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Quoting: muntdefemsThat's quite true, but I sincerely think it's the developers' job to promote their games and that they cannot (and shouldn't) delegate this crucial task to Valve.

I wouldn’t qualify new Linux releases appearing in the new releases for Linux list "promotion"… It’s just the way it should be.

Yeah, I agree with that. I don't expect Valve to go out of their way to promote these games. I just think it should be a lot less hard to actually find them in their store. The only way I've found to relatively conveniently find them is to either have been subscribed to a "Port to Linux please" topic on the Steam forums or by following @SteamDB_Linux on Twitter (which I incidentally just learned was set up by project lead of Spacebase DF-9, JP LeBreton of Double Fine).

Quoting: ShmerlGood to see them catching up on current games. I hope they'll eventually break the wall with Disney, Activision and EA regarding old games as well.

The walls of Disney and Activision regarding their classics certainly seem a bit less impenetrable lately.

Oh, and I only now realized that this is all way off-topic. Sorry about starting this Steam discussion in a GOG article. More on topic I bought CLARC (http://www.gog.com/game/clarc) on GOG last week and I think it's really good. Haven't gotten very far yet though.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroAfter all those suggestions, I realised I have BS5 and The Maker's Eden as well... Been buying every adventure game on sale. Played the Deponia trilogy already (and some other Daedailic games through Wine).

Broken Sword is a series (despite being a big adventure fan) which I have never played for some reason. Can you play 5 without having played the others?

The Maker's Eden is very short (1-2 hours) and also more of a visual novel than a point and click adventure. I enjoyed the story but it's not a game you play primarily for the puzzles.

I was in the same boat regarding Broken Sword. I didn't play the first one until after the Kickstarter for the fifth was announced and I still haven't played BS2. Overall it's a pretty nice classic point and click adventure game, but I thought it lacked some of the "magic" of the LucasArts classics (could be due to lack of nostalgia though, since I still really love Beneath a Steel Sky). Broken Sword 5 seemed to pretty much follow the same recipe and I thought it was enjoyable.

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Quoting: CheesenessChapter 2 is much longer than its predecessor and features better pacing and a more structured plot. The puzzles and their solutions are non-obtuse (by point and click adventure standards) - a big plus for those who like their puzzles to make sense.

Quoting: CheesenessVeering slightly back on topic, I noticed some people mentioning that they felt that the first chapter of The Journey Down was very short. This second chapter is much longer.

While I personally really liked the first chapter, I've noticed that the chapter's length and obtuseness of the puzzles (the breadstick one in particular) have been recurring issues in reviews of the game, so it's good to hear that those have been addressed.

Also, I'm very envious of you for having already played chapter 2. :P

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The target ads depend on your user agent, so if you're browsing the store front on a Linux computer you'll only see games with Linux versions* there. Try switching your user agent (e.g. with a browser plugin) and you'll notice that only one (Papers, Please) of 15 games at the moment are available for Linux. That's actually a lower ratio of Linux games than there currently are on Steam, which is about 1 of 6 games. Additionally the target ads are a mix of top sellers and new big releases, so even a lot of new releases with a Linux version will never show up here.

There's the "New Releases" tab further down on the page, which is my favorite, but even that has several issues:

1) It's not selected by default. The "Top Sellers" tab is.
2) It's limited to 100 spots, so new releases will disappear off this list never to be seen again if they haven't made an impression in a matter of a few weeks.
3) Many probably never will because if you want to see releases that are older than two or three days, you'll have to meticulously click through several pages to find the rest, which I'm pretty sure the average user won't bother with.
4) Older games with a recent Linux port never show up here. If they're lucky they show up among the featured Linux games or in the news frame.

That last one is a big problem in my opinion because several indie developers push out their games for Windows (and maybe Mac) first and then a Linux a few weeks or months later. But by that time it might be a little too late because it's going to be that much harder to find it. There really isn't a good way at the moment to find these games unless they're high profile game.

*You'll currently also see Son of Nor there, but I assume the reason why it's visible to us is that it had a Linux version of release but it was pulled by the developer because there were a number of issues with it.

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Blocks That Matter and Tetrobot & Co. are two of my all time favorite games. The latter has some of the best level design I've ever seen in a puzzle "platformer", but unfortunately it didn't sell well. Which in turn might mean Swing Swing Submarine will have to close down shop if their upcoming game Seasons After Fall isn't a massive success at release.

One thing that both surprises and annoys me about Steam's store front is that they don't do more to promote new releases and ports to Linux. You'd think they'd be interested in doing that the way they promote Linux as "the platform of the future" but when Tetrobot & Co. was released for Linux at the end of 2013 hardly anyone even knew about it.

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The user reviews on Steam are 10/11 positive. I don't bother with those ratings. I might read some of the reviews and mostly agree but then I usually get surprised by the low scores. Sometimes it's like AAA starts at 7/10 even if it's crap while the really good indies never get more than 8 or 9 tops.

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I bought it on release a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, but I'm only at the end of the first of four "worlds". It looks a lot like The Bridge with an isometric view and some more classic painters thrown into the mix. Gameplay wise it's a lot more like RUSH with elements of the classic Chip's Challenge though.

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Jenny LeClue just reached their target and Bolt Riley is only missing $3K with 15 hours to go.

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So apparently there are 3 or 4 people on the entire planet who is excited by the Linux announcement, they all dual boot and also pirate the game instead of paying for it. I don't know why I keep reading comments on articles like that on IGN. :/

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I'm getting more of a "Monochroma with shooting" feeling from this. I've had it on my Steam wishlist since @SteamDB_Linux tweeted Linux support.

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