What have you been playing recently, come tell your thoughts

Civilization 6, Stellaris. Recent version of Civilization 6 gives horrible experience. Many people describing one's problems with Civ6, but the game works for me great very long. Lately, game could freeze my system during savegame lodaing or loading screen.

I think Civ6 is the best Civilization game and hope Aspyr will repair it.

Valheim, Satisfactory (major update, so need more time. ) and Loop Hero. Yeah, not a lot of differences for the past few weeks.

I'm playing Swat 4 and trying to host a dedicated server using lutris.

Valheim, and i just bought Tower of Time (not tested it yet)
And every week i'm mastering with FoundryVTT


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Been playing a bit of Star Citizen (wine), Elite: Dangerous (proton), Dwarf Fortress (native), and Euro Truck Simulator 2.

However, those went all on pause when I started playing Baldur's Gate III (Proton) with my brother and some friends.

I got through the first boss and gave up on Valheim. I love the exploration and building, but am not keen on games that lock crafting/building behind defeating bosses. It's not a bad game, just not really for me, I think. :)

After you mentioned the coming expansion Aftershock I felt I needed to get back into Ion Fury.

I've played Mutropolis, due to the demo they put out in a Steam festival. It's quite good! Just yesterday they put out a little update.
Also yesterday, I realized I was so stuck that I literally used every item not only with every other item, but with every hot spot in every place I could get to. After that, my last resort was to use the hot spot display functionality - which I never use in any adventure. I helped my, I realized that "window" and "window" were actually two different ones, which was not clear to me by the image.
And after that... there came the news what was changed in the little update: They added the hot spot functionality, though they said they didn't consider it necessary. :D

Just like last time, Valheim. I have finished this game with Xpander and thought i could move to some other games but no, i just started over trying completely solo experience and it's still fun!
I have plans to try Surviving mars again and maybe some Raft. Let's see when Valheim lets me go :)


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Assassins Creed. I bought Origins and Odyssey on sale, enjoyed the first few hours of Origins so much I went back and bought/played 3 up: 3 is ok, BF amazing (Matt Ryan is da best), Rogue decent, Unity excellent, Syndicate utter garbage, Origins may be my fave game ever, Odyssey (5 hours in) so far so good

Unfortunately I'm having a weird eye issue where my vision spins for a few minutes, which started while watching an Odyssey cutscene. If that continues I'll call the Dr

Quoting: Mindus_Amitiel_DebsinI have been playing The Elder Scrolls Online, which I have been playing on and off since the beta. I was previously playing in Lutris, but it was unstable no matter the configuration.
I asked some questions and got a very excellent response from "class101 [Linux]", who showed I how to play non-Steam-ESO in the Steam version of the game, along with screenshot and addons support!
My Steam Forum Post, with Soution

I plan on doing a write-up to this, to help others, when I have some more free time.

I played a *lot* of ESO until maybe 6 months ago. My old PC was pretty much literally just an ESO terminal... then I stopped after the utterly butchery of the Vampire skill lines & Mythic items. I'm tempted to return periodically, since I still have 11 max CP characters and well over 5mill gold in the bank

Streets of rage 4, Doom 2016 and horizon chase turbo mostly :)

Quoting: CatKillerI've been trying to clear some of my backlog.

Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3

About ten minutes of Monkey Island 4 before I gave up on it.

Full Throttle
Whispering Willows
Grim Fandango
Helium Rain
CAT Interstellar
Near Death
Sigma Theory
Jotun

My little one's been playing Minecraft, Qube 2, Contraption Maker, Slime Rancher, Pikuniku, and Area 86. He's also decided that he really wants to play Tacoma, which I'd lined up as my next one to play through, but I'm trying to gently discourage that, since I suspect it will get grim at some point.

Which one do you liked most?
For me, it was Monkey 2


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Quoting: kokoko3kwhat do you liked most?

