I played this a while ago (not inverted) and really enjoyed it. I think I will have to start from the beginning to remember my skills if there is a new level...

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Thanks for the updated review. It certainly sounds like it is trying to do something different. I may have to check it out.

Any comments on using a steam controller vs using a traditional controller? Any harder/easier regarding the controls?

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Thanks for the review! I like minimalist games if they can keep the gameplay innovative.

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The thing with a statistical test is that it should be carefully set up with an explicit testing methodology. I don't care how brilliant Steam's engineers are, if they just slapped the hardware survey together then it probably does not actually test what they think it does. Of all the mathematical sciences, statistics is the easiest to delude yourself with.

As for all the rest of us, until the methodology is made public, the statistic is frankly useless. Yes, it may match up with other anecdotal numbers (small developer sales) but, as we should know by now, the plural of anecdote is not data.

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Thanks for the review. Definitely looks unique.

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Great review, scaine!

Assuming that a single play-through will sate your appetite. Fair warning... it probably won't!

Yup: 88 hrs for me...

This is an absolutely superb game. I have no idea why anyone would complain about controls. I used the steam controller, too.

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Quoting: m0nt3It is not just ArsTechnica. Some of the other tech forums I check out have a strong bias against it and always have the same silly arguments of market share, poor performance, blah blah (I usually get this when bring up the merits of vulkan and how it will help with porting games to linux).

The gaming world is very fickle. Gamers are easily offended and extremely tribal (Sony vs MS, Console vs PC, Android vs iPhone, etc.). Some people will be negative toward Linux because it is just another "opponent" in their narrow world view. I have learned not to worry too much about such people.

However, Ars Technica should know better - they strive to be a cut above other tech media. As an example of tribalism, reading Mark Walton's articles about Ryzen are embarrassing since they headline single-threaded gaming performance. I have run Intel chips for a number of years, but it does no-one any service to review things unfairly.

For any review, an author can decide to focus on something that they don't like. If that becomes the central to the review, everything else gets clouded over (eg. Ron Amadeo and plastic phone backs). For linux gaming, framerate is the nitpick that derails every review. Yes, it is a factor, but not really as important as everyone makes it out to be.

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I am glad to hear you are liking it. I really enjoyed Teslagrad. The ending was pretty challenging, but it was a very well-crafted game.

I am not sure what I think about the change in style. I will probably buy this game soon, though...

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Quoting: NyamiouI hope they could release an AMD based Steam Machine but they also have to redo their marketing else they will have a backlash from corrupt gaming journalists (ArsTechnica and Polygon) again and they won't be able to do anything.

I like Ars Technica in general, but it does frustrate me that their attitude toward linux gaming is very negative. However, I really don't think it is "corrupt". Just some unconscious bias from two of their main writers.

I do agree that Valve has to make some real effort toward marketing, though. Their SteamOS engineering team might be solid, but the public corporate attitude is embarrassing.

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I have no regrets about buying the bundle. I already owned Steamworld Heist and thought it was brilliant. I was mainly interested in getting Owlboy.

Quoting: GuestOwlboy has a story for 5 year olds and annoyingly slow text and cutscenes

Sadly, after about 6 hours I have to kind of agree with you. The art is brilliant but the gameplay is getting increasingly annoying. It takes all the things I don't like about old games and doesn't improve them.

Compared to a game like Hollow Knight, it really doesn't measure up. I am sad to say it, because the art style is really good and the devs obviously put a lot of heart into the game. It is not often I publicly grumble about a game, but I think this one may be rated too highly on the steam store.

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