Quoting: TriasSteam replay says I played 202 different games this year and of course I'm not able to remember most of them. :). The Top was split between different Paradox grand strategies and Underrail, but those are not 2025 games.If we concentrate on the games of this year I will probably mention two, both very recent: Of Ash and Steel [External Link] and Swordhaven [External Link].

Of Ash and Steel [External Link] is a very immersive Gothic (or Risen)-style ARPG that "don't hold your hand" (meaning, among other things, that you won't even have a map in the first 1/3 of the game and will need to remember surroundings yourself and find quest locations by their descriptions). The game had a very rough start a month ago but now, with 1.05 patch, developers seems to fix at least the most critical bugs and have a good roadmap to move forward.

Swordhaven [External Link] is an isometric-style CRPG from the developers of ATOM RPG.The game was only released recently and I didn't play that much yet but the beginning got me hooked with reactivity and good writing and I have a long-established faith in developers. Also, the game has a Linux version, which is always nice.

Obviously I can't name anything GOTY without finishing at least most of it first but those two games seems to have a potential so far.

:).

I’m super excited to wait for the 1.1 update for Swordhaven for the extra kickstarter content, but I didn’t even know about Of Ash and Steel … ! How?!?!? Thank you so much for recommending! I’ll definitely give this a good sometime this summer as well…!

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whoa! Definitely keeping track of this for a 1.0 release. Gives off bigtime system shock vibes. Love it.

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huh I didn't even know Cinnamon was doing wayland at all. That's great to hear.

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Quoting: CyrilDude, ahah! How many browsers have you tested?! 😄
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But if anyone of you have a comparison's site of all these browsers I'm still interested indeed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

hahah I work in video streaming tech, so I am deeply interested in browsers just in general :) Here you go I'll give you my personal feelings for them:
(btw all of these have no ai integration, I won't use a browser that does)

• Librewolf - firefox fork with a privacy focus as the core of it - sometimes a little too much. I was forced to undo some of its hardening to make basic sites work (maps for instance, some gaming sites, etc) which if you undo too much then ... ??? But overall it works really well, and it strips out all the mozilla fuckery from regular firefox like pocket, ai garbage, etc.


• Orion - completely custom build from the Kagi folks - based on webkit. This is so unique and I love it. Currently only avail for macos and ios, but linux build is coming soon. Privacy focused but softer I would say compared to Librewolf, which IMO is a good thing. I don't need to go undo a bunch of stuff to make basic sites work. One killer feature for me is the ability to make two completely separate icons in my macos dock for different profiles. So like I have a personal icon and a work icon, which opens two completely separate windows. Love this. I'm sure other browsers could do this, I just found it really easy with Orion. Once they release the linux build this will be the only browser I use on all devices.


• Zen Browser - I'm typing this comment from this browser right now. I feel .... meh ... about it. It's REALLY powerful in terms of features. But I think it's just a little too much in the feature set for me. Mostly I just want a browser to be private, have good extension support and then get the F out of the way. Zen does have good privacy and extensions but it also has an INSANE amount of power user features like compact mode, a ton of unique keyboard shortcuts, on and on and on. Which is cool and all but I'm not going to memorize a whole new slew of keyboard shortcuts for only my browser. And some of the features are so unique I can't really remember how to activate them when switching from my laptop to desktop for instance which is just frustrating. It's also vertical tabs ONLY, and I'm an ancient person, so I've never really gotten used to vertical tabs. I really should but ... ???


• Waterfox - have only basic testing experience with this one. I think some others might be able to comment better on it. It did work well in my testing.

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Quoting: adolsonFinally got around to buying Tunic. What a great game! Just finished it, and now working on Clair Obscur.

OMG have such a fun time. That was my game of the year in whatever year it came out. My friend and I played it coop on the couch on the big screen tv, and it was such a blast trying to decipher the manual and explore the world!

We loved it so much we both wound up buying the physical print manual.

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Quoting: Beta VersionSwordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has just been released from early access and has a native Linux build.

Yep! It's also from Atom Team which is a great dev. I've had this on my wishlist for a LONG time. Very exciting! Probably going to wait for the 1.1 update to play since it adds content to the base game.

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Quoting: _wojtekIMHO the issue with Firefox "adopting AI" is way overblown. Yes, AI is not great (especially if it's done with speculative bubble and cash burning by big-tech) and it's questionable ethics wise but… sometimes it's usefull and people do use it…

Also what's the alternative? Crappy reskins of chromium? :/

Librewolf
Zen Browser
Waterfox

there you go, three alternatives that have no ai integrations whatsoever.

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I wound up getting five games last night.

for desktop:

• Ghostwire Tokyo


• The Forgotten City


• Underrail

for deck:

• Legend of Grimrock 2


• Caravan Sandwich

Probably most excited for Underrail on desktop. On Deck, last night I tried Grimrock, but unfortunately it's a victim of that god damned steam deck verified bullshit that I hate so much. It says its verified, but it most DEFINITELY IS NOT. Ragehate that shit so much. The controls are so bad it's unplayable. They basically didn't make any kind of control scheme at all.

So I quickly gave up, and will probably refund.

On the other hand, Caravan Sandwich is SUPER FUN! So glad I picked that up!

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YES! I just glanced at my wishlist sorted by discount and there's a ton of stuff under $10. Going to probably spend way too much money and just grow the backlog to infinity!

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG

🤣😂😅

these fools think we are THAT dumb? Man I needed a good laugh this afternoon, thank you :)

FF/mozilla is WAY too far gone for a 5 second bluesky post to make one iota of difference. Librewolf and Zen are both rock solid alternatives. Zen is going great for me right now.

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