I don't really see a lot of the Hollow Knight specific art style in this game. This looks more like a traditional cartoony style. And while some of the mechanics look similar to Hollow Knight, the gameplay as a whole looks quite different. I mean, ladders? :) Crownsworn definitely looks closer.

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Quoting: JarmerWow .... it may have finally happened. I may have finally found a factory sim type game that I actually enjoy!!! Whoa. This genre always seemed like something that I would love, but almost every game I try in it always falls into two categories for me: too casual / simple, or the opposite: too complex / insane with the mechanics. I just spent some time in the demo for this game and wow, loving it!!! I love how there are no resources / time, no enemies attacking, no residents dying, etc etc. Just freeform building and optimizing. I love it!

In that case, I recommend the first one. It's only a few bucks right now and it'll have you covered until this one releases.

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Looks like something I would enjoy. But since time is limited, this game can take some time to mature before I'll have a look.

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Really enjoyed the first game, so will be trying this demo tonight!

Beginner-friendly factory sim shapez 2

Haha, try saying that after you've built the Make-Anything-Machine in the first game. :grin:

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Quoting: basedStill disappointed Epic removed the UT games for no real reason

Would you say it was an unreal reason?

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Quoting: LoudTechieThe only active protection it can offer is the extra protection flatpak offers compared to

The end of your sentence is cut off.

Wine/Proton could also provide some filesystem protection as it serves up a virtual one. Unfortunately, both wine and proton just map the whole root filesystem as a drive so anything could potentially have a peek at everything. I wish at least proton would be more restrictive in what it maps.

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Quoting: Pengling

For Linux specifically, only 7% said they were developing for it.

I saw the charts posted on another site beforehand, and honestly I found this to be quite positive - has it ever been this high before?

Maybe. Historically, the number of devs saying it has been a fair bit higher than the number actually doing it.

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Quoting: Sojiro84Steam really should add a feature where the user can easily pick a older version.

I have been seeing it too many times the last few years where old games suddenly get a shitty launcher added or, like in this case, a DRM added/replaced that breaks a game that was working fine before.

We can hope.

Technically not that difficult if the game has no online DRM. You can do it manually with some SteamDB data and the steam console, so it shouldn't be that difficult to automate. I don't expect Valve to do this as part of the Steam client though.

I'm not sure it would help this game since it definitely has an online component. But this retrofitting confirms that my refusal to purchase single player games with 3rd party dependencies is the right choice.

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I'm still on 525. There were so many little issues in the drivers that followed that kept me from upgrading and I kind of stopped checking what was fixed in which driver. And since everything I need works, I'm a little hesitant now.

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Looks like they chose a careful middle ground. Sensible for a company like Valve I suppose and I'm all for the disclosure part that Valve has always done on the Steam store (I don't think any other store requires the publishers to specify their DRM restrictions).

Whether it will be good for games remains to be seen. When used cleverly, it might help development or add some interesting things to NPC interactions. But I doubt it's going to bring us anything we haven't seen before. My biggest worry would be that it's going to be used as an excuse for an always online requirement and it just turns into a form of DRM.

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