I find it highly addictive, almost like the "just one more turn..." in Civ.

26hrs, have the first boss done, doing the bronze upgrades...
mining is a chore to be sure... I thought the default 7DTD storage was bad..

However, there are hilarious parts, bashing a skeleton and watching the bones
go flipping end over end in all directions..

The physics.. George of the Jungle. Watch out for that... Treeeee... ouch!
Chain reactions on trees is fun.

For $20 it's a good buy, and it works great in 4k res in linux.

Did crash once so far. (hard lockup, alt-f1 to do a kill -9 on it, middle of stream)
oopsie!

Graphics are low res, but remember, FTL has low res graphics too.
Fun game though.

What I find amusing too, is you can world/seed hop with your char, and move stuff between them.

(so yes, found the trader seed online, once you get there, sell/buy, logout, go to main world.
need the trader again, login to that world, and you are standing right there. cheesy, yes.
Handy, good gods yes)

btw, I blame GOL for this, just like 7DTD. (3400hrs in 3 years ...)
:D

So, TL;DR it's worth a 20.
(plus tax of course)
;p

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Well, that explains why it stopped working.

Will test that for tonights gaming. (I hate having to reboot into that "other" system)
:)

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Not available in my country. :(

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aww phoo, too slow. oh well, the free weekend play was hilarious.
(so if you find an extra key under the couch cushions....) :D

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Cross platform has been a thorn for ages. Yammered about extensively in the linux threads on steam for the game/platform.

I'm just glad this means we're finally getting the latest patch. yay!

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Driving those things with keyboard/mouse while also having a few beers.. does that count for any skillz?
..snicker..

saturday night though... hrmm...

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Aspyr said ages ago, when they did the Civ5 port, that they get paid pretty much based on how much the port is used during the first couple of weeks.

After Civ5, I waited until the Linux port came out then bought it, played in linux for quite a while before ever loading up the game on the windows side.

Wine of course, won't count if you're running steam in there. (That's the whole point of wine, to convince whatever, that it's really windows)

I prefer linux, but DO still use windows as some games just don't work well at all (yeah, bethesda, I'm looking at you) under wine and of course ALL the development tools are windows only, even for games that are ported.
(Civ series). So modding has no choice but to be done in windows. (mind you, for Civ5/6 you can run Firetuner on a windows machine, and connect it to your linux game)

I got the latest survey about a week ago, which is kind of odd. It used to be on the first of the month.
I've had about half a dozen over the years. If it pops up when I'm in windows, I just ignore it, and fire up the other box right away in linux and do the survey then. (I've lucked out twice, and gotten it on both machines at the same time in linux) :D

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Same for 3 monitors.

The config options for either Ubuntu or Mint, choose display, there you can set the primary monitor, and it will stick.

NVsettings, well, run as sudo and sometimes it does work. I prefer the base tool in the distro myself.

You can send the games (some) to another monitor, but sometimes it decides to move back, if you alt-tab out.
Annoying, particularly when streaming. Oh hey, that's my desktop not the game, grumble.

Mint at least also lets you keep the primary for games where you want, then move the toolbar elsewhere.

:)

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