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I hope everyone gets a good break. Happy holidays, and here's to a crazy fun 2026.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New year. :)

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Happy Holidays, everyone! Here's to a great 2026! 🐧❤️

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The two standouts for me in 2025 are The Outer Worlds 2 and Civilization VII.

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happy holidays folks :)

the site and you all have been a great resource to be able to fully switch to linux with confidence!

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To be well prepared for my retirement in 20 years, I did buy some games in 2025... yet playing is a completely differen topic 😆

According to my Steam Replay 2025 report, my game of the year is again Fall Guys. Followed by Elite Dangerous, Beat Saber and Helldivers 2.

So no game from 2025, while Helldivers 2 is the most recent one.
I had a look at Metal Eden and Of Lies and Rain (VR), not much playtime yet, but as these are the ones from this year, I guess one of those would be my game of the year 2025.

Dang, I totally should play more 😁

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Merry Christmas, everyone and Happy New year.

Thanks for another good year, GOL.

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Finally finished work for the week

Merry Christmas indeed, fellow tux lovers

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Split-Fiction for me I think

It really reminds me of what gaming use to be, before live service "forever" games kicked in, and I was expecting it to be a stutter fest but they really know how to make the most out of UE5

Really hope Hazelight Studios get to continue making these sort of games, hopefully EA doesn't get rid of this team of talented developers but who knows these days lol

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Metal Eden is a pretty great FPS. Worth a try as it is currently discounted. More of a hidden gem though.

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Stellar Blade and Claire Obscure are my favs this year. 😊

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. . . Have I actually played ANY games this year that were released this year? Even stuff I bought this year was all older, I think. Um . . . I played the demo of that card combat game where the "cards" are different sizes and you have to fit them into a tiled space and it's kind of moon themed and stuff. That was fairly good.

Still, the GOTYs these days are never as Goaty as good ol' Goat Simulator. Now there's a game that's very Goaty.

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Happy holidays to you and yours, Liam!

The same to the entire GamingOnLinux readership.

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I haven't played completely through the various campaigns but I haven't noticed this inconsistency so far.

From what I can see from their wiki, they work primarily in 2D graphics. 3D models are only used for animation effects. The dev team seems very concerned with maintaining a consistent look.

[Widelands Wiki - Graphics Development](https://www.widelands.org/wiki/GraphicsDevelopment/)

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Merry/happy all the things!
A special huge hug to Liam for continuing to provide a healthy watering hole for the ever growing penguin horde. Cheers!

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Finally some good news – although I'm not sure if the reappearance of the Forum will bring back the old spirit.

I'm not in a festive spirit at all. Saturday's annoying stream of Christmas songs has left me completely oversaturated. I want everything Christmas related to be gone as soon as possible. This might be the first year that I skip watching Christmas Vacation in forever.

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Digimon Story Time Stranger. Not only do I like the game for gameplay and story reasons, but I really appreciate it on a technical level. Saving is instant. The game feels very responsive. Frame rate is silky smooth. Absolutely lovely game.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThe forums are returning? We are so back! Will the content be restored or are we starting from scratch?

Pleased to say all content apart from the old Patreon forum will be restored.

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The forums are returning? We are so back! Will the content be restored or are we starting from scratch?

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Only new game I got was Civ7 and.... that was a mistake.

Mostly played Civ 5/6 and BERT (heh), Valheim (lotsa that)

Finally started No Mans Sky and enjoying it (even though no clue what I should be doing)

Not many new games look interesting enough to make me part with my money.
(I'm fussy)
:P

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I'm on my own this Xmas, but it gives me plenty of extra time to play games!!! I hope you have a good one.
I don't know how anyone says "Happy New Year" anymore. All I can think of is what Eldritch horror awaits us in 2026.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New year. :)

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My GOTY was definitely Metro Exodus. 9/10 game and was fun to play. It wasn't released this year though. Didn't buy any 2025 games personally. All money went into PC upgrades.

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The year of Linux VR is coming!

(We'll have Linux used by humans on Mars before The Year of the Linux Desktop. ;) )

Happy holidays, happy New year!

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Have a good one everyone, sounds like 2026 is going to be busy 😀

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Happy Christmas and thanks for all the games!

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Yeah, Silksong.

Just Silksong.

Doesn't need a link, everyone bought Silksong already.
So buy another copy on gog or steam.
Don't forget to buy the soundtrack, too.

SILKSONG!

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Quoting: PhlebiacDon't they just keep coming back if you feed them?

I suppose . . . still better than being dead. Of course once you get the recipe right it would be routine, which would be boring, so presumably the game kind of skips that.

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Speaking of Skyrim competitors, Tainted Grail was definitely one of the most interesting games for me this year and probably one of the best RPGS in years, writing is really good and even what seems like a tiniest fetch quest is likely to surprise you with something. Later sections of the game were a bit rough on launch but after some patches and a DLC I expect it to be in a pretty good state, although I'm yet to do a second playthrough.

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