Quoting: const

Quoting: soulsourceI spent the whole weekend playing Melody's Escape 2 (I'm exaggerating of course, but you get the idea). It's an almost Zen-like experience, listening to one's own music collection and pressing buttons in the rhythm.

It runs well on the Steam Deck too. I mounted the music folder from my desktop via sshfs, and it works good enough. Takes a second or two to load the files over network, but that's only while selecting the track. No slowdown or stutter during actual gameplay.

Thanks for the hint. Kind of neglected the bundle since I already own Trombone Champ and never heard of the others. A Zen-like rhythm game that runs well on the deck, though, is really tempting and the bundle costs less then that game...

Just one warning in advance: The game does not support streaming services due to their license terms. It requires local music files.

Without mods, that is.

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I spent the whole weekend playing Melody's Escape 2 (I'm exaggerating of course, but you get the idea). It's an almost Zen-like experience, listening to one's own music collection and pressing buttons in the rhythm.

It runs well on the Steam Deck too. I mounted the music folder from my desktop via sshfs, and it works good enough. Takes a second or two to load the files over network, but that's only while selecting the track. No slowdown or stutter during actual gameplay.

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If anyone wants to check the official documentation about certification, it can be found here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat [External Link]

What I consider interesting (as in: it annoys me) is the phrasing of the controller support requirement. It allows games to get verified that don't support gamepad input, because the touchpads are considered part of the Deck's physical controls. Any game that can be played with a mouse automatically passes this requirement...

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: soulsourceA Mozilla developer posted about Snap (and Flatpak) just recently, and I think it's a very interesting read.

Especially since it was Mozilla that asked Canonical to replace the repository version of Firefox with the snap.

I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
In case someone else is searching for an official source (which is surprisingly hard to find), you can read up on it here [External Link].

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A Mozilla developer posted about Snap (and Flatpak) just recently, and I think it's a very interesting read.

Original thread:
https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/109976029692454638 [External Link]

Follow-Up with links to the bug-reports:
https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/109981179869984715 [External Link]

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Quoting: PhiladelphusOn the easier difficulty levels I find this to be a great relaxing game, just picking projects and expanding my cities to a chill soundtrack, while on harder difficulty levels every turn becomes an engaging puzzle to utilize every available resource and trick to maximize resource outputs and keep happiness up to stave off defeat.

The easier difficulties can be a bit off-putting though. They are so easy, that I can imagine that new players don't realize that Terraformers can actually be quite difficult; except for the first few games where you are stuck on easy mode.

The game is really challenging on "Utopian" and above, but you need to grind through easy mode a few time first, to unlock both, the difficulty levels and the cards needed to win them...

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This is my current "just one more turn" game... The good thing is that a single playthrough doesn't take more than a couple of hours, so I can usually stop at some point during the night.

I'm exaggerating, of course, but it is extremely captivating, as you need to balance a ton of parameters with very limited options.
I can definitely recommend this game for everyone who likes card-games and turn-based 3-X.

(A word of warning: I haven't seen any bugs in 1.0 yet, but the last Early Access build was still quite buggy.)

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am I missing something big here?

Definitely yes. I played it on the Switch, and it's an incredibly good exploration game. In the beginning it's a bit stressful, because the survival aspects dominate. Once you have crafted the tools needed for a steady supply of food, water and electricity, the focus definitely shifts towards exploration though. The progression is also pretty well done. The list of objects you can craft gets extended constantly, giving you a nice feeling of progress. Also, you uncover more and more details about the history of the planet the game is set on, which gives you the information you need to win the game.

I don't know if this applies to the PC version too, but the Switch version has very annoying clipping issues though. Some mid- and late-game enemies have a nasty tendency to swim through walls. I guess that faraway objects don't have collision enabled...

Also, animations while on land are a bit clunky. Just don't look at your character's feet...

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It's also available as a flatpak, and runs nicely on Steam Deck :happy:.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: WorMzyBoo. How will I play over SSH now?

ssh -X

I don't even want to think about the bandwidth usage... I somehow doubt that the game supports xdamage reporting.

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