These are excellent. I only ever played the first one, and wasn't able to get the others until now.

To give you an idea about the style of the game: The spell "increase bust size" does not work on Gretchen, it only works on marble busts.
'nuff said.

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I've got a GPD Pocket http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-7-inch-laptop-indiegogo [External Link] It's out, it has a better resolution and is apparently cheaper. It doesn't have the game-controller-keyboard, though, but I'm not a game-controller-user anyway.

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Quoting: scaineHope you get back into it though - a lot of fun, despite that bit of frustration!

I actually did, probably because of your comment, and I finished it ;). Thanks.

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I played some 7 hours or so yesterday, and it doesn't really feel like I'll finish it soon. Maybe that's because they added stuff, or maybe it's because I just suck, or maybe it's because the fucking pieces of shit of other bots level the same speed as me (what's the use of levels if everything else gets better the same time as you? I hate it).

It's lying in the corner because of shitty leveling mechanics now, together with Borderlands.

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Anecdotal evidence from my local LUG (Linux User Group)

Quoting: BlackBloodRumYou could come to the conclusion that perhaps many Linux users are not using steam for verious reasons, No games of interest? Don't like DRM? Simply don't play games?

- Most don't have steam. So 10% of the Linux users to have steam could be accurate.

- A lot, like more than 50%, don't play games.

- Of the rest, quite a few only play drm-free games, some of them have a gog.com account, others only play open-source games.

- There are also a few that only play on console. Usually PS3/4, sometimes Nintendo too, rarely XBox.

And finally

- the avid players usually also have a windows-machine for playing, some even use Windows exclusively for gaming, and don't have steam installed on Linux.

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Quoting: GuestThe survey is pointless anyway since Valve does not mention the sample size.

Actually... If you have multiple incomplete studies, you can correlate them against each other and infer the estimated number of unknown cases. Something like this https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ [External Link]

I think it should be possible to at least find the order of the sample size of the steam survey via other statistics. But it's definitely something for a statistician better than me.

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Quoting: TheRiddickNow all we need is Microsoft to force steam games to sign in through their store system, now that would be funny as all hell!

They did that on Windows. One of the reasons this here exists:
https://github.com/Seegras/wine/tree/work/dlls/xlive [External Link] (Sorry, haven't updated it to contemporary versions of wine)

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Since I didn't buy any Windows-only games for some time (except when cheated by the developers) my stash of older Windows-only games (among them Fallout 4 and the Witcher 3) slowly starts getting supported by wine. Nice.

But for some reason, the wine-party haven't managed to package the last 3 rc-releases for Debian, whereas they usually did within 2 days.

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The whole game sports some kind of retro-look, there are 8" floppy disks lying around. Which partly explains their design decision:

The terminals are basically DOS from the 1980ies, except that all the commands have been renamed, and every user-friendly feature has not been implemented. It's not in any way comparable to the user-friendliness of a UNIX shell/terminal from the same time. The game would actually be more enjoyable if they had just plugged in a tcsh from an 80ies UNIX instead of that DOS-chimera.

Basically, if this wasn't a game, this utter piece of shit of a command line interface would be totally unacceptable.

That said, the game itself is quite nice and the puzzles are rather difficult.

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Quoting: Jahimself-tcpview: Not working

That was expected. It would probably need root on the host system.

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