GOL Asks: What have you been playing on Linux & SteamOS recently?

Recently I've played through Trine 3 and I've been making my way through The Swapper. More than anything though, I've been spending a lot of time playing Cities: Skylines. I purchased a license on Steam at the beginning of this month, and I've already spent 58 hours playing it. I now have a city with a population of over 100,000. I put it up on the workshop so I can explore it in first person multiplayer, but curiously enough people are subscribing to it for some reason.

Other than that in the past day or two I've revisited Tabletop Simulator as well and I check in with Descent: Underground to check out new features in the Alpha build as they come out.

The Talos Principle: Road To Gehenna. (Just finished - really good DLC)
Chaos Reborn.
Dungeon Defenders.
Alien Isolation.

The Talos Principle is seriously one of the best games of all time for me. I loved the Road to Gehenna DLC as well, and I would fund kickstarters for a whole series of these games if Croteam ever decided to do that. The Talos Principle is the reason I went back and bought The Swapper and recently I've read the guy they got to write for that game they're getting to help out with Serious Sam 4. I have no idea how that's going to work out given the very different tone of the Serious Sam series, but I'm intrigued nonetheless.

I am playing Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition as a Fighter/Illusionist gnome with a huge... crossbow.

Xonotic! Every single weekday. I have set up a Xonotic server at work LAN so every day when clock strikes five a good bunch jump onto the server from their Macs, Win and Linux desktops.

Gotta love multiplat gaming.

Recently I have been playing natively: Alien Isolation, Shadow of Mordor, KSP and City Skylines. Emulated via PoL/Wine: Skyrim, Dishonored. But I have plenty more, unfortunately so little time :)

Playing shadow of mordor and borderlands 2 right now.
I hate Lord of rings but the game is soo cool, I don't care a much about the story but this game is the best for just chilling around and brutalize orcs :P
Borderlands 2 great game, a huge map and tons of arms.
Actually 15hrs with SoM and 42 with bl2.
Playing other games occasionally (276 games in my library, ndr) but the main are those two.

Nobody has mentioned Sublevel Zero, which is great. I bought it and do like it but I'm hoping for more fleshing out over time. It made me install Descent 2 Rebirth and it's great to play that again as there's more to it than Sublevel Zero.

KSP 1.0.4 due to too many broken mods in 1.0.5 for now. KSP is easily the most 'played' 'game' I own. Looking forward to 1.1 despite mod hell.

Nearly bought The Long Dark but I'll wait for a sale.

Civ 5 is calling to me to be played again.

Too many games and not enough time.
There's my PS4 too that also demands time. I wish I'd bought Mordor on Linux but got it on console first. Shame it happens that way for a lot of my collection.

I've been playing Pillars of Eternity and Mincraft Feed the Beast.

The Talos Principle is seriously one of the best games of all time for me. I loved the Road to Gehenna DLC as well, and I would fund kickstarters for a whole series of these games if Croteam ever decided to do that. The Talos Principle is the reason I went back and bought The Swapper and recently I've read the guy they got to write for that game they're getting to help out with Serious Sam 4. I have no idea how that's going to work out given the very different tone of the Serious Sam series, but I'm intrigued nonetheless.

Same here, for me it's probably the best game I've ever played. I've played the game and the DLC a LOT though not not recently. The Swapped is also a great game though its story can be a little more difficult to completely understand in the first play through. I can't wait to see what Croteam comes up with next (apart from SS4).

My recently played games are quite a mixed bag.

Cafe 0 A VN that can leave you really bummed out, as the true ending is really dark.

Hatoful Boyfriend Part of me is upset that it's just a gag game, since a lot of the scenarios it covers would make for legitimately interesting stories. The other part of me keeps laughing at all the intentional absurdity of it all.

