This looks exactly like my next birthday present! ;-)

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Quoting: pd12like!
Although the name is a bit weird ...

Since the group's name is a bastardised name of a Greek deity, then why not use a bastardised name of a Roman deity for the API? ;-)

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"We don’t really have anything in the class of Dungeon Keeper on Linux"

What about this? http://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/ [External Link]
Just asking, I didn't try it personally.

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@flesk, sorry, I did read your full post first, but then I only focused on the enumerated games. Anyhow, now I can see that I slightly overreacted, but I sustain my point that "having a massive amount of platformers" does not necessarily mean we have a lot of good ones.

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Quoting: Guest@pb: you seem to have a somewhat special taste if only those 4 are acceptable. So I'd rate your problem of missing platformers non-typical. Doesn't help you, but other (many?) platformer-lovers find more than enough.
Yes, Trine and Mark of the Ninja are really great games (which still doesn't mean you'll like them).

There are more good platformers that flesk didn't list. What about Limbo and Braid? They are both very good. UnEpic is a great rpg platformer. Gateways is a very enjoyable "2d portal" game. Other mildly enjoyable games include Beatbuddy, Life of Pixel, Electronic Super Joy, Escape Goat, Rogue Legacy.

But what I was really referring to is the overflow of really bad games, like 8-bit Commando, Ascendant (crappy controls), Beat Blasters III, Closure, Deadly 30 (ok, not really a platformer), DIVO, Thomas Was Alone (boring), Full Bore (fully boring), Grimind, Imagine Me (wtf?), Inescapable, Poof (very bad port),

There are also several games that I left out because they fall into the 'not bad, but not too good either' category, or I didn't play them long enough to rate honestly. But I think you get the picture. I am not saying there are no good platformers on Linux, I just argue that "We have a massive amount of platformers now" is not precise enough.

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I took your list and shortened it to show which ones I consider good:
- Super Meat Boy
- Eversion
- Cave Story+
- VVVVVV

The ones I played but didn't enjoy (some were enjoyable for half an hour, some were boring right from the start and some had crappy controls that discouraged me from even trying):
- Knytt Underground
- You Have to Win the Game
- Teslagrad
- SteamWorld Dig
- 140
- 6180 the Moon
- Runner2
- FEZ
- Dustforce DX
- Psychonauts

The ones I have yet to play (or not)
- Super Win the Game
- Gunslugs 2
- Mark of the Ninja
- Trine 1 & 2

I *believe* Trine 1&2 and Mark of the Ninja are good, I just didn't get around to trying them yet. The other two don't look very promising.

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"We have a massive amount of platformers now," -> "We have a massive amount of shitty platformers now,"
ftfy

unfortunately this one doesn't look too good either.

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I wouldn't mind some VR stuff, but let's start with a successful Steam Machine + some new AAA releases.

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Davy Jones is the only Artifex Mundi's game on Steam that I don't have (yet) and I loved every single one of the ones I played so far! It started with incidentally getting Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart and I must say I was rather flabbergasted about the gameplay. I expected a point-and-click adventure, and I was faced with first-person-perspective, mostly-static and beautifully drawn adventure with a pretty swell story interwoven with pretty entertaining puzzles. That made me eager to try the other ones and in every single case I found it hard to stop playing just because it was late in the night and I had duties to attend in the morning. The stories have been captivating, the graphics beautiful and the overall experience well worth it. Of course not everything is perfect, for example I am rather annoyed that it's not possible to get all achievements at the same time (in particular: it's *either* hidden object scenes achievement *or* mahjongg achievement in Nightmares from the Deep), also 3D animations found in some of the games are rather poor, but those are not dealbreakers, just minor nuisances well covered by overall quality of the experience.

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Of course they *know* the real numbers, which however doesn't mean they want, or even can, share them with the world.

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