If i had to pick only one game of all out there, Valheim would be a strong candidate. It was the only game that re-created the magic of being drawn into a procedural generated world like minecraft did back then. Trying to get back your gear that you have worked so hard for after a team wipe with a few friends... sitting around a low-polygon campfire while planning for this, yggdrasil over our heads, strange noises from the near forest. I can´t wait to get back.

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German is my native language, but i really often don´t get along with it too well. The only part i liked about it is that you could slap literally all of the necessary words together, like in that title here. :)
But other things i really hate about it, like the way we count. 53 in german is "three-and-fifty". It must be a horrible language to learn for migrants.

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Oh damn Liam, these days you keep exploding my backlog to infinity! This one really hits hard. I loved the original, i built cardboard battlestar ships and paper ship consoles by hand as a kid. The Ron Moore reimagination was a total blast for me, i literally jumped when i heard that Adama would be played by Edwward James Olmos.
This universe as a roguelite? I have to quit my job.

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Oh, and they added Mac support now, too!
I was on the fence before buying and playing this, but man, this is one of the best cities to be around. If you liked the vibes of nivalis, you can get them here too, but on a much more detailed level. I am not the combat kind of guy, but i went with it. The story and narration is - for me - top notch. GTA meets shadowrun (the Pen&Paper one).
Will buy the DLC on the next sale for sure!

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Wow... i did not know all this existed on steam, living in my TF2-Pyroesque vision of Germanylands Great Filter.
While i think this is quite comfortable from a parents standpoint, i am not naive enough to think that this is a productive thing. As a parent you have to try to somehow filter some of the worst internet content for your kids. And if you have put a lot of thought in it, you realize how... futile it is in the end. Smart kids always find a way around your fences, and you have to take this hit with a knowing smile.
So, no, i do not like the influence of payment processors in my little steam world. Go play somewhere else. (Insert Monty Pythony Lion Tamer Joke reference here)

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For anyone who wants nicer graphics, better viewing distance and a way better performance right now, please give the "Fabulously Optimized" Modpack a try. With Prism or MultiMC, it's directly downloadable within the app from modrinth.
My younger kids have quite potato-speed laptops, and turning the shaders a bit down, the performance is about twice as much as vanilla on those laptops. And it looks way better too.
You can play on native servers with this pack, as long as the base version is the same. Speaking of servers, the performance on the server side is way better, too.

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I really encourage Colony Sim Enthusiasts to give this one a try. The dev is really cool, you literally can watch him work every day (he streams most of it), he listens to his players, he responds very quickly and implements so much, its crazy. He has quite a knack for UI elements too, so this game works really well on the deck, despite the tiny screen. Really good one, and yes, i will buy the rimworld dlc too. Of course i will, the willingless weak minded thing i am. :)

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I just hope they did not steal many ideas from Stardeus. But so far the devs kept a friendly vibe to each other, so i hope that will not be the case.

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Yay, same for me here! I might try a run with the deck finally.

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As a nvidia-hybrid user, i had no big luck with wayland under manjaro kde, but that was more than a year ago. With that same machine i have no problems under endeavour with kde/wayland for months now. So, yeah, maybe i take a peak again at manjaro just to look how it is. And for that other discussion: for me, defaulting to one thing is not forcing.

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