Quoting: LinasA remaster? Of a game released in 2020?

2017. Only the PC port came out in 2020.

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Quoting: LoudTechieStability is something sysadmins salivate over, but there are lots of other parties like Gamers and developers that don't care about stability and want the newest of the newest tools.

That's such an absurd thing to say. I wouldn't want to work with a developer who doesn't care about stability. Nor would I want to be their customer.

And as a gamer, I don't see why I'd want anything but a stable and predictable platfrom to enjoy my games on. That's actually one of the reasons I run Linux.

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Quoting: CatKiller

What single player game would you have as your number 1 for Valve to bring out next?

In The Valley of Gods [External Link]

Is horrible what they did to Camposanto..

Bought them? I don't think it was a hostile takeover.

In fact, after the game was put on hold, one of the Campo Santo people confirmed that their staff had willingly drifted off to work on various other Valve projects. And that's because Valve lets them work on whichever project they find interesting and relevant to their expertise.

It's a shame. I was looking forward to In The Valley of Gods. But "horrible" isn't the word I'd use, unless I've missed something.

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Don't you need Steam Play to use the Steam Linux Runtime as well? Or any other "compatibility tool". It doesn't automatically mean Proton.

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Quoting: MarlockPrince of Persia hails all the way back from 1989 with the handbook as a digital copy deterrent

You can find earlier examples as well. Some C64 (and Spectrum) releases had code cards/sheets inside the cassette sleeves in the early eighties. One I remember fondly is Jet Set Willy from 1984. Others had actual copy protection code such as California Games (the Epyx US floppy release) from 1987.

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Quoting: Eike* The Journey Down
No sure about this one, pledged in 2017, anymore.

All three chapters were released on time, and they all ran fine for me on Linux. The last chapter came out in 2019 I think.

I know I played and loved them, but I cannot remember anymore why I dared to make this (my very first) pledge. Did they have chapter one out already?

The Journey Down (chapter one) started out as a free AGS game [External Link]. So I suppose you could say there was a demo. Although the final product looked and played a lot better.

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Quoting: Eike* The Journey Down
No sure about this one, pledged in 2017, anymore.

All three chapters were released on time, and they all ran fine for me on Linux. The last chapter came out in 2019 I think.

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Quoting: tfkHm. Don't see a free copy of Whispering Willows.

Seems like the giveaway is over.

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Quoting: tmtvlThey're both side-scrolling adventure games, aren't they? It's like comparing it to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream or Quest For Glory. (To be honest it's been a while since I played through Whispering Willows, so I may be misremembering. According to Steam I got the Sixth Sense on February 12th, 2020.)

No. Technobabylon, IHNMaIMS and Quest For Glory are not side scrollers, even if some of the "locations" pan a bit. You control the characters with your mouse, with the gameplay revolving around inventory and dialogue based puzzles. Well, Quest For Glory (Hero's Quest) is a bit different with its RPG elements and the original's text parser and clunky keyboard controls. The early 90's remake has a more modern point-and-click interface and prettier VGA graphics.

Whispering Willows is closer to a puzzle platformer. Just check some gameplay video of all of these games and I'm sure you'll see the difference.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI enjoyed Whispering Willows when I played it a number of years ago. Nothing groundbreaking but a decent little game.

Same, played through it on Steam and while it has some neat visual designs the game proper didn't resonate as much with me as Technobabylon did.

Just out of curiosity: Why would you compare it to Technobabylon? Gameplay is very different, graphical style is different, one is a horror story and the other one is sci-fi... As far as I can tell, there's very little overlap. It's like comparing Dirt Rally to SuperTuxKart.

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