I browsed through the list and I have played demos of Nine Noir Lives [External Link] and Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit [External Link].

Last time I played the Nine Noir Lives demo, it had way too much dialogue. Some of it was funny, but still there's a limit. If I remember correctly, demo is relatively short.

Crowns and Pawns is also adventure game. Based on the demo it seemed to be pretty decent. For those with pixel allergy, graphics are high resolution. Not hand drawn, but high resolution and hand drawn is rarity.

Hopefully I have time to try at least few of the demos that I haven't played before. Based on previous years, large number of them are likely broken (most common reason being missing executable), but can't know before trying.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: undeadbydawnSuccess!
Turned Steam Overlay on and everything worked instantly.
I'm somewhat curious as to why I've never seen this mentioned anywhere else, ever

Probably because... why would anyone turn the steam overlay off, unless its known to cause problems (about 2 games in my 1000+ library)?

I guess it varies. I don't remember that turning on Steam overlay would have fixed anything, but I have had quite more than two games that would crash on startup if Steam overlay is enabled. That didn't use to be that case though when I had nVidia. The whole thing started when I switched to AMD.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: rustybroomhandleAnd the selection still seems super random. But then I keep seeing people excited to play things on Deck that I have never even heard of. So maybe not so random.

They are still focusing on testing games owned by Deck reservation holders right? So I guess peoples Steam libraries are quite random?

If you look at the Jackbox games, for some reason 3 and 4 haven't been done for some reason. Even tho the others have. Just odd.

Maybe they're still testing them. Need to play just one more round of Trivia Murder Party to be absolutely sure that it works on Steam Deck...

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Quoting: mirkobrombin

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut if you don't update your Wine version, it'll be old Wine in new Bottles.

Ya, not. You can use wine from your system but Bottles will still install its (constantly updated) own and will always default to that.

Edit: Oh wait, maybe that was a joke :S

According to history books, oldest Wine is 28 years old. I wonder if you can put it into Bottles anymore...

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Quoting: pytrys

Quoting: Alm888Steam Deck Verified. Linux is not supported.

A nice example that "Steam Deck support" /= "Linux support".

Exactly what I have said long ago, glad I am not the only one.

There's no requirement for having native version of the game for Steam Deck. If game works nicely with Proton, there's no rush to do native port. Based on the amount of native games in general, Proton is good enough for large number of developers.

Of course native would be nice, but I wouldn't hold my breath :smile:

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Liam DaweI can confirm that with Proton 7 there are problems. After 20 minutes or so it stuttered to a crawl and then froze up tight. Could only hard reboot as whole system was unresponsive.

Sounds like out-of-RAM. You could monitor it with mangohud to confirm.

I was, it was not out of RAM.

There could be multiple different causes. One of the more common could be busyloop. These days it would have to be consuming all the cores in order to cause freeze. It would show up as high CPU usage.

Running out of memory causes lot of disk activity because of the swap usage. Processes that are moving back and forth between swap and memory can slow down to crawl. In case of actually running out of memory, OOM killer would do some cleanup and things would be fine again if it didn't have to kill anything important.

Heavy disk usage in general can cause things to slow down, but affects only processes trying to access the disk. In order to see these, memory, swap and disk usage would have to be monitored. For something to happen, process would have to be in busyloop that's constantly doing something with the disk. Doesn't seem that likely.

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I got my first unsupported game: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition

Could possibly be the only one, but sometimes it's hard to remember everything that's in the library :tongue:

I don't buy VR only games, so that must have been bundled with Hellblade. I don't buy multiplayer games as such either, but there's always possibly that there might be one that I have bought for single player.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: mindedie

Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: Purple Library GuyValve is frankly a really weird company. I'm sure all the other companies look at it and think, to quote a certain Dr. from Austin Powers, "Not Evil enough".

Why would they? Valve is nowhere near the open source contributions of other closed source companies (e.g. Apple & Microsoft).

Comparing private (game related software and limited hardware) company with few billion in pocket and few hundred employees with mega software and hardware (hundreds working on input devices alone) corporations with hundred of billions and counting employees in hundred thousand plus...

Ha, yeah was going to mention in my previous post, the key here is Private Company. They can do whatever they want, and don't have shareholders to please.

I guess it really makes sense for the stay that way. It's not like they need extra funds in order to be able to do stuff.

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Quoting: PangaeaI'm glad most are opposed to NFTs. Next up: Let's kick out micro-transactions too. And gambling boxes. Get back to actual gameplay in games. That would be nice.

If you play just indie games, your wish is already true :tongue:

Though more seriously it seems that in case when maximizing profit. Based on that list it seems like that if something is too unpopular, there's no guarantee it will be gone for good (only exception is if legislation forbids it) . And there will be always more things to try. Only alternatives that I can see are to sell more copies of the game or rise the price of the game, which in turn means that it will sell less. Though the question is how much profit is enough?

As customer only options seem to be complain loudly and not buy games that use those methods.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaValheim is great (though I agree on death making you lose hours of XP grinding is a chore).

Only thing that bothers me is the really slow rhythm of updates. I mean, it's nice, stable, and well balanced, but when you see the list of the *new* things we got since the initial release, it's a bit thin. Of course, there's also the possibiliy of a billion hidden features awaiting to be tested enough to make it to release, but somehow I doubt it.

That's downside as Iron Gate at least for now values quality over content. They wouldn't have enough people anyway to produce constant stream of new content.

Additionally as you mentioned, there really are several things that you just have to find out, everything is not advertised in the announcements. Which means that you need to create new world in order to find those things.

That combined to fact that at least for me, it's much easier to start playing something new than replay something old. It's tricky indeed, but I doubt things are suddenly going to chance.

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