From the video, it looks like an interesting little economic flow game. I am not sure how the cynical "rip them off" part actually fits unless it is written in to the story really well.

I can see maybe the devs were worried about the audience and thought by mocking "The Man" they would have broader appeal?

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I used Kubuntu for many years and was reasonably happy. However, I decided to switch to Neon a few years ago for reasons I can't remember now. I have only used the stable LTS version of Neon, not the developer version. I tend to wait a bit before doing the upgrade (I am still on 18.04) but was surprised at how easy it was between 16.04 and 18.04.

My observations may not be fair to the current version of Kubuntu, but here they are:

- Neon is lean. I don't have forced dependency monsters. The base install is light and I can choose what I want to add.

- Neon is fast. I am not sure how this compares any more, but it was noticeable when I first switched.

- Neon has been quite stable. This has been a surprise. There have been a couple issues that required some wrangling over the years, but not more than I was getting under Kubuntu.

- I have had zero issue with Steam games. As far as I can tell, there is nothing significantly different than mainline *buntu as far as the games are concerned.

- I still get to use the huge *buntu PPA system.

Cons:

- There are a few dependencies that Neon requires for fresh Plasma. However, they very occasionally conflict with something else I want to install. I remember some of the GIS (mapping) software wouldn't work a couple years ago, but I haven't tried lately.

- Proton works fine but I can't install 32bit Wine. Not sure if this is Neon's fault. I would really like 32bit Wine for my work, not play.

- Very minor, but I like to use Synaptic for my package manager and there are no useful descriptions in the Neon packaging system. Again, I am not sure if this is Neon's fault.

I have occasionally thought about going back to Kubuntu, but I really like how lean Neon is.

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Pony Island completely messed with my head. This looks like more of the same :-)

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I use a mac wired keyboard (aluminum). No windows key...

Edit: Sadly, they stopped making them.

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Quoting: crabelPrimordia: A real oldie, with an exceptional story. You play as a robot in a dystopian world and wonder, if robots were really created by man to maintain the world? Or is man is just a myth, an esoteric belief that a rational robot should ignore. (I confess, I am playing that one with a walkthrough, it is pretty hard and I play this one just for the story)

I sort of stopped playing point & click games a while ago, but I did get this on GOG a few years ago. I really enjoyed the writing and art-style. You are right that it isn't particularly easy, so don't feel bad about using a walkthrough. I think I had to look up a couple things when I got stuck.

I think someone should grab this game writer and do a larger budget game in that world.

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I have been seeing a lot of good reviews for this today. Nice to see them getting some success!

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I picked this up on a whim a while ago. I agree it is pretty and very relaxing, but do I hope they add some story of some kind...

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I think the bundle I got this in finally convinced me that Linux Gaming was going to be able to challenge the other platforms. They weren't big games, but a lot of them were good.

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I have the game and the view is wider than the video shows. I can't run it right now to check, but it didn't seem too annoying when I played it a few months ago.

Here is a video review from someone showing the whole screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5KSWXE044 [External Link]

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Frankly, it's become quite a meaningless label with no clear definition that generally boils down to damn difficult combat.

Every label gets stretched but I think "Soulslike" means demanding skill-based combat (punishment of button mashing), and a death-system that requires you to retrace your steps to get back some precious commodity (souls, salt, money, etc.) lost when dying.

A measured pace and slowly revealed story seem to also be common. Generally, punishment for not being careful...

I am not a souls expert, but have enjoyed several soulslike games.

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