Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat looks like a lot of fun. I would probably be absolutely awful at it though.

That's feeling I got from the demo. Biggest problem for me was that I barely had any idea where to go, but things might have been improved and the freeroam mode might help with getting more familiar with the city. Hopefully there are distinct landmarks though, otherwise that will be hopeless.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt seems a whole lot like "Surviving Mars" only on a simple-graphics little square grid. I hope it has some gameplay that sets it apart.

It does. At least in the prologue tile placement plays a important role. Tiles come in all sort of combinations, so getting everything to be perfectly optimal is not that easy. There's no really guarantee that you'll like Farlanders if you liked Surviving Mars.

Terraformers might be bit closer, though it plays more like a boardgame and is maybe bit more closer to Terraforming Mars than Surviving Mars. Especially as vanilla Surviving Mars doesn't have terraforming.

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I have tried it as singleplayer. First free period it crashed on loading level, so I never tried the gameplay. Next time it worked, but I didn't learn to use the bot properly, so I basically just learned what my character can do alone and got tired after that as I didn't get proper support. I had to figure some things on my own too, luckily the waves didn't start right away.

I guess it can be fun, especially if group has few who can play it already.

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I used to play Joe Danger 2 (looks like about 6 hours in total), this one seems bit different as it's clearly a mobile port. Still good fun for a while and it wasn't asking for money.

Remember to use full screen mode in browse, it's easy to accidentally click some other tab.

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Quoting: whizseAfter all these years, still Counter-Strike?

CS:GO is 10+ years old, the original 20+. Time to try something new?

And lose your rank, no way :grin:

Dota 2 also has been there for ages. Multiplayer in general seems to be something that keeps people invested in the game for longer time.

I don't play enough multiplayer games to know for sure what makes CS: GO and Dota 2 to stay on top (competitive games just don't cause any real addiction in me). E-sports could be part of it, but I'm not sure if it explains everything.

PS: it dawned on me that some of the big ones have large presence also outside Steam, so Steam player counts don't give the full picture. So it makes sense that Valve games are on top as they're not available anywhere else.

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I think I played Catacomb 3-D after playing Wolfenstein 3D. Don't remember getting far though. Both games have bit of problem in maze maps and everything looking the same.

I played Doom much more, but that had lot of impressive features and more varied maps.

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Quoting: FifteenthPenIt really does seem like most voters ignored the categories, or have very... interesting ideas about what they meant.

To be fair, within each category, Steam already had selected a few to vote for. In most cases, I'm pretty sure a lot of people voted for the few titles they knew, or had seen in other platforms, without knowing all the options.

For the initial voting, for the most categories requirement was just that game had been released in 2022. So unless Valve cheated, all nominees were chosen by Steam users.

For the final round to be completely fair though, people should actually play the nominees. Even with sales prices, buying the all games gets quite costly, especially as there are so many AAA games. Alternative would be to watch some lets plays, though that's not exactly same as actually playing the game.

So in the end, this is more of an way to increase sales (though as side effect few games might get extra attention that they would otherwise get). It seems to work as few winter sales in a row have been these awards events.

As for Stray, I agree that its strength is not innovative gameplay, so I voted for Dome Keeper. Though Neon White might have deserved the vote even more as it's quite unique genre mashup, but I opted voting for Linux native title.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI haven't looked through all of them, but of the ones I did I note the average gamer here is pretty far above the norm in terms of achievements achieved this past year! (Though Valve don't provide a standard deviation so I can't put it terms of N-sigma outliers.) :grin:

I was curious and glanced through all so far. I'm the outliest outlier of them all with 705 achievements. Then with the bit higher numbers 400 something is relatively common in the over 100 category. But still most common is somewhere close to 100, but not quite.

As for the higher than average amount achievements, also amount of games played is higher than the average. Quite often easiest achievements are closer to beginning of the game, so trying out larger amount of games could cause achievement numbers to rise.

As for larger number of different games, this site is called Gaming on Linux :smile:

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Quoting: Trias

Quoting: ArehandoroThis is mine [External Link], very casual compared to most...

"This account's replay is not shared".

Seems like you forgot to switch your link to public. It's private by default.

Ah, there's at least somebody else that is curious enough to look through them all :smile:

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Quoting: peterlopenseeing those replays makes me feel part of this community, place where I fit in :)
here is mine https://s.team/y22/khwttqj?l=english [External Link]

I don't have controller vs keyboard and mouse section. I wonder if it's because Steam Input mostly doesn't work for me, so I have disabled it in every game that I play or have tried to play with a controller.

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