Runaway has a western town part. That's the only adventure I remember playing except Freddy Pharkas that touches the theme.

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What I forgot in my other post is this: I would've been really interested in this release if it wasn't the fourth part in a series. I've never played any of the previous titles, but I'm not going to start in the middle with a semi-standalone game.

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It seems to have many problems on Windows as well. Especially with Nvidia 10?0 cards.

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Quoting: CatKillerI spent a bit of time on SteamDB checking the numbers.

Very interesting. Thank you.

So the absolute number of Linux releases has been constant for many years (with the outlier 2019) - only the relative number has gone down since the absolute number or releases has increased a lot.

I expect that it is too soon to see a real change in numbers due to the Steam Deck, but at least we get more developers that try to get their games verified which should increase wine compatibility.

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The latest update on GOG still needs -force-vulkan.

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Quoting: buckysrevengeI also noticed that the Linux version uses OpenGL, which causes some texture issues for me on my other systems, forcing the game to use Vulkan fixes that.

I've got the flickering in OpenGL as well.

No update on GOG so far, so I don't know if that fixes the issue. I hope that I don't run into the other issues which have been hotfixed on Friday for the Steam version.

Edit: Actually there has been an update, but the update notifications are broken at the moment, so I missed it.

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Quoting: Liam Daweto saving on domestic energy bills because it requires so little power

But it requires a lot more power everywhere else, so it should be avoided at all costs. Huge amounts of data shuffled around requiring low latency. Generally speaking streaming and cryptocurrencies are a huge environmental problem.

I would even say that it excludes so many people because of bad internet connections that if it would be successful enough to cause a shift from locally played games, it might close gaming possibilities for most people.

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Quoting: kuhpunktheld seminars

If I recall correctly, they claimed that they were cleverer than the wine developers because they needed so much time.

Anyhow, I'm glad that this scheme is dead.

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I'm still annoyed that they didn't bother to fix the plant respawning in the 64 bits re-release.

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Quoting: F.UltraUnfortunately not many lib deverlopers think about keeping ABI compatibility, one major culprit here is SDL, thankfully there are external devs trying to fix this like https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat [External Link] that is a lib that is ABI compatible with v1.2 of SDL but that uses the newer 2.x distro supplied lib for the actual implementation, aka a shim.

The shim you linked to is a project that is part of the official SDL github account and has many commits by icculus and other SDL developers, so it is debatable that only external devs care about compatibility issues.

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