Quoting: NyamiouI've just restarted my PC by accident (walked on the power plug) and got the survey, the survey only appear when Steam start so if like me you rarely restart your computer and you never stop Steam it's not going to appear often. Also you need to be an active user to have the survey, so if you haven't played much don't expect to have a chance.

I've to disagree with that. I start my PC once a day and shut it down when I go to sleep. It runs at least 3h a day and mostly more. When I am the whole day at home it runs more then 10h, mostly 14h. In this whole time Steam runs from start to shut down and I even couldn't remind my when I had the last survey on Linux (probably once or twice since the client is out). So from my side: No, it is not related to the usage of Steam.

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It's disappointing...

"Port":
Needed an half hour to configurate the game, so it runs on dual monitor. Every start the resolution is set to default and sometimes after changing it it kills the audio and drops the fps from 70 down to 14.
Beside this the game runs good on all-maxed-out with some minor struggle.

Game:
Played through in 100min on "Amateur" with the first car...

My Opinion:
It's really a AAA-game. First of all it starts with those felt-like thousands "ok" (The game uses Autosave -> ok, Connect to Blabla-Network -> ok, Select Profile -> ok, Profile bla loaded -> ok, ...).
I expected an other racing-genre, so I try to put that part of opinion aside. So far I played only Showdown and if I compare it to GRID I have to say the career mode is a cheap copy. The "maingame"-concept reminds my to FlatOut but thats 8 years older and felt much more serious. (Opinion part:) They tried to make a cheap game looking great with all those blink-blink-effects and using mainstream techniques like annotator to make the game exiting.

My final thoughts:
If you
- are new to the genre and on linux: Play it.
- loved FlatOut: Don't play it.
- are not sure and have knowledge in wine: Play FlatOut (1+2)

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"The" Steam console command you recommended
LC_ALL=C ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh ./adventure-capitalist.x86_64
does also work well (whether Steam is active or not). Side note: Steam doesn't show "is in game", doesn't recognize achievements and no steam-overlay.

I tried about ten times in a row starting the game with steam running but crashes after config box.

Another problem which I don't care (I hide it because it's not a part of "get the game running" and has really low priority)

Spoiler, click me

If I start the game via console it runs only if the graphic settings are lower than "good" (exclusive). Otherwise the game stucks on the start up (where the developer is shown).

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Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions with no problems (also good written ;), small mistake in the folderspath / and . are switched). After the procedure the game starts from console (cd PATH; LC_ALL=C ./adventure-capitalist.x86_64) and works fine inclusive restart, save and so on. Starting from Steam it crashes after the configbox. Even I check the SteamCloud it doesn't work. But it seems like my local savegame is now updated into SteamCloud.

So far I conclude it's not related to the game itself. Maybe some mess up with the libraries. The only point that makes me wondering is that the first start and some shuffle other starts out of Steam doesn't crash the game (only the known freeze and/or freeze of the money). But now as I said it crashes after the configbox.

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Had tried this, but the problem is that the game doesn't start with SteamCloud disabled. Ergo no new savegames are generated. Also tried to manipulate the savegame so it has a newer timestamp but didn't work either.

Edit: Could start it from console. Works fine. But starting in Steam causes an immediately crash. Only difference in console output is the "ld.so wrong ELF-class"-Error and that occurs with every game.

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Game crashes immediately after configbox, the workaround doesn't change anything. Deleting local savegames starts the game but freezes money to 0 (next start game crashs again). With workaround the "get money" works, but adds nothing. I have to turn SteamCloud on, so no Chance to start a new game. Anyone an idea?

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The sounds of the Slimes reminds me of Pikmins when you throw them.

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According to
https://steamdb.info/sales/ [External Link]
the sale begins today in about 11h.

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The demo is outdated, isn't it? (For me: Parts stick in strange ways together [half screen space between], if I switch to the pad I see the space/universe, etc...)

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Between 2002 and 2011, up to 2008 mainly on Windows, I pirate many (Windows-)games for two simple reasons both already announced previous: The "better-demo"-aspect and the "drm-treatment"-aspect.
Well, since I switched to Linux and having these good articles here on GOL I buy those games.

Some examples:
"better-demo": As I loved TES: Oblivion, I download Skyrim on release and I was really glad I didn't bought it. After a few hours (~5h) I deleted it and never played it again. As I said because of the GOL-articles I don't need any demo.
"drm-treatment": My personal favorite is and was GTA 4 (on win): Pirate version: Extract, double-click on exe-file and have fun. Steam version: Click on Start, register here and there, install this social crap and that. After many installs and accept/ignore buttons I could finally play.

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