Quoting: tuubiI'd have enough on my plate even if there were no new releases this year, but here's one I don't think anyone mentioned yet: 7 Billion Humans [External Link] by Tomorrow Corporation.

Instabuy!

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Quoting: RafiLinuxI will say that the next game that I plan to get must be a text based game since I've been going back to a lot of text based games and playing a lot of freeware VNs.

It you haven't already, take a look at Thaumistry. That one's text based for sure. Thimbleweed Park made me dare to play such a game again.

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DOOM 2016 confirmed!

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This was actually the first game available in my native language (German) where I was tempted to have subtitles enabled, as they've implemented them as comic speech bubbles. It so much fits the comic style. (How could you call that style? It's not the cute one... But I guess "adult comic style" would trigger the wrong associations?)

The difficulty is medium, I'd say. It didn't yet keep me for longer times from advancing in the story. What I liked about the puzzles is that they're often on a technical side, like repairing a car, triangulation, making fire and such.

There's little problem with the game at the moment: Say you were supposed to frobble the boz - and you already did so. Then dialog options like "Could you help me to frobble the boz?" are not hidden. Developers say it's a Linux specific problem with storing the state. They're working on it.

Overall: If you appreciate the visual style, do get it. It's really good.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWhich order should I play them in once this one arrives? I have the original & haven't played past deciding whether to save the bully from a paint shower or just let it happen.

I guess the developers expect about everyone who plays the second to have played the first, so that's the order I'd go, too.

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Quoting: stretch611Thanks... I played Osmos for a short 2 minutes... nothing happened.

I reloaded the page with the trophies and only then did it show up.

Ah yes. I had the same even after the first page update; needed a second one.

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Quoting: stretch611Anyone know how long you need to play in order to qualify for the trophies?

Starting up the game is enough, I did several this morning.

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I bought it on release yesterday and it lives up to its promises!
@Liam: Will you be writing about it?

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Unfortunately, their badge tasks are not platform filtered...

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Quoting: DuncPeople pay for the experience, not the hardware.

Yeah, I can relate to that.
Beyond technological advance, maybe some compromises on quality must be made.

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