Just for the record, Urban Games is form Switzerland, not Germany. The voice in this video is from A you-tuber named tom.io, I think he is from Austria, not sure though. (Not that this matters at all.)

@Mountan Man, I never understood the bad reviews Train Fever got. I like it, although it looks like the developer have abandon it to make this one. Train Fever is using there engine, not unity and they managed to support Linux, Mac and even Windows. :)

I don't think this will be a City Skyline clone. This will be more a transport than a city simulation but I can be wrong.

What I miss is something like A-Trains 9 or an updated version of industrial tycoon. A real train simulation like Trainz would be nice too. Now that I know that tom.io is working for them, it might get a little bit from A-Trains because thats one of the games tom.io is playing a lot on his youtube channel.

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First I thought this is something like Kairo [External Link], but it looks like there are no or only a few puzzles. However, for €2.99 I think I will give it a try.
According to steam, there will be a 50% of on the Linux and Mac release week.
I am not sure but do there really sell so much more by 50% off? €2.99 is not much at all I think.

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I hope it is a farming simulation, like "Landwirtschafts Gigant" (http://store.steampowered.com/app/259910) ;)

As far as I know there is nothing like it for Linux yet.

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@boltronics: Thank you very much for the manual and the script.

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After I played some Hearts of Iron IV last week, which was a little disappointing, this weekend I play Stellaris again. Have to try to get my mushroom people to rule the galaxy :)

But there is an other game I bought almost a year ago but never tried it. 12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power
The big surprise, after playing part I and II, this part III does not start. After some investigation, it turns out that this game segfaults. According to the steam forum this game never worked on linux. Even this is only a €2.99 game I thought writing to the developer can not be a bad thing and I actually got an answer after only an hour with the following text: "We'll update linux builds soon!"

Not sure what I should think about it. Maybe there really did not know there was a problem.

@boltronics
Do you have a link with a description how to build wine? I tried but there is a problem with the freetype dev lib because it can't be installed in 64 and 32 bit. Most games need the 32 bit wine version. (I could use a chroot environment but it will take some work to setup one.)
I like to try A-Trains 9 again. It works but has some very annoying background flickering which makes it impossible to play for more the 3 minutes.

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Not sure I like this summer sales. I already have 282 Linux games in steam, to much to play already. But somehow the collector gene is strong in me, hope I can resist and don't buy to much :)

At the moment, the game on top of my wish list (Stars Beyond Reach) is not released yet. Then there is this one, Harvest: Massive Encounter, but I'm not sure it will run on my screen without tweaking around with xrandr.

This would be interesting too Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide, but the discount must high. €30,- for this DLC is to much I think.

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Just played the tutorial (Italy). My first impression is, it is more complex then Stellaris but the Stellaris tutorial is better. There is only text to read, no voice for example. But I think, after the first 2h, it will be a lot of fun playing more.

No problems so far, everything was stable. The graphic settings are all at max.

What I don't get, there is a "special" German version. I bought the Cadet edition in steam from within Germany today aftere release but I can see the pictures from the Germans. There is a German portray DLC installed though. Maybe someone made a mistake by Paradox or Valve?

(I don't care much about accuracy of the portrays but seeing the pictures left a bad taste. Thats might be because of the many documentary films I saw about that time. However, HoI4 is a strategy game and from the game point of view it is very abstract. Far more abstract like CoH for example.)

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The last weeks I played X Rebirth and Stellaris since the last patch. A little bit of War For The Overworld, Grim Legends 3 and Zenge. And, even if nobody will ever talk to me again, I emit I played some Adventure Capitalist :whistle: Usually while I'm listen to a pod cast.
Every was working very stable and I don't have any trouble with performance. Only X Rebirth got damaged graphics after a while playing but it does not crash.

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