If you like just chilling and building things as if you're painting the screen, then you may want to take a look at Tiny Glade that just released.
As casual as gaming comes, Tiny Glade is a relaxing free-form building game where you just build up whatever you want. There's no timers, no quests, no combat. Just you doodling some castles or whatever else you can come up with. This was easily going to be a hit and it certainly is with it already getting an Overwhelmingly Positive rating from users on Steam.
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The demo was really impressive with the way everything just flows together so nicely. It may not be the type of game I'm personally going to go and pick up, but that doesn't stop me being impressed by what the developer managed to do with it.
It has Native Linux support. For the nerds: according to a social media post from the developer it uses Rust and Vulkan.
Available to buy on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Philadelphus Sep 24
Neat to see Rust getting more use in games, too!
*Though I don't know what the camera constraints are; maybe you could get a top-down view? Maybe I'll pick it up and see…
For the nerds
I don't think we have any of those here. No, definitely not.
Philadelphus Sep 25
From the aesthetic, this looks like something that could be used to generate reference materials for TTRPGs like D&D. Not necessarily like a battlemap*, but something like "After a day of traveling, you come to the lovely town seen in this picture," or "Here's what the king's castle looks like."
Neat to see Rust getting more use in games, too!
*Though I don't know what the camera constraints are; maybe you could get a top-down view? Maybe I'll pick it up and see…
There is even a first-person mode. I was going to suggest you play the free demo :)
That's what I did, it ran quite well on Steam Deck, so I picked it up.
It's very usable on SD, though the control hints show keyboard shortcuts.
It would be awesome to get some export functionality, for 3D prints, blender, top-down maps, etc.
seanbutnotheard Sep 26
It would be awesome to get some export functionality, for 3D prints, blender, top-down maps, etc.
Heck, make a mode that exports structurally-sound building plans, and I'd use it to design a house... or a cozy little back-country tavern...
Philadelphus Sep 30
There is even a first-person mode. I was going to suggest you play the free demo :)Haha, I didn't know there was a demo.
I've played around with it some more since my last post, and I still get my mind blown every time I see pictures of what other people have done. It's really quite incredible.One more little factoid I picked up from an interview I read with the developers: it's not only written in Rust, but was developed using the still-relatively-new Bevy engine.
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