What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?

Field of Glory II via Steam Play is my current favourite. It needs a config file tweak but works flawlessly after that. Multiplayer is very active and the publisher organizes frequent official tournaments.

I've played through Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, and must say it's really funny, although it has its lengths if one manages to miss some side-quests and doesn't know what to do...

Now that all mods I play with are compatible with KSP 1.6.1, I've decided to dig it out again. It's still one of the best games out there.

Apart from that I'm still spending an unreasonable amount of time moving cards around in Cultist Simulator.

Quoting: einherjarSadly I couldn't use my Witcher 1 savegames. Seems not to work, because I bought TW1 and GOG and TW2 on steam :-(

https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup :)

I've been playing DUSK and it is freaking amazing. It doesn't feel like a nostalgic game for the sake of nostalgia, they absolutely nailed it. Ion Maiden and Amid Evil have a lot to live up to!

Would like to get back into Hearts of Iron IV again but I need the DLC to drop a fair bit for that, sadly.

Quoting: WorMzyI'm continuing on with my Proton-enabled play through of Fallout: New Vegas, that's going well, not so many crashes these days. \o/ (water still acts weird though)

In my experience Fallout 3 & New Vegas work best with a staging build of Wine.

I've been managing my schedule for the upcoming week so I can catch the ESA runs I'm looking forward to the most.

Mostly, Protonic testings...

Got Crypt of the necrodancer, and i'm alienating...

Bought Dying Light on the recent Steam sale. Story and characters are a bit meh, but I really do like how the game plays. About 30 hours in and only 28% of the game finished, so can’t complain about content. It is also creepy as hell when night kicks in. Hardly any jump scares, just an eerie atmosphere.

7/10

Still on The Witcher 3. Every day for six weeks and counting. Over 100 hours in, I still haven't finished the main story and I've barely touched the DLC. What an incredible... achievement, really, to create such a work. In TW2, I was impressed by the second chapter of its three-part setup being completely different depending on whether you sided with Roche or Iorveth, but it was very obvious where the choice was made, and how the threads were brought back together for the third chapter. I'm sure that kind of thing is happening in TW3, but it occurs so much more smoothly and naturally in the plot that it's quite hard to tell where and how.

I knew it was good, but I didn't expect to be so amazed.

Quoting: WorMzyI'm continuing on with my Proton-enabled play through of Fallout: New Vegas, that's going well, not so many crashes these days. \o/ (water still acts weird though)

I was playing that a lot before Christmas without any problems, but I tried starting it the other day and it wouldn't run. Don't know what's going on. Not that it's bothering me much right now... :)

Quoting: einherjarOtherwise I had lots of fun with TW1 and will play all three titles to enjoy the whole story.

I should have thought of that before I bought TW3. I played TW1 after TW2, and never actually completed TW2 on the PC (I got almost to the end and thought, “Yeah, I remember what happens now. That'll do.”), so I don't have a proper “history” of saves.

The King of Fighters XIII Steam Edition using Steam Play. Running it on Linux Mint 17.3 with no problems whatsoever!

Just finished Ori and Blind Forest under Proton. My mini-review:

- Artwork and animation are excellent.

- World layout and metroidvania bits are well-designed.

- Platforming, combat, and general gameplay are fairly solid. Main character can sometimes feel a bit floaty but I got used to it.

- Story starts off with big emotion but then gets kinda flat and hard to understand. The bits with Naru are generally good, but the rest of it didn't grab me.

- Instead of boss battles, it has mega escape sequences. I hated these with a cold bright passion. It departed from the pace and style of the rest of the game and seemed like a bunch of cheap deaths. Normally, I feel excited and proud after defeating a boss, not so much here.

- The ending didn't get me too excited by the time it happened. At the end, I would say I (mostly) enjoyed it and don't regret buying it, but it didn't make me walk away thinking "Wow, I need to tell other people to play this game!"

YMMV


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• Montague's Mount: less than average game imho, frustrating in its execution...


• Virginia (SteamPlay / Proton): nice game, but it's not for everyone (the game as not a lot of gameplay in it, but the execution - visuals and audio - is very good)...


• Oxenfree: really a great game! :)

Even after swapping back to Linux last year and buying interesting native games left and right, I can't escape WoW and Overwatch and still play too much - they both run flawlessly.

Hoping a few more friends pick up the Civ xpac so that we get one of our weekend games going again, especially since crossplay became a thing not too long ago. And one of these days I am meaning to get back to that PoE2 game I started last xmas... Was fun, but I got drowned in work and lost track of where I was and didn't feel like starting a new fame until recently.

I cycle through different games as I have many but few beaten.

These are some of the games I've been playing and testing recently.

