Looks rather fun to me.

And it has a demo on Steam!

I'll give it a try.

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Shouldn't it be a great opportunity to bring an old gem to new life
for a new generation of gamers by "just" taking what you already have?
A fantastic story and gameplay.

So take some capable programmers, gifted artist and make this happen.
Don't "add" stuff beyond minor, maybe subtle, things.

Shame on them. *facepalm*

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Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that game!

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Will it feature a single-player campaign?
Or is it a pure sandbox game?

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Rolling Stones ...

Very unlikely but a game that I'd love to see on Linux is

Rock of Ages

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Is there any realistic estimate on the value of Valve?

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I simply love the Zachtronics games.

Only issue I have on Linux is that my notebook is almost melting.
For whatever reason these simplistic games (presentation wise) seem to require a lot of resources on Linux.
At least for my configuration Haswell+integrated graphics.
This is different on Windows for the very same machine.

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Quoting: pbJust today I was pondering on whether GOG, Nightdive and others keen on packaging old games with ScummVM and selling them for a fine buck actually contribute to the project themselves. With lots of new games added to ScummVM recently, I certainly hope so, but somehow I doubt it at the same time...

Fully agree.

It makes them so easy to monetize old products again,
so they should at least contribute a fractional amount
of revenues back to the projects they use.
Otherwise, it might be legal but unethical.

It's not just the great ScummVM.
Also DOSBox.

What else projects, btw?

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Sorry, but I don't see the point always mentioning that the absolute number of Linux Steam users "still" grows. It sounds like saying "It's not that bad".

It is that bad - the fraction of Linux users is far below 1 %.
And THAT is ALL that counts to developers (unless they are Linux fans).

Even if some dev plans on absolute numbers, it wouldn't be clever from an economical point.
as every man hour spent to improve experience for the potentially 100 times larger user base is most likely far better spent.

This is sad. Yeah.
Does it feel like Valve is still planning something big for Linux.
I don't think so. As Linux fans we can only hope MS is enforcing its XBox+Windows marketplace strategy and pushes Valve to its Linux plan B (or C) project again.

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So they got finally rid of the awful Adobe AIR backend that dropped Linux support a long time ago?

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