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

Finally enjoying (a lot) Shadow tactics:Blades of the shogun and Stardew Valley.
The first is absolutely appealing, on the second one.. i can't say yet if i'll continue playing for much longer.

Yakuza 0 via Proton has been great. Runs perfectly and a lot of weird and wild fun to play. Learned some great tips for becoming a cult-infiltrating karaoke-loving rockstar-promoting dominatrix-training environment-smashing ex-gangster.

Just finished Ori And The Bĺind Forest (also via Proton) which was a challenging platformer with a compelling story, plays well with Steam Controller (as do most platformers).

GRIS via Proton was also a beautifully compelling puzzle/platformer art game, shame that on Proton the end scene doesn't play though.

Still struggling to complete Hollow Knight 60 hours in; superb game and loving the challenge but I'm just not very good at it...

On the basis of previous GOL recommendations:
Basingstoke is a challenging zombie survival crafting stealth roguelike cute Britishness mayhem of a game. Not quite the Souls-like experience from dying where there's a learning process, as your deaths are typically either plain dumb or just mundane, but still lots of fun to play in bursts.
Attack Of The Earthlings was a fun take on the alien invasion trope with a smattering of Borderlands/Portal humour in turn-based action. Would love to play more humour-laden games if anyone has recommendations.

Fallout 4. I dunno. I tend to agree with Shamus Young: it's a decent enough game, but it's not Fallout. I came to the series with F3, but even in that game I could see that Bethesda's take on it doesn't make sense. It's 200 years after the bombs fell. Who are these feckless morons who haven't even cleared away the skeletons from the buildings they're living in? Sheesh. And after the Big Plot Twist (which I won't give away, although you can see it coming a mile off), I kind of lost interest in the main questline. There's certainly plenty of other stuff to busy yourself with though, and I thought Far Harbor was surprisingly good. They should have made that the main game.

I bought South Park: The Stick of Truth over the weekend, on sale. (For the price of a sandwich, as Ross Scott - Freeman's Mind, etc. - puts it. It's a good way of looking at it, I think. :) ) So far, I'm seeing Costume Quest with fart jokes. Sounds good to me.

And slightly OT, because it's about as far from Linux as it gets, but for some reason I found myself going back to Mirror's Edge, Rez HD, OutRun Online Arcade (offline these days, of course), and Space Giraffe on the XBox 360 yesterday afternoon. I hate to admit it because, well, Microsoft, but that's definitely my favourite console of all time. It just is.

Quoting: kaimanI 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.

Oh, I hear you. I mean, for me it would be F1, Project Cars and Dirt Rally. And I'd probably end up playing them more than I do now. So I'd get a lot of use out of them. But it's still a lot of money to sink into what is, when all's said and done, a toy.

I've been playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Proton 5). I got it from a bundle and I totally ignored it as not being interesting until someone said that I should play it.

Yup, it has to be one of the best games I've ever played and it runs just fine in Linux as long I don't torture myself with ultra high quality on 4K (runs fine on tweaked high settings with HD texture DLC). I've had to kill the game twice as it got stuck, but I guess it would have had the same bug also in Windows...


Last edited by mahagr on 24 February 2020 at 3:11 pm UTC

Quoting: OrkultusBeen playing Dying Light recently. It had been a while since i tried it, and after i started it up, i noticed that the performance had gotten way way better. I am also loving this new story mode feature.

Out of interest, are you playing the native Linux version or forcing the Windows version to play using Proton?

After years of waiting my gf and I decided to buy Divinity: Original Sin 2 last year, even though there's still no Linux port in sight. I don't really expect one, to be honest. I've also been playing some Diablo III by myself. This one won't see a Linux port neither, I presume.

None of these are Linux games, but my big Pile o' Shame won't get any smaller if I ignore all the other gifted or bought Windows games. :L


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Been playing a combination of Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and Everspace. That combination of games sounded less weird in my head... Also trying to finish the Act 1 demo of Missing Stars on the old lappy when I get in the mood/time.

Totally loving how you're rewarded more for exploration in Everspace, I'm not happy unless I can see every interesting-looking pixel in a 3D game. Takes a while to adapt to the controls, but runs perfectly with Steam Controller, using a slightly modified layout to switch the stick and Left D-pad controls, it's better for RSI purposes.

Should also take the time to play Talos Principle and Portal 2 again for the Co-op because neither of them would have worked until we got a proper AMD graphics card.

I got that humble bundle just for Slay the Spire. Very addictive.

Been playing several games recently and have so many more I haven't played to completion or started:

Batman Arkham Asylum (Wine/Proton)
Batman Arkham City (Wine/Proton)
Watch Dogs 2 (Wine/Proton)
The Talos Principle (Native)
Bioshock Infinite (Native)
Metro 2033 Redux (Native)
Slime Rancher (Native)
Half Life 2 (Native)
Darwin Project (GFNVM)
Destiny 2 (GFNVM)
Fortnite (GFNVM)

*GFNVM: GeForce Now on Linux via an Android virtual machine.


Last edited by Xaero_Vincent on 25 February 2020 at 6:12 am UTC