This game looks appealing to me too. Sci-fi setting with similarities to Slay The Spire, Darkest Dungeon, and other turn-based titles. I'll be watching out for the imminent release.

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<- another buyer, kerrr-ching!

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Grabbed myself:

NEO Scavenger
Hypersensitive Bob
Save The Dodos
AER Memories of Old (Unity bundle lowest tier)

As well as the free giveaway games (for collecting tokens):

Braveland
Meadow
The Tiny Bang Story

Still waiting for:

Into The Breach - native Linux version

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Having considered getting it for a while, I finally decided to pick up NEO Scavenger [External Link] which is currently at 75% discount on Humble and includes the Steam key and DRM-Free Download.

I'm quite used to playing games with a survival-based theme. This one is tough, but also rewarding. You really have to consider your actions carefully. Also, every play-through you're able to learn from your mistakes in your previous game, and try to not make them again. There's a lot of common-sense and realism built in.

In my last game, I'd managed to find a sleeping bag, through scavenging. Crafted a sharpened spear to fight off opponents. Built a small campfire, and upgraded it to a bigger one. Made myself a sack for carrying more items during foraging missions. Killed animals, and roasted the meat. Poisoned myself by eating the wrong plants. Tried to recover with a lot of rest and warmth. The campfire attracted feral dogs, and after fighting for a while, my increasing wounds and illness brought me down. I feel I did pretty well, considering how unforgiving the game is, and the fact that I had found very few genuinely useful items during my foraging - RNG rogue-like play.

Three more Windows games I played - or rather tried - with Steam/Proton/WINE:

Fallout 3 GOTY - I tried this, but it failed for me - I'm aware that there are tweaking steps involving xlive.dll and using "/tmp/proton_run msiexec /i /path/to/xliveredist.msi" but I don't have and couldn't find "proton_run" (The command "find / -name proton_run" does not find it on my PC. Could not find it to download.) Running Debian Buster and trying latest Proton beta (after the more stable one didn't fix the problem.)

SCUM - Just a little bit more testing. Yes, it works. Mostly not bothering too much with it, because preferring better performance and game improvements before I get stuck in.

Skyrim Special Edition - A little more testing. It works, but not the NPC audio (which is quite important to enjoy the game).

Anyone know if I should delete the Proton directory if I upgrade from 3.7-3 to 3.7-6 ? (Obviously, I've restarted Steam.)

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There's a big Artifex Mundi bundle for sale here [External Link] right now. Not for this specific title though.

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For a second there, I thought it was the norm to be at equal position to Windows release - Nah, just kidding. Hey, it's okay by me if they delay it a bit. They want to do support on one platform at a time, and quash the bugs on platform number 1 before stretching to platform number 2.

Saying that, there are Developers who *can* manage simultaneous release. (It is pretty rare though.)

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That video looks very cool. I think I need to check this out properly. My backlog keeps on expanding :/

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Quoting: KuJoScum has gone ...

After the last patch with which Easy Anti Cheat was implemented, surprise, the game with Steam Play/Proton is no longer playable. In multiplayer you are always kicked by the server. But I think singleplayer is still possible.

Yes, I've tested it for myself, and if you play SCUM with Steam/Proton on Linux, then Multi-player servers immediately kick you off. But also noting, it is Early Access, and the Devs are intending to bring it to Linux, and then the Anti-Cheat problem is resolved. I've been happy to buy it early, and willing to give the Single-Player a good try. But, I'm not expecting it to be worth picking up for most Linux gamers until it is out on Linux natively.

My game usage will be visible as a Linux player to the developers. Plenty to do in Single-Player. The performance (smoothness, frames per second) and game play (e.g. boxing zombies) are not that great for now, but it *IS* Early Access, and Steam/Proton tech is also going through improvements too. Hoping I'll be playing the native Linux version in 6 months time.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: g000hAlso as someone mentioned on the SCUM release thread, due to the recently added EAC anti-cheating tech update, SCUM isn't allowing my Linux/Proton system to game on Multi-Player servers :/ Instant kick.

That game, too? And you paid for it? (I got kicked on Darwin Project due to that) These EAC guys are really skrewing us over. A more coordinate approach against their prejudiced exclusion attitudes should be taken.

This is likely to be the case with any Anti-Cheat technology implemented in Windows Multi-Player titles. RUST has Anti-Cheat too, but because I'm playing it natively under Linux, I'm accepted as a regular non-cheating player. Noting that SCUM is Early Access, and the Devs have said they're going to bring it to Linux. I've got plenty to do in Single-Player anyhow. Maybe Steam/Proton will do something about Anti-Cheat tech for us in future. I'm not expecting to play SCUM properly until it is ON Linux, which is probably 6+ months away. Native play and ongoing improvements will likely make a big difference to the mediocre performance too.

N.B. My Steam/Proton play counts as Linux, so it encourages the Devs to support our platform.

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Played Slay The Spire, which is a highly recommended game - From purchase, 5 months ago, nearly done 200 hours in it.

Braveland - got it free in Humble's Reward give-away - Played for an hour or so. Working good.

Testing out Steam/Proton/WINE with:

The Legend Of Grimrock II - Played about an hour so far, and it is playing great.

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Special Edition - Played for an hour, then modded it with the Unofficial Fixes mod, and played for another 2-3 hours. Playing well, APART from the NPC audio (silent). I think there is some sort of fix. Subtitles ON helps.

SCUM - As it is most likely going to come to Linux, and some people have had success with Proton, and the EA price isn't bad, and the game appeals to me - I decided to buy it. And played for about 3 hours on Proton. When it first started up, playing Single Player, the graphics were painfully slow for me at 4K resolution. I then tried various things, the command-line switches mentioned here [External Link] and eventually went for cutting the resolution to 1920x1080 and the use all cores command-line, not the sm4 command. At those settings, it is running decently smooth for me. One thing for me doing this, I needed to go into SCUM Settings, select Windowed Mode, and then select Full Screen mode, to get it to fill the screen (while I'm running a 4K Gnome desktop). The game looks very nice, but Early-Access play leaves a fair bit to be desired, particularly hand-to-hand combat versus annoyingly-tough zombies (that RUN). [As a regular player of Rust and 7 Days To Die - I much prefer the game play in those games at this stage.] Also as someone mentioned on the SCUM release thread, due to the recently added EAC anti-cheating tech update, SCUM isn't allowing my Linux/Proton system to game on Multi-Player servers :/ Instant kick.

Monster Slayers - Another Windows game, working perfectly in Proton. Played a couple of hours. It's another Card-type game. Already owned it on Windows (some bundle) so decided to give it a try.

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