If the game's combat happens in situ (a la Divinity: Original Sin) instead of in one of a handful of pre-staged arenas (a la Tower of Time), then it's likely to be a day one purchase! Either way, it's wishlisted. :)

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I love the Deep Dive tool. I'd like to see its matrix made larger to include more titles viewable at once, diminishing in relevance as we move away from the center.

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I saw the phrases "FOSS game launcher" and "replacement for Steam" and I thought I was going to read about how Athenaeum was a FOSS Steam client replacement! It's not, I can see now. But I'm a bit unclear about what it is or is meant to be.

Is it meant to be a game management project but strictly for FOSS titles, is that right? And currently it's limited to FOSS titles only found in Flathub's Games section?

I'm not going to sign up to GitLabs just for this, so I hope someone else will point this out to the dev. Athenaeum might be called a "Steam-like game launcher for FOSS games," or "A FOSS-only game management tool" or any plethora of other things which would be equally descriptive and really spotlight its role promoting FOSS games.

But it's not a "replacement for Steam." And it does itself a disservice advertising itself as such. There isn't a FOSS-specific game launcher---that I'm aware of, at least---and Athenaeum could do so much to promote those projects. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and say Athenaeum is going to do so much to promote the world of FOSS games, but it's got to start by not calling itself "a replacement for Steam."

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle... GOL has a block feature. I have found it has improved my general experience a lot.

Thanks, but I've never seen anything on GoL that I'd ever want to block. One of the things I like so much about Liam's site is its general spirit of community and bonhomie. :)

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Quoting: DorritJust notice Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth works well on Proton, an underrated game in my opinion.

That does look cool...hmm, alas, I'm gonna have to give it and all other Focus Home Interactive games a miss until FHI get themselves right with Frogwares. [External Link]

Stygian, however, looks like it might be worth playing for any HPL fan. It sounds in many ways like what I remember when I played the Call of Cthulu RPG [External Link] back in the '80s.

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Glad to hear Stallman is staying on since he neither did nor said anything wrong. In a saner world he'd win a defamation or slander lawsuit against Vice.

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Quoting: BotonoskiSome irrelevant local news: I recently purchased a used DVD copy of Borderlands 2 for $8, the only place it mentioned needing Steam was in tiny font in the system requirements, as such it was a dud since the cd key had already been used, and the cherry on top: the place I bought it from has a no return policy on PC games. Now I sit here contemplating whether or not pirating the game is morally justified at this point or if this is all really my fault for expecting anything different.

I'm of the opinion that there are times it's perfectly acceptable to pirate a game, but I don't think this is one of them. The store cheated you, so they're the ones who owe you something.

It's as if they sold you a cracked (physically, not pirated) CD, or one from which the game data had been stripped from the CD. I'd speak with the manager and (politely) explain it that way. If they were stubborn I'd press on that it's really not about the $8 but that I felt I was defrauded of my money, and I'm perfectly willing to contact the Better Business Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, and their District Manager (if it's a chain)---I'll see to it that the Town/County/State attorney's are made aware of how I was defrauded. I'd accept a cash refund, or a refund to my credit card, or a $20 Steam gift card, which would cover the cost of buying it directly from Steam.

Then, I would make good on my promises.

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Wishlisted and downloading the demo even as I write this. I see "marble" 3D platformers all the time on Steam, but nothing that looks like this! :)

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If the gameplay is half as good as the design is clever, this is a sure purchase. Wishlisted!

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This looks like an excellent zone-out minute killer. Heretofore my go to game for this has been King Oddball [External Link] (very cheap on sale...watch for it) another physics game involving swoopy, curvy movement.

For now I've downloaded Flesk's Space Golf [External Link] because it's a LINUX EXCLUSIVE!! XD. But, seriously, $3 is more than reasonable for Astro Golf.

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