Ruiner 50% off now on the GOG summer sale :)

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More goodies on Steam...

The Dweller - Excellent value at 0.49€ (90% off)
Outland - Pretty cool, easy purchase at 0.99€ (90% off)
Knights Of Pen And Paper 2 - Excellent game, great humor, sweet price at 1.99€ (75% off)
Zombie Night Terror - Absolutely worth taking a look at 3.24€ (75% off)

Maybe check out these too.
Lucius 2 - 3.99€ (80% off)
Valhalla Hills - 3.99€ (80% off, or Two-Horned Helmet Edition at 5.59€, also 80% off)

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: [email protected]Finally picked up Dying Light Enhanced Edition in the Chrono.gg daily sale - so far, I'm liking most of what I see, although my parkour skills need a lot of work (took me four tries to set the trap on the signal pole in the rail yard in the prologue - I kept imagining hearing the infected laughing at me...).

Fantastic game. As you progress and enhance your base skills, the parkour and other elements of the game get better. It is quite important to avoid dying, so that you don't lose chunks of experience per death.

Scrambling up onto buildings is one of the best ways to avoid death, out of reach of most of the infected.

+1 fantastic game, money well spent.
On a relevant note, this game has one of the most helpful, chill and awesome persons I've ever seen in the Steam forums and on Reddit, possibly active in more places as well. His (or her) handle is BladeMaster. ^_^

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Let's hope it isn't Agony since that game seems to be more or less crap, especially compared to what it was intended to be. Reading the Steam reviews made me sad. :(

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Do games like these count as Linux purchases on Steam? :S:

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GoL is one of the select few sites I visit regularly, nearly every day.
Always great content even if I'm not personally interested in every topic.
Seriously, thanks for everything!

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And here I was hoping for some Katamari Damacy-ish madness... :'(

Quoting: razing32That trailer gave me diabetes

Agreed.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeDamn, I have always wanted a decent Jigsaw program for Linux, but it requires the ability to import your own images. This doesn't look like it has that ability?

Checked out Animated Puzzles on Steam?
You can play 'Career' mode to unlock more puzzles as you play or unlock everything immediately. Workshop support, download as many as you please. Create your own puzzles.
Looks good, plays great and runs smooth as a babys butt.

Puzzle With Your Friends has the interesting multiplayer thing going on... I'm taking the bait. :)

Edit: After playing one puzzle, I can only say that the controls are not good.
Often picking the wrong pieces or not picking them up at all, often not connecting to matching pieces without re-positioning the piece onto the exact same place again or even twice over, not clearly marking which pieces are locked in the correct position... to be honest, it's pretty weak.
Lets hope they fix the mechanics and add more puzzles, workshop support, custom level support etc ASAP.
Really can't recommend it as it is. Get Animated Puzzles instead tbh (note that AP is strictly single player)

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Quoting: Guest@dpanter : it seems Vulkan enables to get great results with a lower CPU, I think that's the point ! But does it make use of all the cores / threads of an i7 ? Just wondering.

Seems to use all cores just fine. Hovering around 50-60% CPU usage overall with even spread over all 8 virtual cores. I'm also forcing Full Composition Pipeline since KDE tears like a bitch without it.
A quick test with performance governor actually gave a slight boost, with Very high settings the overall fps increased ~6% from 129 to 137. These numbers are based on single runs so they might fluctuate a bit anyway.
7 year old CPU still going somewhat strong! :)

BTW, running Debian sid yields some... interesting... side effects from time to time. Proceed with caution. ;)
But yeah, it's reasonably quick in getting fresh packages out.

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What about an older, weaker CPU with a newer, stronger GPU?
i7 2600K@4GHz, 16 GB RAM@1866MHz, GTX1080Ti 390.48, Debian sid (kernel 4.15, powersave governor), KDE Plasma 5.12.4
As you can see, the lows are quite low and the highs quite high. If you were wondering, I rounded down to the nearest whole number.
Haven't played yet but it should be fine on Very high. :)

Absolutely everything maxed + SSAA x4: Overall 72 fps
Mountain Peak: 94 fps (min 21, max 172)
Syria: 58 fps (min 14, max 96)
Geothermal Valley: 62 fps (min 8, max 95)

Very high + FXAA: Overall 129 fps
Mountain Peak: 184 fps (min 44, max 265)
Syria: 105 fps (min 20, max 160)
Geothermal Valley: 94 fps (min 35, max 171)

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