I don't bother to write down if something is actually native or not. How things work out usually is native build might be planned, but if you actually try to play it, it's missing the Linux build. These days I have Proton enabled by default and checking if something launches via Proton or not can be bit of detective work, if things work smoothly.

Quoting: NezchanWizard With a Gun (Steam Play) is a twin-stick shooter with a great aesthetic, mostly made up of mashing Bastion and Don't Starve together. That said, it's got a pretty cool gameplay loop involving progressively going back in time, and taking repeated jaunts into the gameplay area on a timer before you have to bail and return to your home base. Could be something really fun.

I gave it a go myself too. It seems bit more relaxed than Bastion and Don't Starve, but I can see the references in there. There's gathering of resources and crafting. It has been great fun so far.

Rest I'll order from fun to less fun.

House Flipper 2
Clearly a dad game. Basically game about renovating houses. I can see why some people like these kinds of games. There's certain satisfaction in seeing progress. Only gripe so far is that if you for example accidentally paint over something that you want to, finding the original thing that was there is far from easy, so it might actually be easier to just switch the look totally. In general though. if only actual cleaning and renovation would be this easy...

Rise of the Triad
I might have played it more than I played it when it game out. While impressive for its time, the engine limits level design too much.

Fortune's Run
Immersive simulation inspired by System Shock and maybe it of Deus Ex. It's Janky as System Shock and is graphically about the same level, it just doesn't have the same charm and aesthetics. Everything is brown and things are bit hard to see among all the brown. Didn't try though if turning up the brightness would have helped.

Got stuck quite quickly as two of the routes were blocked and probably the route I should have taken was too dark.

Demonic Supremacy
Tutorial goes through probably every single thing game has to offer, which is why completing it takes forever. After all the trouble, you get thrown into boss battle. I couldn't beat the boss and couldn't be bothered to keep trying.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusViewfinder: this one was fantastic. It gave me some real Superliminal vibes, as the core mechanic allows you to place photographs in the world which become real, allowing you to walk into them. The trick is all in the perspective – I needed a bridge, and had a photograph of the side of a building, so I rotated it 90° and it turned into a bridge I could use. Later in the demo you get a camera, allowing you to make your own photographs to solve the puzzles you find. There's a nice reverse mechanic you can use at any time which allows you to easily go back to before you do anything (with easy bookmarks for things that significantly affect the world, like putting down a photograph), making it easy to try different solutions to things. Finally, I was going to praise the game's artstyle, when a puzzle late in the demo had me jumping between different pictures with very different artstyles, from watercolor to crayon-drawing to 90's pixel shader, all of which were executed just as competently. And finally, this one had no problem running at 60 FPS the entire time.

I played it too and I don't have that much to add. For me it was buggy with the default Proton version, horizontal turning had quite lot of resistance. Forcing latest stable Proton fixed the issue.

I played also SteamWorld Build. Quite solid entry into the series. Build houses for workers, build infrastructure to meet their demands. There's also Dungeon Keeper like mining added in (there seems to be enemies as well).

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Quoting: GroganSome of those settings don't actually work as advertised yet.

I got killed by a bee hive, spewing toxic gas (or something greenish). I found a perfect shelter, with a roof and working door and everything, but it had a beehive outside at the back. It was a cool spot, kind of on an islet in a creek, I'd have marked that as my home. So I thought I'd burn the beehive with a torch. Oh no, of course you can't do that, that would be too sensible for it not to be a flame retardant bee hive. I stood there too long trying (it didn't take that long) rofl!

Easiest way to get rid of beehives is to shoot them full of arrows or throw a spear at it. With flame arrows you can set them on fire like you wanted. If you're lucky, you'll get your honey production started soon after that.

Of course in order to get those items, you need a workbench for start and then all the materials to make the items.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor the record, since so many people it works for are stressing their AMD kit, I'm also using an AMD GPU, so this isn't an "AMD works, NVidia has problems" thing.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor the record, since so many people it works for are stressing their AMD kit, I'm also using an AMD GPU, so this isn't an "AMD works, NVidia has problems" thing.

I'm in the camp where it works and my setup shouldn't be all that different.

There must be something different though. Just in case if it's some kind of Mesa issue, my Mesa version is 22.2.3. Kernel is 5.15.94 (should remember to update to latest 5.15 kernel).

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Quoting: RomlokUn-wishlisted :(

They saw a "very high amount of non-gameplay-related bugs (random crashing, high VRAM usage, file access issues, etc.)"

Given that a large number of Unity games with native Linux versions seemingly don't experience random crashing, high VRAM usage, or file access issues, I would classify these as likely "non-knowing-how-to-use-Unity" bugs, which will probably bite them in the Windows sooner or later anyway.

Oh well.

There were symptoms of things like that in the demo. First version of the demo didn't have crash issues, though it had some kind of menu glitch. After that was patched, I got to experience the crashes. I might have mentioned that to the developer, but I don't remember getting new releases to test.

Though to be fair, some developers don't have much experience in low level things if any. Exporting to different platforms might be easy, but figuring out what to do when things don't work is another matter.

I guess if you find developer that's willing to learn, keep throwing money that way.

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I played the Steam demo when it was available and Relic Space is kind of space simulator for the impatient.

I haven't had patience for the space sims, so I can't compare properly. But everything is closer together, so completing missions doesn't necessarily take that long.

Also as a bonus, Relic Space most likely releases before Space Citizen.

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Did anybody else get the native build working. For me all I get is the title screen without any kind of menu.

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I didn't expect to have native Linux build back when I played the demo, but this could be second surprise from the games that I added to my wishlist in Next fests. Other one has been Wandering Village.

As for the Terra Nil, based on the demo, procedural generation can be its downfall if it's not tuned right. Basically at least in the demo, waterways were very important of transferring all the equipment away. Unfavorable terrain generation could make or break the game. But have to either try out the full game or wait for the reviews.

Otherwise pretty fun game about maximizing points.

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Quoting: LanzThis is because Valve is a Teal organization, rather than a typical Orange-tier organization (basically corporate communism with layers of bureaucracy) like all of its competitors. To understand how these management paradigms work, I recommend reading Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux. The Valve new employee handbook is also a great resource to understand how Valve implements the Teal management paradigm: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf [External Link]

Valves employee handbook sure is fun to read.

I stumbled also on this article that Frederic Laloux wrote back in 2015: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344 [External Link]

Article is bit lengthy, but it goes through all the organizational modes and dives bit deeper in one teal organization.

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Bit of shame that I have too many other things to do than play demos right now. Maybe I could still try to play few.

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