Haven't played a good tower defense game in a while and this one seems like it doesn't have extra fluff.

So need to wait for Kingdom Rush Vengeance to be ported...

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Quoting: deathxxxFor me, this is the best pointless game i have tryed and uninstall after 2-3min gameplay.

Looks like I don't really give up that fast. If I don't count games that have never worked, least time I have spent with a game has been six minutes. There's lot more that I remember giving up somewhere around ten to fifteen minutes. Mostly those are demos though

With Vagrus based on amount of reading you barely get through the intro in few minutes, at least the prologue has bit of a background story before you get into the actual game. Not that the game changes much as you still need to keep on reading. :tongue:

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If you're intrigued, there's a free prologue: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304660/Vagrus__The_Riven_Realms_Prologue/ [External Link]

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I do agree that the wilderness is harsh. I remember that throwing stones was bit challenging, which meant that getting food wasn't easy. On top of that you really have to keep eye on things. Cooking and boiling water is hard, like in real life :tongue:

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As the event is ending soon and some demos might disappear. Here's summary of the good ones from the last several posts. To keep things short, I'll list just games that I'm totally sure about and I wont' repeat the longer review.

APICO
Bees and crafting, what's not to like. The demo has been there before the event, so I assume it won't vanish. Hopefully you only bugs you'll find is the bees though. But maybe it works better for other than me.

LumenCraft
Tower defense like game with mining. Has some learning curve, but the gameplay is solid once you get hang of it.

The Garden Path
Great atmosphere and there's also game in there. If you're not allergic to gardening, try this one out.

Neverlooted Dungeon : Almost Epic Adventures™
There's not too many immersive simulators available for Linux. This one seems to get quite lot of things right.

Woodland Empire
What can I say, I like ecology and nature simulations. Hopefully it's more stable for you than me.

Logic Light
If you need easy puzzle, this one is good diversion for a while.

If you would also tell your favorite ones, now would be good time, as said there might not be lot of time to play the games.

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For today there's more. There might not be time for another batch, but lets see.

Magna Graecia

Tile placement puzzle, be sure to read the rules as there's no tutorial. Basically the idea you expand land by upgrading tiles and you upgrade tiles by placing three similar ones in triangle shape where each tile has two similar tiles next to it.

Seems like good distraction for a while if you have patience for reading the rules. As is, can't be sure if there will be something that will keep you playing longer.

Retro Commander
It's clearly retro RTS for sure. Too bad I couldn't figure out how to launch the tutorial as I would have been wiped out if enemy was there to actually to kill me. There seems to be electricity and resource gathering and stuff like that. There might be good game in there, I just didn't have enough patience.

Hex the Lich
Hex based strategy with strange creatures and strange attacks. Tutorial gets you started, though user interface could indicate better which characters have actions left. Nice thing is that once you get past the level, you can buy upgrades. Upgrades can be new attacks or you can add tiles to your existing attacks.

Might be worth a revisit later, though I usually feel awake enough for strategy games.

Woodland Empire
This is as developer states, it's a city builder, but you place plants and trees instead of buildings. There's some ecology simulation going on and tutorial explains the fundamentals.

In practice it seems bit of a sandbox game with some limitations so you can't place everything right away.

I didn't get bored with it as it crashed and froze now and then. Idea is interesting, though full game would need even more stuff to be more than one hour diversion. I think demo had predators too, just didn't try them because of the instabilities.

Art of Destruction
Art of destruction pretty much sums the game. It's pretty much a toy once you figure out how to interact with it. Tab opens menu with all kinds of disasters. Some you can control, some you can't. There's also three scenarios, the default one is the most boring. Two others are better at killing your framerate.

I have seen better destruction games, but at least the demo is free.

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I had time today only for one and that happened to be Blight

Blight is isometric survival crafting game that aims for realism. Luckily there's two difficulty levels

I haven't played lot of crafting games, maybe some Don't Starve (that order is hard to follow...), Valheim (hey, in this one not starving is actually doable) and Long Dark (why it's so cold all the sudden),. So maybe I have played some.

What Blight has is all kind of bars for stamina, hunger and thirst and the usual. So you at least in the beginning have to hunt lot of wabbits. And chop lot of wood.

