Steam continues growing hitting over 30 million online

So many games I want to play all coming out around the same time! I'm currently playing a mix of Potionomics and RimWorld with the Biotech expansion, and looking forward to Victoria III releasing tomorrow. (I'd be playing The Eternal Cylinder as well, but weirdly, although the demo worked with Proton, the full game doesn't launch at the moment.)

I resented Steam very much in the early days. I didn't get Half Life 2 because of it, but eventually I was forced to use Steam because I wanted to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with my friends. That was the first COD title that required Steam, I was livid (and also at the loss of our own dedicated servers and community made maps and mods etc.) In for a penny, in for a pound... I ended up buying more games on Steam and I realized it was a good service. Reliable downloads of your digital property and good user services (most of which I don't use, but I appreciate what they provide, including the way the Store works)

Currently I'm playing games on Steam that are easy to play with a controller (shoulder tendons... trying to keep my arm down). I'm on my second playthrough of Kona, which has me damned glad it's not winter yet lol. I've been playing Just Cause 4 a bit, Saints Row The Third, and my Mass Effect games.

QuoteWhile I have you here: what have you been playing recently, what's your current top game on Linux?

I play the free-to-play Super Bomberman R Online daily (not to be confused with Super Bomberman R - they're completely different games), and it's rock-solid-stable under Proton - and they've never kicked out Linux players for using it, either, which has been great. It's been a very short-lived game though, and it's ending on December 1st, prior to its features being rolled into the upcoming paid sequel that it was a test-run for, Super Bomberman R 2 (for which it appears the Steam version may be the lead product - or at least that's what they've been using in official promotional events).

I've also been playing Vampire Survivors, and, non-Steam-wise, plenty of emulated stuff via RetroPie, which I use on the desktop.

I recently beat Prodeus on my Steam Deck. It was fantastic.

Started replaying Mass Effect (LE) a short time ago, and occasionally also launch Europa Universalis IV.

Will try Victoria III today. :).

Started Lucy Dreaming. It features rather small items (bathroom!) to be played on Steam Deck, though...

The active timesinks atm are:

- EVE Online
- Elite: Dangerous / Odyssey (playing this game franchise since 1984...)
- Shakes & Fidgets
- V-Rising, with my wife
- Empyrion Galactic Survival
- Subsistence, with my family in my homecountry

On hold but played occasionally:

- Seven Days To Die (native)
- Valheim (native)
- Vampire Survivors
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (native)

The backlog is just too long. I hope I can live enough to play half the titles I'm curious about.

Most of them in 4K because, you know, age-walled Deck wouldn't go easy on my eyes! ;)

I finally pulled the trigger on Lost Ruin, which you reviewed a while ago, damn, its good, glad I bought it.

I'm also still addicted to Vintage Story. Just saying. :)