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Just to note, I fired up Steam yesterday and couldn't find it in the compatibility menu -- well, I found it today. They're listed in alphabetical order, not a numeric sort, so "Proton 10.0 beta" is at the bottom of the list, below "Proton 3.16" since 1<3, rather than above Proton 9 since 10>9.

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Thanks for the kind words :), Patreon is what we use for the subscriptions. Building it direct into the site would be too costly from many angles.

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A couple suggested additions to the list, if they aren't too hard:
1) Number of months game has been on the list
2) Change in position since prior month

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PlateUp! is fantastic and I can't recommend it highly enough. In much the same way that FTL introduced roguelike mechanics to the "being a spaceship captain" genre, PlateUp! introduces them to the restaurant management genre. I got it a few months after it released in August 2022 and have over 150 hours in it so far. It runs flawlessly in Proton (I've often wished it got a native Linux version just so I could submit an article here about it), and it controls excellently on the Deck – I've spent probably dozens of hours playing it on mine (and on my desktop, it works equally well with mouse & keyboard and a controller in my opinion, due to its simple control scheme of movement + four buttons).

Basically, you have a little restaurant where customers come in and you have to take their orders and serve them. As days pass more customers arrive, and every third day you get a choice of two possible options to take which increase the difficulty in some way, though often with a slight customer reduction (one will be a new food dish to serve, the other is usually some sort of customer behavior or modifier). If a single customer's patience bar ever fully depletes your run is over and your restaurant gets shut down, with you goal to survive 15 days (which lets you set up a "franchise," choosing some of the options you took to do a New Game Plus run. You can keep going into Overtime after day 15, however, and I've personally made it to Overtime day 22 using the game's other main feature: automation.

With the money you earn each day, you can buy a variety of appliances which allow you to automate food production. It starts simple, like a mixer which can automatically chop ingredients or a portioner which automatically takes portions from larger dishes like soups, but eventually you're designing complex systems which can handle multiple ingredients, chopping and heating and combining them into a finished product, all borne along by conveyor belts (perhaps all the way out of the kitchen to waiting customers!). I'm not 100% sure if every dish in the game can be automated, but it wouldn't surprise me and an astonishing number of them can be. Designing a Factorio-like layout to optimize production efficiency and extend your route just one more day is its own flavor of addicting. (I find games like Factorio and Satisfactory fun, but they quickly become too complicated for my brain to handle once they extend beyond what I can see all at once. In PlateUp!, there's a pretty high level of complexity that can be attained, but it all always fits on one screen, which keeps it manageable.)

And while it can be played solo, it truly shines in multiplayer, where you get to find out how good you and friends are under pressure when there are three customers waiting impatiently outside in the snow, table 4 still hasn't had their onion soup served yet, and will someone please clean up the customer's mess on the floor because it's slowing everyone doing front-of-house down, and also I said they needed a medium steak on table 2, not a well-done…!

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Thank you and our wonderful community for doing everything that you do!!!! This is one of my favorite sites on the entire internet, and more and more and more I think we need places like this. I really miss the community features from the site (but totally understand why) but it doesn't diminish my interest in participating and reading everything here!

Liam, ever thought about a subscription to GOL for us readers instead of donations?

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Trese bro's are S level devs, so please ... take your time and do whatever you think is necessary. I've had this game installed/updating for YEARS now but not playing, just waiting, and following along with updates. To say this would be one of my topmost upcoming games would be an understatement.

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very nice! Experimental is what I run all my games on, so this is a welcome upgrade

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The fate of all PvP game.

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if you happen to look at SDL3 (which Steam Input uses as a basis), you might've noticed they added "SDL_hidapi_8bitdo.c" to the list.

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/joystick/hidapi/SDL_hidapi_8bitdo.c

I'm guessing Valve will officially introduce a new Controller Type specific to 8BitDo controllers, and developers who are using SDL3 (specifically: a future version of SDL3) can get native 8Bitdo support as well?

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RISC-V Steam Deck with much better battery lifetime when? 😁

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BE WARNED
Whoever buys this
The EULA is MASSIVELY intrusive - screenshots + scan RAM
It harvests data like no tomorrow
I played on a second Windows PC and feel like an imbecile for it.
Not sure if data harvesting runs with Proton but be careful.

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I got sucked in by Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. That game is really long, but I wouldn't dare to say that it is the best RPG I ever played. Well written companions, character development (especially mythic paths), interesting dialogues (and a lot of them) and catching story.

I'm finally near the end, but I assume it will be another 20-30 hours than I will get to actual end of the game.

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Performance didn't seem very good though, below 30FPS with all minimum details set.

This is because the new tutorial's first area is optimized like hot garbage. They did their Steam launch at the same time as their very, very, very troubled 1.5 update, and everyone is suffering for it. If you can tolerate the single digit framerates enough to get out of that first area, you should get good performance from that point on. You can even bump everything up to Medium and play fairly comfortably.

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Yupp, already in there! Thanks for all the good work!

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Now, that's a list. love to see tempest rising crash there... Just minor, but annoying. And the performance problems on my Ryzen 9 with that one.

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Mild West

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Slight Less Wild West

Wildish West

...

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Wild West cosy life . . . so, "Tame West"?

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Yes! At last!

I couldn't find any info o whether they were coming to Steam eventually or not, so this is a great surprise. Good days to be a puzzle fan.

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That is a very compelling line-up of games!

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The stats served their purpose, and people were steadily using it less and less over time that it just didn't really feel like it was relevant any more. I'll most likely run some dedicated stats for people over the years instead so people can still get a good look at what systems our readers are running.

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A pity that the statistics have been canceled. )-:

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The hacker in me says "how hard is to fake a whitelisted device to the routine asking for it?".

It'd be really amusing if the SteamDeck=1 flag is all that's needed. This is what's required for EAC to work under Space Marine 2, so it's not that far fetched.

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Meanwhile, I find it odd that they called this thing "Javelin".

maybe javelin as in anthem's javelin?

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I pity the devs that get hired by these AAA studios, fully aware that they will get sacrificed on the "Quick Buck Altar".

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"8BitDo Ultimate 2.4G Controller" -- It was really nice having a switch on the bottom of the controller to switch between 2.4Ghz and Bluetooth modes -- personally I have had so many bad years with Bluetooth input lag I am basically just done with it RF is superior in both range and speed empirically.

The 2.4 doesn't always map correctly with other apps even outside steam, and it's made in Shenzhen just next to Hong Kong so I probably won't be getting the v2.

The experience is generally better than other controllers, and people have commented they like the feel and texture, and to their credit they seem to generally do a really good job.

The other products receive criticism for software being Windows only and in Chinese (Not sure if they fixed that with their Keebs)

Linux Gamers are still halfway choosing beggars though -- I would love to just go with a classic controller and swap out new internal RF components, there are enough controller shells that are legendary enough to be a great fit for modding.

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Is that Sonic Colors Ultimate or something else? I'm curious :)

Mostly just messing around with Sonic ideas in the engine itself. I've been trying to come up with ideas for a Sonic RPG.
It also gives me an excuse to learn the engine itself.

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Yeah... Some 8bitdo software on Linux first would be helpful. I have and love the 2.4 too, and it barely takes updates on Windows. It isn't worth the time of dragging out ye olde windows 10 PC as it is.

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I have a Pro 2 and out of curiosity I tested it on Windows to play with the back buttons. To my surprise, not every game supports them. In fact, I left very disappointed with the experience. I thought it would just work, but nope.

Lets see if things improve now.

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I may have missed it, but I don't see gyro as a feature:

https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-2-wireless-controller/

EDIT: Nevermind, I see "6-axis motion control"

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