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Witch Beam the creators of Unpacking have released the musical puzzler Tempopo
18 Apr 2025 at 11:48 pm UTC

I really liked the demo. I'll be picking this up to play with the little one.

Arcade-inspired rally-driving experience #DRIVE Rally 1.0 is out now
17 Apr 2025 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 4

I do wish this had a demo. I'm interested in the game, but a lot of the reviewers had an issue with the driving feel so I'm hesitant to actually get it. If there were a demo I could give it a go to see if I would have an issue with the feel of it, and then buy it if I didn't. Without a demo I'm either not going to buy it (where I am now), or buy it and refund it if I don't like it enough within two hours. Having a demo gives potential customers a no-risk encouragement to try your game without the hassle (customer side and dev side) of refunds.

Save the world from insidious and cruel demons in Bosorka with a Linux version available now
15 Apr 2025 at 11:23 pm UTC Likes: 5

10 years ago the Steam Machines had definitively failed. Twelve years ago, though, we were riding high with 40% of Steam releases having a native build because of perceived future growth of the platform.

It's never been hard, as such, to make a native build. It's mostly the commitment to testing and fixing, and potentially working around quirks of middleware where the Linux build hasn't received enough testing and fixing.

The Deck does have a lot of hype, even with the non-Deck Linux market being twice as big as the Deck market. And the platform's been showing consistent growth in the way that Mac, say, hasn't. And a native build gives the dev control over how their game runs in a way that Proton doesn't. Maybe the Deck has driven them to look, and then they've realised that the market's bigger, and the work less, than they'd assumed? I couldn't say for sure.

MySims and MySims Kingdom from EA get Steam Deck support
15 Apr 2025 at 10:29 am UTC Likes: 2

You can't use both at once, so, if you nudge the trackpad any joystick or button input will allow the controller to regain functionality.
They should really fix that. Properly handling mixed mouse and controller input should be the norm going forward.

Mesa 25.1 will make Indiana Jones: The Great Circle playable on older AMD GPUs
10 Apr 2025 at 8:05 am UTC Likes: 1

What is GFX10/9/8 in this context? Which "older GPUs" does this affect exactly?
GFX8: GCN3 (Volcanic Islands) & GCN4 (Arctic Islands/Polaris)
GFX9: GCN5 (Vega)
GFX10.1: RDNA (Navi 1)
GFX10.3: RDNA2 (Navi 2)
GFX11: RDNA3 (Navi 3)
GFX12: RDNA4 (Navi 4)

Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
2 Apr 2025 at 10:34 pm UTC

Ok, i see you managed to got to those numbers. HOW exactly?
You click on the dropdown menu to pick "Linux only" exactly as I said, and exactly as I showed you a picture of.

Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
2 Apr 2025 at 9:06 pm UTC

But these totals, where exactly they can be seen? There is no link to those as far as i can tell.
https://i.ibb.co/39jWpVqG/Screenshot-20250402-220235-2.png [External Link]

https://i.ibb.co/Kj1DJTRS/Screenshot-20250402-220316-2.png [External Link]

Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
2 Apr 2025 at 7:38 pm UTC

@dziadulewicz You're looking at the totals rather than the Linux-specific stats from the dropdown menu.

Western point and click adventure Rosewater is out now
2 Apr 2025 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

I picked this one up immediately. Love me some point & clicks. They've got a demo up, but anyone that likes point & clicks will probably like both this and Lamplight City.