Quoting: JanneI started Subnautica and got partway through, but now I'm a little lost as to what to actually do, so I've left it again.

If you're stuck where I think you are, you should have information from the gun tower telling you where other alien facilities are, and you should be ready to dive pretty deep to get to them, southwest of the wreck. Pretty much go west from the Degassi wreck and you should be able to find the way down pretty easy.

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Hm. The only game I really want on Itch right now (Wildermyth) isn't on sale, at least not yet. All the other stuff that catches my eye, I've already got.

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Might as well hop on board. Except not all from this year because c'mon man. I can't afford to just buy games willy-nilly.

Valheim, same as a bunch of other entries. Nothing really unusual there.

Brogue Community Edition, just as hard as ever. Didn't get any further than ever either. But a great game nonetheless, and nice to see it's now being maintained by players to stay up to date.

Pillars of Eternity, took another stab at this one. Got way further, but then petered out a bit after the big fire. Might go back and finish if there's not much left but idk. Once a game loses my attention, it's usually a while before I go back again and try to remember the mechanics.

Stardew Valley Speaking of. Still a great experience.

The Garden Path Been sampling the backer beta on Itch, while trying not to see too much of it since I want to get the full experience when it's done. Lovely experience, seems like it's going to be a real winner for people after that comforting cottagecore-without-the-cottage aesthetic.

Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Finally dipped into this one. I'd had it in my library for a bit, but procrastination got the better of me. Quite good and it stands up well today. I gather that a lot of missions aren't great for singleplayer, so I'm not sure what to do once I eventually finish the intro Waterdavian story.

Caves of Qud Recently got back into this after a long hiatus, and there have been a lot of changes, particularly to the early game that needed considerable work. It's still a hard game, but the addition of Roleplay mode which saves checkpoints at settlements, and the addition of presets with higher survivability means it's much, MUCH easier for new players to get into it, and many experienced players to actually see any of the story past Golgotha. And believe me, there's quite a bit more story than there used to be.

Couple of Windows games via Steam Play here:

Dorfromantik. Bought by accident since the original version on Itch had a Linux version, but the updated version on Steam doesn't, at least not yet. The dev seems cool though, so there's a good chance of getting one in time. Fun chill tile-based puzzle game where you're not so much building a town as a pastoral countryside with little villages in it.

Subnautica Below Zero Much the same experience as the original Subnautica, but refined and some new wrinkles added. I expected I would hate the sea truck, but that turns out not to be the case, and it works thematically. There are still scary things in the depths.

A few other games here and there, but those are the main ones I can think of off the top of my head.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: randylI'm playing through it casually. Overall, I like it.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm sure he'll be fine with the mechanics of the game - he's played a lot of challenging games already, and I can always take over for any tricky bits. It's moments of unexpected sadness that I'm wary of.

For example, we were watching Universe together a while ago. Pictures of stars, and planets, and interesting satellites, and Brian Cox wandering round the arse end of nowhere and it's all very jolly. "...Oh, and by the way, life will be gone forever when the sun explodes." Tears and existential dread before bedtime. That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid before he's ready for it.

If you're concerned about violent content, one character describes a very nasty scene that I imagine could be pretty upsetting. They also laugh about another person's physical pain

Spoiler, click me

including an eye injury from broken glass

. Just to be aware.

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It's also on Itch:

https://slitherpunk.itch.io/sewer-rave [External Link]

There's even a free spinoff game with Twitter integration, for those who think that might be fun somehow.

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I can see a lot more of this coming for projects like Blender, since the crypto bunch are desperate to make good on the current "Web3" fantasy they're pushing, and the reflected legitimacy of being attached to projects doing actual work.

This is only the start of a wave of similar funding, that's easy to see.

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Highly recommend Hidden Folks, one of the best hidden object (or well, hidden people) games I've played.

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Quoting: NezchanI'll be damned. I've been using Linux since RedHat 5.2, but today I learned I'm not a real Linux user.

... Is that what you got out of my comments? How? If you don't mind me asking?

Quoting: NezchanAnd yeah, I raised my hand when you asked who hadn't bricked their system because they were fucking around under the hood. Another shared experience I don't share I guess. I'm a fraud.

You've been around since RedHat 5.2 and you've not screwed up your system even ONCE?! Wow! Again, not sure why you believe that makes you a "fraud", but I can't help bu thinking you're a rare breed :D

Hell, from what I recall I used my entire 2-3 first YEARS breaking my system. Tweaking like a madman, installing packages east and west, trying to force packages not compiled for my distro to work, digging and punching through config files and file property settings and thinking I got the hang of things.

Essentially doing everything I never experienced Windows giving me the opportunity to do.

Zero times. There have been a couple of updates over the years that have more or less bricked things, and there have been times I've had to do a fresh install because of some fuckup or another introduced when upgrading to a new version of whatever it happened to be. But nothing because I've been fucking around under the hood because I absolutely avoid fucking around under the hood if I can at all avoid it.

I don't want to tinker. I don't want to tweak. I don't want to have to use command line if I can get away with it, although that's sometimes not possible. I just want to use my computer like a normal person on an OS I feel comfortable with. All the stuff you list there sounds beyond unpleasant.

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Quoting: BeamboomThis is something that new users - ergo us all, every single one of us - has experienced on our Linux system during our first year for DECADES now. And then some celebrity (whom I have no idea who is but it seems the rest of you are on first name with) whines about it on youtube (or Twitch or wherever he's "influencing") and all of a sudden the entire Linux community jump like puppets.
Pathetic, is what it is.

I'll be damned. I've been using Linux since RedHat 5.2, but today I learned I'm not a real Linux user.

And yeah, I raised my hand when you asked who hadn't bricked their system because they were fucking around under the hood. Another shared experience I don't share I guess. I'm a fraud.

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Quoting: scaineI like the look of this - reminds me of Invisible Inc, which I raved about in my PIN review (THREE YEARS ago?? WTH!!). I'll be wishlisting this for sure.

I was just thinking about Invisible, Inc. Hopefully it doesn't have that damned XCOM-style global timer nonsense, I hate that mechanic, and it kinda killed my desire to play when I finally got it for my tablet.

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