Promise Mascot Agency is another collectathon crazy adventure from the guys behind Paradise Killer. Once again they nailed it on the strange setting and humour. It was released a few days ago and already had overwhelming positive.

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Quoting: JarmerA game I have had wish-listed for forever just released to 1.0 just in time for this fest! I highly recommend you try it out if you're a fan of the genre.

Starcom Unknown Space:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1750770/Starcom_Unknown_Space/ [External Link]

Interested!

Found about that one in this steam fest and looks cool as I didn't play/knew the previous one. I also see another game with cult following, Starsector, which seems to be referenced every other review and which I never knew about.

This last one is not in steam, but it has modding and apparently linux versions too.

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Actually makes sense, worlds part I update was a success in terms of nr. of players, so they get to flesh out the added water and do a smaller thematic expedition around it, while keeping fan-base happy without having to wait for the worlds part II.

At the same time, in the previous update they told most of the water stuff had to do with optimizations and developments on the Light No Fire engine that were back-ported to No Man Sky. NMS fishing serves as a safe test bed to develop (and try to go crazy) with fishing so it will properly work later on their survival new game.

Take this game anywhere!
No Man Sky is one of the top played games on Steam Deck!

By the way, checking the Steam page, it's the first time I see a STEAM DECK TOP PLAYED header. Is this new?

EDIT: typos

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Interesting... was not expecting for Coral Island to be already included (even though it's published by Humble). I would have bet that Signalis would be first. Well that's why I don't do bets anyway! :)

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I put Rogue Trader a bit on freeze to wait for the bugs to clear too, but those first levels alone are gold. In the freaking first dialog scene, your loyalty is already being tested. If that does not set the tone I don't know what would.

I'm not very tuned into the WH40K stories, but was certainly pleased as sci-fi lover in general. One of the first missions had a cool old fallout vibe for example.

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I still didn't got into liking 100% the new graphics, but it was a very nice gesture that the dev published a mod in steam with the old graphics pack, and open sourced it in case community would want to maintain it further:

The texture pack will not be supported by the team in future updates, since it would require us to draw every new texture twice in both styles. The community is welcome to pick up support though, and for that reason we have made the mod open source on GitHub

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What have you been playing recently?

Mostly on the steam deck:

• Stardew Valley - I'll finish this time I swear!


• Nightingale - now that offline mode exists


• Symphony of War - chipping away one campaign map after another but still too much to go.


• Infection Free Zone- from the 112/911 operator team. Zombies in a real life town that you know off.


• Book of Travels - Wonderful to dip in now and then


• Forge (adventure mode) - finally figured how to run this java mtg game on the deck. Warmly reminds me of old Microprose MTG Shandalar: Duels of the Planeswalkers


• Forza Horizon 4 - bit the bullet and got it during the steam sale. Nice racing but mandatory intro sucks.

EDIT: added Stardew Valley and BoT comments.

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I've restarted my run, and the new "Meadows" farm is sweet!

Quoting: Philadelphus[...] One thing I didn't see mentioned is that the new Meadowlands farm starts you with two chickens, making it great for playthroughs that want to go for more of a ranching playstyle immediately.

Not only it has the coop two baby chickens at the start, but it has lots of woods vibe to it. So it might be good for those who do not go full in into 1 thing (ex: farming).

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FYI if anyone wants to try the game via Heroic/proton, it seems Sail Forth will be the next week's free game on Epic Store (11-18 Jan). And btw right now the giveaway is Guardians of the Galaxy.

Not that Epic matters much for the linux ecossystem, I though there might be at least someone interested here.

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Back to Valheim and Xenonauts 2, with a bit of playtesting of Cyber Knights Flashpoint. Once again turn based games with the deck's trackpads is a wonderfull combination. Really can't see why people want other handhelds without them.

Didn't manage to finish No Man's Sky latest expedition, so it's on hold till the next.

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