Quoting: TobyGornowI've just finished Shadow Warrior (2013) and I loved it from start to finish. It's a pure mindless shooter/slicer, it's fun, it's beautiful and the Linux port is perfect. What else ?

Shadow Warrior is a great fortune cookie hunter game :tongue:

It's model example how to liven up the old fashioned FPS. Exploration is rewarded in multiple ways, getting further in the level is rewarded with funny banter that sometimes reveals something story related. Gunplay is spiced up with swordplay and magical powers.

I have been playing Graveyard Keeper again as that had new Game of Crone DLC. It's still fun and there were bit of new gameplay and story has again some choices to be made. Game itself is graveyard keeper simulation with some farming thrown in and spiced with occultism. Kind of twisted version of Stardew Valley.

As DLC is fairly short, I moved on to Tropico 6. I tried to finish Tropico 5 first, but it was horribly broken and for me the workaround didn't work. Tropico 6 is pretty much as fun as 5 though, it's still about ruling tropical island as a dictator and gameplay is not drastically different.

I'll have to learn to save few times in a session as it has few game over scenarios and being able to avoid the disaster might need going somewhat more back what's available in autosaves. Or maybe arranging accident for rival could be solution instead of trying to get enough support in order to win the election, I might have been doing that bit too late though...

Though maybe replaying about five years or so is good, because I can avoid the mess altogether. Having the islands as nuclear bomb testing site wrecks up the approval and benefits don't seem to be worth it unless you're desperate.

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Quoting: BigJI bought Stellaris out of curiosity mainly, since I don't have much time for video games! Can anyone suggest a good game on sale which can be played in short sessions?

Stellaris is quite a time sink, luckily there's no one more turn effect, so you can quit at any time. There might not be much progress during a short session though.

As for other games, good game is bit subjective, but I spotted at least Overcooked 2 (playable in single player, but should be even better with friends), Poly Bridge, The Stanley Parable, Kingdom Rush (I didn't check how many of them are sale) and Mini Metro. There's probably lot more.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think is not the right time for a cpu upgrade...

I prefer to wait a year or two until Intel or AMD adopt the DDR5 [External Link] standard

That's the problem. There never is good time to upgrade as there's always something better coming up soon...

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Quoting: undeadbydawnUnfortunately this special even has cranked up the difficulty of DL considerably, with waves of fast zombies spawning every minute or so. This makes it not really worth playing for me as while it isn't 'impossible' to carry on the single player campaign, it is a massive pain to make any progress.
This is a damned shame as I was planning to play this game *a lot* over this week.
For regular play, Dying Light is superb and absolutely worth the money

You can disable the event in the settings: Options -> Online -> Community Event Participation

Thanks. I played again yesterday, i was lvl 2 and couldnt get to do anything whatsoever because there was always a huge crowd of zombies running behind me. It was not fun

At the beginning the game is meant to be played more like ground is lava mentality anyway. Though in the event almost all zombies are virals, so there's no peace on the roofs for long. On top of that stamina at the beginning is limited, so running away is not easy. When you have completed the game, you have a grappling hook, unlimited stamina and a shotgun.

During the event shotgun ammo even lights zombies on fire and visiting safe houses fills up ammo. Though even shotgun doesn't help if you get yourself surrounded...

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Quoting: dpanterYes, I'm serious.
Internet connection is required for all Jackbox games, even for local multiplayer. They absolutely could have made the host serve the session locally, but that's not how they chose to do it.

The JBPP7 Steam store page lists Network: Broadband Internet connection as minimum spec for all platforms. They aren't exactly hiding this fact, but not advertising it either.

Jackbox has bit weird definition of local multiplayer. Yes, players are locally there, but half of the game comes from the server.

In theory you could set up local system like that. Difficulty is somewhat same than standalone game servers usually. If you know what you're doing, perfectly doable. I have no idea if they have ever though letting people run their own servers though.

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: dpanter

designed primarily for local multiplayer

All the Jackbox games require always-online internet connection. Not even kidding... your choice if that's an issue or not. :neutral:

Are you serious? I was considering buying this, since I really like Champ’d Up mode, but this is a dealbreaker.

Phones connect to the game via server. I think getting everything working locally would not be exactly trivial, so they haven't included that as an option.

With the current setup, you just launch the game, game displays a code and everybody types that code into their phones and they're in. That's so simple that even drunk people can manage it (yes, we all miss the pre Covid-19 time). Which makes these great party games.

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I didn't really understand the charm of the game based on the demo. Everything felt so random that I didn't quite feel being in control at all. I have never played the original one though, so maybe I missed something.

But luckily there actually is Linux demo, so no need to buy the game blindly.

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Quoting: no_information_hereThis game looks like quite the change for them. I am very curious how they are going to make it different.

Quoting: denyasisFor some reason, I want to try zachtronics, but the hardcore reputation that seems to come with the games intimidates me a bit. Now this is the kind of game a simple minded person like me could understand!

I can understand your intimidation. I have several zachtronics games and they are all very well-made, and pretty challenging at the same time. I am embarrassed to say I don't think I have finished any of them!

Only one I have completed is Ironclad Tactics, or at least I completed the main game. Expansion was lot harder.

Rest of the games I haven't gotten all the way to the end. Maybe some day...

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Quoting: GuestFrictional and their history of Linux support

their Linux support was always just a guy who does the porting.
The engine probably was using OpenGL from the beginning, otherwise we woudln't have seen the support at all.
They've most likely tweaked and hacked on it but haven't fleshed out the bugs yet.

There was interview [External Link] (spoiler heavy, especially for the older games) where it was mentioned that engine is inherited from SOMA. It was big benefit as they could do better reviews of things they were working on. They really care about that games that they develop are scary and that's harder to prove with few solid low polygon objects.

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I guess Ark Linux desktop version getting fixes could depend on how they did the Stadia port. Sane way to do the Stadia port would be to fix the Linux version and then do some Stadia specific code on top of that.

Not that all code out there is designed in way that it's easy to maintain. Far from it.

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