Ironcast is only £1.99 in the steam summer sale at 80% off if you're interested in match 3, RPG, FTL, steampunk and Linux support. Unfortunately not one that has a review here but I played it right through and thoroughly enjoyed it. Need to go back and finish collecting the achievements at some point.

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Looks good to me, I enjoy a nice match 3 game now and again.

For anyone else looking for another good, Linux native match 3 game I can recommend Ironcast. Thoroughly enjoyable steampunk, RPG, match 3 with similarities to FTL too.

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Personally I enjoy achievement hunting in lots of games but not exclusively. Of my most played games two of the highest are sword of the stars: the pit at 184 hours which is designed to not really be humanly possible to get all the achievements as far as I can tell and xenonauts at 108 hours which doesn't even have achievements. Both thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless.

Generally I'd agree that what other people do doesn't affect me directly and I couldn't really care except for the fact that if people use this to get achievements that are bugged and don't unlock normally it can make things difficult trying to get developers to look into and fix things when it appears to them that things are working at least for some people.

I have contacted lots and lots of developers over the years about broken achievements resulting in some being fixed and at least one that I recall being permanently removed allowing people to get 100% completion. That was for a smaller game, too angry to space, where the developer could see that 0% of players had gotten a particular achievement so agreed to look into the code and found issues that wouldn't have been straightforward to fix so instead agreed to remove that particular one.

I've also found achievements that are definitely bugged and proven this to developers but as people had obviously used SAM to unlock the broken achievements it takes a lot more persuading by sending log files, save games, screenshots and stuff and some don't even want to know then if even a miniscule percentage have obviously used SAM to unlock a broken achievement. I forget which game it was now but a certain game that gave you achievements for each level completed had one level had a global percentage of less than 1% when the levels after it were all at least double digits and you couldn't skip levels in any way but as the developer hadn't heard of and didn't believe in SAM they insisted it was obviously working correctly. Really frustrating.

Still not a particularly big deal and people are going to do what they want anyway but that's my only minor frustration with this bit of software and I'd personally never use it. I can understand why someone would feel the need though if they want to get 100% achievements but find something broken.

I'd suggest trying the developer though in that case as a lot of them I've found to be really friendly and helpful especially the smaller ones. I've even received several free steam keys over the years for pointing out bugs which is really nice. I would advise emailing them directly though and being patient. Lots of people complain developers don't fix things immediately after posting in the steam forums/discussions. Firstly lots of developers don't even have time to scour the many messages there and secondly lots of these bugs take a long time to resolve anyway even if they are willing.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: cwbutcherActually both versions of agony are included on the same key as I just bought the bundle and now have both in my library.

Ahh, good, thanks. This must have been more recent than when I saw the case, many people bought Agony thinking it was the uncensored version, and complained in the forums about it. I reckon the developers must have unified the two versiona some time after the complaints.

And about Town of Light, I find it to be somewhat suboptimal in performance, but it's not noticeable in a modern GPU (mine is a 1070).

They look like they might be separate still in the steam store but both activated on the one steam key in the bundle thankfully.

Oh okay she didn't mention poor performance on our GTX1060 but she probably didn't notice knowing her.

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Quoting: PatolaAgony runs great in Steam Play as does pacify, but there are two Agonies, Agony [External Link] and Agony UNRATED [External Link], and I would say that the latter is the "real" version, and the former is a VERY toned down game, which makes it no fun to play. The toned down version is the one offered in this bundle.

Actually both versions of agony are included on the same key as I just bought the bundle and now have both in my library.

Also Liam I think town of light runs fine in steam play as my girlfriend completed at least one of the endings without any fuss and she won't mess about configuring things so must just run at the click of a button.

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Quoting: PatolaThere's also the Fanatical Killer Bundle [External Link] with 4 linux games, including Tölva, for only US$ 4.99.

Looks like The Swindle actually has a Linux build too. Not tried it to see if it works yet though.

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