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Vigil: The Longest Night, a 2D action platformer that looks seriously good will support Linux
31 January 2019 at 10:05 pm UTC
Think I'll go play a bit of Salt and Sanctuary till I pick this up...
The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive
31 January 2019 at 9:07 pm UTC Likes: 3
Minor point to the above - Valve is privately owned, so there's not shareholders to pay dividends to. Not only is it privately owned, GabeN owns more than 50% personally. He's valued at just $4Bn as an individual. Richer than Trump basically (assuming you believe his $3Bn valuation... I'm sceptical).

So, stinking rich. Just outside of the top 500 richest people on earth. As an aside, while Epic is raking it in, Tim Sweeney, as CEO, is only (ha!) worth $75m, reported mid last year.
Estranged: Act II, the free first-person puzzle, exploration and combat game was tweaked recently
30 January 2019 at 12:58 pm UTC
How have I missed this? And it's free! Magic find. Looking forward to giving this a shot at the weekend.
The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive
29 January 2019 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 5
Comments on twitter made a good point that this will end up (like most Epic exclusives, I imagine) as 2019's most pirated game.

This decision, by Epic, actually encourages piracy. Denuvo rarely lasts more than 3 months in the wild... and they're wanting a timed exclusive for a YEAR. There are many, many examples of it being cracked within a day of release (Football Manager 2019, Hitman 2, Just Cause 4, Final Fantasy XV, Life is Strange 2, etc).

It's laughable. We'll see piracy like never before thanks to this. It's infuriating.
King under the Mountain, a settlement-building strategy game now has an alpha up on itch.io
28 January 2019 at 1:22 pm UTC
Would be useful for a Rimworld expert to chime in with the differences that this game brings. I've got Rimworld, but haven't invested almost any time into it. Looks pretty similar though, both in execution and graphical style.
Dark sci-fi adventure 'Orphan' lands on Linux and it's quite a ride
25 January 2019 at 1:38 pm UTC Likes: 3
This was recommended to me in the Christmas sale and I wrote it off at the time, because it was Windows-only. So while I applaud them supporting us... it's honestly just too late. If it weren't for GOL, so many of these late arrivals have already been written off by Linux-only gamers like myself.

I don't know what the answer is here - I realise that supporting three platforms at release can be daunting and even counter-productive given our high bug reporting ratio and low-value (marketshare). But supporting platforms months after release will just perpetuate the low-value aspect of our platform. At that point, no-one knows about you, or cares, or worse (like me) has actively ignored your title, so long after the fanfare of the Windows launch.

Maybe it doesn't matter in the big picture - Linux-only gamers are a subset of an already tiny subset (Linux users who dual-boot or play in Wine/Proton), so it's not like it'll cripple them financially.

But I do live by "Tux then bux". I'm still waiting to spend money on Inside, which doesn't look like it will ever get a Linux release. I suppose in this case at least, I'll throw my money on Orphan and the devs can thank Liam/GOL for one extra sale at least.
The magnificent deck-building roguelike 'Slay the Spire' has left Early Access
24 January 2019 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 2
Well, that's Game of the Year 2019 decided.

That was quick.
Reassembly, the awesome spaceship builder and exploration game has its first expansion out now
23 January 2019 at 4:51 pm UTC Likes: 1
Reassembly is seriously awesome. I completed the game with every race, then moved on, haven't played it in years. Maybe this is the excuse I need?
Valve's card game Artifact seems to be dying off and fairly quickly too
23 January 2019 at 11:56 am UTC Likes: 5
Everything Valve produce that isn't HL3, Portal 3 or L4D3 is pretty much cursed from the outset at this stage. I do have high hopes for the new Campo Santo game though. Because that's kind of not really 'Valve'. And I really, really loved Firewatch.
Puzzling machine learning puzzler 'while True: learn()' recently left Early Access and it's good
22 January 2019 at 3:10 pm UTC Likes: 1
I was looking at this title last week and it's backfired a little for this dev - I ended up splashing £5 on TIS-100 instead. And frankly, while it's a steal at that price, it's mind-bendingly tough, made all the more frustrating when I complete a level, only to discover that @Samsai has completed it with one less node, 3 less instructions and about 100 less cycles.

Goddamit, Samsai!!!

I expect I'll try While True:Learn() at some point though.
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