Gone Home I really didn't like this game, despite the fact that as far as walking sims go, it does some things right, in terms of letting you "fill in the blanks" in the story in an intiguing way. It just reads like it's shoving an agenda down your throat, and in a trite, yawn-inducing, and somewhat pretentious manner at that. Without spoiling anything, much of the details we learn of the characters and their interactions were so predictable, and as a Catholic myself, I didn't appreciate much of the implied rhetoric. I tried going in with an open mind despite all the probably largely unjustified hate the game received, but I just couldn't like it.

Don't Be Patchman! This game is much more fun than it may look! There's only five levels right now, but gosh, I'd still recommend this to anyone here, if you haven't gotten it already. I'm not even sure how to describe it, other than maybe "cute/funny third person action with some stealth and strategy." It's haaaaard sometimes, but was fun figuring out how to beat each level and I'm really looking forward to the full game.

Without Within 2 Wonderful, cute little VN by dev InvertMouse. Highly recommend anything by him if indie VNs, especially short-and-sweet ones, are your thing.

Anna's Quest Finally got around to finishing this.This is tied with SOMA as my game of they year. I can't even explain why, really. I just loved it so much. I even gifted it to other people including my little cousins to spread the love around. I hope we see more of Anna and her friends and the other weird and silly characters in the future.

Grow Home This cute little game is great for laying back and relaxing.

Alien Isolation Haven't really gotten into it yet, but I'm just as stoked as anyone. I'll totally do a stream in your place, Liam.

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale via WINE, does that count? Oh man. This game treats depression because it's cuteness incarnate, though I haven't played enough to comment on how grindy some reviews say it gets. Just wish the budget hadn't been so low so it could have been fully voiced instead of just a few recorded lines repeated often.


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Wasteland 2: Directors Cut
Pillars of Eternity
Project Zomboid
FarSky
Interstellaria
(Plus Fallout New Vegas through Wine as I never finished it first time around and it makes me feel a little better about not being able to play Fallout 4)

Really need to get hold of Alien: Isolation but thinking of waiting until after I get a shiny new graphics card for Christmas to replace my ageing GTX 660.

Too many games and not enough time.

Yep. There will never be enough time. If you start to think you're about to finish all the games you have now, you'll have already bought too many more.

Myself, I spend more time buying games and reading about buying more games than I do actually playing them. Which is saying something, since I play a lot...


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And recently got Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel but haven't installed it yet. is it good?

Haven't played much of it yet, but you get to play as Claptrap! That automatically makes it the greatest game ever.

The Talos Principle is seriously one of the best games of all time for me.

Same here, for me it's probably the best game I've ever played.

It might be worth for you to take a look at SOMA. While it's a different genre, horror instead of puzzler, and it does not yield it's philosophical questions via tons of texts, it still reminded me of The Tals Principle - and Anmesia, of course.

I recently bought several new games, but all I play is 7 Days To Die. Just one evening spent with The Long Dark.

I usually only play FTL.

But recently I bought Skullgirls and Shovel knight and both are great. Soon I will end Shovel knight for the first time.

I've just finished Broken Age and Shovel Knight. Best games I've played in a decade!

Also, Bit.Trip Runner2 and Race the Sun are great games to play when you have just a few minutes.

I play on Linux , and i have no interest on SteamOS beside more potential ported games. I play lots of Alpha indev game, because i like to see how they evovle, and most of the time i don't even play the "finished" product, even if i have 10, 20, 50... hours of played time. So lately, i've played several games, like always, included :

++ = main games
+ = side games
- = tested or replayed a little

- 0 A.D.
++ Templar Battleforce
++ Conquest of Elysium 4
- Dinocide Demo
- Boss Constructor
- Kwaan
- Planet Centauri
- Warring States
+ Brigador
+ Siralim
+ Zombasite
- Thea
- Starsector
- Factorio
- Wildterra
- Black Sea Odyssey Demo
++ and i confess, Secret of Grindea via WINE

Magicka 2 since it's out of beta and loads of DOTA2 :)

I haven't been in the mood to play games recently, dealing with real life family health problems including waiting weeks to find out my other half doesn't have cancer, that was a relief I can tell you. :D