Crafting system is bit complex, so there's lot of things you can do with it. What I managed to do before dying was lot of cooking and I made also some chamomile tea. If you manage to fend of hunger and thirst, there's always coyotes and blight to look out for.

There seemed to be bit of a plot also, though I didn't get far enough to see where the plot is going.

It does seem to have some potential. I can see that it's possible to get into flow of just crafting things. Especially if there's some way to get food bit more reliably. I guess this one goes into my try again later if there's time list.

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Quoting: woox2k

Quoting: fabertaweIt's currently moved up to fifth on my all time played list (Steam)

4th on my list with 323h! At the moment it's still going strong but slowly running out of new things to do.

Updates have been good and no negative things to say about them. That's quite unusual with EA titles. Developers seem to have their plans sorted out and the game evolves in a logical way.
I just cannot wait until they do something with the endless greydwarfs that constantly annoy you day and night. In later game they pose no threat but fill your inventory with useless stuff you don't need and always bug you the worst possible time.

I think they at least partly fixed the useless stuff part. Eyes can be used eyescream, wood and stone is usually useful, trophies not so much. Trophies can be obliterated, so you don't have to throw them into the river or ocean in order to get rid of them.

I also use them now and then in order to improve my kung fu skills.

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Quoting: Rejke

Sounds bit like TailQuest Defense. I watched recording of the gameplay stream and even in the demo there are things to do during the wave. I almost found the cannon. I guess I was bit too busy planning for the next wave and forgot about it. Hopefully I have time to take a second look at the demo.

Yes! This is our game :)
I see you are using Gentoo - did you have any problems running our game?

Other than odd thing where I ended up controlling both characters at the same time, I don't think that I had any technical problems. Handily my other technical details are in my profile. And if needed I can paste more information here if it's helpful.

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: AnzaSure, there could be developers who are not testing on Linux. I find more productive to assume the best of people instead of assuming the worst. Developers most likely are just very busy as event has strict deadline.

Yes, reporting issues takes a moment, but they won't be fixing Linux related bugs they don't know about, that's for sure. As bonus they will know that there's at least one Linux user interested in their game.

If I'm an existing customer that discovers a way to make a game I'm enjoying better, or if a developer reaches out to a community I'm part of asking for assistance, then of course I'm going to help. Happy to.

This isn't that. The store page is explicitly and directly an interaction between them as the seller of a product, and me as a potential customer. The demo is an advert that's trying to wow me with how much I'm going to want to buy their product. If some marketing magic has got me to the point that I'm checking out their game and the advert doesn't even work?

Guess what? I am not wowed.

If the advertisement is software, I'm not surprised it doesn't work :tongue:

If it doesn't work on Windows, there will be complaints lot faster.

Quoting: CatKillerOn the bright side, I'm unlikely to remember anything at all about the interaction, so it's not a black mark against the developer for the future. But is it a missed opportunity? Absolutely.

Yes, that's the thing. It really is a missed opportunity. I would think getting more developers out there that know how to make games for Linux that just work would be good thing. It's just that nobody is Ethan Lee when they start out, far from it. But people learn, it just takes time.

Also if they reach out, nobody might notice. Unless GamingOnLinux or something similar picks it up and makes it into an article.

Of course everybody has to draw line somewhere, I don't think anybody here gets paid to test those games. I'm just bit odd that I enjoy testing at work and during free time.

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Quoting: fabertaweI did wonder what all the hype was with this game. Then I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I absolutely love it, it's almost (is?) the perfect game for me :happy:

It's currently moved up to fifth on my all time played list (Steam) and will be securing number one spot eventually! And that's saying something, as I've put a lot of hours into Mindustry.

For me Valheim has already passed Mindustry by 50 hours. Valheim is still on fourth place based on number of hours though. Reaching the third spot still takes quite lot of time. That by no means that Valheim is bad game, it's just that I have spent quite many hours with few games.

I have bit of a quest waiting for me in Valheim. I died in mountain on a remote island. So I'll first have to get there, avoid enemies and most importantly avoid freezing.

Mindustry has changed somewhat since I have played it, so it too might be worth revisiting. Some day.

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