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Yeah, they could do that but both HBS and Paradox have a pretty solid record of supporting Linux so it seems unlikely.

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Stories Untold
Endless Space

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60 hours total.

And I am the opposite of you, I don't see the appeal in short roguelikes. For me, the single most important aspect of a game is the story. If I don't love the story, I won't love the game. Hitman was a fun game and one of the most satisfying shooters I have played in a while, but the story was blah so I will likely not buy Season 2. Oxenfree had clunky mechanics and most of the game was either trying awkwardly to walk or scrolling, but the writing was awesome so I will play through every possible ending.

Sunless Sea had gorgeous writing. Possibly the best writing since Planescape: Torment, imo.

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Of course the meta-progression is all in your head. The meta-progression is knowledge-based and knowledge lives in your head. Lol

It's true that you carry little, if anything, over when you start a new heir, but you now know what options not to choose next time, or what items you need to gather before making a certain trip. It's the gamification of "what DOES kill me, makes me stronger." And it's the relative lack of randomness that creates this meta-progression.

I finished the game in about 60 hours without saving at all so I could get that achievement. It felt great once I realized that Captain Moogie actually had a shot at not dying the same horrible watery death that claimed the last dozen or so of his ancestors.

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Darkest Dungeon was a game I loved originally, and I don't normally go for hard games. I loved everything about the game right up until my best team got 100% killed in like the second room of the titular dungeon. Then I realized that I had zero interest in sinking another 10 or so hours in to get my B-Team up to snuff only to wipe out before the boss again.

Sunless Sea, on the other hand, even when bad shit happened, I still felt like I was making progress. Even if that progress was just "Well, I should never say that again!" I learned something every time so even though the game was just as brutal, at no point did I feel like I had wasted my time.

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I'll wait for some in depth reviews, but this has my attention. I love a good RPG, I find the art style charming, and it's been a long time since I have played a good western.

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I hate survival games, but I love narrative choice games. The closer this is to, say, Sunless Sea, and the farther it is from any of the myriad "hit thing to gain a different thing to craft another thing, oops some meter dropped too low so you're dead" games, the more likely I am to buy it.

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Call me a sucker, but I would buy even a game full of nothing but escort quests in ice levels if it looked as beautiful as this.

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Apology accepted.

And, to be fair, I don't think either of those games fit the Action RPG mold very well either. I do understand your frustration - I am first and foremost a fan of Strategy games but I have loathed every single real-time strategy I have ever played so to see even classic turn-based series like Master of Orion jump to real-time combat disheartens me.

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Your perception is biased. My perception, which is also biased, is that the only two RPGs I have played in the past few years are PoE and Tyranny, neither of which are turn-based.

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