Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: BeamboomThey will have to add a really, REALLY interesting story and locations for me to bother playing this alone. Sandbox games are just so lonely and meaningless to play all alone now that we're used to play them in company of friends.

I don't know. I think there would be room for a real survival game, where survival itself is an actual struggle to overcome. Not just "click berry bush to survive" as in all those recent games.
Like Unreal World, just... looking good and in realtime ;)

Actually, I do find that 7 Days To Die [External Link] is exactly that type of survival game. I found myself drawn into the environment. The scavenging is realistic. The crafting is realistic. The zombie apocalypse survival is realistic (you against the horde). Environmental effects. Food. All in all a really balanced survival sandbox game. And I really like it when you've done a good job of managing your resources, building your base, and your base design allows you to survive a major zombie horde attack. Plus it has Co-op too. And trading at trader posts. I also enjoy exploring the map, and buildings, which you uncover bit by bit.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ElectricPrismAre all bundles redeem each key at a time now? I prefer to not even have windows games in my steam library.

Yes, that is the case.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Do you guys play Pixel Dungeon [External Link] ? I used to play it all the time on Android phone or tablet, but they changed it to include equipment deterioration, and it was a step too far for me. After that change, I was no longer so keen on it. As a rogue-like, I played it hundreds of times, but only got to the end about 8 times.

EDIT:

You can also grab Pixel Dungeon (works on Linux) from itch.io HERE [External Link] as a .jar file. Then run it via Terminal with "java -jar desktop.jar"

Plus, the itch.io version appears to be the earlier one, before item deterioration was implemented :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'm pretty much only interested in Starbound from the bundle, as I already own many of the others. Also, the percentage of Linux games isn't "fantastic" either: 11 out of 27 = 40.7%

It is a pretty good bundle for people who don't buy many games or who are just starting to buy games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

It is worth noting that there is a Season Pass available, as well as this separate DLC. 11 Bit Studios are planning to release two future Story DLCs to follow this one. Get the Season Pass and you gain all 3, as soon as they're available.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: poisond

Quoting: g000hAll I was doing was sharing my view on why the percentage Linux gaming market-share stands the way it does. To summarise - It looks worse than the Linux user market-share, because a lot of Linux gamers resort to other platforms because their favourite games are not available on "our" platform.

So you assume every Linux user is a gamer? That's a bit silly, don't you think?

Stop trolling please.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: NodYou really should check out iBomber Defense Pacific [1], its like a military themed version of Kingdom Rush. Its pretty old now but still a great game.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/206690/iBomber_Defense_Pacific/ [External Link]

Think I'll add this to my wishlist as well :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I wasn't forcefully encouraging people to not play on other platforms. Also I wasn't intending to guilt-trip people either.

All I was doing was sharing my view on why the percentage Linux gaming market-share stands the way it does. To summarise - It looks worse than the Linux user market-share, because a lot of Linux gamers resort to other platforms because their favourite games are not available on "our" platform.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: wojtek88@g000h While I love Linux and I love playing games on it, I am not going to forget about Sony titles. I have PS4, I play on it all the time. The only rule I have is: Never buy on PS4 games that are already released on Linux. I can't see how would I help Linux gaming if I weren't buying Uncharted series games...

Well... two obvious ways to me:

1) You spent your money on a PS4 game rather than an Linux game. One less Linux game being bought and going into the analytics.
[You don't feel you would be doing more Linux gaming, if you hadn't bought a PS4 and PS4 games to use on it?]

2) You're playing a PS4 game instead of a Linux game. Hours of Linux gaming being lost in the Steam/publisher analytics.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

One little detail I feel like bringing up about Linux gamers: WINE compatibility layer.

It seems to me that plenty of Linux people who play games are not sticking to Linux to do it.

Some boot up consoles to play console-specific games (e.g. Horizon Zero Dawn on Sony PS4)
Some boot up to Windows to play Windows-specific games (e.g. Player Unknown Battlegrounds)
Some play Windows games via WINE on Linux (e.g. Witcher 3 or Skyrim)

My problem with the above is that it isn't helping Linux gain traction. All those Linux users, who play the above non-Linux games are bringing the Linux percentage down. It's not so big a deal if the game isn't sending usage analytics back to the game publisher or back to Steam, but when it is, then it is making Linux userbase smaller than it actually occupies. (i.e. If that Linux user was playing a Linux game instead of a Windows / WINE / console game.)

My feeling is that Linux user percentage worldwide could be as high as 3 to 4 percent. And, that userbase would play more games on Linux, if those games were available on Linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments