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Looks great! I love that we're getting 2D pixel art beat 'em ups nowadays (we have this game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and the upcoming He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction). If only we could have 2D fighting games again, just like Street Fighter and The King of Fighters in the 90s...One can only dream!

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Sadly, I guess at one point (maybe next year) Amazon will stop giving GOG/EGS codes and will only give you games to play on Luna.

The industry is going all-in with cloud and AI...

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Best way to get GOG cloud saves on Linux is Heroic, I'll be trying this out at some point this week.

Run Stranglehold at least once and then it will sync properly, happy to report that the fixes work as intended under Proton (GE at least) too. Good stuff and underrated game.

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For a second I thought I read that Windows 95 had 40% market share.

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That's kind of how I feel too. Plus I feel like I sort of missed my chance, it's almost too late . . . I will never get the chance to experience the cryptic text-based pseudographics and mythic hard core lore of the earlier game . . .

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> As stable as Arch can be (so, not really stable).

Is anyone else here running Arch and if so, how is your stability? My current PC is 5 years old and I am on the same Arch install from day 1. There have been maybe 2-3 times where it required manual intervention, but it is exceedingly rare. I simply don't understand the whole "Arch unstable". Is it just a meme?

Heck I have Arch on an old thinkpad that I only update maybe once a year and that hasn't even given me any problems. That has probably been running longer than 5 years.

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This is one of those games that on paper I love following, and reading about, and watching videos about, but just could never get into due to complexity. But I absolutely love that it exists and people play it!

I feel exactly the same way. I also feel the same way about Caves of Qud. But if Dwarf Fortress supports modding, I am wondering if someone has made a "Keep It Simple for Stupid" mod... although they probably could not dumb it down enough so that I could understand the game.

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Native, split screen coop and Marvel; yeap, that is something that I will definitely buy.

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I feel like the lack of impact from the sounds of hitting people is a trailer thing, with the music turned up

This looks really cool, I liked shredders revenge and it's great to see them doing another native linux port

Also shredders revenge is drm-free on steam, no client needed! Hopefully be the same with this title

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I've been running cachy on my main desktop for probably close to 6 months now with zero issues, so I can say from personal experience: it is very stable.

I just love how simple and easy it is. And cutting edge for my hardware is also nice. Highly recommended!

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W40K is one of my all time fav media franchises (up there with Shadowrun), so I love these games! My favs:

Mechanicus: holy shit so much fun. The end game gets a little stale since they didn't limit the power of some of the tech priests, so combat becomes completely meaningless (you wind up being able to wipe entire encounters without the enemy even taking a turn). And for a tacticts game that is pretty much nothing but combat, that's no good. BUT that said, 100% still worth playing. They absolutely NAILED the vibe. The music, visuals, effects, storylines, tech priests, SO well done. Mid-game combat is also crazy fun, it's right where you start to get super powerful but aren't op yet.

Inquisitor: a MUST PLAY for any fans of the genre (arpg diablo-likes) ESPECIALLY with the recent (like a year ago maybe?) add on that included the controllable 4 pack of characters to join you in-game. Man I had so much fun clearing maps with those additional characters. They rebalanced it too to make it a lot more fun and a lot less one-shotty.

I don't do pve/pvp/coop games, so several of the others aren't interesting to me personally, but also, where's Boltgun!??!?!?!

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Also to pile on: the recent nvidia openai 100 billion deal is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad. Like collapsing house of cards people are going to lose their retirements due to the market crashing bad. This is bordering on corrupt market manipulation IMO, but whatever. WHEN the crash happens its going to be so bad.

I for one welcome it with arms open.

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@Liam Dawe

We have that on our steam tracker page.

Not quite.

I was looking for grouping at the distro level. You bundle all Ubuntu derivatives, including Mint, into one big group, even though they're distinct distributions. Might as well throw Ubuntu into Debian based while you're at it.

Just kidding. I guess your grouping makes sense, even if it bundles more than I'd like.

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Yeah, this one felt a bit unfinished.The sound of your strikes lack some impact, it feels like they got the sound effect of punching a couch or something.

But overall I feel the game have potential. Looks like they sill have a couple months before the release, so I hope they can address most of the problems gamers have pointed in the gameplay.

As of bugs, at least in my rig, it didn't recognized my controllers. They worked fine trough Proton tough.

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This is one of those games that on paper I love following, and reading about, and watching videos about, but just could never get into due to complexity. But I absolutely love that it exists and people play it!

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It looks CachyOS is continuing to rise on steam survey. I haven’t tested that distro yet, is it stable and noob friendly?

In my experience testing CachyOS on another PC it was unstable but I had good luck with the same exact setup on EndeavourOS (BTRFS with snapshots, KDE, AUR enabled and used a bunch for ease of use) for 3+ years now on the same install.

Only had to use a snapshot once, because I did something dumb, but it worked and saved me :)

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While I can't speak to the entire catalog I've played `War-hammer: Inquisitor - Martyr` and it is a FANTASTIC title. My biggest complaint was the lack of online community due to the age of the game.

Space Marine, Vermintide 1+2, and Mechanicus are phenomenal titles as well and are well worth the price of the bundle alone. Never played Inquisitor though, looks like a Warhammer themed Diablo clone? Might need to check that out soon.

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It looks CachyOS is continuing to rise on steam survey. I haven’t tested that distro yet, is it stable and noob friendly?

As stable as Arch can be (so, not really stable). More noob friendly than Arch.
But anyway, if you want stable and noob friendly, Mint/Pop!_OS/Kubuntu is still are better choices. And if you want a "gaming distro" with the latest drivers and gaming stuff preinstalled, PikaOS (which is based on Debian) is probably a better choice. Debian/Mint/Ubuntu package base is always a solid choice.

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@ToddL The problem with that is, AI can't really do much work. I mean, it can make lousy videos and slop articles on the internet, so that does replace some jobs. But the whole "agent" thing just doesn't work. It's probably a lot less good at most actual work than the old non-AI "expert systems" approach . . . which wasn't very good either. Any CEO that jumps on the "I'll just replace workers with AI!" bandwagon is simply going to find that the stuff that needs to get done to keep the lights on at the company . . . isn't getting done.

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While I can't speak to the entire catalog I've played `War-hammer: Inquisitor - Martyr` and it is a FANTASTIC title. My biggest complaint was the lack of online community due to the age of the game.

I've have the other titles on my radar but at the moment seem to be more in a Hades/Cult Of The Lamb vibe.

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That sounds really tone deaf. I'm so tired of all the AI slop that is thrown into my face every time I go onto a big site, e.g. Youtube. The text that is translated very badly is one thing – it makes searching a lot harder than it should be, but the automatic voice translation that is activated for every video by default until I manually switch away is so incredibly bad. Jimmy Kimmel introducing Josh Johnson (“you know him from the Daily Show and his Youtube channel“) gets translated into “you already know it…” and “lift the cloche” on a food channel is turned into “shift into the next gear”. Amazon's translations aren't better if their store is supposed to be a positive example.

I'm going to keep as far away as possible from that game. Anyhow – how can it be “human-built” and “”AI-powered at the same time?

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Sigh, yet another generic one that has only very basic attacks to offer (aka 1-button spam) without any (chained) combos, that does not even have grabbing and where everything is flat and characters and attacks (and the sounds of them) feel paper-weight. It's also not enough "cosmic" in such small and confined areas.

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It looks CachyOS is continuing to rise on steam survey. I haven’t tested that distro yet, is it stable and noob friendly?

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I've never met a consumer that wanted AI. Ever. The most positive thing I've seen written, or heard said about AI is a disinterested "meh". And yet the enterprise/corporate world seems to be tripping over itself for the tech.

@scaine
For the enterprise/corporate world, any means of not paying someone to do the work that AI can do in a short amount of time is a win in their books.

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We have that on our steam tracker page.

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I know this data is collected with developers in mind, but I think grouping all release versions of a single distribution would be more interesting to gamers. So we'd only have one Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint etc. Or one for each CPU architecture, I suppose. That would make the changes and percentages more meaningful next to rolling release distros.

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What makes it more bizarre is apparently nobody except NVidia is actually making any money off the stuff--everyone's actually losing money hand over fist, the big outfits in the tens of billions. Seems like the tech companies and the tech investors were just desperate for a Next Big Thing and AI was the only one on offer, so . . . but it's a bubble. The crash is gonna be brutal.

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As expected, for Steam it continues to basically be two distros: arch (and derivatives) or ubuntu (and derivatives). Fedora gets in a couple percentage points but nothing huge.

@R Daneel Olivaw
Bazzite is Fedora based and has a 3.33% share but yeah, it's not anywhere close to the others.

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I think it's safe to say I'm 100% burned out on anything Marvel for a good .... 10 yrs maybe? I'm adding this to my wishlist though, because I love a good beatemup and it actually looks pretty cool, but I just can't with anything Marvel right now.

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This looks pretty cool and reminds me of the times at the arcade playing those awesome beat'em ups like The Punisher and Captain America and the Avengers.

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