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

Knightin+: a cool dungeoneering action adventure with nice puzzles like sokoban challenges thrown in.

I also played a bit of The Surge, but unlike almost everybody else, the game keeps crashing. Enjoyed what I saw though and will keep returning to this with updated drivers or OS or new Proton versions.

Had a night full of INSIDE and loved it to bits.
Had some friends proclaim CHAOS REBORN! and FOR THE KING! while having a jolly good time.
Had a few hours in DARKSIDERS 2 and still have to decide whether I love or it bores me to death.

Until the other day I got back into and played too much DOTA Underlords to see if I could hit max by release until I both burnt out and learned that we're not keeping all of the proto pass rewards...

Played through to the full ending of Later Alligator. The gameplay loop and puzzles weren't much to write home about but the animation and short story were amusing enough for me.

I've had some friends trying to drag me back into FFXIV. It still works well and now the new launcher even almost works for me. Progress.

Really, work has been keeping me busy/worn out lately so aside from those and the occasional TF2 match I've been pretty light on gaming. I have Kentucky Route Zero waiting since the final part came out and hopefully after this month things will slow down enough to get to it properly.

7 Days to Die, Last Word and Yaroid recently. Yaroid is an old asteroid clone I wrote for the Net Yaroze.

I had the Postal Fudge Pack show up after I ordered it from eBay for $12.99 CAD just so I could add another game to the collection with a Tux on the box. This made me curious to see if I could get my old backed up Desura copy of Postal 2 working and after removing "libgcc_s.so.1" from the System directory and hacking it to support widescreen everything works great. I kicked around through Monday and still managed to somehow complete all of my objectives.

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It is annoying that the Linux updates never made their way to GOG.com as of yet and Postal Redux is still missing in action from there. They say the team is all tied up with Postal 4, which I can understand, but at the same time I do wish they would finish what they started. Releasing the source code to Postal Plus still earns them plaudits though.


Last edited by Hamish on 25 February 2020 at 9:03 am UTC

I have been bouncing back and forth between Urban Terror and Deponia. I bought all of the Deponia games years ago for a few bucks each, and just started going through my backlog.

Urban Terror on the other hand, is always installed and ready to go at a moments notice. I'm quite excited for the next release and hope it happens in 2020.

Wow Urban Terror, I played so much of this game in the past. I lost interest when they did the major rework, took forever. Is it back to being as good as it was before?

Homefront: The Revolution via PROTON...
The game stutter a lot, but I understand that problem is present on Windows too..

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

It's enjoyable. Comes fairly close to scratching that Fire Emblem itch. The humor is... cute. At least chuckle worthy and not distracting.

I also tried Deep Sky Derelicts this weekend and hated it. Couldn't even make it a full half hour in before I got bored with the repetitive combat.


Last edited by Expalphalog on 23 February 2020 at 7:43 pm UTC

My GPU died recently (poor little R285, only five years old!) so I for the moment I'm limited to less demanding games. Currently playing the single player campaign of Worms Reloaded.

I have been stuck on level 24 for a week, because in 25 years of Worms my skills with the ninja rope have not improved one bit.

I have been palying Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning with Proton.
Works flawlessly . Only had the graphics bug out once.

The game can be be described as a single player MMO.
Finished one of the DLCs today and that last boss made me swear so loud i think neighbours three floors down heard me.

When time permits, Hitman 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione, both Steam Play. The later one is such a cool racer. Single player works perfectly after some tinkering for Media Foundation stuff. Online multiplayer works acceptable. The game stutters a bit when people join or leave a session. According to te ACC forum this happens on Windows too, but the effect seems (much) worse on Linux. Fortunately the actual races are mostly free of stuttering since usually nobody joins or leaves.

Next on my list: Life is Strange BTS and 2.


Last edited by jens on 23 February 2020 at 7:13 pm UTC

I am currently playing Greedfall, after finishing Blasphemous ("bad" ending, so I will have to try to get the "good" one").

