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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It's not a Paradox game, but the recently-released Terra Invicta [External Link] (by the studio created by the guys who made the Long War XCOM mod) is a grand-strategy game which fits that "early solar system exploration with alien combat" theme to a T.

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I can absolutely recommend PlateUp! [External Link] (sic). It's fantastic, especially with friends – a little roguelike restaurant management game where you have to serve customers and customize your restaurant as the difficulty ramps up over time. It's got very simple mechanics – just a few buttons – but combines them in all sorts of novel and interesting ways to represent making a huge variety of foods and performing various duties around the restaurant. It's also got some really fun automation aspects; as time goes on, the only way you'll be able to keep up with the increasing numbers of customers is by starting to automate your food-production workflow, and in extreme cases people have built restaurants that are entirely automatic, creating food and sending it around on conveyor belts to customers' tables and clearing and washing the dirty plates without having to lift a finger. :grin: (That remains my dream.) Plus, the lone developer is pretty active; the game released on August 4, and it's already had multiple content updates adding new foods, cosmetics, balancing passes, and themed updates for Halloween (where you could get guests who'd randomly set the table on fire after eating 😂) and Thanksgiving. Oh, and the music is absolutely top-notch too. I really can't praise this game enough. :smile:

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Multi-track level crossings to keep road vehicles from stopping in the middle of the crossing.

I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds interesting!

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Based on the title I thought "your wallet running away from you" was going to be the gimmick of this sale (as in, the little minigames and themes and stuff they do). :grin:

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Quoting: Eike

Fixed issue where Steam would be unable to connect in some cases after suspend/resume

That's my main happiness point with it! Often losing WiFi contact when resuming.

Nice. I just ran into this issue for the first time this past week and was really confused.

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