The Talos Principle (Native)
A Story about my Uncle (Native)
Life is Strange (Native)
Bioshock Infinite (Native)
Darwin Project (VM GVT-g)
Apex Legends (VM GVT-g)
Paladins (VM GVT-g)
Overwatch (Wine)
Deus Ex: HR (Wine)
Fallout: New Vegas (Wine)

Mostly I continue to play native Linux games. I've got a few issues with gaming:

- I don't like to uninstall a game until I've completed it, and now I'm racking up about 40 installed games and practically zero completions.
- A lot of the time, I'm keen to have relatively casual entertainment when gaming, and find that often games are set up to be frustratingly difficult.
- Going somewhat in hand with the previous grievance, I'm irritated by games requiring excessive numbers of controls. Quite often I'm having keyboard fumbles and not able to change weapon or swap mode or whatever. It's not so bad if the game is slow, but if it is a twitch-shooter like Serious Sam, where you need to make key presses as fast as possible, well - Not happy.
- If I leave a game for a while, then I forget the story, where I've got to, and get disinclined to go back into it again. That accounts for about 30 of my 40 installed titles.


Earlier today I played a session of FTL - I am trying to complete the various in-game achievements. I've put at least 300 hours into FTL, and haven't seen or done everything in the game as yet. In today's session I got to the end-boss with a ship that I'd never beaten the boss with, and (yet again) failed to defeat it.

I play Crypt Of The Necrodancer quite often, and have put more than 100 hours into that. My current focus is to complete Zone 4, taking on Dead Ringer boss. I have got to Dead Ringer about 10 times in the past month, but got killed trying to defeat. One thing I really like about Crypt is that you can play with one hand, e.g. cursor keys, which means I can concentrate on the game rather than trying to avoid keyboard fumbles. Saying that, I still fumble on this game (It uses numerous multi-key combos).

The past couple of weeks, I've been playing RUST (native Linux) and have put quite a few hours into that. I started play on wipe-day, noticed the new in-game 'copters, and play Solo on a "fairly" quiet server (typically 20 people online at all times). I'm playing more as a role-player, than most of the competitive psycho-killers that are attracted to it. Playing Solo when lots of other players are playing Cooperative - is very hard. Additionally, I don't like to dedicate massive amounts of time to playing, i.e. farming, building a massive base. I try to build smart - Build well-hidden small bases (and multiple of them), so that if my base gets offline-raided (when I'm not there to defend it) then I haven't lost everything. You could think of me as someone who plays RUST like Thief, i.e. sneaking around and avoid combat. I quite like the tension and realism that I feel when immersing myself in this game.

During the recent Lunar Steam Sale, I picked up numerous titles. One was card rogue-like game "Card Quest" - It is a Windows title, so I'm using Proton to play it. Noticing that it is a good strategic game, but it tends towards you needing to play perfectly, i.e. thinking through all your future card plays like you might set up moves in a game of chess, and it verges on irritating with the amount of perfection you need to employ in order to survive.


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Mostly Subnautica and Slime Ranchers lately.

Secret world legends I've been playing this since it was The Secret World. Back when I was running dual boot with windows. It was fantastic back then, came out right as City Of Heroes died (Sad face emoji) I played the HECK out of it, but could never quite get past Egypt. The rerelease as Secret World Legends broke Linux support totally, so I couldn't play at all until proton fixed it for me. Took some poking, but now it works so well you wouldn't know it wasn't native most of the time.
I've swept through Egypt, finished Transylvania and am already powering through Tokyo. Furthest I've ever gone in an MMO, and it's not showing any signs of slowing down yet.

Factorio Because one should always have SOMETHING native, and more importantly, because the factory must grow.

CRASHLANDS, which was generously donated to me by someone from the most recent bundle. It's absorbing and the writing is really good. The game does a pretty good job at disguising the grind of gathering various sorts of crafting materials as something actually fun to do. The combat is pretty interesting, being entirely point-and-click action RPG style.

CAVES OF QUD, an absorbing but often intensely frustrating experience. The enormous game world remains a mystery largely because of how horrifically unbalanced the game is, often throwing higher levelled creatures into low-level areas that you simply aren't equipped to deal with. Thus, early deaths are very common, leaving you to wonder what lies beyond the western edge of the map. That said, the character builds have a nice wide variety to them, the powers are fun on the rare runs where you get a decent enough level (my record, after 45 hours of play, is level 17) and the writing is quite good. Not sure I'd recommend it based on the balance issues though, that's how bad they are.

ENDERAL: FORGOTTEN STORIES is a Windows game yeah, but I figured since it's a Skyrim mod and I can run Skyrim fine with Steam Play (except the underwater thing), I should be able to play this. No dice, they buggered it up so the launcher dies so the whole game is inaccessible. I haven't the patience to re-download it in a VM and try it that way, so oh well.

Quoting: RandomGamerBought Dying Light on the recent Steam sale. Story and characters are a bit meh, but I really do like how the game plays. About 30 hours in and only 28% of the game finished, so can’t complain about content. It is also creepy as hell when night kicks in. Hardly any jump scares, just an eerie atmosphere.

7/10

I don't know at what point of the story you're at exactly, but it will get more meh over time. IMO it's very annoying because the gameplay and the atmosphere are so good.

I'm curious what your opinion of the game's ending (and the ending of the DLC) will be.


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I haven't played anything this weekend, unless you count wrangling Qt as a game.


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