Quoting: hardpenguinHappy Year of Steam Deck!

... and Happy New Year of Steam Deck, now! :)

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Quoting: kaimanThere's also some dialogue that's clearly directed at grown ups, but I guess kids will just shrug that off or find it funny regardless of whether they get the actual joke. So there's probably a bit in there for every age.

Shrek is my standard example for this effect, and I like it. I also think they will just ignore what they don't understand (and maybe will be surprised what nonsense grown-ups are laughing about :-) ).

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Quoting: CatKillerSweet. I got that for my little one shortly after it released, but I've not put it in his queue yet.

I was thinking about the same (and after this kind of support, I will buy the game either way).
Do you already have an idea for which age this might be suitable?

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Quoting: TeodosioAnother gift from the Steam Deck. I am sure the only reason they went with a native release is to maximize performance on the Deck.

Developer Clockstone has everything on Linux since their first release in 2013, Bridge Constructor.
The oldest game from Thunder Publishing, Steamworld Dig, is also from 2013 and also on Linux.

No. Sorry, but no.

This is a long-time Linux supporting developer meeting a not Linux-unfriendly publisher.

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Quoting: TermyI'm not sure how you compiled the first chart in this article and can't find another statistic of that sort, but i would be really surprised if that curve didn't go down in the last months/years.

There were 1380 Linux native games released (so far) on Steam in 2022.

In 2021 there were 1222, and in 2020 1104.

SteamDB [External Link] is very handy for these searches!

Yeah, so the number is actually on the up.

In relation to the total numbers [External Link], this would be 11.2% in 2020, 10.6% in 2021 and 11.2% in 2022. (The seemingly exponential increase of game releases came to a halt in 2019?!?)

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Quoting: pbOk, but why? What's in it for the society/country?

As said above, the goal would be to give an industry a push where the country is weak at at the moment.
(Of course with the hope that the industry doesn't need such pushes forever.)
In the end, it would be supposed to get more people into work and generate more taxes in later years.

Quoting: pbMost of the time I don't have an idea what country a given game is made in until Steam puts it on a country-focused sale, nor do I care.

Yeah, but that doesn't matter for Germany as long as you buy some. ;)
This is not about the country's image or something, it's about money in the end.

I know the feeling though. Whenever there's some Steam special about games from a certain country, I'm surprised which games are coming from there... Because, to us it doesn't really matter.

Quoting: pbFrom the list, I only ever heard of a few and only because they are sequels. Also what the hell is "codename mashed potato" at #5?

Not much more than they didn't yet coin the real name. But I guess Mimimi productions is quite well known - they made Shadow Tactics and Desperados III. (So there's hope we'll get Linux native mashed potatoes...! :D )

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I found this one, games supported with more than a million...

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Quoting: pbWow, what a weird thing to spend taxpayers' money on. Not the worst way, but still weird.

I guess it's supposed to support video games industry growth. As far as I know, Germany is a big market, but not so big in producing games... I'm surprised by the sum of money, though.

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Quoting: samurroIts double the weight of the switch, at least to the quick google search I did. So I am not sure where your arguments are. I even said "mobile gaming".

But I get the feeling this forum is not accustomed to different opinions on anything...

Well, I've got weak nerd arms and I'm playing with it. I'm sure this is true for some others here. This does not change with a different opinion, because I tried. Of course this might feel different for you, but this is not a matter of opinions either - you'll know when/if you try it. (Maybe if you get hands on a switch you could make it heavier?)

I wonder what kind of (constructive) answer you're expecting?

*edit* How nice it feels for you might depend on what you imagine under "mobile gaming". Playing on bus, train, backseat of car, ...? Sure. Playing while walking around? Well, I wouldn't do that. But I wouldn't do that with any other device either.

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"Cross-play across different stores" sure is nice - but how bad that it's something that doesn't go without saying...

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