Quoting: HohlraumIt is fun. But it's overpriced for what it is.

I have exactly the same impression... Vampire Survivors has ruined me

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Quoting: AnzaIf that's true, it has applied close the deal early enough.

I see what you did and I'm here for it.

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Quoting: audiopathikI played Techtonica, The Eternal Cylinder and Super Buckyball Tournament on the Steam Deck and they all played great. Eternal Cylinder needed a little tweaking for better FPS.

I haven't finished the demo yet, but the world building really is something special here.

100% agree about the worldbuilding, really unique and well done. Had my eye on TEC for a long time.

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it's wild Klei is still pumping out content for ONI; it was already a full game way back in 2017 when it released into EA.

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Quoting: WorMzyShoehorning zombies in? That's a bit disappointing. I guess that's why it's an optional expansion though. Personally, I'll be giving it a miss.

that's funny I was just thinking this would be the extra little push I needed to finally try PA out. It's not that I love zombies but rather this is such a crowded genre I never found prison to be a compelling enough backdrop.

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nice of the verge to do dbrand's job for them

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love this rebirth of the HoMMlike with this, song of conquest, and hero's hour. this one looks an awesome addition.

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Liam I've contacted the Canadian Embassy in London, you'll be hearing from them shortly.

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I've played a lot of this and it's flawless. If you have nostalgia for the Caesar series, try Augustus immediately. If you have no nostalgia for the Caesar series but like city builders, try Augustus immediately. If you have no nostalgia for the Caesar series and don't like city builders, I applaud your curiosity for making it this far into my comment.

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Quoting: audiopathikMafia 3 Definitve Edition has a Steam review score of only 53% while I have throughoughly enjoyed it, if a bit repetitive in the long run.
The reason is the launcher that 2K have put in place, I dont think it was there when I played and I think the game had a very positive score before. There are obviously all those 'in the old days everything was better' (the old games were better I have played them before Jesus was born already, all the rest sucks etc etc).

Dungeons and its expansion have very low score for technical reasons mainly as well, as do a lot of other games and a lot of older games that dont run without user fixes or dont run well on modern systems, such as the King's Quest Collection.

I think these issues shouldnt drag down the score entirely but the score should be diversified into topics such as technical/performance, graphics/audio, gameplay/fun.

Having a look at the playtime of the reviews is also a good indicator, for one to determine how qualified the review is and to see how fun the game actually is.

SteamDB has published an article on how Steam calculates the review score and how SteamDB used to (Wilson's score) and how they changed to a different algorithm.

It's not anymore up-to-date, meanwhile Valve have put methods in place to mitigate review bombing (NBA 2K20 was tagged Horror and Dating Simulator and had a review score of 20% when it launched) and reviews from Early Access versions, but it's still a good read: link [External Link]

If you've ever taken a slightly longer look at the Steam store, you've probably noticed their method of sorting games by review score is pretty bad. They just divide the positive reviews by the total reviews to get the rating. A game with a single positive review would be ranked above some other game that has 48 positive reviews and a single negative review. While they do have “steps” at 50 and 500 total reviews, meaning that no game with a rating of at least 80% will be ranked below a game with less than 50 reviews, and no game with a rating of at least 95% will be below a game with less than 500 reviews, it's still a bad system. Because if our 48 to 1 rated game suddenly accrued 11 more negative ratings, Steam would miraculously still place it higher than it was before.

In general the Steam review are a decent source of information and if you dont fall for the first word and can think for yourself you can make a very good picture of the game from them. They are also from gamers for gamers rather than from a profitable magazine for the mainstream market, who would for example never call CS:GO a trash game because it is against what's the general publics opinion, or so it is assumed, and they are who those publishers depend on. After all, if you are not writing for yourself it makes no sense publishing articles that are never being read, therefor magazines depend on people to read them and if people dont like what they are reading they will stop doing so. Thus they shape their opinions based on what people like to read and when those people are a crowd of millions it is impossible to come to a distinctive and at the same time shared opinion by everyone.

Great comment, I agree about using playtime, I use it a lot. And yeah adding different review categories would be a good -- I do like how simple Valve makes the review process, but categories would be really useful.

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Like Devil Daggers once I grind to 90s I'll probably retire to save any remaining neurons

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