The design of the environments oddly reminds me of Stardew Valley.

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Looks really good in terms of gameplay, although the dead-eyed, expressionless characters still freak me out too much.

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Quoting: 14I kinda wish there was just one annual Steam sale. Man, when that first one landed years ago during a winter that I was trapped in another State due to a snow storm, it was amazing! I was so pumped! I spent over $100 on that sale. But now, there have been so many sales that I have a pile of games I've never played. I'm not very excited to get new games, even if they're brand new, because I don't know when I'd even play them. I'm just now playing through The Witcher 3 for the first time since buying it on Black Friday last year.

I know what you mean. It used to be an event, something to get excited about. But now it's like eh, there's gonna be another one in a couple of months anyway (or what, three before the end of the year?) so what's the big deal? Plus the fact that I have a lot less money for games these days, so I'm less likely to buy something on the spur of the moment anyway.

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The new version of MATE has a bunch of new UI stuff aimed at attracting Unity lovers who don't want to stick around with Vanilla Ubuntu. Probably a smart move on their part, carrying over stuff like global menus and the HUD.

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Quoting: KelsI've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

How many persons with a healthy mind pay full price for a game?

I think the TRUE price of a game is the one that the game has on sale...
Take a look at Shadow of Mordor Bundle [External Link] AKA Shadow of Mordor GOTY... How many months the game has been "on sale" for just 5 U$D?

But, sadly, big publishers raise the base price before joining the steam sales.

That answers a grand total of nothing. Markup exists, I get that. But why would a publisher leak something that, for the period preceding the sale, makes them fewer sales at full price? How does any of this benefit the developers who made the leak?

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Quoting: OLucasZanellaHalloween and Autumn are awfully close to each other.

The Autumn dates include Black Friday.

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Been quite a while since I played so I imagine a lot of stuff has changed since then. Debating whether to simply keep waiting until it comes out of EA at this point since it sounds like there's still a lot missing.

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I've been seeing discussion about this, wondering just what the devs who leaked are getting out of this. Seeing as sales are traditionally depressed right before a sale people know the date of, this just hurts their full-price income. It's not exactly a benefit, and in fact I don't really see anything positive for the leakers.

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Quoting: LinasFugl fills a very special niche for me. Sometimes I am too mentally exhausted to play anything that requires focus, and this game has a certain soothing effect on me.

I think they really captured what I would imagine soaring like a bird would feel like, and audio is a big part of that.

In small doses it can be healthy, but for most this is probably more of a "buy it on sale just to see if I would enjoy that kind of stuff" game, rather than a must-have. This is definitely not for everyone, and not for extended periods of time.

I recommend Fruits Of a Feather, which fills a similar niche and is free on Itch.io. It doesn't have a shapechanging mechanic, but it's pretty chill and I like it.

https://samuraipunk.itch.io/fruits-of-a-feather [External Link]

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From the trailer, the environments seem great and the shape-shifting concept seems pretty nifty. But wow is the low-rez looking bird ugly. Something about the way it looks when moving is really distracting for me, although it may be less so if I were actually the one steering the thing.

For now, I'll stick to Fruits Of a Feather, which has a similar "you're a bird" mechanic.

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