TLoU robbing games like Hi-Fi RUSH for Best OST and REmake4 being nominated for story-rich are also... not great at all.

At least the latter had zero chance of winning against BG3, but still...

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My stats are 356 games played, 1888 achievements unlocked, 2079 sessions, 143 new games.

My top 5 most played games are Aragami 2 (~6% of total playtime), The Great Ace Attorney Collection (~5%), an adult-only game I won't mention (also ~5%), Powerwash Simulator (also ~5%), and Baldur's Gate 3 (~4%).

And to give you an idea of how much total playtime I got, I put 96 hours in BG3, and 112 hours in TGAAC, though I did leave those games running in the background a few times, so these aren't fully representative of my actual playtime.

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Quoting: EhvisThis is the same thing why games on Steam will go to EOS for their online services. It's not always a bad thing.

Personally, I've always had such piss-poor experiences with EOS games that I had to outright block all of Epic's domains on my Pi-hole. And it's not a connection problem, because I've never had issues with Steamworks or other game network backends.

And for games that rely on EOS to even work offline (Killing Floor 2 is an example, as it'll refuse to load your local save if it can't connect to Epic's servers), I have a DLL I can replace the EOS DLL with that basically acts as some kind of "yes man" for basic functionality.

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Ever since I switched to an AMD GPU, I've had little to no issues with KDE on Wayland for normal usage and KB/M gaming. But for some reason, if I play a game using a controller, I'm forced to disable KDE's screen locking when idle, because controller input seemingly isn't considered to be activity.

Never had that issue with X11, so I keep using that.

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Quoting: PikoloLegend of Grimrock was realtime, and that's my favourite from the genre

I played Legend of Grimrock (the first one), and I found out that managing a party of four in real-time isn't exactly a pleasant experience, especially since you also have to manage the characters' hunger. Can't remember if there was equipment durability on top of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I didn't enjoy it at all, and quit after completing the first floor of the game.

However, I've had more fun playing Vaporum and its prequel [External Link], which are both single-character dungeon crawlers.

For party-based ones, I've kinda enjoyed some of Experience Inc's JRPG-like dungeon crawlers. So far, I only tried three of their titles in the genre, Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited [External Link] and Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi [External Link]. On Switch, though. Dunno how the PC versions compare.

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Looks interesting indeed. And I'm glad they went with turn-based combat. Grid-based dungeon crawlers that are party-based play better when turn-based.

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What app are you mainly using on Steam Deck / Desktop Linux to manage games from other sources?

Bottles for EA/Uplay/Itch.io, Heroic for GOG.

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Quoting: kuhpunktWhen Bethesda shut down their own launcher you could migrate your library to Steam.

That's the thing. Unlike Bethesda.net, Battle.net as a store/launcher isn't shutting down, at least not in the near future. Should it shut down, though, there is indeed a possibility Valve and MS/ActiBlizz would setup a game transfer system to prevent people from losing their libraries, just like what happened for Beth.net.

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The first game was IMO one of the best, if not the best, indie metroidvanias ever made, so I think this one will be good too.

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I hope the Wine contributors will fix keyboard layout support too.

As an AZERTY user, having to change the desktop-wide keyboard layout before launching games just for Wine/Proton to be able to use a QWERTY layout in games with no or poor rebinding (UE4 games being an example of the latter) is a pain.

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