The Humble Discovery Pack is out with three nice Linux native games

Quoting: Kels

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Quoting: Kels

Quoting: buenaventuraWow, yeah Kentucky Route Zero is worth every penny, it's a fantastic, amazing game! Buy it! I am a patron of Cardboard Computers (who make KRZ) and they are such awesome devs. Act V is on the way! (perhaps late 2018/early 2019).

KRZ moved me in a way that games just don't do, it's writing is reminiscent of my favorite author Cormac McCarthy.

Listen, after their promises that the whole game would be finished by late 2013, their continued missing of their own updated release dates, their lack of communication and highly opaque approach to updating in general, and their last promise on Steam given more than a year ago:

QuoteIt will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. We'll release it at the same time as we update the PC version with Act 5, which we're planning to do in the early part of 2018.

You'll forgive me if I'm just a little bit skeptical that we'll ever see the game completed.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I've played of KRZ to death, but I've long since come to the conclusion that we're either dealing with vapourware or a team of auteurs who keep fiddling with it until it's perfect, which will be about half past never.

tl;dr I don't trust Cardboard Computers enough to believe that we'll see Act V before mid-century.

Hey! Psssh, I am in the Discord and they regularly publish updates about what they are doing, constantly communicating etc., so they are clearly working on it. Recently they released a nice poster for Act V to Patron supporters, and they also sent me a (physical) post card, they seem to be in this for real :) I dont mind years of development, they seem like nice people and I dont care if I play it now or in a year. They want to get it right, and since it's such a sensitive product I think that is 100% OK.

You might want to remind them that there are a lot of people not in their discord, who might want some kind of update. Given they haven't posted a damn thing on Steam in over a year, and that was a promise that it would be out somewhere on the order of six months ago.

Having their own little space and communicating there isn't what I call good communication overall. Hell, I didn't even know their Discord existed until I read your post. Certainly the pinned "How to get in touch with the developers" on the Steam forum doesn't mention it, all that's there is their email. It's a 2013 post that's never been updated, so I'm not even sure that works.

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Quoting: KelsYou might want to remind them that there are a lot of people not in their discord, who might want some kind of update. Given they haven't posted a damn thing on Steam in over a year, and that was a promise that it would be out somewhere on the order of six months ago.

Having their own little space and communicating there isn't what I call good communication overall. Hell, I didn't even know their Discord existed until I read your post. Certainly the pinned "How to get in touch with the developers" on the Steam forum doesn't mention it, all that's there is their email. It's a 2013 post that's never been updated, so I'm not even sure that works.

While I like Discord, I do have to echo this sentiment. I really don't like things like that feeling quite hidden. Great that they're being open about it, but open outside a community you have to join to read would be good.

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Quoting: Kels

Quoting: buenaventuraWow, yeah Kentucky Route Zero is worth every penny, it's a fantastic, amazing game! Buy it! I am a patron of Cardboard Computers (who make KRZ) and they are such awesome devs. Act V is on the way! (perhaps late 2018/early 2019).

KRZ moved me in a way that games just don't do, it's writing is reminiscent of my favorite author Cormac McCarthy.

Listen, after their promises that the whole game would be finished by late 2013, their continued missing of their own updated release dates, their lack of communication and highly opaque approach to updating in general, and their last promise on Steam given more than a year ago:

QuoteIt will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. We'll release it at the same time as we update the PC version with Act 5, which we're planning to do in the early part of 2018.

You'll forgive me if I'm just a little bit skeptical that we'll ever see the game completed.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I've played of KRZ to death, but I've long since come to the conclusion that we're either dealing with vapourware or a team of auteurs who keep fiddling with it until it's perfect, which will be about half past never.

tl;dr I don't trust Cardboard Computers enough to believe that we'll see Act V before mid-century.

Was gonna ask if KRZ was ever completed.
Judging by your post , guess not.
I am SOOO glad i never invested into it. Guess my kids or grand-kids will see the ending.

Hey everybody, I agree, it is silly to not have updates regularly for everyone - I will mention this in the discord, they could at least give a peep of life on steam.

About the game not finishing for years, first of from what I can see it seems likely that it will be out by early 2019 if not late 2018. Personally again, I dont really mind games like this being slow, it's not like I have a terminal disease or anything, I will play it eventually that seems certain. The first four acts stand on their own feet as games, the acts are quite separable and playable out of order/with long delays in between (altho of course they intersect in various ways). I had a long hiatus between III and IV and had forgotten alot, but that didnt really matter. You can start the acts in any order you like.

Edit: In the discord someone said that it is a common complaint about not being visible on Steam forums, but apparently their main point of communication is their twitter:

https://twitter.com/cardboardcompy

They should still have some sort of news item on steam tho, let's see!

Edit: Ah, they posted their very pretty poster (my current wallpaper) on twitter also:



Last edited by buenaventura on 10 October 2018 at 8:39 am UTC

War for the Overworld is pretty good and too my mind much better than Dungeons 2.
The developers put so much work into the game and consequently updated it with new content. <3
I can only recommend it if you like Dungeon Keeper 2.

Quoting: theghostWar for the Overworld is pretty good and too my mind much better than Dungeons 2.
The developers put so much work into the game and consequently updated it with new content. <3
I can only recommend it if you like Dungeon Keeper 2.

War for the Overworld is almost a carbon copy of Dungeon Keeper but that is NOT a bad thing.
Since EA murdered the franchise (like they do) with the mobile game , we get to keep the spirit alive (They killed Sim City we got Cities:Skylines)
Dungeons has the same style but is a different beast altogether.
I expected Dungeon Keeper from Dungeons 1 and felt disappointed. I accepted the second and third installments as something different and was pleasantly surprised.