Fraid I can't agree with that review. I'm really enjoying this - the multitude of tower upgrades give this TD game a unique selling point. It's also got a lot in common with Kingdom Rush and that's no bad thing - in-lane warriors, missile strikes and para-troopers are similar to KR's knights, comets and re-inforcements, but it's all sufficiently different that I feel that this is £4 well spent.

The pacing is nice, perhaps a little slow, but some of the linked upgrades are fantastic. Linked upgrades mean that you don't just build a flame-tower. Instead you build a MG-tower, upgrade its range, which unlocks a ranger tower. Upgrade the ranger tower with rockets and that unlocks the flamer. It's a neat system and reasonably logical so you don't have too much to remember. But it adds flexibility to your strategy.

So yeah, this a harsh article. If you like TD generally and you like Kingdom Rush especially, you'll love this - it's slickly done and dirt cheap.

Oh - quick edit to add:
1. No fullscreen issues on Intel chip. Perhaps it's NVidia specific?
2. No CPU hogging either, but there wouldn't be on Intel graphics? Perhaps use Nvidia-config to create an app profile for this game and enforce the v-sync on that profile?

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I don't do beta or EA, but I really enjoyed Arma 2 pre-2013 when I still had Windows.

If they do it properly, I'll buy it. But not paying them to test their game for them. Just don't understand the concept of EA...

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Can't quite make out what the Sapphire GPU is at the back, but given that there's a 980 and 970 in there with the R9 390, I hope it's another AMD card. But "AMD CPUs" is good too. A decent mix.

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Mordor got a solid 15 hours from me so far - unlike valczir, I love the combat. You should rarely die in SoM, instead running away at 20-25% health, recouping and trying again. But if you get the combat "just right", you won't be dying much anyway, since you're such a total bad-ass in the game. Even more so than Batman City/Asylum, I can walk into a group of 15+ Uruk and know that there's a solid chance I'll be the last one standing. Hell, there's even a point in the game that puts you in an arena and throws 100+ Uruk at you, around 15 at a time. Magic game. Wonderful.

Otherwise, I'm still hooked on Tales of Maj'Eyal. In fact, at 140 hours, it's nearly competing with my Killing Floor addiction (200 hours). I need to get it out of my system before KF2 is out for Linux...

Finally, it's a straight tie between Victor Vran (epic), Herosiege (epic) and Terraria (epic). All of these are my go-to multiplayer games with my kids over LAN (although Herosiege needs an open port on your router, sadly).

I'm a happy penguin at the moment!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: scaineQuick calculations, then - they sold 520'sh Linux versions, which generated 262 support requests.

No.
~524 Linux versions sold (26200 * 0.02)
~79 support requests for all platforms (26200 / 1000 * 3)
~24 support request for Linux (79 * 0.3)
So about every 20th Linux sale created a support request.

Ta. I thought that ratio seemed high. I think I entered the wrong figure when doing the support requests, as I'm way off on that.

Rethinking my earlier comment too - I think this game is definitely worth a purchase and I might have been simply distracted by the bigger AAA games arriving at the same time. If you see a 30% sale or better, this is definitely worth your while.

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Quick calculations, then - they sold 520'sh Linux versions, which generated 262 support requests. As Fergle notes, a better breakdown of support requests would be good, but ultimately... 520 odd sales? That's pretty pathetic. Five grand to put up with 260 support calls? Terrible.

I wanted to love this game - anticipated it for over a year, soaked up every (scarce) blog post, then when it finally launched, I sank 5 hours into it... and stopped playing. I can't remember why, but I'm fairly sure that it was either XCom, or Borderlands that came along and I just lost interest. That and one of the characters, can't remember who, moves stupidly slowly (he has a heavy weapon, or something) and the fast dude is great... but can't hit jack and when he does, it's for a pittance and he's then blown away. You can mitigate this with various armour types, but the inventory is a bit tedious, and with restricted carrying slots, it sometimes just feels a bit like it's getting in the way of game play. It's hard to keep playing when there are similar, but more accessible games to play (XCom, most obviously).

Considering only 6% (about 1500) players ever finished it, I might not be alone.

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Quoting: LinasIs it any similar to SPAZ or Reassembly? I am a huge fan of SPAZ and I am trying to find a worthy successor.

Reassembly was just brilliant. I think GoL covered a similar, cartoony version of that game recently. I played about 20 hours of Drox Operative, but its progression is more down to steady RPG-style progression, rather than roll-your-own-ship type of customisability. Drox is good, but I prefer the more open mechanic.

EDIT: I was thinking of Captain Forever - [http://store.steampowered.com/app/298560/ [External Link]]

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I'm a good hunter because I bought a four-pack of this a couple of days ago, started it up at 10pm last night for a quick play before bed and didn't get to said bed until nearly 2am. What an incredible game. Absolutely fantastic!

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Quoting: KelsOh wow, Submerged might be headed to Linux? I'm totally in! I saw the trailer for this a few months back and it has that Ico vibe I've been wanting for ages now.

Not a Day One purchase though. Cradle taught me not to trust.

What's wrong with Cradle (apart from a tighter-than-it-should-be FOV)? I thought it was getting generally good feedback.

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Looks superb. It reminds me of Enslaved, which I loved, from back in my PS3 days. Minus the combat of course.

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