Dropsy has such great reviews so far, but I have to admit I'm pushed away by the art style. Not because it's bad, but because to me it "feels" very much like any number of much more cynical animations and games where things turn dark and generally awful. I see art like that, and I'm spending all my time waiting for the other shoe to drop, for someone to reveal that life is shit and everyone is going to take advantage of everyone else. Everything I hear about the game tells me it's just the opposite, but I have trouble not making that association.

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Quoting: metro2033fanboyNoticed it on my Library..a week ago! strange!

Yeah, popped up for me a few days ago too. Probably not going to install it since I've played about 6 hours worth and seen pretty much all the content already, but it's cool to see it there.

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I'm just amazed at the short sightedness involved. Yes, we have a relatively small market share currently. But haven't any of these devs heard the term "developing market"? The idea that a market that isn't currently saturated, and so has potential for growth, seems to be basic business to me. One of the things that keeps a lot of people from switching to Linux is simply that there are so few games available, or at least the perception that there are so few. It made me hesitate, a bit over a year ago, because I remembered how little there was available several years before when I was running openSUSE.

Increase the games, increase the number of people comfortable switching to Linux. Increase the number of people using Linux as a gaming platform, increase the market share and thus profits. DON'T use the current market share as an excuse to not increase the available games, that's ridiculous.

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It seems to have a lot in common with Legend of Grimrock in that grid-based movement and general dungeon crawl-y atmosphere. Although those pixel-y foreground elements that appear early in the trailer like the rock at 0:18 don't really appeal to me. It's like someone resized something in a lower resolution or something.

I guess they're going for that Lovecraftian "archeologist stumbles upon ancient blood cult" sort of riff as far as the horror goes, a much different sort of animal from stuff like Amnesia or Soma, which go for the hardcore scares.

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I played through Monster Loves You! a few times after getting it in the Humble Bundle, and Tiny Keep as well. Both are pretty fun, good if you've got a half hour or so to blow. Gave RPG-MO a try, but only got through the tutorial. I'll have to put some more time into it to really see what it's like but it's got promise as a very retro sort of experience. Otherwise I've taken another crack at Legend of Grimrock, to see if I can actually beat it this time. Still in the more familiar early floors, but I'd forgotten how absorbing the game can be. Really wish Grimrock 2 would get a Linux port so I can move on to that.

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I've had my eye on this for quite a while, pretty much since the Towns debacle. This is one of the games that was recommended as a possible successor that looked promising. Certainly it's got a much better dev involved.

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So another "pay to be competitive" if not outright pay-to-win card game? I wonder if they'll have anything in place to make it worth the trouble of casual players, or ones who aren't heavy spenders?

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Just adding that the DRM-free download version of Monster Loves You! works perfectly on my system. The dev, Andy Moore, replied to a comment I made about not being able to run the Steam version as follows:

We forgot to throw the big red switch on the Linux version before the Humble bundle started, so sorry about that! You should see things begin to sort themselves out over the next few days.

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Quoting: pbMonster Loves You! is marked as available on steam for Linux but it isn't. No Tux/SteamOS logo in the shop, doesn't show up in the library and doesn't download.

Apparently the Linux version is in the beta branch. From what I gather, you have to go to the Betas tab under game properties in Steam and choose "Experimental". Others say they've gotten it to work, but I'm still getting a missing executable error. If I can't get it to work, I'll give the DRM free version a try.

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I got this a while back, and I've been sitting on it waiting for the Director's Cut version to come out. Glad to finally get a date, and that the wait is somewhat justified.

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