I have played lot of demos:

Good

• Sail Forth
  Pretty nice cute sailing simulator with little bit of FTL style area progression thrown in there
  
• Midnight protocol
  Surprisingly fun hacking game. It expands bit on what could be a minigame in some other game and cyberpunk flavor works quite nicely.
  
• Hadean tactics
  Very Slay the Spire inspired autobattler. Once I got over that and concentrated on just enjoying the game, game mechanics actually seem to work. I'm not sure if it's actually better than Slay the Spire though.
  
• Ray's The Dead
  This one was bit of surprise. Beginning of the game felt like a generic beat'em up game, but there's a twist in the plot that makes it more tactical and more fun game.
  

Pretty good

• Patrick's Parabox
  Unique twist on the puzzle genre. I got bit stuck, but I guess I should have another try.
  
• The Long Gate
  Somewhat frustrating at first as it really doesn't instruct at all what the game wants you to do. Once you figure out what you actually need to do it gets actually bit fun. It takes bit of risk as puzzles are quite nerdy.
  
• DRAG
  Quite challenging racing game. I had quite fun failing though, so basics are quite right.
  
• HyperCore
  Pretty challenging bullet hell inspired rhythm game. I'm not sure if it would be still fun in longer sessions though
  
• Deathbulge - Battle of the Bands
  Music themed game with quite clear JRPG influences. World is quite wacky and there's plenty of humor.
  
• Protomancer
  Pretty interesting space base builder. Hopefully final game has enough content so it doesn't end up as another Spacebase DS-9
  
• Nine Noir Lives
  Comedy point and click adventure with cats. Demo has just so much exposition that it gets slightly tiresome, even when it's funny at times. Developers hinted that they are going to change the pacing for the better, so final game might be even better (though you need to be bit of a cat person get all the jokes).
  

Dunno, maybe

• Growbot
  Cute point and click adventure with bit more original backstory, demo is just so short that it's hard to say if it's good or not.
  
• Fragment's Moonrise
  Seems to be old fashioned RTS, I'll have to play some more to figure out if it has still something surprising
  
• ASYLUM
  Keeps crashing, hard to enjoy at the moment as it is
  
• Port Valley
  Somewhat charming old fashioned adventure game. I got pretty stuck in it, so let's see if I have time to finish the demo on time
  
• Monster Camp
  Maybe this one is better if you have played the first one. For me there was some funny moments, but everything seemed too random to feel like a game.
  
• Mutropolis
  Interesting background story about future archaeologists. Characters could have been more intriguing if they had voice acting
  
• Learning Factory
  Idea might be good, but demo was somewhat too simplistic. It's kind of Factorio inspired game with machine learning and cats.
  

Nope, not for me.

• art of rally
  Almost had fun with this one. DRAG looks much better.
  
• Beat Beat
  Some kind of rhythm game. I didn't get past tutorial. Maybe I'll should try to finish 140 and Bit Trip Runner instead.
  
• ProtoCorgi
  Shmup with dogs. Maybe it was too hard or I just don't like corgis...
  
• Tenderfoot Tactics.
  I couldn't get excited after losing training match. I didn't have any sound, which made the game even less fun.
  

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Quoting: EikeAnybody having luck with Nine Noir Lives?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/914890/eventcomments/2246679252926496396/ [External Link]

I played the demo through. Audio was bit choppy, but otherwise it worked fine.

Maybe bit too dialogue heavy though. Demo is actually quite short if you skip all the dialogue.

Quoting: EikeGot two more:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/990900/Neon_Noodles__Cyberpunk_Kitchen_Automation/ [External Link]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/972660/Spiritfarer/ [External Link]

Not sure if they're new, but they've been on the festival page.

Neither one is new. Both could be worth a try and both have been mentioned here on GamingOnLinux several times. I personally liked Spriritfarer lot more than Neon Noodles. Neon Noodles went confusing pretty fast and I didn't finish the demo.

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Quoting: tomaszgNice. Next step - regex golf! https://xkcd.com/1313/ [External Link]

This might have been inspiration for the comic: https://alf.nu/RegexGolf [External Link]

Quoting: ArehandoroOh man, finally a -hopefully- way to learn better regex!

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWeird. The definition sounds like a straightforward, fairly intuitive thing. What makes them so hard?

The infinity combinations you can get and that they aren't easy to read. IMO is one of the most powerful tool for text search but also a dangerous one (the day you create your RE it totally makes sense and it is hyper intuitive... six weeks later you want to cry).

