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Once upon a time there was this thing called peer-to-peer and peer-to-server and people could host a game server on their own machine no problems. Crazy ha!

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that is cool and all but i prefer just using the installers.

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I'll add few more: Universe Horizon. Store page says that target is to travel across the whole universe.

It's an incremental idle game. It does few things right. There's several minitargets you can accomplish once you unlock them, which gives bit of a sense of purpose in addition of just watching numbers go up. Unlocks are varied, so they change the game a bit. Game progresses also while it's closed

Could use better UI design though, but otherwise solid.

Another simple one is Suika Shapes. Basically you combine smaller items into bigger items while trying to not to have an overflow. Like Tetris, what you get is randomized, so have to make compromises now and then. Usually what you want to combine with is buried underneath of something else, so you need to play smart.

Craze for these kind of games was apparently many years ago, but I missed it. This variant has all kinds of shapes and modifiers. Different shapes stack bit differently. There's even multiplayer, but I haven't tried it.

If you have a Netflix subscription, they have Underwatermelon Fruit Merge, but Suika Shapes as native desktop game feels more responsive, though the Netflix game has nice ideas.

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honestly as someone on a 55inch 4k tv next to their bed the scaling for steam has never been exactly as i'd prefer so thing seems like a nice option being added

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Nice. This is the kind of stuff I expect of indies, to risk something new or different to stand out in the crowd, instead of doing everything by the book because you want to avoid risk on your boring 100 million game project.

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Children of Morta is exceptional. And Brotato!

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We’re getting so swamped with good games I forgot all about Streets of Rogue 2. Haven’t heard anything on it for a while either.

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You already covered it, but I'm pretty hyped by Xenopurge (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983410/Xenopurge/).

And I quite simply cannot believe that you haven't put Streets of Rogue 2 on this list!

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@Thibug ... That is a fair point. I didn't fully realize that when I made my statement.

That said, I still feel it's a decent example of keeping the game going longer than if the servers were kept completely in-house. As it stands, if/when the game looses over-all popularity and the official servers close, there is a greater likelihood that 3rd party providers will be allowed to keep offering private servers for existing (and potential future) players. Additionally, given that a large chunk of the underlying server code is already in the hands of third parties, it also means there's a greater likelihood that, upon shutdown, the remaining server portions (the cities and, likely, auction houses... not sure, never got that far) could also be released (giving a pathway similar to what the SKG initiative is asking for).

Is the Dune Awakening service model perfect? No. It would have been better if users were allowed to setup a private server on their own without needing to subscribe to a third party (that is to say, more in line with games like Valheim, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, etc, etc), but, again, it's leagues better than watching another potentially fun, yet multiplayer-focused, game die because the game itself lives totally on the publishers servers.

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I rebooted Bazzite last night at like 2AM and my Discover store would not load. I figured, hey lets just go grab the latest ISO. Sure enough it has the new store after the longest Linux update I have ever seen. I don't know if it is my imagination or what, but everything just feels a bit more tight, snappy, I love it.

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The more options we have to manage our stuff on Linux the better. I tried using GOG years ago and three of my banks declined the transactions.

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I switched to Bazzite a few weeks ago and it's been pretty good. There have been a couple small issues, but I've been able to work around them. The immutable nature of it makes some things harder than I wish they were; for example, I've had to use rpm-ostree to layer the following packages:
akonadi akonadi-calendar ckb-next kcalutils kdepim-addons kdepim-runtime kimap korganizer merkuro partclone qt6-qtlocation
ckb-next is a project to easily make a lot of Corsair RGB keyboard adjustments, and has much better UX than OpenRGB in my opinion, while akonadi, kdepim, merkuro etc are to get events integrated in the calendar applet, because the Flatpak version of Kontact can't do it. I think a lot of people like me expect to be able to have their Google Calendar or Nextcloud events show up in the system's calendar.

Otherwise, I am not quite sure how often and when the distro updates. There's the System Update utility where I can easily check for new updates for everything, but updates feel quite opaque; I think by default they are set up to run automatically, but when? And can I turn them off or at least adjust frequency? In the JayzTwoCents video recently where they tried Bazzite they showed KDE Plasma's software update frequency setting, but I don't think it actually does anything in Bazzite's case, so even though out of the box it says "Update software: Manually", I think Bazzite's update script just does it all in the background automatically. Not great UX either, in other words.

Anyway, those are my caveats about Bazzite. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.

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It's just that the headline is somewhat misleading. There is a fix for Linux sound, and FSR 4 for AMD GPUs. i.e. video cards in PCs. FSR 4 requires dedicated AI acceleration chips to work, and the Steam Deck doesn't have that.

Well... I may or may not have in my hands one of those RDNA4 cards that suport FSR4, and may or may not have this particular game, but of course, who would be so crazy to try an unofficial unsupported workaround to get FSR4 on Linux. I am absolutely not rebuilding Mesa as we speak, that would be crazy.

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Looking at my wishlist, the problem is that I see no release date in most of it... by the way Liam, I have "At Fate's end", but release date is 2026...?

- "Terminator 2D: No fate" (05/09/2025). This one is looking real, and real good.

- And honestly, to me, most everything else just falls under the category of "waiting for Mechanicus II", or "keeping busy until Mechanicus II comes out".

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Live service games are either a huge success, like Fortnite, or a financial disaster, like every other game that isn't Fortnite. There is no in-between.

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A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.

The standard version is OpenGL and it suffers from a bunch of slow downs. The Vulkan Beta performs much better and it's how I finished the game back in the day (2016/2017), so should not be a problem for modern machines. Also part of gaming history since it is one of the first full games that used the then brand new Vulkan API (The Talos Principle being the other one I remember). It's unfortunate that Linux support got hidden due to publisher politics and that even fewer know that the Vulkan beta exists.

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Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.

Didn't even realise there's a Native build ! That's awesome.

A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.

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The style is reminiscent of Airships - Lost Flotilla

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I was wondering how I don't have Mad Max yet.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper

So, that's why.

Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.

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I was wondering how I don't have Mad Max yet.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper

So, that's why.

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Jelly Car Worlds is loads of fun.

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The world keeps telling me to replay Mad Max

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Another day, another Temporary Service game dead.

One down, shitload to go.

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Another reason why Stop Killing Games is a good initiative.

I'd say this needs a "Stop creating badly thought out live service games and use the talent for better projects" initiative.

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Sure, I'll add a few more to the cart. Because ... why not?

Vampire Survivors needs to sort out their store data though. Main game, no Linux build advertised. Two DLCs do have Linux support on the store page, but the rest do not. Despite everything having it.

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Another reason why Stop Killing Games is a good initiative.

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Not under 3£, but HOLE is close enough: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2971610/HOLE/

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I thought Stardew Valley was more about the social aspects than about the resource gathering. Still, may be interesting to see how it will hold up against Graveyard Keeper and Factorio.

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@ObsidianBlk, bad example with Dune as it doesn't actually allow for selfhosted server AFAIK. You need to go through a certified hosting company as the game need a central hub server that can only be hosted by them. So if companies decide that it's not worth offering it anymore it will die if they don't open the central hub server hosting to everyone.

But back to the article, never heard of this game even tho it looks interesting, maybe they didn't had a big marketing budget?

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I'm not always up on the latest and greatest video game these days, but I don't recall hearing hide nor hair about this game at all. Not that I would have played it, personally, but still...

I will be one of those guys and say, if they built their game around self hosted servers (like, say, Dune Awakening to take a recent example), then maybe the game would have lasted substantially longer.

Ah well, tough break.

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