I had Wizard of Legend, Observer, Sundered and RoR already, but the bundle was still totally worth it for Project Cars 2. Not only is the game good, but the performance through Steam Play is great as well. Ive obviously never played it in Windows, but from a FPS standpoint it performs as well as Dirt Rally on my machine easily. Possibly better.

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Quoting: GuestOnly unknown games in the whitelist, that’s disappointing.

Idk...Mushihimesama is pretty big news for Cave fans. Although I can vouch that all the Cave games on Steam work great. I see your point though.

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Dead Cells is a great game. I bought it a long time ago on GOG and have put many hours into it on WINE. I'm really happy that the devs delivered on a linux version.

BUT....

Once the linux version came to GOG, I tried to install it on my SteamOS box. It launched from the desktop, but it would not launch properly from the main SteamOS console. After messing with it for a couple hours, I decided to myself "know what? I made what was essentially a Windows purchase in the first place, I'll go ahead and just buy the game on Steam as well and that way it'll count as a linux purchase." Not that I'm such a "no tux no bux" hardcase, but it is actually a very, very good game and well worth the money.

Imagine my surprise when the Steam version has the exact same issue. It "launches", but I just see the Steam "loading" icon. I made a post on the bug forum, but then I decided to look into it a little more. First issue, no appid.txt file, easy enough. Once I got it launching from the terminal, I tried again from the SteamOS "BPM", same deal. I also noticed something else, this game was built using Haxe. There is another awesome game that was built with Haxe that shows the exact same behavior on SteamOS, Northgard. That game also launches, but never launches.

After recalling all the crap I went through trying to get Northgard to launch on SteamOS (never did, by the way), I just decided to refund the Steam version of Dead Cells. I reinstalled the GOG windows version using WINE, and it obviously runs fine. I don't know why games built using Haxe don't play well with SteamOS, but I'm not trying to spend valuable gaming time troubleshooting that.

Just a cautionary tale, I don't think other distros have this issue, but SteamOS buyers, beware.

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I signed up just in case I can make it...but 3 pm on a workday is pretty early for us in the US.

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Quoting: calfretYeah, I donno. It looks great, but I see no need to require grid based movement. Perhaps this could be a featured toggled on and off? I suppose that would be extremely hard to code. Maybe I shouldn't rule out the game just because of that.

Really it's just the style of the game. In a game like that, a lot of the puzzles are going to hinge on you moving 1 square at a time. You'll be dealing with trap doors, probably pressure tiles, etc. Also even though it's not turn based, all the combat is going to be based on a move...wait...attack... sort of rhythm. It's never going to feel like, say an Elder Scrolls game, but if you go in expecting a DC you probably won't be disappointed. Keep in mind this is a genre that really appeals to gamers of a certain age though, so your mileage may vary.

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I came very close to buying this on GOG to run in WINE last sale. It looks great, like Grimrock/Starcrawlers. I just picked up the (finally) released beta of Battlechasers though, so hopefully this takes a little time to release.

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