Next in my playlist are either Slay the Spire with the new character, Dead Cells with the Bad Seed DLC, or Wizard of Legend with the new Lightning boss.

And of course, next session with friends will be with Unrailed!

Oh, and I have to do a third run on Elex too, and probably a 2nd run on Greedfall... Decisions, decisions :P

Played through to the full ending of Later Alligator. The gameplay loop and puzzles weren't much to write home about but the animation and short story were amusing enough for me.

I didn't know it has a "full" ending. Wonder of that motivates me to play the rest of the stuff...

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl with Долг: Философия войны mod. Good mod.
Also replaying TNT Evilution addon for Doom II on high difficulty with GZDoom. Nostalgia.


Last edited by axredneck on 23 February 2020 at 7:32 pm UTC

Played through to the full ending of Later Alligator. The gameplay loop and puzzles weren't much to write home about but the animation and short story were amusing enough for me.

I didn't know it has a "full" ending. Wonder of that motivates me to play the rest of the stuff...

All it needs for that is gathering all the family (aka winning all the mini games), no need for collecting all the puzzle pieces. Of course you could always skip another playthrough and watch it up online.

70 hours in playing The Witcher 3 via Lutris

Join TW3 thread to share your experience :)

I've been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance through wine + dxvk. It runs fairly well, and I'm enjoying it far more than I expected, I regret not buying it a year earlier as I've been missing out on what's essentially a hardcore elder scrolls experience. Everything is just so fleshed out, I've been spending most of my time making potions and strangling random homeless people until they fall unconscious.

I've just been playing the hell out of Resident Evil 2 Remake in Proton, it runs flawlessly on my build. Trying to find all the Raccoons and all of the other collectibles. Like a lot of AAA games once you take away the cut scenes and just go to the end of the game, it's about an hour of game play. In my view playing this title in Linux is far smoother than on anything else. I just like watching Claire and Ada running around in their tight clothes. If you actually explore everything, you get to find some pretty good stuff, plus the longevity increases. I'm addicted to this game at the moment. Picked up Plague Innocence and it works out of the box, which will be my next game to conquer.


Last edited by clatterfordslim on 23 February 2020 at 8:36 pm UTC

I have been bouncing back and forth between Urban Terror and Deponia. I bought all of the Deponia games years ago for a few bucks each, and just started going through my backlog.

Urban Terror on the other hand, is always installed and ready to go at a moments notice. I'm quite excited for the next release and hope it happens in 2020.

Any advice on finding active servers/times? After a 4-5 years break i recently installed it again, and found the servers dead by comparison. I'm quite excited for the new game too, but i kind of don't believe they make the new release anytime soon, due to the weird development model they are using, where even as they are making a free game and a for profit one they do not open their project up.

Been playing F1 2017 a lot lately, with mixed feelings. Hadn't played a Formula One game since Geoff Crammond stopped making them, but last year I suddenly felt the urge. So I got the latest one running natively, drove some laps and then all but forgot about it. When staying home with a cold in January, I decided to finally start my championship career. At first I was a bit dismayed at all the fluff that surrounds the actual race, but by now I think it's the most enjoyable part of the game. I kinda wish for a steering wheel and pedals (my old set has long since been trashed), but it seems an excessive investment for just one game, so a gamepad must make do. It's bearable, given the more arcade-like driving model, but not optimal.

The one area where I am disappointed is stability. The game doesn't have any issues while on track, but it likes to crash once a session is complete. So far it did do its autosave in time, so it was only a minor nuisance, but today of all days I lost half an hour of excellent racing :-(. (I redid it and came out even one position higher, but it just wasn't the same). Not sure if the game is to blame, though; might also be the graphics driver, as it's always a Vulkan error that comes up.

Anyway, now that I am hooked, I'd absolutely buy a newer release, if Feral ever decided to make another port. Maybe F1 2020 ... ? :).


Last edited by kaiman on 23 February 2020 at 8:56 pm UTC