I played it on desktop using Wine + vkd3d-proton and it was a smooth ride.

For me it did not quite reach the quality of Firewatch, but after a slow start it did manage to pull me into the story. There weren't that many choices to make, but there are one or two in particular early on that affect the ending. Since the game is rather linear, there's probably not much value in replaying the bigger part of it just to see the outcome styled as the "true" ending. Despite choosing poorly, I did get an ending that is still considered "good", so I guess I can't complain.

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Neat. I was always on the fence about getting one, and now I'm even more so!

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Disco Elysium and Paradise Killer are two of my most favorite games. Spiritfarer was not my thing, though it took me some time to figure this out, so I guess that speaks for its qualities.

But The Forgotten City!? Don't know why that gets so much praise. Perhaps the concept isn't bad, but I found the writing at the start of the game so cringeworthy that I did not persist long enough to see if it would get any better.

The rest I have not played.

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I had this wishlisted for a while, but I'm not fully convinced that I'd actually enjoy it. For one, the goal of the game, if the title can be trusted, doesn't sound all that desirable to me. But maybe the title doesn't tell the whole story ...

More importantly, having too many choices, especially if their outcome is hard to predict, can be quite paralyzing. Yeah, it's only a game; yeah, you could restart or reload any time; but it's just not my idea of fun.

I guess it'd be okay if I could blindly take the choices behind which I'd stand IRL, but I assume those would not lead to a "good" outcome. So I feel that I could only lose (either by abandoning my moral compass or by running into a "game over"). So, sadly, the only way to win is not to play.

Still, conceptually and artistically it's quite an interesting game!

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Quoting: Pecisk"Fixed Old School Runescape and other games on systems with 128+ virtual cores."

Sounds like somewhere some Admin is really bored while sitting in their Datacenter :-D.

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Will you be picking it up?

Already did, as part of the Chapter II pass. I might even play it.

But before that I've still a campaign to finish, where I started as close to my birthplace as possible, once nearly vassalized the Pope (I was missing a fraction of a single point, and could have gained it by upping my military strength, but died unexpectedly in my early 60s), began a tradition of marrying women from India and eventually converted to my mother's Jain faith, with half of Europe following suit. Thinking about it, there's definitely more fun to be had in that playthrough :-).

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Would have been a day 1 purchase for me, but luckily the early access players already figured it will not work on Linux, so I skipped it. From what I gathered from the related Proton issue [External Link], it's relying on a "xbox game services" component, which it tries to download from the Windows App Store.

To me this sounds as if this is nothing that Wine/Proton could provide quickly, if at all.

I'm slightly disappointed, but seeing how Forza Motorsport requires an online connection even for the single player content and is (by now) touted as a live service game, I guess it's for the better I'm no longer tempted to buy.

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The Thaumaturge is one of the games I have wishlisted, but with these story-heavy games, I usually stay away from demos. And while it might seem tempting to use the opportunity as a chance to check Linux/Wine/Proton) compatibility, I already had demos run great and the release not at all, and the other way round, too.

But let's see what else they have ... probably plenty that I never heard about before!

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Quoting: WorMzyI'm still bitter about the Giana Sisters debacle. Fuck Humble.

Haha. I'm feeling old when I can be still bitter about the Giana Sisters debacle and think "Fuck Nintendo!" :-).

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWith that said, a lot of those limits weren't so much about restricting buyers, but rather restricting scalpers who would buy cheap keys from another region and then sell them on third-party websites.

I thought it was more about buying a cheap physical game in EU country A that required activation on Steam, but activation would not work in EU country B.

If the ruling would apply to digital keys, it should be perfectly fine to buy games cheaply by using a VPN service in a low-price EU country. No need for a middle man. But I don't think that's gonna fly ... not that I ever tried.

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