The Store Preferences work really well for me. I once made an account for my dad, and he likes some games here and there (mostly during the winter time only though) but he doesn't like gore, violence or anime. So I checked the box to not show violence/gore and plus you have a setting there additionally to filter out up to 5 or so tags (e.g., "anime", "mature", "dating sim", and so on) and then we hit the Discovery Queue of the store and clicked a few times "Not Interested" for games and genres we didn't want to see that much -- and it works really well.

So I'm glad that Steam's default setting what is allowed in the Store are this customizable and in default I really like them being less strict than strict. So happy this whole situation about Valve somewhat "threatening" a few developers - and it look so randomly to me - is now solved with I guess a good ending. I'm all in for an open and customizable platform with as less restrictions as possible. Of course quality vs. quantity wise regardless of the content the 100% curated days of Steam also had their charm, but I guess with the flood of new titles these days certainly are over.

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Arrgh, CPU usage is insanely high after this update.

Never had CPU usage issues with Steam before though. It's between 50% and 100% all the time in top. Killing steamwebhelper doesn't help. Switching to minimal mode also doesn't help. Ubuntu 18.04 witn intel driver.

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Because I have something HITMAN related already from this specific series of the game at first it doesn't seemed to work for me on the Steam page to get the new Spring pack for free. (Or it at least looked like that it did not seem to work.) However it registered fine on my Steam account the following way:

Start Steam on Linux normally as you would. When Steam is up and running, open a (new!) terminal window. And type: steam steam://rungameid/439890 and press ENTER.

Wait maybe 10-20 seconds and then Steam should ask you if you want to install the game. I always confirm/OK this and let process start and then stop and uninstall the Download if I don't want to really install the game right now. In fact I didn't had enough disk space, so I got an error message from Steam.

But it worked! :-) To check this in Steam click on your Username in the top right corner.
>Account Details, and then >View licenses and product key activations Listed there I have the following new licenses: "HITMAN™ - Spring Pack Complimentary" and "HITMAN™ Free Trial Complimentary".

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI wish I could delete this from my library but I can't.

It's easy actually since half a year or so. In the Steam client menu (no need for the website support) go to
>Help >Steam support

There select "Games, software, etc." Then type in the name of the game in the search box below. Select the game listed under "PRODUCTS". Then select "I want to permanently remove this game from my account". DONE!

Generally you will be noticed if the game was part of a bundled key/purchase, because it will delete all other bundled games with that *specific* purchase. (Example: Bought Valve Complete, want to delete Portal (why?), that will delete Valve Complete Pack entirely.) But you will have to tick a checkbox and you will be warned about this.

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Wow, even the demo got ported? Great, because I love the demo. It's like an additional bonus chapter if you already own the game, and if you don't own the game it's a great prologue to the game. If you had played the game, you want to play the demo, and if you have played the demo, you want to play the game, and if you played the game, ...

You may come across some problems installing the demo, because Steam client and Steam store will link you the the main game's page, if you search for the Demo and click on it.

But you can install the demo (it works in all cases: owning TSP, having TSP installed, not owning TSP, not having TSP installed). From your command line do the following (you can do this while Steam is alreaddy running, but it should work otherwise also):

Type: steam steam://rungameid/247750

(see also: https://steamdb.info/app/247750/ [External Link] )

And that's it. Wait a moment and Steam should install it.

You can get these numbers (App ID) by e.g. typing "stanley parable +demo +steamdb" into Google. Somehow also on Windows it got difficult to find and install demos on the graphical interface of the Steam client/store. So that is the best way atm.

PS: Sorry for my English and logic, I'm really tired this evening. But also excited for The Stanley Parable. And the demo is so damn good! :)

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I had an issue with AdVenture Capitalist on Linux installations with other default locale than en_US (= non-en_US locale). This is a bug in unity which can corrupt savefiles or gamestate/progress files, because LC_NUMERIC in en_US uses e.g. "10.000", and in de_DE it's "10,000", so it's dot vs comma. (In fact many other games on Steam for Linux suffer from this bug, e.g. Kentucky Route Zero, Knightmare Tower, basically all other unity games, and that should be quite a huge number. Maybe Unity and Valve should take a look on that, prior to the big launch for SteamOS later this year. Because this bug occurs again and again and again and this is likely to continue.)

There is a simple solution though (once you come across it): >Right-Click on the Game in your library, select settings/properties. In the first tab select something like "start options":

1.) enter the following:
LC_ALL=C %command% (alternatively: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 %command%)
and close with OK.

(don't worry! this will not change your in-game language settings! if so: just change it in-game for once.)

2.)
Additionally for AdVenture Capitalist I needed to have Steam Cloud for the game *enabled*.

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