Game world is my nightmare as I like porters and stouts. Don't want either side to win. Played demo long enough have a stout. As my mission was accomplished, I quit the game.

More seriously though, I did play the demo bit longer, but got bit stuck and didn't feel like playing the demo all the way through right now.

It's old fashioned with all the faults included. List of hotspots would be nice, though at least so far each screen doesn't seem to have that many. Also verb lists have had more convenient iterations over the years, but at least "look at" is easily accessible. There are keyboard shortcuts, so by learning those you can play more efficiently.

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I tried the demo and it's mostly just frustrating.

Fell into a river. There were some places that looked like they were jumping high. They turned to have invisible walls. Had to suicide at waterfall.

Also got stuck at puzzle for a while which actually just required another spell. That's more my fault.

What actually forced me to quit was non existent camera control. It at least seems that there's no way to turn the camera, so some jumping puzzles are very difficult as you can't see what you're doing.

In addition to forming spells feels bit of chore. Especially if you need to switch back and forth between two.

Though I do feel that I should have another go at one of the puzzles...

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Played the demo quite a while ago and looks like they manage to go bit further with the concept. Demo was maybe just little bit too simple.

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I actually switched my mothers computer to Debian. Ubuntu started advertising their paid subscription and whole thing got too confusing for somebody who just wants to use the computer for simple stuff.

Also I have Debian in a laptop. Too bad I forgot the encryption password, so might as well upgrade to 13 if I can figure out use case for the laptop.

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Oh it was so much worse on so many levels, I'm not going into that mess. The writing was never good in any Dying Light game, and it was never important despite Techland hyping DL2 up soo hard it was comical. The signs of trouble were alarmingly clear even before Chris Avellone was yeeted in the age of Me Too when two women accused him of sexual abuse, they later retracted this and paid a seven-figure settlement for libel.

The writing has had some ups and downs over the years and though has been on upwards trend. Original Dead Island wasn't that memorable plotwise, the memorable things are more on environmental storytelling side. Dying Light was bit better, though not that memorable still. The Following DLC was more memorable and had better ending.

Dying Light 2 is again more ambitious with several moments were choices matter. Side quests are much worse, there's way too much filler and there's just handful good ones.

But still, can agree on that there's better writing out there, even in games.

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If this holds up, The Beast could be godlike. Please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good...

Also make you wonder, if they could make this the entire time then why the holy hell did we get the dead sock puppet DL2 at all. emoji

Dying Light 2 was largely rewritten in middle of development and was then rushed to the finish. I haven't heard anything similar happening with The Beast. So there's chance that it will actually be good.

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I have playing it with gamepad too. What's great with the interface when played with gamepad is that the radial hotspot thing eliminates the traditional pixel hunting. Downside is that there's sometimes so many things around you that important things are easy to miss. If there's many things to interact within the screen, the furthest things away from you might not be in the list.

It gets bit intense, so the save and quit after each chapter is usually welcome option. Luckily game keeps notes about interesting things, so refreshing your memory is always possible.

So far it looks like it really was worth the wait. I might have played the demo back in 2024 or so, e.g long time ago.

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In the devlogs they are testing with Steamdeck, but haven't watched the few last devlogs yet. Should be somewhat playable at least. Some ProtonDB comments suggest turning shadows to low.

I'm not sure if they plan on still doing some additional fixes or is things up to people who have the game files (available through Steam DLC or Blender Studio subscription).

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I'll add few more: Universe Horizon. Store page says that target is to travel across the whole universe.

It's an incremental idle game. It does few things right. There's several minitargets you can accomplish once you unlock them, which gives bit of a sense of purpose in addition of just watching numbers go up. Unlocks are varied, so they change the game a bit. Game progresses also while it's closed

Could use better UI design though, but otherwise solid.

Another simple one is Suika Shapes. Basically you combine smaller items into bigger items while trying to not to have an overflow. Like Tetris, what you get is randomized, so have to make compromises now and then. Usually what you want to combine with is buried underneath of something else, so you need to play smart.

Craze for these kind of games was apparently many years ago, but I missed it. This variant has all kinds of shapes and modifiers. Different shapes stack bit differently. There's even multiplayer, but I haven't tried it.

If you have a Netflix subscription, they have Underwatermelon Fruit Merge, but Suika Shapes as native desktop game feels more responsive, though the Netflix game has nice ideas.

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In my list 8 games that are not free and and released are not sale. Out of 195 in total that can be on sale. Though noticed that some games are on sale for a week. Could be that they were on sale before the event started.

If somebody wants to protect their wallet, just buy Balatro and start it up. Might take your mind away from the sale for week or so.Though downside is that Balatro is not free, so you have to spend money in order to protect your wallet.

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