If you plan to release your game outside of Steam and you want to use a handy installer, take a look at MojoSetup. GOG, the well known game store actually use this for their Linux releases.

A simple compressed archive in .tar.gz or .tar.xz is much nicer than any installer.

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Quoting: GuestHow can they add SpaceBase DF9 to that list? It's abandoned, never completed, and one of the reasons I will never spend my money on Double Fine's games again.

Psychonauts is great, and what they have showcased from psychonauts 2 development I believe in them. Spacebase DF9 was nice for a while, but was abandoned too early.

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Quoting: g000hTo be honest I don't know what rubbish Steam is sharing in its OS statistics. I don't believe it gives a decent representation of the Linux user base.

I don't believe anyone think steam usage is representative for linux usage as a whole on desktop, but I think it is fairly accurate for linux gaming with nonfree games.

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-75% Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! [External Link]. It is niche, but I've bought it, playing it now and quite enjoy it.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Another thing to consider is that plenty of people don't use Steam, taking myself for example, I buy games only from GOG on a regular basis. Taking this into consideration, the number of Linux gamers is higher than one might think.

There also exist windows and mac gamers who don't use steam, and I am not sure that the share of gamers not using steam are higher on linux than windows or mac. Part of the reason is that linux gamers has fewer online stores to choose from.

So yes, there are linux gamers who won't be measured in the steam survey, but there also are windows and mac gamers who won't be measured.

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I think the ideal is having a development team with at least 1 developer per platform.

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I tried Thrills & Chills - Roller Coasters(windows only) in VR last year when visiting a company, and if I remember correctly it was an HTC Vive. The image quality was quite bad. It felt a bit like I was wearing toy glasses that are meant to distort the view during the ride.

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo.. do you ever wonder if you were in Fallout 4 for the weekend.. then you finally popped the HMD off your head, then went outside if you'd start to expect Mutants jumping out of your neighbors backyard? Of course that's assuming they aren't actual mutants already :P

I had that experience recently after playing too much ark on a regular monitor. I started looking for dilos when I was outside.

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It's a great game, not had any issues with it. I'd say it is better in early access than many are when released.

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If I turn down some graphics stuff, then a 3GB 1060 GTX has acceptable performance. Still some graphical glitches though.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI have every Tropico game available in my Steam collection & I keep meaning to play Tropico 5 but I keep getting waylaid by other games like Mad Max & Shadow of Mordor. Would I be missing a lot with only the base game of Tropico 5?

I finished the base game without DLCs and that was fun. Then I bought all the DLCs, started on the water campagin and stopped playing because I didn't find it as fun any more. I think the DLCs probably add to the game, but not enough if you have started to get bored with the base game.

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