Nice! I was given this for Chistmas and have lost several days to playing it so far as well (though have been sidetracked by other games recently). Need to go back and finish the last few levels in the campaign sometime…

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSo many people using Arch?
I would've expected Mint second.

Of course, these stats say nothing about the people that made the report, right?
It would, in theory, be possible that each report is by another person, or that one person is responsible for half the Ubuntu reports.
I wonder how what such a "cleaned up" stat (as in, only one report counts per person) would look like.

While making multiple reports for a single game is allowed (indeed, encouraged to document possible improvements with new Proton versions), supposedly only the most recent one per person, per game is shown, according to the instructions they give.

Of course, the distribution of people who make reports to ProtonDB could be different from the distribution of Linux gamers overall.

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It certainly looks quite similar to RimWorld from the trailer, but yeah, it's hard to judge.

One possibility could be how combat works; in Dwarf Fortress, since constructions are unbreakable, it's entirely possible to set up a completely self-sustaining fortress unreachable from the outside world and just merrily ignore sieges and raids as you go about building your latest MegaConstruction. In RimWorld, trying to turtle like that will simply cause the raiders to start sapping your defenses, forcing you to fight them and meaning you're never 100% safe. (One of the reasons I never got into RimWorld like I did Dwarf Fortress, I think.)

Also combat in Dwarf Fortress is primarily melee; you can set your dwarfs to use crossbows, and this can give you a significant advantage against sieges as you can often mow down (the primarily melee) enemies before they can reach you. In RimWorld, even the starting raiders will have guns comparable to your own, so fighting is usually a slugfest of both sides hiding behind cover and firing till one side gets some lucky hits in. (This is a simplification of course, I know you can get better armor and melee weapons later and use them viably too.) It remains to be seen how combat works in this game, as it sounds like they don't have that fully fleshed out yet.

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Hey, I contributed one of those AoE II reports just a few days ago! :D

Though I don't know if it's included in there; Debian stable is still on Nvidia driver version 390.87, below the minimum recommended value for Proton, so while it accepts my contributions it warns that they won't be shown by default. (I do enjoy the stability of Debian stable, but ugh, graphics driver updates take FOREVER. :()

I don't know if this is included in the data, but it would be interesting to see if there's any difference in the playability of games based on the OS. Like, does the same game run at 'platinum' level more often on Arch-based systems than Debian-based, or vice-versa, or no difference overall? Checked over many different games, of course.

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I love the art style, I just wish it had co-op multiplayer. It's the kind of game I'd love to replace OpenTTD with while chilling with a buddy.

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I'm playing a lot of games I haven't for a long time, due to two factors:

• I had a failing RAM module in my computer that went undetected for a long time (it's my first time dealing with such hardware failure) and made RAM-heavy games pretty unstable. I replaced it, and upgraded my hardware at the same time with more RAM, a better graphics card, and a new dedicated SSD for my games.


• The update to Steam Play that lets you force it for specific titles: I've got a few games that technically have Linux versions which I could never get to work on Linux, but I've managed to get most of them working with Steam Play.

Thus, I've been playing XCOM 2—which I pre-ordered, have all the DLC for, and yet only played two campaigns before, right after it released and before the DLC actually came out. I'm loving the War of the Chosen content! It just adds so much new, fun stuff to play with, and really helps fill out the strategic layer to make it as engaging as the tactical side.

I've also been playing a game from my childhood, Age of Empires II—I discovered it has a few new DLCs I hadn't known about, so I'm playing through the new campaigns and starting to whittle down the frankly ludicrous number of achievements it comes with. :)

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After literally years of hitting that "nothing changed this month" button, I finally have reason to update my info: my brother got me a better graphics card for Christmas (a GTX 1060 6GB compared to my old GTX 750 Ti), and since one of my four 4GB RAM modules failed I replaced it and another one with 8GB sticks. And while I was at it I bought a 2TB M.2 SSD exclusively for games since my previous 512GB SSD (which also had operating systems, /home, etc.) was getting too small. Now I'm able to install all my owned games at once again (~354GB) for the first time in quite some time, playing with a graphics card that lets me max out the graphics settings, and with the recent Steam Play update I'm playing Windows-only games in my library (from the brief time I had a Steam account before switching to Linux) that I haven't been able to enjoy in years! :D

Quoting: LinasProton made me change my mind in the native vs. non-native game discussion. I never liked using Wine, because it was tedious. If something did not work, you'd have to mess with all sorts of DLL overrides, registry hacks, etc. If I wanted all that, I'd use Windows. But Proton made it fun again.

My two primary use cases for Proton are: 1) all the part ones that we never got on Linux: Torchlight, The Witcher, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, etc. and 2) all the games I have accumulated from buying various bundles. I still don't buy new games to play in Proton, because I think a native port is a better option. But if there comes something I really want, and it has a platinum rating on ProtonDB, I might just go for it.

Being a Linux gamer never felt so good. :)

I'm finding myself in a pretty similar place, actually; just a few days ago I found myself seriously tempted for the first time since switching to Linux to buy a non-Linux native game with the thought that if it doesn't work with Proton I can just get it refunded. Interesting times! :)

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Yeah, it's a fun little game. It has a nice range of "seriousness" to it; you can play it just like an actual mini-golf game, or you can add in things like the ability to jump (which opens lots of interesting new routes and shortcuts to try), or go full-on crazy with non-spherical ball shapes, high gravity, or even hockey pucks!

I personally like the music, but yeah, with only a single track for each of the different course it does get repetitive fast.

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Having taken up painting IRL six months ago, this looks interesting! Granted the actual game mechanic is more like photography, but the process of composing a painting is pretty similar to composing a photograph (another hobby of mine)… :)

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Wow, nice, in the mere 10 games that managed over 100,000 simultaneous players, TF2's still going strong! :D

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