Quoting: PhlebiacWhat happens when the host creature gets an itch, and rolls over to scratch all those pesky parasites on its back?

Given its biology, I'm not sure it can roll over. :dizzy:

I'm kinda interested in how your villagers get up there in the first place though—the game kinda glosses over it.

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Cool! The demo already worked fine with Proton, but this is still good news. It still needs some polish, but it's a promising seed of a game and the 2D hand-drawn sprites in a 3D world make for a pretty interesting graphical style.

When you open the demo there's also a big splash screen photo of the dev team, and it made me think about how we never really see that in games. Sure, there'll probably be a list of credits when you finish the game somewhere, but seeing that photo reminded that games are made by real people, not just a scrolling list of names on a screen. It really humanized them in my mind. I dunno, it just stood out to me because I can't remember another game that did anything like that.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAs we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers. :grin:

Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.

I didn't set out to do that, but once "Palimpsest [External Link] Pals" popped into my head I couldn't not think of alliterations. (Bonus one that didn't make it into the post: Scroll Summons, to go with the physical recording media theme. I just liked Hieroglyph Helpers too much. :grin:)

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Huh, I played Star Wars: Episode I: Racer maybe two years ago or so on Proton. Though I remember it had a game-breaking bug at first where it acted like I was constantly holding down "right". I did manage to fix it somehow (I've forgotten how), but if that's been fixed so it works out-of-the-box that's good news.

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Quoting: eldakingApparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.

Anyone up for making Gramophone Titans?

As we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers. :grin:

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I remember seeing the World Turtles trailer before. Kinda reminds me of The Wandering Village [External Link] (which also has a solid native Linux version), in the whole "city builder on top of a giant creature" theme.

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Picked it up June 1st, I'd been aware of it but never interested in checking it out before. Can already tell I'm going to have a long history of failed missions with this game. :tongue:

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Quoting: Liam DaweDid an update, the top 10 list is now sorted by play-time as a Valve dev on Twitter showed it.

Ahhhh, okay, that ordering makes more sense to me now. :happy:

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Quoting: eldakingLooking forward to throwing one of those at my friend Richard and shouting "Dick, duck the deck dock!"

May I suggest the slightly less useful but (to me at least) slightly easier to say: "Deck Dock Dick, duck!" :grin:

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As for what's popular based on user play-time, over the last month these were the most popular on Steam Deck:

• Aperture Desk Job

Wha…how? Isn't that like half an hour long or something? Does it have some serious replayability I haven't heard of? Are there a whole ton of Deck owners who have fired it up, played ADJ, and then nothing else, to skew the statistics? Like, nothing against the game (I haven't played it), but I honestly don't understand how that's most popular based on user play-time.

Though I guess if everyone plays it for half an hour it's still as popular as a game that half of Deck owners play for one hour, or a quarter for two hours, and so on… :dizzy: I suppose that says something about the diversity of games enjoyed on the Deck. :smile:

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