That's funny, I was just explaining the Women In Refrigerators trope to my roommate last night, where a female character is killed in order to provide motivation or a traumatic backstory for the hero.

Not saying this is an egregious example, and it certainly falls close to Shadow of the Colossus in that sense, where the goal is to resurrect her rather than a revenge arc or sinking into "MY PARENTS GIRLFRIEND IS DEEEEAAAAAADDDDDD!!!!!!" edginess. It's just that the timing is amusing.

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: NezchanEvery time this updates now my reaction is the same: "Wait, this wasn't abandoned?"

Ah… what gave you that impression? Dev is active on Twitter and on the Discord channel of Maia all the time 🤔

Neither of which I've been following.

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I was an early adopter on this one too, and I even liked some of the early builds (before you could take direct control of the android, and you were limited to one). But as time went on, I was less motivated to come back to it given that people continued to report problems. Not sure I'll try it now, we'll see.

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Every time this updates now my reaction is the same: "Wait, this wasn't abandoned?"

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Well, not getting into the Chinese government issue, but Tencent is very much the masters of predatory monetization. A lot of what is rightly criticized about Fortnite originates from their effective control of the company and let's not even get into their mobile stuff. It would not surprise me a bit if Klei's games started including new and interesting ways to siphon money out of your pocket.

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So the solution here is that game devs should be nicer to Liam, and they've found the road to success.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: NezchanOpen Roads [External Link] scheduled for 2021

Hadn't heard of this one, and the Steam page doesn't indicate Linux support. Have they promised it somewhere?

It's from Fullbright, who's been very good on Linux support in the past. Same folks who did Gone Home and Tacoma.

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Definitely looking forward to Book of Travels and Imposter Factory, both insta-buys for me.

Chained Echoes [External Link] and Open Roads [External Link]are both scheduled for 2021, although both are saying Q4. So a delay or two could push them into next year at this point. Still, I want to play both so I'm hopeful.

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I finally finished Salt & Sanctuary recently, so that's a big achievement for me.

Been playing Stardew Valley the past couple of days, now that the new expansion is out. It's really great and I love the new map.

Littlewood is great, and I'll probably go back and play a different route sometime in the new year. The characters are all wonderful and it's a joy to just putter around and make my little town. Can't wait to see what the dev does with it in the future.

I come back to ISLANDERS every so often, and early in the year I played a lot of Dicey Dungeons. For a while I got pretty into Kind Words, and again after the update for that came out. Need to play more of it. I tried a variety of things from the BLM Bundle on Itch, of course, as a lot of people did. Dorf Romantik in particular looks promising, and the dev is planning to expand it into a much deeper game. One to watch out for.

Those are the big highlights I can recall off the top. There's probably a bunch I've forgotten as well.

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Damn shame that the Feather team decided to abandon Linux support, which was present for the demo and they initially promised would be coming.

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