Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: fleskAurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Steam says I played that demo in June 2019 for 55 minutes, with 18/25 achievements. I seem to recall finishing the demo, so it must not have been too complicated?

Probably not, but I don't enjoy hunting for hotspots anymore, so when I'd visited every location multiple times and tried everything on everything I'd found, I moved on to one of the other demos.

EDIT: I just finished the demo, and it was Neemo I had missed. Overall, I enjoyed the game, but I found the occasional story bits a bit jarring. It might just be that it's a bit difficult to explain the universe in such a short format, and I hope it's integrated a bit better in the full game.

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Seems like they've fixed the Linux icon on the event page, and icons on the demo banners now. It's a shame there's no way to filter by platform though, as there's so much to sift through, just to find the few games with Linux demos. Additionally, all of the games that are "recommended for you" are Windows games.

I did play a few Linux demos though:

Aurora: The Lost Medallion - a point and click adventure, which seems interesting, but I didn't achieve much before I got stuck. I wish there'd been a button to highlight hotspots, as I'm pretty sure I've missed something.

Sneak In - an arcade puzzler, which reminds me a lot of a game I played on my phone in 2008, called Poppin' Panda. (I wasted an entire day on the couch once, chasing perfect scores, which was of course before I got kids). It's nice enough, but not really to my tastes anymore. I tried it mostly because it's made by the developer of City Game Studio, who develop games on Linux using Godot.

Bots & Belts - toy making simulator, which has been covered here multiple times, I think. It's similar to Overcooked!, but easier to play solo (at least in the demo). In each level, you make multiple units of the same toy, which can get a bit dull, but that might not be representative of the full game. Overall, I enjoyed it, and will probably buy the full game once it's out.

Altered - a very interesting puzzle game, which was my favourite of the games I played. It's sokoban-esque, with the twist that the characters you control can change shapes in various ways to eg. cross gaps, hold a button down while crossing a gate or even pull blocks by turning into an L-shape.

I also downloaded the demo for Backbone, which I backed on Kickstarter, but I haven't played it yet.

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I finished the last of the bonus missions earlier this week, so this is perfect timing. It's a great game, and having put 50+ hours into it, I really feel like I got my money's worth for buying the season pass.

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I played through the demo again yesterday, and I think most of the levels are new from the demo this summer. I love what I've seen of it so far, and the puzzles give me a genuine Stephen's Sausage Roll vibe, which is a great thing, while still being their own thing.

I was really stumped on one of the puzzles (Ditch) for a while, and had to leave it while I finished the rest. When I came back to it though, it seemed so obvious. I really like that you have a choice between puzzles, so that you don't really get stuck, even when you're struggling with some of them.

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Looks like a day-one purchase for me. :smile:

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[quote=Avehicle7887][quote=flesk]

Quoting: Avehicle7887Would you mind going the extra mile and forward this information to them (the screenshot of their own changelog)? It would be appreciated.

Yeah, it's no trouble at all; I'll forward it to them.

I only now noticed that GOG's forum software doesn't seem to support permalinks for posts at all. :shock:

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I lost credibility in this dev, not only World to the West is outdated on GOG, I sent them an email to notify them of the incident and I've been given no reply whatsoever.

Unfortunately I don't think about buying this one until they update their previous game.

I asked a developer about this on their Discord server, and he said he thinks GOG is only missing some Windows-only controller fixes. What sort of issues does the game have on GOG? If it's the missing gamepad glyphs, that's an issue on Steam too, and I know they were looking into it recently.

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Quoting: tuubiToo bad A Monster's Expedition isn't.

That was a huge disappointment for me as well. Apparently they were having some trouble with FMOD, and are also using an unnamed library which doesn't support Linux at all. :cry:

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I played the demo during the Steam Game Festival in June, and thought it was very good. Going to give it a new try as soon as possible.

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Quoting: dr_jekyllBy the way, have you contacted the usual adventure fan sites?:
- https://steamcommunity.com/groups/adventureren [External Link]
- https://www.adventure-treff.de/ [External Link] (german, but they can speak english of course; germany is sometimes described as the last adventure loving country :D, but I don't know if thats true)

I forgot some others I guess, but it is worth trying to contact these communities.

This is the biggest one, as far as I know:

https://adventuregamers.com/ [External Link]

They've been at it for many years, and have a substantial following of dedicated adventure game fans.

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