Spilled! is a short yet cozy game that you can finish in 1 hour, but you can use the level select to go back to any area if you just want to relax!

That's probably going to bite them. You're going to get people feeling short-changed by that amount of gameplay and refunding, and it's going to be quite difficult to price the game appropriately for that amount of gameplay. If you make it too expensive, you'll get more people refunding, or just not buying it for an hour of gameplay, but if you make it too cheap then it gets the "cheap game" stigma and you might not make any money from sales.

If they can push it up to something like 4-5 hours of gameplay that would settle into the right kind of cozy game experience, and should be comfortably in the £5-10 price range which ought to do well.

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Getting good Broken Sword vibes from that.

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Quoting: Zlopez540 Legends of Legends of Legends that's pretty impressive. I never even got one (and I'm not sure how you even get that, my best was Legend and I got around 100 of them) and I finished the main story yesterday.

If you pick the Premium Delivery option on Normal difficulty, getting an S-rank will get you a Legend once per unique order, which shows on your player profile. Doing that on Hard gets you a Legend of Legends. Doing that on Very Hard (which I think is only in the Director's Cut) gets you a Legend of Legends of Legends. 540 is the total number of standard orders in the game, some of which don't unlock till after the game is finished, and some of those which don't unlock until after other orders (for example, you need to deliver a huge beer shipment from the Timefall Farm to Lake Knot City, which then unlocks delivering a huge beer shipment from Port Knot City to Capital Knot City - presumably after it's been carried between the two by boat).

You don't unlock anything from it other than the satisfaction of having worked out how to do them (some of them are incredibly tough) and then executed well enough on your plan.

I haven't quite let go yet; retrieving other players' lost cargo from the Wind Farm and taking it where it needs to go is still quite fun.

Quoting: ZlopezSo it's time to move one and try Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

That is also an excellent experience. Much, much shorter than Death Stranding, though.

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Quoting: GuestI think a big problem with that is Valve's case, it's just not practical at all for quickly playing on the bus. When I was still commuting, I got a backpack that was designed for the Switch, but which also fits the Deck. Just sliding it in and out of the bag is so much more elegant than getting the official SD case out of your bag, unzipping it, putting it away, and then finally turning on the Deck, ugh.

FYI, there is an ecosystem of accessories for the Deck, much like there is for the Switch. dbrand, for example, have got a slim travel cover for it.

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Quoting: ToddLFrom looking at the breakdown of Linux distros, the only thing I can't figure out is why did SteamOS lose 4.17% in popularity.

All data are noisy.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualStill handily beating macOS.

That's unlikely to change.

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Quoting: grigiIt's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

As Lamdarer says, you can already set the date range to whatever you like on the Steam Tracker page, and the trend line will be updated appropriately.

It's also possible to separate out the two signals from the Deck and desktop Linux.



Edit: note for Eike - I've switched from using SteamOS to estimate the Deck share to using the Deck GPUs on the grounds that Valve have said that SteamOS will be released for not-Deck at some point in Valve Time.

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm currently playing Death Stranding: Directors Cut. Awesome game. And as always I'm not playing anything in top 20 :-D

Hey, that's what I've been playing, too! Streamed from my desktop to the Deck, since it didn't look as good or perform as well running directly on the Deck. Now that I've got the platinum and 540 Legend of Legends of Legends it's probably time to start playing something else, but the gameplay loop of Hideo Kojima's Euro Truck Sim is very satisfying.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyThe problem with Embracer is that they're not in the business of making games, making art. They're in the business of making money. They don't care how. They don't care the games apart from them being their current vehicle of making money.

That isn't true. It is true of Activision post Bobby "I want to take all the fun out of making games" Kotick. It wasn't even true of EA when they were still Electronic Arts, although it is true now.

Embracer is the built-up business of someone that started out selling second-hand comics. You could say that they aren't in the business of making games, but that's because getting a game over the finish line is hard, and they haven't demonstrated much efficiency at getting that done, rather than from lack of will. And they're currently in the business of getting out of a $2 billion hole; rather than firing people for S&Gs after a super profitable period like, say, Microsoft, or Ubisoft, or Take-Two, or any of the others that have done that exact thing.

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I'm looking forward to this when it's no longer in Early Access. Hopefully they'll sort out the text before release so it can get that green tick, since the Deck is where I'll play it.

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