Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnd while Steam doesn't do exclusives either, for practical purposes Steam has tons of exclusives--all the thousands of games that have never found it worth their while to go on any other site--and now with the Steam Deck, the reach you get from just releasing on Steam has expanded, reducing the incentive to bother with other stores and platforms by a little more.

Yeah, PC (and thus the Deck) already has more exclusives than any console in history has ever had. How many (tens of) thousands of games out there can only be played on PC?

Now, I'm all for making things available on multiple platforms and giving people more Choice™, but I must admit I wouldn't mind seeing some games come out on Linux first with the Windows and Mac ports released some time later. :whistle:

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Here's mine: https://s.team/y22/grckhng?l=english [External Link]
I'm confused why it says "screenshot shared: –" but it also correctly has the PlateUp! screenshot I shared yesterday. :dizzy:

Slay the Spire and One Deck Dungeon would be a bit higher if it was counting offline playtime since I often play those on my Deck offline.

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Yeah, I don't see Vietnam anywhere on that list! :tongue:

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I quite enjoyed Superliminal, so Viewfinder's going on the wishlist to keep an eye on. :smile:

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I read an article the other day (I forget where now) that the change to more realistic textures and over-all darker lighting change Portal from fairly lighthearted and fun into more of a claustrophobic horror game. Anyone notice anything like that?

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There's a thread on the forums [External Link] where someone, suspicious of the rapidly-rising positive reviews, confusedly asked "have all those ppl been playing free DF for 25 years and just waiting for an opportunity to pay $30?"

To which over 2,600 people have responded, mostly with a simple "Yes." :grin:

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Quoting: TheodisI bought it right away. Unfortunately I didn't have much time before work to try it out. Though I did notice that I had to use the mouse to interact with the various menus and that the old keyboard controls did not function. Pressing the arrow keys did snap my mouse to a specific location so maybe I just have something setup wrong or it's not fully implemented yet?

Saw this article today on differences with the Steam version which might help – apparently some of the keybindings have changed and some menus need the mouse.
https://www.polygon.com/guides/23494480/dwarf-fortress-biggest-changes-stream-graphics-menu-keyboard-shortcuts-mouse [External Link]

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Quoting: uzayDoes that mean you can run Linux inside TF2 through Proton in Linux? 🤔

And then run TF2 natively on that Linux inside TF2! 🤣

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was actually thinking less "alien combat" and more "conflicts between Earth, Mars, the asteroid miners of the Belt, and the 'outer planets moons' crowd".

Apparently it has that too, though I'll caveat all this by saying that I haven't played it yet, merely watched a video or two; but basically you play as one of…"several" (I think ~8?) different secret society-like organizations, with the initial stage of the game being consolidating control over a number of modern-day countries in order to start a new space race, where you then expand control out to the solar system. (And as an astronomer whose first love was the solar system, the map and its level of detail has me positively drooling.) So there are aliens, but there are also (many more) other human factions, and you'll be fighting the ones opposed to your take on the aliens (and the aliens, if you aren't one of the alien-friendly factions).

(I'm selling myself on it now, but I need to actually get around to playing Victoria 3 again first… 😅)

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I always forget that macOS is so low now, in my mind it's perpetually at about 5% (I think because that's about what it was when I first started paying attention to these sorts of stats and it just stuck). As the Linux and macOS percentages start getting closer it might be neat to see them both plotted on a plot to try to predict when they'll cross over. :smile:

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