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Moonsigil Atlas will be an insta-buy for me upon release. Glad to see that the release date is still 2025. I have been playing the demo on and off since April. The first demo update dropped in August. I was very impressed by the many improvements in this first demo update and am looking forward to giving this second update a spin this evening.

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That's just plane crazy. lol

On a more serious note, I do like how Zoom Platform seems good on the communication with you about details for Linux support. Makes a good impression beyond them just having decent Linux support.

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🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

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I've watching through all of Star Trek, for the first time, in chronological order with my gf for the last handful of years and we're up to S04 of Voyager so we're pumped for the game. Lack of VO could definitely be a hindrance but if there are myriad choices and paths to progress it could fade become less of a bother. As for the music, I hope it's good enough otherwise it'd be good if wasn't too difficult to mod in custom tracks.

The gameplay sounds like an interesting combination of gameplay modes, even interactive fiction can be quite fun when the choices are impactful. [Reigns](https://store.steampowered.com/app/474750/Reigns/) is a good example of this sort of gameplay being executed well.

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Size 5 games have a demo out for their next adventure game, it's has a huge voice cast of British comedians, looks great
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/Earth_Must_Die/

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Hell yeah - one of the more satisfying demo's I played recently. I'm giving this another go for sure!

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hear why I am underwhelmed

I get it - it's pretty laid-back music for Star Trek. But for me this is pure nostalgia. Monday night was about ordering our weekly take away - back then it was Pizza Hut, not Dominoes, and 8pm Voyager. Happy days.

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Not fun at all.

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So, ... , um, okay I guess?

Have a the opening theme from the source material to see and hear why I am underwhelmed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sns1Xj6L-Qc

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The biggest problem for the game is the lack of voice over, there's seemingly none at all.

Lack of voice over could really mean lack of success with a wider audience.

OTOH, for an indie game with (hopefully!) plenty of dialogue, full voice overs could be too costly to pull off. And then there's the question if it isn't better to have no VO than the "wrong" VO. I remember from playing A Final Unity back in the day, that I was quite taken aback by the crew's voices, because they sounded nothing like what I was used to from (German) television. Imagine my surprise when I found out those were the actual actor's voices!

Another surprise is that even though it's a licensed game, the familiar Star Trek music isn't there either.

That's rather sad. Not even for the intro? Please don't tell me it doesn't start with the canonical intro either?

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I have over half of the games. Didn't play Chicken Police more than an hour, but what I remember it was kind of noir conversation game with unique style. Store page indicates that there might be also something else to it.

Strangeland is bit more traditional point & click adventure. World building is deranged in a good way. There's plenty of mystery as it kind of goes Twin Peaks and Dark Seed route. Got probably preoccupied with something else and played only 90 minutes.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is better than Strangeland in some ways. It does kind of Stephen King style of mix of mundane and pure horror. Then ending is maybe not as good as the beginning and the middle, but still good enough that I actually finished it.

Disco Elysium I have, but haven't really played. I guess waiting for suitable moment, which probably doesn't come soon. I have heard plenty of good things about it though.

Genesis Noir is game where you have to figure things out on your own. But at least it's not too difficult. Though when I tried to resume it after long time not playing it, it got too confusing.



So all in all, seems to be good bundle.

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I'm kinda curious, myself.

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I've recently learned they are called rage games when looking over the recent title Curiosity (which I ended up grabbing.) I'm not so sure about the genre yet, but Curiosity looks like a nice casual entry-point, that said, we do love us some pinball...

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Uuuuu... Playable Demo is out

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I like this!

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So...a Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy-like?

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I was hoping this would fix the issue of being unable to install dotnet40+ into a Proton Prefix… but it still errors out with a fresh prefix and Proton GE 10.18. Right now there's a workaround that involves removing symlinking from files inside the prefix with vanilla Proton (with GE complains that dotnet is already installed), but it's complicated to do and it massively increases disk space https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=38124

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Between loving and epilepsy infusing.

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Buddy Group Keep - a Team Fortress 2 style joint.

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Download the demo for fun. Looks cute but It required a controller. Won't work at all with a keyboard+mouse.

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Well, thanks for the info.
Although, what are we supposed to do with it?

Well... We all do need a CPU to run our Linux on?

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Well, thanks for the info.
Although, what are we supposed to do with it?

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It's just a sad decision for me, because I would LOVE to play this for a few mins at night on my Deck, but without a proper camera angle, it's not going to happen, so maybe I'll check back in a year or so and see if they eventually added it.

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The only way I see this trend reversing is if people get sick of the persistence of cheaters and it becomes a toxic concept to associate with like Denuvo. Either that or very public exploits of vulnerabilities.

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I suspect that for an indie dev, the answer will be (or at least should be) "whatever sells the most units". So it really is odd to stick to your original design in the face of such feedback.

Of course, it's probably far from trivial to simply offer an over-the-shoulder camera here. They've probably designed every level/track/road with that static viewpoint in mind, so there's probably heaps of "missing" world that they didn't bother to populate because it's never seen from that angle.

The game has a lot of charm though, so I hope they pull it off.

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A [slide](https://tehnoomsk.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81-8%D0%927_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81-32%D0%A1-%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%A1%D0%A2-2025-725x460.webp) from a September presentation by MCST, one of Russia's leading processor developers, has appeared on Russian IT blogs and Telegram channels. It's the first to announce the development of a new Elbrus-8V7 processor . What is this processor?

The Elbrus-8V7 is a Russian-developed processor for laptops, desktops, and embedded computers. It is based on the new, domestically developed 7th-generation Elbrus architecture (as reflected in its name).

The MCST presentation slide states that the new processor will feature "6 or more cores" with a performance of "2 or more than 2 GHz." The performance of the new Elbrus-8V7 will be approximately 0.5 TFLOPS. Support for 4th-generation PCIe will be implemented. The processor will feature integrated graphics with 3D support (a 3D GPU and codecs).

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Honestly just pull valve's own move on them
Call it TF2 Classic, but *not* Team Fortress
That's how valve got around the Dota2 / Defense of the Ancients problem

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Let me get this straight. They KNOW that "lots" of players hate this design decision and go "we know. we won't change it."

It's an interesting question. One the one hand, not all games have to be for all people, and I can respect a developer who sticks to their guns about making something they specifically like even if it means a game isn't for me (I'm hardly short on choice for other games to play, after all, plus modding is a thing). On the other hand, sometimes the hoi polloi are right that a particular design decision is holding a game back from being even more fun, and learning when to kill your darlings is a valuable skill. I don't know what the answer is in this case.

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Call of Fortress - Red & Blue Ops Super Ultra Alpha 2

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I don't play online multiplayer games but I think it's good that you continue to report on the negative aspects as well as the positive.

Who knows, maybe some gaming corp. executive will see this and have an epiphany about recovering the potential income being lost by EA's stance on the matter...

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