I've also been burned by game-like things with weak gameplay.
Pro tip for those in no hurry: use the positive/negative review filters on the steam store page. If there isn't anything negative it's probably too early. Read a bit of both until you know which way you lean. Try to buy good games less often rather than meh sales you may not care to finish.

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So Ren'Py can be extended to do point and click, that's new.

I've only played Katawa Shoujo [External Link]. Maybe the first chapter of Analogue [External Link] too, enough to know that wasn't going to be a very cheerful story.

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If UE4 relies on shared memory parallelism that part will be very hard to port, maybe with a compiler hacker reimplementing memory barriers as IPC between webworkers.

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Yess, platforming.
Handling looks a lot like Psychonauts: rails, automatically grabbing bars, a stomp-punch.

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Plus, hands-on demos! That's a vote of confidence for their Linux performance.

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This Defense Grid post-mortem [External Link] (via Kickstarter updates [External Link]) gives some really good reasons to target Linux: their first release got screwed by Microsoft (on delays and price points), they managed to release to Steam instead, and worked on Valve's CS:GO later on.

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Looks lovely, and I like their priorities: short coop sessions (though I hope solo will be good as well) and a really usable level builder.

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A wink laden with implications ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb7GNu3NN-E#t=83 [External Link]

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That art style is terrible. Pixel art looks nothing like that; this is just a lowpass filter and a shit palette. I understand the need for cheaper graphics, but there are plenty of pixel (Vladis story), vector (Guacamelee) or more creative styles that look better.

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Antichamber is quite hard, and one of the rooms (the dev room that shows how a shader is computed) made me doubt it could be completed, as getting there involves almost glitching the engine, but it can be finished. The qwerty-only mappings are an inconvenience indeed.

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