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The first 1/3 of the game is basically World of Goo 1 which some have criticized as not innovative enough to keep them hooked.

The second 2/3 of the game is innovative with new goos.

The last 3/3 of the game I have been told is insufferably where a completely new art style appears in unskippable scenes where the developer literally appears in what feels like tone deaf harassment.

The level editor sounds cool.

It would be nice if the developer made ALL cut-scenes skippable or a modder did.

It's a decent to good game, but the tone shift in Act 3 of 3 has made people I know IRL rage.

Also the "lets go shopping ... sustainably" in the intro comes off as preachy. It's got at least a wart or two.

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Anyone able to use it on regular desktop? Installs fine on SteamDeck and runs excellent, on desktop though I'm able to install it but hangs at the point where is supposed to show you the pin.

Edit:
I saw the installer checking for the OS used, so I spoofed it with Steamos, reinstall etc, but the login issues remained. Turns out though, you can check the logs and manually opening the auth link is supposed to be given and finally log in. At this point the app seems to be working just fine, until you try to launch a game :) ...when it fails again when checking the connection with the cloud servers.

Edit#2: Sigh...I wish I'd seen this sooner:

https://gist.github.com/Mihitoko/bd76340e56e78ec972c8a1365abb0d55

Works just fine.

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I like the pixel art, and "spam those spells!" has my interest piqued. Not that hard on the ears either.

The only(!) Google hit for "Forsaken Quarted" is this very page...

Your search probably failed because of the typo. Quartet, not quarted.

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Been using this for about 24 hours on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed system and no issues so far. Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon works well in Proton and my desktop is stable (KDE Plasma / Wayland).

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Wow! I can use my Steam Controllers with GeForce Now, via Bluetooth, rumble and all. Awesome!

Edit: Same goes for DS4 controllers.

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That's the real reason Wikipedia needs more donations to keep the needed storage

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Also going to be available on gog, though the page there doesn't indicate a linux version yet.

Not to be confused with Forsaken Quarted, which, um, lies in a different "classic" genre.

The only(!) Google hit for "Forsaken Quarted" is this very page...

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I did enjoy playing the game the few times I did but found it took ages to find a match and when I did manage some of the time I would end up playing with a incomplete team, even to the point i could end up playing solo.

The game was very much like pubg which was fun but I cant see myself booting up windows just to play this game.

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76? So they mean 7 or 6?

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more early in Ubuntu?

No, this is backports to old Ubuntu with outdated packages.

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They still claim Linux support for their upcoming sequel:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2879840/Escape_Simulator_2/

But I expect that will get dropped now as well...

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Also going to be available on gog, though the page there doesn't indicate a linux version yet.

Not to be confused with Forsaken Quarted, which, um, lies in a different "classic" genre.

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I would rather officially supported Proton than a bad native Linux port.

But that said if the issue is having to maintain cross-distro compatibility instead of a single platform, that's a problem.

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The apology is so sincere you can tell by how they decided to not proofread anything and forgot how to spell "inconvenience". I bet the playerbase really felt that.

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Super gooey.

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Wikipedia has a pretty big list of studios closed by EA:

It's quite surprising that Wikipedia can afford enough storage space to keep a list of every studio that EA destroyed...

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@benstor214 Nah, just ignoring those games.

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Perfectly understandable considering they obviously maintain that it works via Proton.

Some older games with native builds I play via Proton because distro updates made native unplayable/broken or some visual effects are only available via Proton.

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"We apologize for any [inconvenience] and recommend switching to play on other available platforms not supporting us as we don't support you." FTFY

I never heard of this game before now. If you're going to go out of your way to make sure your product doesn't work on Linux—an asshole move AFAIC—and releasing a tone-deaf PR announcement, I can't find myself doing anything but ignoring your studio. I'd be more upset had I paid anything into this, as [we know] has been the case with other asshole publishers (ie; EA).

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@tfk Did you ignore the developer? I can only ignore the publisher Gaijin as the developers Darkflow Software and Matter Team don't seem to have a steam page.

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Again, it’s literally a stable release, NVIDIA has two main release channels. It is not a Beta driver.

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So, TIL that this community applies their own label of "STABLE" to a driver without Nvidia's "BETA" tag. The word "stable" appears nowhere in Nvidia's own description of non-beta drivers. Fair enough!

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Always a load of wank when a dev team goes the "AnTi-ChEaT" excuse for disabling Linux support

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This game is a response to the current trend of Immersive Sim design, where every ability is perfectly suited to solve a specific problem in the game. In order to counter this "Lock and Key" philosophy, Mosa Lina is aggressively random

Y'know…on the one hand – I'm an old Dwarf Fortress player, I can respect that philosophy in a game.

On the other – I get my fill of "aggressively random with no guarantee of being able to solve it" in real life, so…

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i am fine with this as long as they actually SUPPORT proton

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@Cybolic Huh. I noticed something similar a couple days ago. That article about how SteamOS smacks Windows on the Legion Go S . . . I went to look at that guy's video on Youtube to see how the comments were looking. Dude has more than three and a half million subscribers, and the comments were a Windows hatefest. I was expecting mixed, I was expecting some people to be defending Windows and dissing SteamOS/Linux, but no . . . the cynicism and venom about Windows was just heartwarming. Microsoft should watch out, mind share might be slipping.

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Some thoughts after playing the demo on the Deck:

HELL YES!!!! It runs perfectly, no issues at all with controls, graphics, performance, etc. Visuals are old school 8bit, which is great. I personally prefer the 16bit style, but this is also wonderful. Really any of the older pixely styles I love. Navigation, combat, puzzles, inventory management, equipment, etc... all seem on point for a rpg like this. Seems like it was very well done and the dev put lots of work into it. I only have two questions/issues: 1) there doesn't seem to be a map of any type, no minimap, world map, etc... Maybe that's just this demo though? Maybe there really is a map? Not sure. 2) There doesn't seem to be any kind of stats or info during battle. Enemies and party members have strengths and weaknesses like all rpgs of this type, but I had to try and just memorize them, since I couldn't find any buttons to bring up a stats or info screen. This led to frustrating battles where I forgot what one random enemy stats were and attacked it with a type of attack it was immune to. Seems to be WAY too much info to just memorize. But again, maybe there is, and I just don't know how to find it, or something?

Overall though those don't detract from what feels like a great game!

I'm all in on this game, thank you so much Liam for bringing it to my attention!! Very much looking forward to release this summer.

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Well, on the upside, this is the first time I've seen an announcement of removing Linux support be universally panned in the comments on Steam. Guess the winds have changed!

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I am not supporting them then, its the lazy way out.

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Partners always get the multiple quality streams
Affiliates get what's left
If then there's any resource left, the small streamers get the option as well, but most of the time they don't.

So, cool that we now can provide our own multiple quality streams to make sure it is available.

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