I'm a bit gutted about Deserted - bizarrely it's one of the more intriguing titles, but only gets the bonus mention, probably because it's doomed as a project. Hopefully it will live on. My kind of game - looks like a cross between Another World and Transistor.

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Damn! I might have to get this now... looks superb. It reminds me of Gran Turismo 2 - long tracks, great variety of cars. Presumably it does the whole "career progression" thing too. Argh! It's Christmas - money is stupidly tight.

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We actually covered this back in July 2014 on the Funding Crowd - and back then the Linux version wasn't confirmed, so it's superb to see this one come good.

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Quoting: maodzedunI wonder it it's possible for a news like that to not be followed by passive aggressive trolling... Guess not.

God forbid anyone criticize the "great" Garry Newman.

God forbid anybody criticize Linux. Anyway, I didn't know who he was, I'm just pointing out that it's tiresome to see all these toxic replies any time somebody says: "I don't have the skill/capacity to support Linux".

If he'd said that, he'd have gotten a ton of sympathy and offers of help. But no, he's only saying that now after several months, if not years, taking the absolute piss out of Linux while making money by offering utterly appalling Linux versions of his Windows games.

Glad to see he's wising up, actually. I'd rather he stick with that attitude - take the SteamOS logo off Garry's Mod and Rust until he's willing to offer the same quality on those titles that Windows users enjoy. But I doubt it. He's only talking about future titles here, so G-Mod and Rust will continue to be sold as a supported platform, yet continue to play second class citizen.

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No SteamOS/Linux icon, but it's 60% off for the next couple of days. Looks great though, slightly reminiscent of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, which I loved.

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Quoting: longshot902Reviews like this really need to go into more detail and provide more data on what is being tested. Simply stating "experience is very disappointing" and giving no real information should be avoided.

What network equipment lives between your host and link? Is it a 5 port piece of crap switch (or worse hub), or a managed/smart switch with proper QoS,

I run my steamlink with a properly provisioned network and a fairly good host computer <snip>.

Here's the purchase page for the Steam Link [External Link]. It says "Wired connection recommended". It doesn't say "Properly provisioned, QoS capable, gigabit network essential". A "5 port piece of crap switch" will still be (way) better than the WIFI minimum requirements, so why focus on that? Incidentally, it looks like the Steam Link itself only supports 100Mb, so Gigabit is even more of a red herring here.

Essentially, this is a case of YMMV. A lot of folk are more tolerant of the audio and stuttering issues than others, but so far, around 130 positive reviews are somewhat balanced by around 35 negative reviews. So 1 in four are having a hard enough time to say "stay clear".

And it sounds like this review is one in the four.

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The mod involved is incredibly hard work. He's not an official source, but as pointed out the article, if the devs actually had news regarding SteamOS, they would have shared it by now. I've spent a small fortune in games over the past 5 weeks or so and had to forgo plenty of excellent material in the process.

This is their loss, not ours.

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As one of the Steam reviews has already put it:

One of the most popular roguelikes of all time has finally made it to Steam. There's a reason why ADOM and ToME4 usually fight it out for #1 and #2 on the Roguelike of the Year awards and that's because they are both bloody good and worth your cash.

Considering my 155 hours in Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME4), I think I might have to pick this up! Right after Alien:Isolation. And Invisible. And Grow Home, Galak-Z and Axiom Verge. Woah, that SteamOS launch sale really pounded my wallet...!

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This is pretty cool news. It's taken, literally, years, but we finally have a Nine Dots game on Linux! Congrats to the devs and I hope the result is reasonably bug free and playable.

We actually covered Outward on the Funding Crowd #44, back in April this year, noting that Nine Dots promised, then failed to deliver on GoD Factory for Linux and that the appearance of Outward on Kickstarter probably signalled the end of any hope of playing GoD Factory on our beloved penguin.

Nice to be proven wrong!

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This article is a cracking way to finish your GoL career, Munts. That was an epic read and since PM was covered before I joined you on the Funding Crowd team, this one has come out of left-field for me and I'll be giving this a go in the near future!

And thanks (again) for inspiring me to join the Funding Crowd team back in 2013!

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