Infinite_, _Dishonored_, _XCOM: Enemy Unknown_, _Saints Row IV_, _Far Cry 3_, _Tomb Raider_, _StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm_, _Football Manager 2013_, _Civilization V_…need I continue? If Valve wants to woo gamers — a super-powered, open-source-inspired, ultra-reasonably-priced Steam Box or no — it’ll need a stable of developers developing games natively for Linux, or at the very least, with cross-platform support. It’ll need to throw its full weight behind SteamOS, just as Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo do behind their respective operating environments and SDKs. If Valve wants SteamOS — and by proxy, Linux — to be the future of gaming in the living room, it’ll have to do more than pay lip service, or piggyback off other platforms vis-a-vis streaming workarounds. Maybe that’s what’s coming in these next two reveals. Maybe tomorrow’s reveal is a list of developers signed up to fully engage with SteamOS. Maybe the final reveal is the platform itself (the so-called Steam Box). Or maybe I’m creatively stunted and Valve has far wilder, cooler things up its sleeves. I wouldn’t complain. We’ll see. 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