Quoting: NezchanAm I imagining things or did Jamestown and Reckless Disregard for Gravity already have Linux ports around someplace? Humble, maybe? I'm absolutely certain I've played the latter on Linux at least (and been terrible at it).

Jamestown at least had a Linux port but, if I remember correctly, it hasn't been updated since its Humble launch and isn't on Steam.

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I think the main issue here isn't that the game won't launch with a Linux version, but that it was dropped completely. If Snapshot Games had come out and said that they just couldn't finish it in time or had misjudged their budget for it, that they had a number of specific issues (and welcomed help from the community) on Linux and would be looking at it after launch or after initial sales had reached a certain threshold or that they were waiting on Unity to fix a number of issues, then it would at least made sense and thought I wouldn't be happy about it - obviously - I would understand and they could have kept my money. Had they asked the community for help before this statement, that would have been even better (and would at least remove the distribution argument) and might even produced solutions for the issues they were having.
The way this was handled was just terrible; it's a "thanks for your money, promotion and feedback, but we don't want to deal with you anymore". At least they offer refunds, though again, that wouldn't even had been necessary with better handling (for me at least). I was pretty hyped for the game and now I don't even think I'd pick it up if it worked flawlessly in Proton.

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Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: GuestThey should have planned for this from the moment they launched their kickstarter campaign, in other words they just promised linux suport as a PR stunt to sucker money out of us lot because they know we pay well on average, and then they go back on their word with a bunch of bs excuses later on? This is not ok, this should not be tolerated.

If that were the reason, then why releasing two backer builds for Linux?
For all we know they might just want to save work load, and we just might not be important to them, because of our small numbers. Therefore we might have lost importance because of the XBox version, even without any ominous anti-Linux payment from Microsoft.
It's not nice behaviour, I don't like it, so I'll take the refund and go.

That's quite likely the reason, but since a Linux version was part of what they promised in their campaign that just doesn't work as an excuse at all. A part of the money they received was supposed to be earmarked for Linux support and doing the research to make sure they wouldn't get themselves in trouble, by for example depending too much on Direct3D features.

I've also requested a refund and I too find the behaviour despicable.

I feel a bit like I have to sit down with Snapshot Games and explain them that the money was for food, not drugs/alcohol (harsh comparison, I know, but that's how it feels to me).

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I'm both saddened and angry at this news. Their reasons sound like either poor excuses or bad planning. In any case, I've requested a refund for my Fig contributions as this is straight up not what they promised to use the funding for.

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Quoting: torhamI went to the website to download but couldn't find the source.

You can find it through the Github link at their site, also here [External Link].

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Oooh! It matches my Hue Light and LED setup: :P

The atmosphere looks really nice in this, I hope the gameplay proves to be equally enticing.

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Any chance we can change the question "When was the last time you used Wine to play a Windows game?" to use a checkbox for "In the last month" and let the system calculate the rest? Possibly with a dropdown for when the checkbox isn't selected to get the data for new users?
I'm having a hard time remembering when exactly I last used Wine and also having to map it to three month intervals.

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Wait, is Mercy looking for her mother or is the curse?

I'll have to second Alm888's opinion, it seems pretty generic and the visuals look more like an open source project than a game for sale. It'll have to drum up some very nice reviews before I'd be interested, unfortunately.

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Yup, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is still quite undead :)

I had thought you were talking about a patch for Proton.

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Quoting: GuestIf I know VNs, this is a smutty VN targeted at female audiences. If you want a legit good Vampire game, the only one I know would be VTMB. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2600/ [External Link]

Can confirm it runs out of the box on proton, at least with nvidia proprietary drivers. The only bug is that it doesn't scale with 16:9 resolutions normally, the unofficial patch will fix that right up.

The "smut" seems highly optional. From what I can gather, there's a completely "smut"-free optional romance plot in the game and extra "smutt" scenes available as a separate patch/download/free DLC.

What is the patch you're referring to?

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