It's hard to say. The LucasArts adventures are, I think, the best games ever made. But I'd played them before. I hadn't played through the remasters, though, which is why they were in my backlog.

The ones I play with my little one are an amazing experience because I'm playing them with my little one. Solving puzzles and exploring game worlds is great, but watching a five year old solve puzzles and explore game worlds is a whole other level.

Either way, there's a ton of great gaming to be done on Linux, and that's the main thing.

star sector they have a new update

I've been playing Mad Max, saw it for $5 so I figured why not. I kinda hate the gameplay to be honest, it's like a hodgepodge of all the AAA games that I'm not fond of. However, the setting is compelling enough for me to stick to it for the time being.
I think my dinky HP RX 460 GPU is failing. Display keeps shutting off randomly during games/rendering and stays off for anywhere between 5-30 seconds, happens both in Linux and Windows. This is quite possibly the worst time for a GPU failure.


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Finally trying my hand at some of the Mission Packs for Quake, and Scourge of Armagon has been impressing me so far. Honestly finding it to be a pleasant break after I slogged through the original four id Software episodes in preparation for my next article. Levelord does not disappoint.

EDIT: A little disappointed to learn that Scourge of Armagon has a new soundtrack which was not included with the retail Quake: The Offering package. I might be able to burn my own disc from the GOG.com version to use though.


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You won't believe--Master of Orion . . . I. Played a game of II, then thought I'd go super nostalgic and try I. It's not bad. I'm finding Dosbox faintly annoying (scratchy music, cursor position jumps around sometimes, can't use Alt Tab), wishing I had the mojo to install Boxtron or that Boxtron had become mainstream enough that it would just be in the software centre or in Steam by default.

Also Civ VI. Tried a game where I just pretended religion didn't exist so I could keep my precious District slots for other things. Worked pretty damned well, I totally kicked ass. Hadn't noticed before how in Civ VI, you crush one measly opponent in the early-mid game, and the others hate your guts right into the space age even though you weren't even the one to start the war. It just gets pathetic when the king of the vikings spends half his time denouncing you for being a warmonger for a couple thousand years over one conquest. Overall I think I like V better--the districts in VI are interesting, but between districts and wonders and housing it starts getting really annoying how much of your productive real estate they use up.

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: kokoko3kwhat do you liked most?

It's hard to say. The LucasArts adventures are, I think, the best games ever made. But I'd played them before. I hadn't played through the remasters, though, which is why they were in my backlog.

The ones I play with my little one are an amazing experience because I'm playing them with my little one. Solving puzzles and exploring game worlds is great, but watching a five year old solve puzzles and explore game worlds is a whole other level.

Either way, there's a ton of great gaming to be done on Linux, and that's the main thing.

Have to quote every single line in your post, sharing your childhood games with your children is a priceless experience.
I tried to make she play with the oroginal version of monkey 1 and 2, but she preferred the remaster (she was 5, i think).
But now that she's 8, she's enjoying undertale, so maybe i will try again with scummvm in the future:)


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Valheim - all bosses that exist at this time defeated. Sitting at ~260 hours with a large build in progress. I'm dying for more content for this game.

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Valheim made me long for Fable nostalgia so this past week I've completed an all-evil re-playthrough of Fable: Anniversary as well as started a similar playthrough of Fable III. It's really hard for me to be bad in video games.

Keeping tabs on Xenia to allow me to play Fable II (xbox360) on PC eventually.

(Fable Anniversary used to not work in Proton and Fable III requires an games for windows live bypasses but works great)


I really do hope Fable 4 works in Proton/Wine.


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In recent weeks I have been obsessed with several games, first those with Proton: My time at portia, Star Wars Jedi fallen order, Tales of Berseria, Crash bandicoot Trilogy, Horizon zero dawn and Kingdom Come (beautiful). Instead for the natives: Valheim, Mutropolis, Stardew valley.
I try to dedicate some time to everyone, but it will take quite a while to finish them...