Welcome to another Wednesday Madness here at GOL. This time around it's a Steam-focused post, since Steam has a massive sale on.
These are what I consider to be essential games to own if you're a Linux gamer!
- Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™, 80% off
An earlier port from Feral Interactive with tons to explore and some really fantastic combat. The Nemesis feature, where enemies grow stronger if they kill you made it an incredibly interesting game to play.
- Cities: Skylines, 75% off
If you're in the mood to built the city of your dreams, then you should look no further. It's constantly updated with big patches and content filled DLC packs. Graphically, it can be damn beautiful too with the day and night cycle.
- Broforce, 75% off
Quite possibly one of the best games available on Linux. A completely action-packed platform where the levels can get utterly annihilated as you play. You will die, a lot. Enemies will laugh at you when you die, a lot. It's just brilliant fun. Each time you die, you start off with a different character from the impressive roster, each with their own silly quirks and it's downright madness when you play it with friends.
- DiRT Rally, 70% off
I'm not going to lie to you, it's hard. Gorgeous looking cars, really quite brilliant handling and the port is really fantastic. Another knockout from Feral Interactive here. There's a tournament going on in our forum too, check it out. It's embarrassing how terrible a driver I am in this one, but that's part of the fun right?
- Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, 60% off
I get that some people will be worn-out from Zombie games, but even so, you should make an exception for this one. Some seriously slick parkour, tons of customizable weapons and a reasonably good story to back it up.
- Cossacks 3, 50% off
It may have taken the developers a long time and they consider it to be in Beta, but it should be applauded that GSC kept at it and did eventually bring out the Linux version.
- Rocket League, 40% off
Addictive, enough said? We regularly play it with the community on livestreams, so snap it up if you want to join in on theball jokes fun times.
You can see everything on sale for Linux & SteamOS on Steam at this link.
Are you hiding a deal again? Spread the joy with the rest of us in the comments! Let us know how poor you are thanks to the latest sales. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
These are what I consider to be essential games to own if you're a Linux gamer!
- Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™, 80% off
An earlier port from Feral Interactive with tons to explore and some really fantastic combat. The Nemesis feature, where enemies grow stronger if they kill you made it an incredibly interesting game to play.
- Cities: Skylines, 75% off
If you're in the mood to built the city of your dreams, then you should look no further. It's constantly updated with big patches and content filled DLC packs. Graphically, it can be damn beautiful too with the day and night cycle.
- Broforce, 75% off
Quite possibly one of the best games available on Linux. A completely action-packed platform where the levels can get utterly annihilated as you play. You will die, a lot. Enemies will laugh at you when you die, a lot. It's just brilliant fun. Each time you die, you start off with a different character from the impressive roster, each with their own silly quirks and it's downright madness when you play it with friends.
- DiRT Rally, 70% off
I'm not going to lie to you, it's hard. Gorgeous looking cars, really quite brilliant handling and the port is really fantastic. Another knockout from Feral Interactive here. There's a tournament going on in our forum too, check it out. It's embarrassing how terrible a driver I am in this one, but that's part of the fun right?
- Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, 60% off
I get that some people will be worn-out from Zombie games, but even so, you should make an exception for this one. Some seriously slick parkour, tons of customizable weapons and a reasonably good story to back it up.
- Cossacks 3, 50% off
It may have taken the developers a long time and they consider it to be in Beta, but it should be applauded that GSC kept at it and did eventually bring out the Linux version.
- Rocket League, 40% off
Addictive, enough said? We regularly play it with the community on livestreams, so snap it up if you want to join in on the
You can see everything on sale for Linux & SteamOS on Steam at this link.
Are you hiding a deal again? Spread the joy with the rest of us in the comments! Let us know how poor you are thanks to the latest sales. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: inlinuxdudeQuoting: DrakkerDarkest Dungeon is 60% off.
I bought DD the first day of Summer Sale. I've been playing the heck out of it since.. It's atmosphere and ability to make you lose hours at a time is a bit reminiscent to me of Hand of Fate. I think its great..
I also bought it during the sale, and I think highly of it, but the play-style isn't quite my cup of tea. My issue is similar to a number of other players, in that you play with no attachment to your adventuring team. Basically, you're a completely mercenary boss, back at the base, and when your team is overcome with insanity and diseases you drop them and continue with a set of newbie characters. If you do try to treat your team, then you end up using too much gold to counter the afflictions and that means you can't upgrade your base. This then leads on to making the game a bit grindy, as you re-run short quests, drop your characters, slowly improve your base, rinse and repeat. Further on, you're trying to maintain some of your higher level characters so you can go on higher level quests.
Also, on top of the above play-style, each combat round has virtual dice rolls, where the skill and equipment level of your characters can easily be overcome by dice luck. Your aim is to try to minimise the damage, but a few bad rolls and your current team can be destroyed and grind, grind, grind.. let's build another team.
FTL is more my cup of tea. By doing well in that game, completing quests, you unlock different ships. You can then try different play-throughs with those new set-ups. Each play-through begins with a basic team, not one which is either levelled-up or racked with afflictions. When combat takes place it feels more like you have control of surviving it, even if it is easy to be decimated by some lucky hits.
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Also a fan of FTL, but so far I rather like Darkest Dungeons. It may be because I'm still doing low-mid level quests, but the game doesn't seem all that hard, and by thinking ahead you can deal with the occasional bad luck, after all these games are all about planning and dealing with strings of bad rolls. I did lose a whole team foolishly putting a torche in the shambler's altar, thinking that its a level 1 dungeon and it can be that bad. Yeah... sigh... heh. Otherwise, as long as you have a good healer or two in your team the game is almost a walk in the park. The occultists dish so many critical hits that they significantly lower the team's stress. It seems that vestal+occultist+occultist+whichever-warrior-is-available can't lose so far. Infinite healing, lots of crits, can deal with anything and will make quick work of the back row of any enemy formation, preventing extra stress.
Last edited by Drakker on 29 June 2017 at 6:27 pm UTC
Last edited by Drakker on 29 June 2017 at 6:27 pm UTC
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inlinuxdude Jun 29, 2017
Quoting: DrakkerAlso a fan of FTL, but so far I rather like Darkest Dungeons. It may be because I'm still doing low-mid level quests, but the game doesn't seem all that hard, and by thinking ahead you can deal with the occasional bad luck, after all these games are all about planning and dealing with strings of bad rolls. I did lose a whole team foolishly putting a torche in the shambler's altar, thinking that its a level 1 dungeon and it can be that bad. Yeah... sigh... heh. Otherwise, as long as you have a good healer or two in your team the game is almost a walk in the park. The occultists dish so many critical hits that they significantly lower the team's stress. It seems that vestal+occultist+occultist+whichever-warrior-is-available can't lose so far. Infinite healing, lots of crits, can deal with anything and will make quick work of the back row of any enemy formation, preventing extra stress.
Yeah, my biggest issue so far, was when I wasn't paying attention to my gold at base, and spent too much upgrading/destressing. Then I had a very limited choice of Heroes, and not enough money to properly equip them, and pretty much hosed my whole campaign after 6 quests... Learned my lesson and started a fresh campaign.. :D
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