Quoting: buenaventuraWow, yeah Kentucky Route Zero is worth every penny, it's a fantastic, amazing game! Buy it! I am a patron of Cardboard Computers (who make KRZ) and they are such awesome devs. Act V is on the way! (perhaps late 2018/early 2019).

KRZ moved me in a way that games just don't do, it's writing is reminiscent of my favorite author Cormac McCarthy.

Listen, after their promises that the whole game would be finished by late 2013, their continued missing of their own updated release dates, their lack of communication and highly opaque approach to updating in general, and their last promise on Steam given more than a year ago:

It will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. We'll release it at the same time as we update the PC version with Act 5, which we're planning to do in the early part of 2018.

You'll forgive me if I'm just a little bit skeptical that we'll ever see the game completed.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I've played of KRZ to death, but I've long since come to the conclusion that we're either dealing with vapourware or a team of auteurs who keep fiddling with it until it's perfect, which will be about half past never.

tl;dr I don't trust Cardboard Computers enough to believe that we'll see Act V before mid-century.

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Quoting: GuestImpressive work from a one man team ! :)

Looks like there's an "I" in "team" after all!

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Quoting: elmapulso...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing [External Link]
and they are going with steamdb list instead?

spcr's front page doesn't reflect that any of these games have been added to the official whitelist right now, so I imagine pointing people there to find out what's been added to the official whitelist would be kind of pointless.

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Hey, Puzzle Agent is whitelisted! That's a great game and pretty funny too, you all should play it.

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Quoting: bostock11Hi there,

Another Brogue junkie here! Nice to meet you. Have you ever ascended? If so, how did you do it? Would love to talk brogue with you and show you some cool seeds.

I've never successfully ascended, no. I think the furthest I've gotten was about the 23rd floor or so, on a wand of plenty/wand of empowerment build that I used to make a flock of flying vampire ogres.

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I haven't tried playing Maia in a long time, not since you could only have one IMP robot and there weren't any aliens yet. But you could see it was worthwhile even back then, and I've eagerly been awaiting the full release so I could take in all the improvements at once.

Good work on Roth's part bringing his little project all the way to the finish line.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo I'm wondering what "souls-like" combat would be, and why that would be deep. ;)

Presumably in terms of the need to observe each enemy's individual attack patterns rather than simply hack and slash your way through indiscriminately. Liam mentions how it's slow-paced, and indeed the Souls games generally are slow, where you're not just dashing through everything normally.

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Quoting: dibzAgreed, I think at this point Proton is the way to go simply to increase adoption rates. With adoption rates comes demand, and with demand comes financial justification to "actually" support linux.

Way I see it, we've had a chicken-and-egg situation for a long time now. We don't have "good" (that is, AAA) games on Linux because we don't have market share. But we don't have market share because we don't offer good games. And around and around we go.

Steam finally decided fine, we'll just pick a point on the cycle and start from there.

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Quoting: Geppeto35we can't accept that games "works" with bugs, workaround, fixes, etc...
How to attract new users and players on linux if they have to code, tricks etc. just to play a very common and old games as Skyrim?? My son of 13 want to play Skyrim SE, subnautica, etc. I have to spend hours to find that or this trick so he can play them. It's not an acceptable situation.

That's an important point. When I look at a game that looks really fun and some nerd is like "you just have to run a script" I'm like hold it right there! To someone new to Linux who hasn't got a background in coding, that shit's intimidating as hell and will definitely set up a barrier to adopting the platform. And adoption by "normal folks" is part of the point of initiatives like Proton.

We need to get to a point where a game like Skyrim SE or Subnautica or Overwatch or what have you "just works" without needing command-line parameters or scripts or awkward workarounds, or you can say goodbye to a lot of potential new Linux users.

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Ah, I figured it wasn't necessarily your skin...

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