I see. So the cautionary tale for young programmers is, if you aren't solid in your commenting and variable names, you'll be condemned to use this stuff.

I did some commenting in few regex I had to do at work the other day... and two days later when I revisit them it wouldn't work. Turned out with all the rush to leave the office I had confused some symbols and had messed it xD

The linked site, https://regex101.com/ [External Link] is actually nice for situations like that. It parses the regular expression into components and explains what they do.

As for the crossword itself, it's actually doable and I completed almost all the official puzzles, only the hexagonal one is unfinished.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: BielFPsBut if I check, Steam will hide games which are not flagged as Linux compatible right? If not then I'll change in my profile ASAP

I have it checked and it shows me a lot of games that do not officially support Linux. I think the theory at this point is, with Proton, any game is a Linux game if you really believe.

It definitely affects queues and many elements of the primary store page, but there are lots of exceptions. The setting is ignored for big sales, for example, and mid-week madness. It's also ignored on all the steam labs stuff, like Deep Dive [External Link], which is pretty infuriating, as it renders those tools pretty useless for me.

Funnily enough, you mentioned Deep Dive as an example, which is the only one that honors the Linux store filter. Reason for that was that original implementation wasn't done by Valve and developer implemented Linux support just because people requested it.

However Diving Bell might pick non Linux game to the first set of selections, which is not actually bad thing as you can check if there are similar Linux games available.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: bacattasteam keys ?

Yes, they still are (mostly) Steam keys. Sometimes there is also a DRM-free download also, and if the game isn't on Steam at all it's usually a DRM-free download (with occasional exceptions that are well noted, like Overwatch).

What I read that providing Steam keys is up to the developer. And developer has to request the keys from Valve and Valve has denied few requests.

Trove seems to be just DRM free downloads. So if you cancel your subscription, you can't download new copies, but in practice get to keep what you have already downloaded.

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Quoting: bacattasteam keys ?

Linux support for the others ?

I checked Linux support on Steam and these have Linux support:

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Horizon Chase Turbo
• Desert Child

As for Proton, lot of silver, Dark Future: Blood Red States and Aegis Defenders don't have reports, Dead in Vinland is platinum.

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Quoting: eldakingYeah, steam tags always were a huge mess. The top selling "Strategy" games are... Counter Strike and a bunch of other shooters. But not to be outdone, Hearts of Iron 4 and several strategy games have the Action tag. RPG is applied to pretty much everything, but somehow misses some very normal RPGs. Which have the Puzzle tag because of some dungeon puzzles, but then some actual hardcore puzzle games are tagged only under Strategy. Look, I know that genres are simplifications and many games are in a gray area... but there has to be a better way.

I noticed the RPG problem too, but at least some of the more real RPG:s have CRPG tag and I used that instead of the plain RPG tag.

Usually finding more specific tag helps, though of course even then there might be one or two games that technically kind of fit in the category, but in spirit way too different to the rest.

Some categories could be fixed if there would be possibility to also exclude tags.

Still I wouldn't want to go back to manually maintaining the categories...

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For people making games, bundle gets quite expensive. For Linux support you need latest versions of the tools and they are all in the highest 50$ tier...

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Nobody so far noticed the potential clickbaity headline: "1% of Steam users will use Linux by end of 2018"

In the linked graph market share is rising so rapidly between July and September that if same trend continues graph would reach 1% in end of December.

Though of course for that to happen there needs to be some luck involved (ie. number of Chinese users don't increase, people don't switch back to Windows etc.).

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Quoting: KristianOkay, so you are talking specific issues with particular games? I mean I get that crossplatform-play presents challenges, but the wording "practically impossible" made me think it was almost unheard of and a major breakthrough by Aspyr.

Edit:

I mean breakthrough in general, not breakthrough with this particular port.

I was talking about things in general, I was just using Civilization VI as an example. I would suppose what Aspyr has done helps only Aspyr as form of experience. So if they run into same kind of problems, they have better idea of how to tackle them.

But main point was that if with some games cross platform multiplayer is there right from the start, game itself might have implemented accidentally things in portable way. Unless all the supported platforms have been taken into account during the game development, which is rare.

And if cross platform multiplayer takes forever to implement, there might be good reasons for that.

Aspyr didn't give up though, which is why we might get actually cross platform multiplayer.

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