Quoting: elmapulwhats sci-fi about it?

The trailer's music!

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This looks superb. Reminds me a little of Rochard. Very impressive. God I love Godot.

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Despite the low-res, old-school graphics, this game is such a gem. Better played with friends admittedly, and I recommend turning off the Minotaur, which is like a timed event to push you through the dungeon quickly. Without the Minotaur-timer mechanic, you can really explore each level of the dungeon and enjoy the rooms, their traps, and of course, their treasures! Great fun.

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Quoting: CatKillerI've been playing Dishonored. I got most of the way through it on the PS3 back in the day but got distracted by something else and never went back to it.

That one and the sequel had good reports on protondb so I picked up both of them on Steam, although I've only tried the first one so far. It works perfectly in Proton, although the Xbox button prompts when I'm using a PS3 controller are quite irritating.

Still my number #1 game of all time. Although I played mouse/keyboard, so I didn't have the controller issue you're seeing. Also, if you like the campaign, I HIGHLY (HUGELY, DEFINITELY) recommend the Witches DLC. The play mechanic is even better in the DLC (time freezes when you blink). It's amazingly good fun, and it's a long campaign. Highly recommended.

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Humble Choice is surprisingly AAA this month. Lots of Windows only titles, sadly, but here's a breakdown from ProtonDB. I'll be subscribing this month, so I think I'll help with some of these reports when I get a chance.

Native:
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

Platinum:
Vampyr
Genesis Alpha One
Little Big Workshop
Through the Darkest of Times

Gold:
Hello Neighbour (but mostly platinum reports, probably just needs more to push it up)
Automachef (but again, mostly platinum, just needs more reports to push it up)
We Were Here Together (wouldn't touch these devs with a bargepole after they dropped native support for their earlier titles

Silver:
Wargroove (game is platinum, but needs a launch command --skip-intro, or it crashes on start. Also, this has a useless Linux build, so you have to force Proton, or it crashes on start with or without --skip-intro! Such a shame. I'd have bough this at full price months ago if it supported Linux.)
Call of Cthulu (good reports but only if you install media foundations
American Fugitive (as above, needs mf-install, then seems to be getting good reports)

Bronze:
A Case of Distrust (3 borked reports, one guy says it works fine...)

As for what I'm playing - well I've been sick the past few days, so not a lot! A little Killing Floor 2 via Proton, but I'm utterly hooked on Core Defence. It's a fantastic old-skool Tower Defence, but with a modern take, and lovely, if simple, graphics. Very, very addictive. Managed my first perfect run, on the fourth attempt. I love the progression in this game - it keeps me coming back for one more try!

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Reminded me to buy this actually. Just done so on Itch - thanks! I love my TDs, so I'm really looking forward to this, having read your earlier review!

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Quoting: scaineThe exact moment that this game saves when I shut it down (ala Tales of Maj'Eyal), I'll buy it and invest many hours into it. It has huge promise, but if I have hours to invest in gaming on any given day, it's going into "better" games (by which I mean the games I find truly compelling/engrossing - FPS, VR, Co-Op). So when I play games like Stoneshard (and ToME), I need to be able to dip in and out.

Wait, does this mean you can't save at any given time in the game? That would be a huge no-go for me.

I really like the art style of the game. But from what I've seen on YouTube so far, I find the movement quite awkward.

As Liam notes in the article, the biggest gripe about Stoneshard (other than its difficulty) is the lack of a save-anywhere mechanism. You can only save in towns or other obvious checkpoints. The other gripe I hear a lot is that there's no auto-movement, so making your way from the village/town and into dungeons and then back again is apparently pretty boring.

I played the prologue, which is apparently not really amazingly reflective of the "real" experience, but I haven't played the full game itself. If they add save-on-exit, I'll buy this for sure. As it stands, I'd just never play it, so it would be a waste of money.

I'm also heavily invested in Tales of Maj'Eyal, so... it's already got a mountain to climb there. ToME is an eight year old masterpiece. I have over 300 hours in that game, and I've only really played one character!

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The exact moment that this game saves when I shut it down (ala Tales of Maj'Eyal), I'll buy it and invest many hours into it. It has huge promise, but if I have hours to invest in gaming on any given day, it's going into "better" games (by which I mean the games I find truly compelling/engrossing - FPS, VR, Co-Op). So when I play games like Stoneshard (and ToME), I need to be able to dip in and out.

It's a weird omission for a turn-based RPG.

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I've only played about 4 hours of this, mostly a single session, with my boys (aged 12 and 14 at the time) and I can honestly say that I have rarely laughed so hard since. I picked up a random ring, put it on and it turned out to be cursed, randomly teleporting me around the dungeon every 40-60 seconds. Absolute chaos and, since I was the party's healer, lots of fun moments of me running up to heal one of my sons, only to hear the "tweeeyurp" noise and randomly teleport before the spell completed. We still made it about 5 or 6 levels down before dying though.

Great game, despite the retro graphics and highly recommended!

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Amazing game. Like HeroSiege, only without the racist, sexist CEO.

Seriously this game is an immense, intense Diablo-like that I've already sunk about 40 hours into, despite the "EA" tag. Just brilliant - great character selection, great customisation, great loot, great enemy variety and it's got this whole "chain kill" thing that keeps you moving around the level to try to get a bigger chain score... very compelling.

Not much on story, but when the gameplay is this much fun, who cares about the narrative?

Cheap as chips for the amount of content too - just over £7 here in the UK. My only minor gripe is that there's no online co-op. That would have made it like a top-twenty pick... it's that much fun.

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