I think I tried docking mine to one of my monitors once for the novelty, then haven't been interested since. I already have a beefy desktop (with the most comfortable, ergonomic chair in my house) that can do anything I could do on my Deck easier and with less hassle, so to me it's basically a way to play games when I'm away from my PC. (Honestly one of the biggest draws of the Deck for me was simply having access to some of my Steam library on long airplane flights, of which I take more than my desired number of zero practically every year.)

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If anyone wants to try it out, it's been released as a mod for Tabletop Simulator. A friend and I went through it today (dying to The Champ in Act 2 with a Silent/Defect combo). There are definitely a bunch of changes that have been made to accommodate its new form, but it does capture the feel of the original pretty well.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI wonder if that makes poison more powerful.

It is, and it isn't. It doesn't reduce over time, which is cool, but you also apply less of it, numerically speaking. The Silent with poison is my favorite way to play, and I didn't notice it feeling either significantly over- or under-powerful compared to the original in this run.

The Defect has a straight-up upgrade, since you no longer have to worry about order in orb slots, you can choose which one to evoke and you can choose the target of lightning orbs. Between my poison and my friend's lightning we'd regularly be doing 2–6 times more damage as end-of-round actions than we'd done during it. :happy:

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Currently backing at the $100 dollar level since I've got a gaming group that will likely appreciate it (though shipping's going to be ~50% on top of that since Hawaii is "rest of the world" apparently). It's not cheap, but it's including literally hundreds of cards and other components which appear to be fairly high-quality, so I don't think the asking price is absurd prima facie. The co-op mode is the big draw for me, makes me want one in the video game now. (There's probably something with mods, I haven't looked.)

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Wider rivers? Color me interested! I don't understand that first bullet point though. How do you build things "over an era"? :huh: Oh, wait, is that supposed to be "area"? (Honestly not sure if that's a typo.)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhiladelphusI'm (happily) surprised to see Potionomics is fifth by daily average user count. :happy: It certainly works fine on the Deck, I just wish they'd add actual controller controls.

No useful user control schemes available?

There are some*, but I mean there's no controller controls in-game and no rebinding controls either, so they're limited to emulating a mouse. You can't use a joystick as anything other than moving a mouse cursor, for instance. Given how the menus play out I don't think adding controller support would be too difficult, so hopefully we'll see that added before too long. And there's always the touchscreen in the meantime.

*And to be fair I hadn't thought of that.

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It's happening! :woot:

Maybe I can actually make the switch from ASCII to graphics with this release, now that it no longer involves simultaneously mangling text.

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I'm (happily) surprised to see Potionomics is fifth by daily average user count. :happy: It certainly works fine on the Deck, I just wish they'd add actual controller controls.

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One Deck Dungeon [External Link] is a pretty good fit for the Deck. It's adapted from a physical game, and they optimized the controls to work with the Deck sometime earlier this year (before I bought it). You have one or two party members (fighter, thief, mage, etc.) with some special abilities, and go through a three-level dungeon fighting monsters and environmental hazards by rolling dice and using them to cover boxes on the card for each obstacle. There are a bunch of different abilities that let you convert dice between the three colors (+ black, which can be any color), change the values of dice, etc., making each combat a puzzle as you try to see if you can beat it using the dice you rolled and your abilities. There's a meta-progression element too where your party members gain XP over the course of games that let them start with different abilities, an extra heart, etc.. Sometimes it can get a bit frustrating when you roll a bunch of 1s and 2s, but overall it's a pretty good (non-time-pressured) puzzle game.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMultiple displays seem to be a problem for Linux in general. I've been wanting to add a second monitor to my setup for a while, but it would require a lot of hand editing of configuration files, and even that doesn't provide a guaranteed "it just works" solution.

What setup are you using, out of curiosity? I've run dual monitors with Cinnamon (on an nVidia GPU) for years and it's always been pretty much plug'n'play.

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Potionomics [External Link] is another recent Verified game that runs fine in my experience. It doesn't have controller support, but there's no time pressure so it works fine to play with the trackpad or touchscreen.

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